Correction:
AN RHA election
story Monday •
misidentified two
candidates and their
parties. Christopher
Abel and Adam
Buttress are running
on the Reform party.
James Mackiewicz
and Jim Wheeler are
on the Alliance
ticket. The Daily
Nebraskan regrets ■
the error.
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Italian Opera
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will perform
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April 5, 1994
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 93 No. 134
IHewit Center
lets Baldwin
train, volunteer
By Kara G. Morrison
Senior Reporter
Scotl Baldwin has begun training as a
Hewit Academic Center volunteer at
m UNL, an athletic department official
isaid Monday.
Dennis Leblanc, associate director of ath
leuc/acauemic programs,
said Baldwin spent two days
last week observing at the
center for student-athletes.
Baldwin, a former Uni
versity of Ncbraska-Lincoln
student and football player,
was found not responsible by
reason of insanity for the
January 1992 beatingofGina
Baldwin Simanek. In a subsequent
psychotic episode, Baldwin was paralyzed from
the waist down when an Omaha police officer
shot him in September 1992.
Baldwin’s attorneys asked LancasterCounty
District Judge Paul Merritt on Thursday to let
Baldwin move out of the Madonna Rehabilita
tion Center, citing Baldwin’s work at the Hewit
Center as one sign of his stability and progress.
Leblanc said Baldwin’s responsibilities as a
center volunteer had not yet been defined.
“He will be doing a variety of tasks,” said
Leblanc, who will supervise Baldwin.
To start with, Leblanc said. Baldwin will be
oriented to the center and will be learning the
center’s new computer programs.
“He’ll probably start with 10 hours a week
and, depending on demands he has or his
interests, that could increase,” Leblanc said.
The HewitCentcr, located in the west part of
Memorial Stadium, provides academic tutors,
career counseling, information on academic
honors and other programs for student-ath
letes.
“We have multicultural programs and a
variety of things to support student-athletes on
our campus,” Leblanc said. “We also work with
student-athletes to make sure they’re progress
ing toward graduation and fulfilling all their
requirements.”
Leblanc said Baldwin would not start work
ing directly with students at this time.
“I don’t have any concerns about (Scott’s
working with students), but to start with, he
wouldn’t have contact directly with students,”
he said.
Although Leblanc said he had just started
working with Baldwin, he was optimistic about
Baldwin’s role as a volunteer.
“Scotty is doing fine,” Leblanc said. “Obvi
ously there is a handicap, because he is in a
wheelchair... but he’s doing just fine.”
Merritt had not yet ruled on Baldwin’s re
quest Monday.
Step by Step JayCalderon/DN
Micah Gumm, a sophomore advertising major, rides down the steps of the Capitol building Sunday afternoon.
“I’m always looking for new places to ride, he said.
Loudon says students getting ‘shafted’
By Angie Brunkow
Senior Reporter
Students will not be overlooked in future
athletic department decisions, ASUN
President Andrew Loudon said Mon
day.
The alhlcticdepartmcnt announced last week
that students would have to pay $73 for season
football tickets, $17 more than last year.
Students were given no prior notice of the
change, Loudon said.
“No effort was made to gauge student opin
ion,” he said.
And students have plenty to say about the
change, Loudon said.
“We have bad seats, and now we have to pay
$20 more for them,” Loudon said. “We feel like
we’re getting shafted.”
Gary Fouraker, assistant athletic director for
business, said the athletic department didn’t
mean to leave students out of the decision.
“That wasn’t the intent,” he said. The stu
dent regent usually is informed of such deci
sions at the Chancellor’s Cabinet meeting,
Fouraker said, and he couldn’t speculate why
students didn’t get the information.
Loudon said he would work with the athletic
department to increase communication about
- u
We need to feel like we’re a
part of the athletic program.
The university’s athletic
department would not exist
without the university.
— Loudon
ASUN president
-M "
issues involving students.
