Awareness month
concluding with vigil
By Jenny House
Staff Reporter
A candlelight vigil Friday will
wrap up National Domestic Vio
lence Awareness Month, but
women’s groups hope awareness
will continue after the month is
over.
The vigil will start at 7:30 p.m.
on Broyhill Plaza. Judith Kriss,
director of the UNL Women’s
Center, will speak at the vigil.
Other speakers include Stan and
Pat Harms, parents of slain UNL
student Candice Harms. Stork, a
guitar player, will open and close
the vigil with a song inspired by an
incest survivor.
Those who plan to attend the
vigil should bring candles for the
candlelighting ceremony.
After the vigil, coffee and re
freshments will be served at the
Women’s Center, 338 Nebraska
Union.
“It will be a time for talking and
listening,” said Thelma Ross, one
of four coordinators for the month ’ s
activities.
Activities for National Domes
tic Violence Awareness Month are
sponsored by the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln Women’s Stud
ies Association, the Women’s Cen
ter and the Domestic Violence
Sexual Assault Coalition Rape/
Spouse Abuse Crisis Center of Lin
coln.
An exhibit to promote aware
ness was on display in the Ne
braska Union from Oct. 9-16. The
display was temporarily taken
down during homecoming week to
make room for banners, but it re
turned this week.
Volunteers from the Women’s
Studies Association also have a
booth at the Nebraska Union this
month. Handouts about the re
sources available for domestic vio
lence and sexual assault victims
are available at the booth.
The booth also relates another
kind of information — through
sound.
A gong sounds every 10 to 12
seconds at the booth to symbolize
how often a woman is battered,
Ross said. A whistle sounds every
seven minutes to remind people of
the frequency of forcible rape. A
bell rings occasionally to repre
sent the number of women killed
each day.
“I think a lot of women don’t
know what defines sexual assault
or domestic abuse,” Ross said.
“We’re educating — trying to give
details for promoting awareness.”
Ross said she wanted people to
know that sexual abuse and vio
lence occurred in Lincoln and Ne
braska.
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Hurtgen agreed the plaza’s main
attraction should remain a fountain.
A water sculpture might not retain
the fountain’s simplicity, she said.
“I want to keep it from becoming
this artsy, sculpture-infested cam
pus,” she said.
Todd said the university would
avoid something too modem; how
ever, once designers and architects
are chosen, the university will not
interfere with their plans.
Todd was unsure how much the
plaza redesign would cost, but said it
would be between $300,000
$500,000.
Senators also asked whether the
union expansion would cut into the
green space north of the plaza.
“I want to keep it from becoming this artsy, I
sculpture-infested campus. ”
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“We knew about the union expan
sion when the green space was devel
oped,” Todd said. “We knew we
would eventually have to go into that
space.”
Nebraska Union Director Daryl
Swanson passed out a list of features
desired for the new plaza:
• A permanent staging area or
band shell for bands and presenta
tions.
• A 30-space increase in bicycle
racks to accommodate 100 bicycles.
• An electric announcement sign.
The plaza should stay at least as
large as it is now, according to
Swanson’s list.
Ann Broyhill, a junior accounting
major, attended the meeting but did
not voice any opinions during the
meeting.
“My family supports the change
but doesn’t want the name to change,”
she said after the meeting. “We want
it to remain Memorial Plaza.”
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Chancellor, being held in the union.
Hardin had left UNL to become Presi
dent Richard Nixon’s secretary of
agriculture.
The fountain was built with more
capabilities than it has now, Swanson
said.
It was designed to operate year
round; its pipes were warmed by steam
so the water would not freeze.
To keep the fountain’s water spray
from freezing everyone in the plaza.
he said, a wind meter was installed
that regulated the height the water
shot up.
But that system malfunctioned the
first year, he said. On one cold day,
the wind blew water across the entire
southeast part of the plaza, turning it
into a treacherous sheet of ice.
The fountain and Broyhill Plaza
now stand over what used to be S
Street. The road that used to continue
on through 14th Street now ends at
15th Street.
When the union was expanded in
1969, Swanson said, S Street was
closed. But it was graded several feet
below the level of the union. Swanson
said 45 truckloads of dirt were used
to bring the closed section of S Street
up to plaza level.
Broyhill was an active member of
Pi Beta Phi Sorority, holding the of
fice of treasurer in 1966. She also was
a member of Tassels, the women’s
spirit club, that year.
The year before, she had joined
the Cadence Countesses, a coed drill
team.
The fountain was paid for by a
donation from the Broyhill family.
Swanson said the fountain cost had
never been publicly disclosed.
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