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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
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LEGISLATURE dalion. A second
recommendation, priority two, would
allow for further cut reductions if
additional monies arc found at the end
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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.”
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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.
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... 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
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