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April 13, 1994
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 93 No. 140
Baldwin to
be allowed
new freedom
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Editor
Scott Baldwin will be allowed to leave the
Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital and
live on his own, a judge ailed Tuesday.
Lancaster County District Judge Paul Merritt
gave the Lincoln Regional Center 30 days to
provide an outpatient program for Baldwin that
must include independent living.
During a March 31 court hearing, Baldwin
requested that he be able to live with his girl
friend, Jolcne Davidson of Lincoln.
Merritt said Davidson wasn’t specifically
mentioned in the ruling.
“The order says they arc to provide an
outpatient program that is to include indepen
dent living,” Merritt said. “It doesn’t even refer
to Miss Davidson.”
Baldwin, a former University of Ncbraska
Lincoln student and football player, was found
not responsible by reason of insanity in the
January 1992 beating of Gina Simanek. In a
subsequent psychotic episode, Baldwin was
paralyzed when an Omaha police officer shot
him in September 1992.
Baldwin has since been under the court
ordered supervision of the regional center. In
December, Baldwin was admitted to a less
See BALDWIN on 6
Travis Heying/DN
Joseph Soshnik, a former University of Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor, responds to a question asked by current
Chancellor Graham Spanier Tuesday. Soshnik was part of a panel of former UNL chancellors taking part in the
“Secrets That Have Never Been Told” symposium, the chancellors told stories of some of their past job
experiences about which other people knew little.
Murder cases
nothing new
for Endacott
By Kara G. Morrison
Senior Reporter
Roger Bjorklund’s life now rests in one
man’s hands.
After nearly a year and a half of court
proceedings, Lancaster County District Judge
Donald Endacott will decide on May 23 wheth
er Bjorklund will be sentenced to life in prison
or to death by electrocution for killing Candice
Harms.
At a Jan. 7 ruling to delay Bjorklund’s
sentencing hearing, Endacott called the deci
sion he faced “the heaviest possible decision
any judge can make.”
Bjorklund was found guilty by a jury in
November for the first-degree murder of the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln freshman.
“That decision not only involves fact-find
ing and writing of critically analyzed opinion,
it also involves an enormously complicated
legal process,” Endacott said. “It has nothing to
do with the judge simply walking in and saying
life or death.”
See ENDACOTT on 6
UNL chancellors share their stories
By Angie Brunkow
Senior Reporter_
The stern face of administration
smiled Tuesday as four former UN L
chancellors told the “secrets” of thei r
respective tours of duty.
About 350 people attended the sympo
sium,“SccrctsThat Have Never Been Told,”
to hear the inside story of panty raids, snow
ball fights, football follies and battles with
the regents. The symposium was held as part
of the celebration of the university’s 125th
anniversary.
“Education did not suffer,” Clifford M.
Hardin said as he told the roaring audience
of the panty raids that occurred during his
administration.
Hardin, who served as chancellor from
1954 to 1968, said three such raids occurred
during that time.
“We were very concerned it was going to
become an annual event,” he said.
Other former chancellors speaking in
cluded Joseph Soshmk, serving from 1968 to
1971; Roy Young, serving from 1976 to
1980; and Martin Masscngale, serving from
1981 to 1991.
Soshnik reluctantly answered a question
from moderator Chancel lor Graham Spamcr
on educational politics.
The University of Ncbraska-Lincoln is
unique in that it has a board of regents that
is elected and it has close geographic tics to
the Legislature. Spanier said.
Soshnik said his first experiences with
the Legislature’s nine-member Appropria
tions Committee went well.
“(The chairman) understands.” Soshnik
said. “He cares about the university ... but
that was the first one.”
After that, the degree of difficulty in
working with the committee fell in propor
tion to the number of committee members
who were “closet candidates” for governor,
he said.
“(One year) we could count five who
aspired to be governor of Nebraska," he said.
“That was one of the roughest years we had.”
But in telling behind-the-scenes adminis
trative stories Tuesday, the chancellors re
vealed more than just humor.
The four told of their many accomplish
ments at UNL that changed the university
both inside and out.
