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I- ii .... ■ ■■■■—.i .. .. i. .. —.. .... .■ .. ■» Finishing touches T'av,! H',,"9/DN Debbie Monfelt, a senior fine arts major, finishes a painting Tuesday morning at Richards Hall. Senators decide to slice in half proposed NU cuts By Jeff Zeleny Senior Reporter The $13.98 million budget cut proposed for the University of Nebraska was cut in half at a Legislature Appropriations Com mittee executive session meeting Tuesday. The reduction in the proposed cut, which originally represented 5 per cent of the total NU budget, came with the recommendation of a 5 per cent tuition hike next year and a 2.5 percent increase in 1994-1995. Sen. Scou Moore of Seward, chair man of the committee, said the rec ommended tuition increase should be anocaica prima rily to fund faculty salaries. The new $7 mil lion cut falls un der the committee’s prior ■m i uyonerccommcn LEGISLATURE dalion. A second recommendation, priority two, would allow for further cut reductions if additional monies arc found at the end See LEGISLATURE on 3 Michigan State picks Massengale as finalist By Jeff Zeleny Senior Reporter University of Nebraska Presi dent Martin Massengale is one of 41 Finalists for the Cresident position at Michigan State niversity in East Lansing, Mich. JoeRowson, NU director of public affairs, said late Tuesday that Massengale was aware he had been nominated for the presidential posi tion. “He has no further information on that at this point,” Rowson said. Massengale was unavailable for comment. A source close to the Michigan State presidential search told the Daily Nebraskan Tuesday that Massengale wasoneofl32 initial candidates nomi nated for the position. The source said Massengale was reportedly nominated by a presiden tial search committee and did not submit an application for the job. However, after his name was submit ted he did express interest to Michi gan State officials, the source said. The president position at Michi gan State opened Sept. 2,1992 after John DiB mggio left to accept the presi dency at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. Gorgon Guyer has been the in terim president since September, but is not interested in the presidency as a permanent position, the source said. Masscngalc announced Jan. 8 that he would not seek an extension on his contract that expires Jan. 1,1994. He has since agreed to a request made by the NU Board of Regents to stay on at NU until a successor is named. At the March 20 regents meeting, the board approved a plan to keep Massengalc at NU by offering him a $115,000-a-ycar agronomy professor ship. In an interview lasL Friday, Masscngalc declined commcnton the agronomy professorship. He said that while he was still president of the NU system, he would focus on those is sues. Michigan Slate is the country's oldest land-grant institution, estab lished in 1855. The university is also a strong agricultural research institu tion. The president of Michigan State oversees one campus of 40,000 stu dents. The remainder of the candidates’ list was not available late Tuesday Peter Scccahi, former U.S. ambassa dor to Italy, is the only other con firmed candidate for the position. > Speaker stresses importance of ILS./Chinese relations By Neil Feldman SttH Reporter__ China’s Cultural Revolution was a na tional catastrophe, said Nicn Cheng, author of “Life and Death in Shanghai” and a former political prisoner. Cheng, the fifth and final E.N. Thompson Forum onvWorld Issues speaker this year, ad dressed an audience of more than 1,600 people Tuesday ai the Lied Center. Cheng, 78, described the hardships the Chi nese suffered during the Cultural Revolution. She also downplayed Mao Tse-tung, the former Communist regime leader of China. “Mao made many people suffer,” Cheng said. “He was not a fair man like Deng Xiaoping.” Deng is the current leader of China. Though he holds no official title, he assumes general leadership power over the Communist state. “I was a political prisoner for more than six years/’ she said. She alludod that Mao was the reason so many people were forced to live miserable lives in China. “The reason why I was imprisoned,” Cheng continued, “is because of my faith—I was a Christian.” Cheng put a great deal of emphasis on her beliefs. “I lost one-third of my weight while in prison,” she said, “and I was treated better than most. I was never abandoned by the Lord.” See CHENG on 2 Project provides creative outlet for victims of rape, abuse By Tony Gardner Staff Reporter The Clothesline Project, de signed to bring awareness to the victims of rape and abuse, is on display through April 14 in the Women’s Center, room 340 in the Nebraska Union. On the clothesline hang T-shirts that victims have designed to express the misery of abuse. The nationwide project, founded in Boston by Rachel Carey-Harper, was created to increase awareness of violence against women. -44 ... there were Just as many women who were victims of abuse as there were soldiers who died In the Vietnam War. -Carey-Harper founder of the Clothesline Project It was intended to do for abused women what the AIDS quilt is doing for victims of AIDS — make people understand, she said. “I began the project one day after a fellow member of my support group, who had been to the Vietnam Memo rial wall, commented that there were just as many women who were vic tims of abuse as there were soldiers whodied in the Vietnam War,”Carcy Harper said. She wanted something to com memorate the loss of women. Victims who participate in the project design T-shirts that reflect their personal experiences and feel ings. The colors used in the designs have meaning: white symbolizes women who have died from violence; yollow or beige signifies abused women; red, pink or orange signifies women who have been sexually assaulted; blue or green stands for women survivors of incest and sexual abuse; purple stands for women who have been attacked because they are lesbians; black sig nifies women who suffered ritual abuse, a constant form of menacing, daily violence. Clothesline also is intended to sati rize women’s traditional roles as housewives, Carcy-Harpcr said. “It is supposed to represent a sort of slavery of women, and how they have turned it around to stand for a symbol of unity and empowerment, as well as to the obvious connection of airing out dirty laundry.” More than 20 shirts hang on the clothesline and each expresses an emotion. Some are angry, some be See LINE on 2
