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Bob Hazelton, a former
boxer and bodyguard who
lost both legs because of
steroid use, warns students
about the dangers of the
performance-enhancing
drug.
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Vol. 93 No. 43
Police close to ‘cleaning up’ after assault
By Alan Phelps
Senior Reporter
UNL Police Chief Ken Cauble
said authorities would soon
catch up with the people re
sponsible for assaulting a University
of Nebraska-Lincoln student in
Broyhill Plaza.
“We’re very close, and we’ll prob
ably have this cleaned up in a few
days,” he said.
Cauble spoke Wednesday to about
75 international students who gath
ered to voice concerns about the as
Coach says
sports should
be examined
individually
Editor’s note: This story is the fourth
in a weeklong series that will ex
plore how Nebraska athletics has
been — and will be — affected by
the NCAA’s implementation of gen
der equity. Tomorrow: Chancellor
Graham Spanier addresses the ath
letic department’s progress on gen
der equity and one of the universi
ty’s solutions — the addition of
women’s soccer.
- By Mitch Sherman
and Dan McKinney
Staff Reporters
Every time Nebraska’s men and
women swimmers compete in
an event, coach Cal Bentz secs
the problems involved with gender
equity.
In order to erase the gap between
I
me numoer oi
men’s and wom
en’s athletic
scholarships, the
NCAA chose to
cut the number of
men’s swimming
scholarships from
11 to 9.9 this sea
uKBwsvm son.
EQUITY fourteen schol
arships are avail
able to women swimmers, and an
NCAA proposal will be voted on next
year to increase that number to 16.
“I certainly believe in gender equi
ty — that’s not a question," Bentz
said. “My feeling is you don’t lump
all sports together. You take them on
an individual basis. You try to build
an equal opportunity for women based
on the sports they participate in."
At Nebraska, there are both men’s
and women’s programs in basketball,
golf, gymnastics, swimming and div
ing, track and field and tennis.
In those sports, 50.8 scholarships
are given to men while women re
ceive 63 scholarships. Many of those
grants are equivalency scholarships,
which can be divided among several
athletes.
Bentz and Nebraska's other com
bined-sports coaches said sports such
as swimming, track and field, gym
nastics, golfand tennis shouldn’t have
to make up the difference for 88 foot
ball scholarships.
Bentz said football shouldn’t even
be considered in the equation because
women do not participate in the sport
and don’t have a sport that is compa
rable in numbers.
“If women want to participate in
football, then maybe we have to find
a way for women to participate in
football," he said.
“If that’s not going to be a reality,
then football really isn’t part of (the
See EQUITY on 7
sault of Boon-Chung Ong, a UNL
student from Malaysia.
Ong, known to friends as “Marco,”
was found semi-conscious near
Broyhill Fountain just after midnight
Sunday morning. He was treated and
released from Lincoln General Hos
pital.
Friends said Ong probably would
miss classes for the rest of the week
but would recover fully.
Cauble said police received valu
able information from members of
the Afrikan People’s Union and oth
ers who attended the APU-sponsorcd
Rapfcst ’93 Saturday night in the
Nebraska Union. A group of 10 men
APU members say caused a distur
bance at Rapfest is believed to be
involved in the assault.
Because of the continuing investi
gation, Cauble declined to say wheth
er those suspected in the assault were
UNL students.
Linda Morgan, APU president, told
the international students the attack
was not racially motivated, but sim
ply an act of random violence.
“They were intoxicated, probably
high and just crazy,” she said. “APU
will do anything they can to find those
responsible, and we will turn those
names in.”
Morgan said APU members didn’t
know exactly who the assailants were,
“but we have an idea.”
Cauble also tried to calm interna
tional students who worried Ong’s
race made him an attack target.
“It was of no difference to the
people who did the assault who was at
the fountain,” he said. “It could’ve
been a Malaysian, another African
American or a white. 11 had nothing to
do with international students.”
Eric Lindvall moved back into the Delta Upsilon fraternity house last week. Lindvaii,
a junior secondary education major, lost nis leg after being trapped in the house for
13 hours.
Stad McKee/DN
silon fraternity house last week. Lindvall,
Coming back
UNL student’s life goes on after accident
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Editor
f ■ lhree weeks after Eric
| Lindvall was trapped for 13
hours beneath a stack of dry
wall sheets, he was on the road to
recovery.
H is left leg had been amputated,
and his kidneys had failed. But his
right leg had been saved — an
indication things were looking up
for Lindvall, a University of Ne
braska-Lincoln junior education
major.
On June 25, Lindvall went into
cardiac arrest because of an elevat
ed potassium level in his body,
setting back his progress by one
month.
“Up until that point he was get
ting better,” Sharon Fritson,
Lindvall’s mother, said. “Things
were never quite as stable after
that. Every time they did another
surgery we were afraid it was going
to happen.”
Lindvall moved into the Delta
Upsilon fraternity house from the
Madonna Rehabilitation Center last
week. Lindvall discussed his acci
dent for the first time with the press
Wednesday.
Lindvall was trapped beneath
1,100 pounds of drywall sheeting
in the Delta Upsilon fraternity house
after he tried to retrieve some things
from his room June 6. The house
was closed for the summer and
under construction.
Lindvall, a member of the fra
ternity, said he sang and played
with his watch to stay awake and
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Cauble said police were called to
the Rapfest to talk to a group of rowdy
men, out never escorted anyone out of
the union.
International students asked
Cauble why drunk and potentially
dangerous people were allowed to
remain at an event on UNL’s dry
campus. Cauble said responding of
ficers probably thought the situation
was under control when they left.
Lincoln has no law against being
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Official:
UNL keeps
favorable
reputation
By Dionne Searcey
Senior Reporter
he University ofNebraska-Lin
coln is maintaining its good
reputation in the academic
world, a UNL official said.
UNL was ranked in the third quartile
of 204 national universities by U.S.
News and World Report. In an Oct. 4
issue, the magazine surveyed 1,371
schools to determine UNL’s rank,
which was the same last year.
James Griesen, vice chancellor for
Student Affairs, said being ranked
was favorable because academic rep
utation was important to how a uni
versity is perceived nationwide.
“It’s as important as your personal
reputation in your community,” he
said. “We all want to be known as a
fine, outstanding citizens with high
moral standards. The university is the
same way.”
A university can acquire a good
reputation through the strength of in
dividual programs, he said. Quality
graduate and research programs con
tribute, too, Griesen said.
But surveys, no matter how scien
tifically conducted, don’ t always por
tray the quality of an institution, he
said.
See RANKING on 6
U.S. role
in Russia
called vital
n eyewitness to the recent
armed conflict in Moscow said
Wednesday the United States
needed to strengthen its support for
democratic reform in Russia.
Nicholas DanilofT, a former Mos
cow correspondent for United Press
International, recently returned to the
United States from Moscow.
DanilofT spoke to about 350 peo
ple at the Lied Center as part ot the
E.N. Thompson Forum on World Is
sues series.
His lecture, the second in the five
part series, was titled “Direct from
Moscow: Eyewitness to Russia in
Crisis.”
While in Russia, DanilofT saw the
historic clash between Russian Presi
dent Boris Yeltsin and hard-line rebel
members of the Russian Parliament.
DanilofT gave a firsthand account
of Yeltsin’s order to force rebel law
By Steve Smith
Senior Reporter
See DANILOFF on 6