You are invited to attend the Dr. Eli & Tillie D. Geffen
Memorial Lecture by the renowned poet and author,
nonnw Qionol The Awesomeness of Being Human:
uanny oiegei Where Heaven & Touch
Sunday, September 17,1995
Trfereth Israel Synagogue - 3219 Sheridan Blvd.
7:00 - 8:30 pm - Coffee & Discussion to follow
FREE ADMISSION
Non-perishable donations to the Lincoln Food Bank are encouraged
jggg University Foundations Cross-Cultural credit will be given
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Fall semester distribution of Federal Perkins Loan
checks will be on September 13, 14, and 15 in the
Ballroom of the Nebraska Union. Hours of
distribution are 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. and
1:00 - 4:00 p.m. each day.
Students must present their student photo ID to
receive their check. New borrowers are reminded
to bring the promissory note that was previously
mailed to them. Checks not claimed by
4:00 p.m. September 15
will be cancelled.
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, Barbara Hibner, an associate athletic director at the University of Nebiaska-Lincoln, savs
barriers to women are hurdles that she soars over.
Hibner
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Hibner, like many woman in
male-dominated fields, did reach
the upper rungs on the ladder, but
that’s where she stopped — and
bumped her head on the proverbial
“glass ceiling.”
Hibner enjoys the relative ob
scurity of her job, she said, but she
admits that even if she wanted to
ascend that ladder even higher, she
. would be the Only runner in an
almost futile race.
In 1993, when Bill Byrne was
named athletic director, only two
female athletic directors worked
in Division 1, she said, and one of
them already has quit.
“It’s lonely at the top,” she said,
“and even lonelier for a woman.”
Women are excluded in athlet
ics, she said, “and that does not
bode well for women’s freedom in
general.”
“There is also the reality that I
am not one of the ‘good ol’ boys,”’
she said. “In addition, you have to
face the cold, harsh reality of the
lack of longevity of women at the
D-l level.”
Other women associate athletic
directors work in Division 1, she
said, and sdme women are even
athletic directors in Division 2 and
3, she said. Those women may
wield the axe that will bring the
glass ceiling shattering down, she
said.
But while some young, female
athletic administrators may be in
timidated by the athletic brother
hood, she said, some may be fu
eled by it.
“Those of us in athletics are of
• a competitive spirit,” she said, “and
this may start a fire. It can inspire
others.”
But even if the glass ceiling did
break for her, Hibner said, she
wouldn’t take Byrne ’ sj ob for “any
thing in the world.”
Aside from the media circus
surrounding Lawrence Phillips
during the past two weeks, Hibner
said, an athletic director has to
make too many “cold, calculating
decisions.”
Hibner said she would rather
enjoy the vitality of the sport.
In the eighth grade, Hibner knew
. : she wanted to bea physical educa
tion teacher. As a freshman at Penn
State, she knew she wanted to be a
coach and a teacher. Then she set
a goal to be out of coaching by the
time she was 30.
Although she was offered a job
at the collegiate level, she said, she
first accepted a job at a high school
that would “break her in.”
Hibner was teaching and coach
ing many of the same sports she
used to play, including girls’ field
hockey, basketball and softball —
and even girls’ and boys’ tennis.
But Hibner said she didn’t fit
into the immature high school
mentality of racing students out
the doors at 3 p.m. and inspiring
athletes by making them do 30
push-ups if they forgot their gym
socks.
She was ready to move up to the
collegiate level. Her love of sports
kept her in athletics, she said, where
she was always “surrounded by
youth and vitality.”
She came to UNL in 1*978 as the
assistant women’s athletic direc
tor. She moved up to assistant ath
letic director in charge of women’s
sports under former director Bob
Devaney.
When Bill Byrne came, she said,
she was renamed associate athletic
director and given a “smorgasbord
of duties.”
At 53, Hibner, who said she was
viewed as “a rebel with a cause”
for athletics at Penn State, has seen
mwy changes in ^pfcr#$&’stpfqr<t
gram.
She helped UNL women’s ath
letics exceed the standards of other
universities with more scholar
ships, better coverage, equal ac
cess to training tables, surgeons
* and facilities and other opportuni
ties that have always been open to
men.
Even wrtli her accomplish
ments, she said, she knows she has
limits.
“I’ve bounced off walls, hit ceil
ings and rebounded,” she said. “It’s
all part of the fight.”
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Nebraska Invitational
SATURDAY, September 16, 1995
at PIONEERS PARK
Free Admission
WOMEN
5,000 m
10:00 a.m.
MEN .
8,000 m
10:45 a.m.
Help wanted: '
IRS in search of
tax volunteers
By Tasha E. Kelter
Staff Reporter * ■; . .
The Internal Revenue Service is
recruiting volunteers for this year’s
tax filing season through its Volun
teer Income Tax Assistance program.
Prospective volunteers who don’t
already know how to fill out a tax
return must go through a training
program to learn. At the end of the
training program, they must pass a
test by completing a tax form.
Volunteers assist such people as
low-income adults who can’t afford
professional tax help, and senior citi
zens.
’ They also help people with disabili
ties and people who have trouble
with English.
Volunteers also answer tax ques
tions and fill out basic tax returns at
schools, libraries and senior citizen
centers.
About 700 Nebraskans volunteer
for the program each filing season.
Volunteers helped more than lf^Ho
Nebraskans with their taxes last year,
a representative of the Tax Education
Office in Omaha said.
Anyone interested in becoming a
tax volunteer can call the IRS at 1
. 800-829-1040 and ask for the Tax
payer Education Office.