Massengalc said he was proud of the
Campus Recreation Center and the Beadle
Center for which he was able to find funding
during the turbulent economic times oi tnc
1980s.
By matching the need of the athletic
department for an indoor football practice
area and the need of the students for the new
recreation center, Masscngalc said, he was
able to scrape the funding together.
“Here was an opportunity to put together
two parts of this institution and make it win
win for all,” he said.
Hardin said that during his term, the
university was able to build many new resi
dence halls without any government fund
ing. During the 1960s, Soshnik said the
numberofstudentscnrollingat UNLjumped
by the thousands each year, and additional
housing was needed.
“We were able to meet our targets every
time,” he said.
But the former chancellors said their days
at the university went beyond a few funny
stories and meaningful accomplishments.
Instead, Hardin said, their days here gave
them a sense of the progress that went be
yond the four living chancellors who spoke
at the symposium.
“The institution keeps going,” he said. “It
will never be finished.”
Health care plan could reduce restaurant jobs
Insurance premiums
mean huge expenses
By Angie Brunkow
Senior Reporter_
Some students may find themselves job
less if Clinton’s health care plan is ap
proved. local restaurant owners said.
“Students arc going to be hurt,” said Mark
Lutz, chief administrator of the Nebraska Res
taurant Association.
The cost of the plan, which would require all
small businesses to pay up to 80 percent of
insurance premiums for all employees, would
cause 2,450 Nebraska restaurant jobs to be
destroyed, Lutz said.
But Rob Doughty, vice president of public
relations for Pizza Hut. said the cost nationwide
would be even greater. About 820,000 jobs in
the industry would be eliminated if Congress
passes Clinton’s proposal.
Tens of thousands of Pizza Hut’s 200,000
employees would be fired, he said, and most of
the firings would be of part-timers.
“This administration has attacked the value
of part-time jobs,’’ Doughty said. The restau
rant would hire more full-time employees to
keep the cost of providing benefits down, he
said.
That would mean college students, who
can’t work 40 hours a week, might have a
harder time finding jobs.
Brian Boles, co-owner of Lazio’s Brewery
and Grill, 710 P St., said jobs weren’t his
biggest worry about the plan.
“It would add $60,000 to $70,000 a year in
expenses,” he said.
Boles, whoemploys 135 workers at Lazio’s,
said it would cost him an average of$50 to$ 100
per employee for health care.
“If you took $50 a month times 135 people
... that’s a huge expense,” he said.
Doughty said Pizza Hut faced similar prob
lems with the expense of the plan.
“This health care package to Pizza Hut alone
would be $120 million to $200 million in
costs,” he said. “It’s a lot of money.”
Doughty said Pizza Hut used an affordable
plan in which part-time employees could pay a
few dollars per paycheck (or insurance.
The voluntary plan saves the company mon
ey because it covers only the employees who
need and choose to have insurance, he said.
Many part-time employees, he said, already arc
covered by their parents’ or spouse’s plan.
“If we follow the administration’s guide
lines, the economics of providing health care
benefits to part-time employees won’t make
sense,” he said.
In order to afford to pay for the plan, Boles
said meal prices, including those at Lazio’s,
would have to go up.
“If we have to start providing healthcare for
all our employees, we’ll have to raise menu
prices to cover the costs,” he said. And custom
ers will cut down their out-to-cat ventures from
about four to six times a week to about two to
four, he said.
Because of that. Doughty said Pizza Hut
couldn’t afford to raise its prices.
“We’re already in a very competitive envi
ronment,” he said. Customers will begin to
bypass Pizza Hut’s pan pizzas for the frozen
food section at the supermarket, he said.
“Most companies won’t be able to pass it on
the consumer,” he said. “People arc only going
to pay so much for a pizza.”
Because of these problems with Clinton’s
plan. Lutz said America’s health care problems
should be solved by the businesses and insur
ance companies involved.
Doughty agreed.
“We believe there should be health care
reform, but we don’t want reform that’s going
to cost jobs,” he said. “I think that’s possible to
do.”