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COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA SINCE 1901 VOL. 95 NO. 21 -i- -
• ■ _September 19, 1995_
Artistic gates
have history,
greet visitors
By Heidi White
Staff Reporter “
;
After years of thinking and planning, W i lber
Dasenbrock’s dream has come true.
The wrought-iron gate he discovered in a
storage yard on East Campus in 1978 was in
stalled Thursday, part of two gate sets erected
south of Love Library.
“It was mostly a dreamer’s project,”
Dasenbrock said.
Dasenbrock, director of Landscape Services
and the Botanical Gardens, brought the gate out
a few years after that discovery to look at it and
to show co-workers, he said. Nothing was done,
however, until 1992.
“We then came to an agreement to do some
thing about it and tried to figure out how to fund
it,” Dasenbrock said.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Garden
Friends, a group of about 200 citizens of the
community, offered its help and paid for the
$20,000 project through donations, Dasenbrock
said.
This is the first major project for the group.
Its objective is to be a support group for the
gardens and provide campus beautification
through tours, educational outreach, publicity
and fund raising.
The historic gate once was a part of the
original fence put up around the university by
Chancellor James H. Canfield in 1892.
“According to general conversation, they
were put up because of cows wandering around
in the fields surrounding the university,”
Dasenbrock said. “They were to keep the cows
out so they wouldn’t eat the flowers and other
shrubbery on the campus, as well as to serve
general decorative purposes.
“They were also used to keep students in and
restrict smoking on the campus.”
Canfield left the university around 1911, but
the fences remained until 1922. The decision
was made to take the fences down, and the
pieces were scattered.
Reasons for the removal of the fence are
unknown. Love Library archives from the 1950s
state that possible reasons were requests from
the Lincoln Fire Department, a City Council
ruling or the personal order of a university
official to remove the gates. Expansion of the
university also was a probable reason because
two buildings, including what is now Avery
Hall, already had been built outside the fence.
“After it was taken down, most of the fence
was sold to the Wyuka Cemetery on O Street,”
Dasenbrock said. “The main gates, which in
eluded the original seals and plaque of the
university, were stored and later replaced next
to the columns in Memorial Stadium by Ralph
Muller, who had them restored in the 1950s.”
Dasenbrock said he believed part of the
original gate once was around Neihardt Resi
dence Center before the center was renovated.
Because only one part of the gateWas found,
a duplicate had to be created. After a long
searth for an artisan, Mike and Richard Pleskac
were asked to take on the project.
It took them almost a year to complete the
detailed work, Dasenbrock said.
Two identical sets of gates were pieced to
gether like a jigsaw puzzle and installed jointly
by the Pleskac brothers and university staff.
“They make a great addition to the sculp
tures on campus because they really are a work
of art,” Dasenbrock said.
The gates will be dedicated by Interim Chan
cellor Joan Lei tzel and the president of the UNL
Garden Friends, JoAnn Weaver, on Saturday,
Sept. 23. The 9:30 a.m. dedication will take
place in the gardens on the south lawn of Love
Library.
A plaque welcoming visitors and a stand
with brochures about the gardens also will be
placed by the gates.
• “They’re our formal welcome to the univer
sity and to the botanical gardens and will always
be left open,” Dasenbrock said.
Relaxation
Jeff Haller/DN
Dedee Gilbertson, aprivate massage therapist, gives a massage Monday
morning at 8121 A St.
Massage therapy spells relief
By Erin Schulte
and Heidi White
Staff Reporters
After a hard day of modern dance prac
tice, Michele Marvin turns to flaming cotton
balls, cups and strong suction to relax her
muscles.
But the senior dance major relies on li
censed massage therapist Dedee Gilbertson
and her Eastern techniques to manipulate the
gear to relieve her muscles and dance inju
ries.
“She recenters your muscles with suc
tion,” Marvin said.
Gilbertson soaks a cotton ball with alco
hol, then lights it on fire and places it inside
a glass to remove the oxygen. She then takes
the flaming cotton bal 1 out and places the cup
on the skin — usually on the back — to
produce suction. Cups are left on the skin for
about 10 minutes.
“It hurts like hell,” Marvin said, “because
your body is tense.”
But Gilbertson said her oriental tech
nique of “cupping” was painless for people
who were not tensing up. The technique
relaxes tense muscles by pulling surround
ing tendons and muscle groups, Gilbertson
said. But it has its drawbacks, she said,
including four-inch hickies for some people.
