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September 25, 1995
Saying goodbye
Jeff Haller/DN
Bernadette McMenamin, right, wipes a tear away during a Sunday memorial service for her daughter, Martina, at the Wick
Alumni Center. Seated with her is Sarah Bognich, center, Tina’s former roommate, and Britnee Friend, a girl whom Tina
babysat.
Service celebrates McMenamin’s life
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Reporter
The women whoknew Martina McMenamin
the best—her mother, great aunt, grandmother
and roommate—silently listened as their “Tina”
was eulogized Sunday.
Nine people, including some who first be
came acquainted with McMenamin aflcr she
was killed July 25, spoke at a memorial service
at the Wick Alumni Center. Tears fell from
many faces as about 50 people gathered to
remember the woman who would have been a
UNL sophomore this year.
“I feel bad they didn’t get to know her,” said
Sarah Bognich, who found MeMcnamin’s body
in their south Lincoln apartment.
Exactly two months have passed since
McMenamin was found stabbed to death. Po
lice have identified no suspects in the slaying.
Before and after the service, family and
friends viewed eight panels of photographs that
documented McMenamin’s 18 years of life.
The photography journal started at her Sept.
22, 1976, birth in Sagamihara, Japan, and con
tinued throughout her life in Omaha. The last
panel represented the final chapter in
McMenamin’s life as she moved into her new
home at Amberwood Apartments.
The images of McMenamin’s life, captured
on 3-by-5-inch photographs, brought tears to
the eyes of mourners. The panels were linked
together with white carnations.
As her brown hair grew through the years, so
did McMcnamin. The family photograph col
lection shows her as a free spirit, parasailing in
Monaco and traveling through Europe on a
Gross High School trip.
“Those pictures really brought Tina to life
for me,” said Shawntell Hurtgen, president of
the Association of Students of the University of
Nebraska. “I’m sorry I didn’t get to meet her.”
Hurtgen read a proclamation signed by Gov.
Ben Nelson urging the university community to
remember McMenamin.
A sweetgum tree south of the Canfield Ad
ministration Buildingand a wooden park bench
near the College of Business Administration
were dedicated to McMenamin.
“I want to assure you that her memory will
not be lost,” Hurtgen said, looking at
McMenamin’s mother, Bernadette.
McMenamin was an honor student during
her first year at UNL. A framed listing of fellow
honor students in the Division of Continuing
Studies was presented to Bernadette
McMenamin.
“Clearly, Tina was oneofour best and bright
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Harassment
policy revised
and improved
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Reporter
UNL’s first sexual harassment and discrimi
nation policy would help victims and set guide
lines to prevent further victimization.
Friday is the deadline for comments on the
new policy as it moves toward approval. The
deadline may mark the end of an almost five
year revising cycle.
Judith Kriss, director of the Women’s Cen
ter, said the new policy’s final draft was an
improvement from previous drafts.
“The previous policy seemed to protect the
harassers,” she said. “It was set up to protect the
system and protect the persons who might be in
a position of power.”
Mary Beck, chairwoman of the Academic
Rights and Responsibilities Committee, helped
draft the policy, which is formally called the
Harassment and Discrimination Policy and Pro
cedures for Information Resolutions.
Beck said it was less of a policy and more of
a grievance procedure. '
It is the standard UNL policy of equal educa
tional and employment opportunities and non
discrimination, she said.
UNL never had a formal, defined way to deal
with harassment and discrimination, she said,
which the new pol icy tackles in a “user-friendly”
form.
It is very straightforward, Beck said. It
gives clear guidelines about what people could
do and should do if they had a concern or
complaint of discrimination or harassment of
any kind.”
The new policy lists several places where
people can go to for help, she said, including the
student or stall ombudsman, Student Judicial
Affairs, the UNL Grievance Committee, the
Employee Assistance Program and the Office
of Affirmative Action and Diversity Programs.
The policy also lists how a person can file a
formal complaint. Faculty, staff and students
can file a formal complaint against a student by
contacting the Student Judicial Board.
They can file a complaint against staff mem
bers or any person in the their administrative
reporting 1 ine by contacting the UNL Grievance
Committee.
Complaints against faculty, administrators
and other academic staff can be made by con
tacting the Academic Rights and Responsibili
ties Committee chairperson.
Under the old system, people were instructed
to take complaints to their immediate supervi
sors, she said, which created a problem if the
supervisor was the object of the complaint.
The new policy also outlines consensual
relationships, specifically among people in su
pervisory roles.
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Watson stresses value
of education, instruction
By Kelli Bamsey
Staff Reporter
An education that combined re
search and quality professors was
crucial to James Dewey Watson’s
development.
Watson spoke at the Lied Center
Friday to celebrate the dedication
of the George W. Beadle Center for
Genetics and Biomaterials Re
search. As a former colleague of
Beadle’s, Watson said the man had
an intellectual impact on his life.
Watson worked under Beadle as
a graduate student at California
Polytechnic Institute in the summer
of 1949.
In 1962, Watson, with Francis
Crick and Maurice Wilkins, dem
onstrated the double helix shape of
DNA and won the Noble Prize in
physiology or medicine.
Watson stressed the importance
not only of new research centers,
but also the importance of people
using the centers and the education
coming from them.
“Buildings don’t produce sci
ence,” Watson said. “We need to
recruit people to use as resources.”
Where we are today is based on
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Caucus requests investigation
By Mike Kluck
Staff Reporter '
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln Faculty Women’s Caucus stated
Friday that Lawrence Phillips’ status
as a student should be evaluated.
“The Faculty Women’s Caucus is
concerned that Mr. Phillips, as a stu
dent/athlete, has violated several con
ditions of the UNL Code of Conduct,
yet no review of his status as a student
has been initiated,” the caucus said in
a statement.
However, James Griesen, vice
chancellor for student affairs, said
Sunday night that the university had
investigated the case and made a deci
sion on Phillips’ status, but that deci
sion is confidential.
Phillips pleaded no contest Tues
day to misdemeanor assault and tres
passing charges. He had been charged
with assaulting Kate McEwen, his ex
girlfriend and a sophomore on the
women’s basketball team, Sept. 10 at
the apartment of NU quarterback Scott
Frost.
The caucus said it was asking for
an investigation out of concern for
McEwen’sphysical and emotional se
curity.
“Ms. McEwen legitimately fears
for her own safety. The presence of
Lawrence Phillips on campus, in the
training facilities and in the UNL ath
letic program" poses a real danger to
her. It is an unfair burden for her to
return to campus and the practice court
under these conditions,” the caucus
said.
Griesen said university officials re
viewed article 3.4 of the Student Code
of Conduct to determine whether
Phillips’ case involved a code viola
tion. Article 3.4 refers to off-campus
jurisdiction.
Because two university students
were involved in the alleged assault,
Griesen said, and the educational rights
of one of the students was in question,
a possible code violation may have
occurred even though the incident took
place outside UNL jurisdiction,
Griesen said.
If the university decided that
Phillips violated the code, Griesen
said, sanctions could be taken against
him. Those sanctions range from a
warning to expulsion. Phillips remains
a UNL student, Griesen said.