“We need to feel like we’re a part of the
athletic program,” he said. “The university’s
athletic department would not exist without the
university.”
But student opposition now will have little
effect on ticket prices this year, Loudon said.
“It’s a done deal,” he said. “I, along with
other students, turned in $73 (Monday) morn
ing.”
Monday was the first day students could
enter the student lottery for tickets.
Although little can be done about this year’s
football ticket price, Loudon said he would
work to bring next year’s down.
Many students can’t afford to pay the extra
$17, he said.
“I will not be surprised if the number of
students buying tickets goes down this year,” he
said.
Fourakersaid he couldn’t speculate whether
the athletic department would agree to ticket
price reductions.
The department needs the extra revenue
generated by the increased price, he said.
“We’re still trying to clear out a deficit,” he
said. “We have considerablcexpensc increases. ”
The department is paying for stadium
changes and repairs, he said.
Students haven’t been the only ones hit by
higher prices, Fouraker said. Tickets will be
more expensive for the general public, faculty
and staff, he said.
Fourakersaid he had little worry that higher
prices would mean a drastic decrease in the
number of tickets purchased.
Marketing surveys show that about the same
number of students still would buy tickets at a
higher price, he said.
“Pricing didn’t seem an issue,” he said.
And for some die-hard Comhusker fans like
Loudon, it isn’t.
“I’m a big fan,” he said. “I’m going to pay
the extra money.”
Public health nurses help educate Kerrey
By Brian Sharp
Staff Reporter_
Sen. Bob Kerrey was touring
Lincoln Monday, but it wasn’t
for handshakes or political
whistle-stops.
At one point on his tour, he en
countered a woman who was about to
deliver her baby. She didn’t have a
doctor, didn’t know where to go. The
contractions were six minutes apart.
Once a month, Kerrey spends the
day with various community officials.
This month’s “A day in the life of...,”
as it has been dubbed, was spent with
people involved with public health
nursing.
“These are real-life dramas,”
Kerrey said. “These arc not abstract
ideas. Real decisions are in process.
Real miracles are in process.
During part of the day, Kerrey
went along with nurses to visit pa
tients in their homes as well as in
emergency rooms.
Rape, assault and stabbing victims
all were attended to in just a few hours
at one hospital Kerrey visited. Hospi
tal ofTiciais told him it was a slow
shift.
The day only further convinced
Kerrey the nation’s health care sys
tem needed to be overhauled, but not
taken over by the government.
Kerrey said the country would be
better oft restructuring the current
m arket, but r ight now the Uni ted S ta tes
is closer to a federally-mandated pro
gram.
Saturday, Kerrey will make public
the recommendations of four task
forces. The task forces assessed cost
control, reform and accountability in
health-carc providers. Kerrey intends
to make their findings part of the
finance committee’s deliberations in
Washington.
No matter what the discussions
include, the committee will keep com
ing back to one point, he said.
“You still, bottom line, get to the
question: ‘How arc you going to pay
for it?”’ Kerrey said.
A difficult question, he said, be
cause the bills of the current health
care system aren’t being paid.
Monday’s press conference was
held outside the apartmentofa woman
with a three-year-old child and a baby
who recently had appendicitis.
Kerrey said a nurse was teaching
the woman how to lake care of the
baby’s wound, what to feed the infant
and how to make sure it gets better,
instead of worse.
Providing this kind of education
and information will be a necessary
part of any health care reform pack
age, he said. Kerrey said it would also
need to supply a clear account of how
the system will be paid for and deliver
a balanced account on a “pay as you
go” basis.
“The health care debate, all too
often, is full of numbers,’’Kerrey said.
“It’s a language people don’t recog
nize.”
Kerrey said he hoped the final de
cision would build on current pro
grams and develop a system where
everyone was eligible.
“End this discrimination pricing,
End this skimming (of profits) and
the pre-existing traditions and create
rules that establish a different kind of
market."