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^___ _October 9, 1995_
“To all thepeople I’ll never know ”
Jeff Haller/DN
Peggy O’Neill, left, and Steve Logsdon view a piece of the NAMES Memorial AIDS Quilt Sunday. The quilt was on
display Saturday and Sunday at Omaha Civic Auditorium.
Quilt display an emotional remembrance
By John Fulwider
Senior Reporter
Alan Paine. ArturoTorre. Roel Paulussen.
The names of those whose lives were
claimed by AIDS were read by volunteers in
a slow monotone Sunday at the Omaha Civic
Auditorium Arena where the NAMES Me
morial AIDS Quilt was on display this week
end.
Hundreds came to see the quilt — some
out of remembrance, others out of respect.
Quiana Smith said she didn’t know any
one who had died from AIDS. She had come
to pay tribute to victims she had never known.
The quilt section on display is composed
of more than 1,000 memorials to loved ones.
The entire AIDS quilt contains memorials to
more than 30,000 victims.
Each remembrance measures three feet
by six feet — the size of a standard grave
plot.
Sewn-together squares of eight individual
panels lay on the floor, filling the arena with
pathways crisscrossing between them. The
arena walls encircling the display also were
covered in colorful remembrance.
A box of facial tissue lay at each of the
four comers of most squares. Most of the
boxes were empty.
Tears flowed freely as long lines of people
of all shapes, sizes, ages and colors filed
solemnly past each panel.
Some kneltTnbxt to a particular panel to
examine it more closely. Some placed flow
ers on the panel of someone they knew.
The panels themselves spoke volumes.
One bore an airbrushed picture of a baby
girl ^Our little angel Krystal: Bom 8-10-85,
Died 3-25-86.”
Another had no picture or decoration. It
simply read: “Greg, you’re always in my
heart. I love you and miss you, Mom.”
In the center of the arena, a large, white
sheet was covered with signatures and mes
sages from quilt visitors.
John Fleming, a 1988 UNL graduate,
knelt down with his daughter Corinne to
write on the sheet.
“To all the people I’ll never know,” he
wrote. Fleming’s wi fe ’ s cousin died of AIDS.
He never met her.
At 5 p.m., the closing ceremonies began.
Following a song by a women’s choir, fami
lies brought in new panels to add to the quilt.
The announcer’s voice broke when he
read the first name.
The panels were carried in like coffins,
with one person at each of the four comers.
They were laid atop the white signed sheets
by four members of the quilt’s Omaha Host
Committee.
Mothers dropped to their knees to kiss the
panels before they were placed atop the
others. Family members leaned on each other
for support. More volunteers helped the fam
ily members on the long journey out of the
arena.
The announcer said some final words,
exhorting the people present to take what
they had seen out into the community.
“To all of you who have seen this quilt, we
thank you,” he said.
As the day of observance came to a close,
some found it difficult to leave; some wept.
And as hundreds filed out of the arena, all
that remained were the names.
Jake Oxford, Jim Hanlon ...
Group studies sportsaholic tendencies
By Kelly Hansen
Staff Reporter :
It has been said that football is Nebraska.
Thesame might be said of football and UNL
senior Matt Heineman.
“As a little boy growing up in the heart of
Nebraska, watching the Huskers was not a pas
time—it was life,” said Heineman, an agricul
tural economics major. “Football was a major
part ofmy life, and as I got older the feelings and
my actions only got stronger.”
But according to one man’s definition, such
an obsession could be the makings of a
sportsaholic.
Kevin Quirk, director of Life Change, has
studied sportsaholism. Quirk is conducting a
nationwide survey on the affliction. His na
tional organization, based in New York, was set
up to help people deal with major life changes.
“Sportsaholism affects nearly X5 percent of
the people in every major city,” Quirk said in a
telephone interview. “If you find yourself watch
ing ESPN at every free moment, subscribing to
every major sports magazine, calling to place
your bets, you may well be a sportsaholic.”
The national survey explores the habits and
passions of men whose lives are consumed by
sports and helps them discover the role sports
play in their lives and relationships.
The five-page survey poses questions such
as:
• What else other than sports moves you
with the same kind of interest and passion?
• If you have friends who do not follow
sports, how difficult is it for you to enjoy their
company?
• What was it like for you the last time one
of your favorite teams won a major champion
ship?
• What kind of fantasies have you ever had
about getting married at a sports stadium or
arena?
• How often do you watch ESPN’s
Sport sCenter?
• How often do you watch a regular news
program?
Several male students across campus said
they watched sports often, but did not consider
it a problem in their lives.
Nathan Perry, a junior engineering major,
said he “would do anything to see the Huskers
win another national championship.”
“I enjoy watching and playing sports,” Perry
said, “but by far am not a sportsaholic.”
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Computers
causing stir
in college
By John Fulwider
Senior Reporter
Computers are causing a stir in the College
of Architecture.
Third-year architecture students are required
to purchase portable computers for their classes.
They were given the choice of buying IBM or
Macintosh computers.
But some believe Macintosh computers were
pushed on them.
Joe Davis, a third-year architecture major,
said he got the feeling Macintosh computers
were the college’s computer of choice when he
walked into his third-year design studio.
In the studio was a Macintosh — but no
IBM’s. There are four third-year design stu
dios, and all have Macintosh computers.
Despite the push for Macintosh, Davis chose
an IBM computer. He said he called several
Lincoln architecture firms to find out what
computers they used.
He discovered all but two used IBM.
A Daily Nebraskan survey confirmed that
few Lincoln and Omaha architecture firms use
Macintosh computers.
Of 19 Lincoln and 20 Omaha firms sur
veyed, three used Macintosh computers and 34
used IBM’s or IBM-compatibles. Two did not
use computers.
Another complaint students had was with
Form Z, a three-dimensional modeling program
that runs only on the Macintosh.
Students said they were taught both Form Z
and 3-D Studio, an IBM program, in their classes.
Well, sort of.
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UNL leaders
strive toward
understanding
By Julie Sobczyk
Senior Editor
A small group of UNL student leaders spent
the weekend preparing to take some big steps
toward cultural awareness on campus.
The eighth annual Cultural Diversity Retreat
drew about 46 students from several organiza
tions to the 4-H camp near Gretna for the two
day event.
“The retreat strives to provide cultural edu
cation for our student body,” said John Harris,
director of the retreat and special assistant to the
vice chancellor for student affairs. “It showed
our students we can make a difference to work
against racism and prejudice.”
The retreat featured discussion, videos, cul
tural simulations, activities and an open forum
for participants to examine the need for diver
sity and understanding at UNL and in America,
Harris said.
Donny White, vice president of the Afrikan
People’s Union, said the retreat changed his
perceptions of race relations on campus.
“Before, I thought everyone kept to them
selves,” White said. “I thought there was very
little interaction between races on campus and
that the races were very cliquish.
“Now, I feel there are a lot of key players on
campus, people to bridge the gap between races,”
he said. “I learned not to prejudge and to give
people a chance by not giving them a label such
as being racist or arrogant.”
Participants discussed these labels, as well
as the issue of greek versus non-greek in the
open forum section.
One important issue discussed was Affirma
tive Action, Harris said. The problem with
Affirmative Action turned out to be that people
looked only at how it affected them, not that ~
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