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Ex-Husker found guilty in fatal car crash
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Editor
and Jeff Zeieny
Senior Editor
As Kenny Wilhite played his
final season of Nebraska foot
ball last year, his involvement
in a car accident that killed an 11
year-old girl was being investigated
in Platte County, Mo.
Wilhite, a former Nebraska
comerback, was found guilty of care
less and imprudent driving for the
accident that claimed the life of Ann
Quick of Mexico, Mo. He was sen
tenced to one year in jail after a May
17 trial in the Platte County Circuit
Court, the Platte County prosecutor’s
office said Wednesday.Wilhite ap
pealed the cg$e and was released after
posting 10 percent of a $3,500 bond.
The accident took place on July 6,
1992. Wilhite and Lorenzo Brinkley,
now a senior linebacker, were driving
north on Interstate 29 near St. Joseph,
Mo. when they collided with a mini
van carrying five passengers.
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne told
the Daily Nebraskan Wednesday that
he was aware of the accident when it
took place, but he did not announce it.
“I was aware of it,” Osborne said.
“I was not aware of any sentencing. I
thought that was all settled in court.
“Why would I announce it?” he
said.“Itwaspublic record. Ifthenews
people would have picked it up, they
would have printed it at the time.”
According to the accident report
filed by the Missouri Highway Patrol,
Wilhite was driving 80 mph in a 65
mph zone
when he struck the second car, driven
by Kenneth Quick of St. Joseph, Mo.
When the two vehicles collided,
the van dnven by
Quick skidded
into the median,
struck a guardrail
and overturned on
the driver’s side,
the report said.
The impact of
the crash threw
Ann Quick from
the 1990 Dodge
Caravan. She was
Wllnlto trapped under
neath the van and pronounced dead at
the scene.
Wilhite could not be reached for
comment. His agent, Jim Fender, said
Wednesday night that Wilhite was in
Toronto, preparing to sign a contract
with the Sacramento Gold Diggers of
the Canadian Football League today.
Brinkley said he was sitting in the
passenger seat at the time of the acci
dent. He recalled Wednesday what
had happened.
“It was a little bit after midnight,”
he said. “I was in the passenger seat
See CRASH on 3
System works
to diversify
administration
University now hiring
more women, minorities
By Dionne Searcey
Senior Reporter
Last year, a white male was the most
powerful administrator on each of the
university’s four campuses.
This year, two of the chancellors are women.
They are part of a new diverse generation of
administrators who are taking charge of the
University of Nebraska.
UNL Chancellor Graham Spanier has
pledged to diversify the campus’ administra
tion and encouraged other members of the
university system to do the same.
“It’s something that’s a high priority of mine
and something the university hasn’t been as
responsive to in the past as it might have been,”
Spanier said.
So far, numbers show that Spanier is keeping
his word.
Twenty-two percent of University of Ne
braska-Lincoln faculty members hired in 1992
93 were minorities. Women constituted 32
percent of faculty members hired during the
same time period.
A number of vacancies over the past two
years in upper-level administrative positions
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Minister says
church doesn’t
fit cult mold
By Chris Hain
Staff Raportar
The lead minister of the Lincoln Christian
Church said although a recent cult aware
ness forum may be targeting his church,
he doesn’t think his church fits their character
istics.
The three-day cult awareness forum that
concluded last night cited the local Lincoln
Christian Church as fitting the description of a
cult.
Ron Gholston of Denver, who conducted the
seminar, said a church that is abusive or as
sumes authority over its members’ lives is a
cult.
Gholston was a sector leader of single adults
in the Boston Church of Christ from 1985 to
1988, and was forced to leave when he wrote a
12-page letter citing abuses within the church.
Gholston said the Lincoln Christian Church
is a member of what he called the “Boston
Movement.*' The movement has been identi
fied by the Chicago-based Cult Awareness
Network as one of the five most active cults on
college campuses. \
Ken Hicks of the Lincoln Christian Church
said his church was affiliated with the Boston
Church of Christ, but he said there have been
many changes in the church since Gholston left
it five years ago.
Hicks said his group is a normal, loving
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NU Vice President J.B. Milliken recalls his experiences with the University of Nebraska Tuesday. Mllliken, who
received his bachelor’s of English degree from UNL in 1979, returned to work in the NU system in 1988.
The other side
NU administrative role suits a former student leader
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Editor
In 1978, J.B. Milliken led a student
protest against the NU Board of Re
gents’ decision to cut funding for guest
speakers at UNL.
The demonstration on the steps of Varner
Hall was Milliken’s first experience with the
central administration at
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1 Fifteen years later.
Miliiken, 36, sits in an
office in the southeast cor
ner of Varner Hall as one
of five NU vice presidents
and the regents' corpora
tion secretary.
I suppose there s some irony there, he
says. “Fm not sure I could have predicted I
would end up here."
Milliken graduated in 1979 with a bach
elor’s degree in English from the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln. He graduated from
the New York University School of Law in
1983.
After earning a juris doctorate, he prac
ticed law at a Wall Street firm in New York
Citv. But he says he knew that wasn't the
right career choice for him.
“I went to law school with the idea I
would not practice law as a career," he says.
“The whole time 1 was there I was thinking
how I could get back to the public sector.”
In 1988, then NU president Ronald
Roskens hired Milliken as his executive
assistant. The iob fulfilled an important
career goal, Milliken says, which was work
ing for an institution with a mission he
believed in. |
“The University of Nebraska certainly fit
that bill," he says. “One of the reasons I
wanted to come back and work at the Uni
versity of Nebraska (was) the issues are ones
I consider to be more important than issues
I was dealing with as a Wall Street lawyer.”
Although he was only 31 years old when
he started dealing with important issues to
shape higher education in the state, Milliken
says he didn't feel too young for the job.
Five years and two NU presidents later,
Milliken says he is aging, but not because of
university work.
“I have to deal withscoresof complicated
issues," he says. “I haven’t really thought of
it as aging. My child has aged me more in
seven weeks than this job has in five years.
“I haven’t had a midlife crisis yet.”
The last five years of work have been a
challenge, Milliken says.
Roskens resigned, and former UNL Chan
cellor Martin Massengale was named a final
ist to succeed him, which prompted other
finalists to step down.
Now, another presidential search is under
-M
I suppose there's some
Irony there. I'm not sure I
could have predicted I
would end up here.
—Milliken
Nil corporation secretary
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way to replace Massengale, who announced
last January he wouldn’t have his contract
renewed.
“I think this has been an exciting place to
work for the past five years,” Milliken says.
“You play the hand you’ve been dealt."
Last January Milliken was named an NU
vice president. The bigger job load requires a
difficult balance, he says.
“I’d be the first to admit I don’t always
have things at equilibrium,” he says.
Milliken now is responsible for university
relations, federal affairs, public affairs and
communications, in addition serving as cor
poration secretary.
In this position, Milliken says, he feels like
he’s making a difference.
“The issues we deal with here are critical
to 50,000 students in any given day and
certainly the state of Nebraska.”