All people can benefit from massage, said
Terry Valcan, a licensed massage therapist
from Family Massage Center, especially
older people with circulation problems, ac
cident victims or those who use word proces
sors. . /
The most common benefits include con
trol of hypertension; increased flexibility,
movement and strength; improved posture
“It’s an integration of mind,
body and spirit. ”
AMY WILLIAMS
Licensed massage therapist
and circulation; and pain relief, Valcan said.
Cupping is an unusual technique. Most
massage therapists perform two types of
massage, Swedish and neuromuscular,
Valcan said. Swedish massages are deep
muscle massages most often used for reduc
ing stress and tension. A neuromuscular
massage focuses more on individual muscles
in treating pain.
Amy Williams,a licensed massage thera
pist and owner of the Massage Clinic, said
massage promoted an overal l sense of well
being and relaxation.
“It’s an integration of mind, body and
spirit ” she said. “Connecting mind and body
can really create wholeness in a person,
which can relieve stress and pain.”
A dance professor from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln recommended Gilbertson
to Marvin when students in her class were
looking for massage therapists.
Licensed massage therapist Marta
Argumedo, who works at Total Body Con
cepts owned by B.J. Dennis, said choosing a
massage therapist to suit individual needs
was important.
Argumedo said people should make sure
their therapists were licensed by the state and
offered a private, clean, relaxing setting.
See MASSAQE on 6
Osborne
opens door
for Phillips
By Mitch Sherman
Senior Editor
Eight days after kicking Lawrence Phillips
off the Nebraska football team, Tom Osborne
said Monday that the star I-back may be back on
the field within a month.
Osborne said on the weekly Big Eight
coaches’ teleconference that Phillips, a former
Heisman Trophy prospect, would be reinstated
only if he met certain conditions.
Phillips, who missed his first Comhusker
game Saturday since Sept. 4,1993, is undergo
ing counseling to treat his temper, Osborne
said.
“I told Lawrence that he definitely needs to
have some sort of treatment where he can look
at how to control his anger,” Osborne said.
Phillips pleaded innocent last week to mis
demeanor charges of assault, trespassing and
destruction of property. Police allege that
Phillips broke into the apartment of Husker
quarterback Scott Frost on Sept. 10 and as
saulted his ex-girlfriend, Kate McEwen, a Ne
braska basketball player.
“I would not allow him to return unless
medical people say some significant changes
have taken place,” Osborne said. “There are
several things he has to get ironed out. It’s
possible that in a month or so, in the best-case
scenario, he could return.”
Osborne told reporters after practice Mon
day that he doubted Phillips would go to trial.
Neither Osborne nor Phillips’ attorney, Hal
Anderson, would comment on whether the run
ning back would change his plea or how the case
would be settled.
Lancaster County Attorney Gary Lacey was
See PHILLIPS on 8
Lincoln still
safe despite
rising crime
By Stephanie Wreed
Staff Reporter ~ —
Violence and gang activity are increasing in
Lincoln, the police chief said Monday night,
though the city remains one of the nation’s
safest.
Tom Casady spoke at a crime summit hosted
by the Lincoln Neighborhood Watch at the
Auld Recreation Center. In addition to Casady,
Lincoln Mayor Mike Johanns, Lt. Gov. Kim
Robak, Lt. Doug Srb and four other representa
tives from the Lincoln Police Department at
tended the summit.
Aggregated assault has increased 168 per
cent in the last decade, Casady said, and the
LPD has recorded 350 gang members affiliated
with Lincoln. Three of largest gangs in Lincoln
are the Baggy Boys, the Crips and the Bloods,
Casady said. Other Lincoln gangs include the
Green Bay Mafia, the Insane Vice Lords, the
Gangster Disciples and the Crenshaw Mafia, he
said.
Though violent crimes are rising in Lincoln,
Casady said, the capital city ranks 34th out of 36
U.S. cities with populations of 100,000 to
250,000 for violent crimes per capita. Madison,
Wis., has the best ranking, and Little Rock,
Ark., has the worst ranking, he said.
Johanns said Lincoln’s lack of suburbs was
the main reason Lincoln’s crime rate stayed low
compared to other U.S. cities.
Lincoln’s quadrupled population in the past
decade caused the increase in violent crime,
See CRIME on 6
