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UNL student found dead; suicide is suspected By Jen Deselms Senior Reporter UNL freshman Bryan Sherlock was found dead Tuesday night in his seventh-floor room in CatherHall. Lancaster County Attorney Mike Heavican said that although a formal report has not been filed, the apparent cause of death was asphyxia tion due to hanging. It is the current opinion that the death was suicide, Heavican said. " Members of the UNL Police Department responded to a call for assistance from Cather Hall at about 7 p.m. Tuesday. A report of the investigation of the death by UNL Police will be forwarded early this morning to the county attorney. Sherlock, 24, graduated from Hemingford High School in 1982. Hemingford High School Principal Lyle Fodnes said Sherlock was active Downtown redevelopment in high school. He played football, was in Future Farmers of America and worked on the stage crew for school plays, Fodnes said. Sherlock was likable and easy-going and had a lot of friends, Fodnes said. He said Sherlock was an average student. Fodnes said after Sherlock graduated from high school he spent some time working so he could save money for college. Sherlock was employed at Western Nebraska Technical College in Sidney as a custodian from January 1985 to June 1986. Sherlock's parents live in Alliance. Students in Cather Hall were asked not to talk about the incident with reporters or other stu dents Wednesday. Student assistants met Wednesday night to discuss how to help Cather Hall residents cope with the incident. Gommittees approve plans By-Kate Pritchard Staff Reporter Lincoln Downtown Redevelopment Project plans proposed by the Taubman Company have been reviewed by local citizens' committees over the summer, and the consensus is to go ahead. The Business Opportunities: Transition and Future Committee states in its report to Mayor Roland Luedtke, "We emphatically request that these negotiations be completed by January 1, 1987" so tenants and landlords would know what business decisions to make. That committee further recommended that "Stage 1" of development be started imme diately with the demolition of a block between 10th and 1 1th and P and Q streets for temporary parking. Businesses in that block include McGuffey's, Bill's Saloon, Pickle'srDirt Cheap, the Skylight Bistro and Arturo's restaurants. The Transition and Future Committee stated, "Commencement of Stage 1 would be a visible sign that the city is committed to downtown redevelopment. The city must convince both its residents and any prospective developer that it does intend to redevelop the downtown." That report said immediate acquisition would establish certainty for the tenants, thus making relocation smoother and further encourage fil ling already vacant downtown locations not in line for redevelopment. The reviewing process by the committees brought out considerations that seemed to have been overlooked previously. For example, the Taubman Company had not included bicycle traffic in its plans, but will in revising. Train shipments to continue, nuclear waste will be monitored By Kevin Freadhoff Staff Reporter Shipments of low level radioactive debris through Nebraska pose a potential danger, Gov. Bob Kerrey said in his weekly news conference Wednesday. Two shipments carrying radioactive material from the nation's worst nuclear accident, Three Mile Island, have passed through Nebraska by train so far. Kerrey ordered the first train halted before it reached the, Nebraska border late on the night of ' . July 1 ij The; trainwas stopped for 3 12 hours at LMarysvifeKanij before; it was allowed to con 1 tinue. The "Second Iraih Crossed the' state with1 out incident. The first train failed to give proper notifica tion, said State Patrol Major Ron Witkowski, in a telephone interview Tuesday. He said he was confident that the rest of the trains will give proper notification to state officials. Kerrey said he didn't have the exact figure, but more shipments are scheduled to travel through Nebraska. "My concern is for the safety of the state," Kerrey said. Kerrey said that the stat&patrol have estab lished a good procedure for safety and that they look not only at possible terrorist activity, but all other areas of safety "as well. Special inspections are possible along with routine inspections, Ker rey said. , - . , . . t . Witkowski commented on th;e safety proce dures. State patrol ;officers monitor the trains from' the time they enter the state until they leave, he said. The trains are watched con stantly, and as far as security procedures have gone, they have had no problems, Witkowski said. Tassels sell balloons for charity Keith Jones takes the handoff, dodges an opponent, and races down the sideline for the first score of the game, 76,000 ecstatic Husker fans scream in jubilation, and 1,800 red balloons are released and sent floating upwards. The air borne balloons are the culmination of another football Saturday for the Tassels. . President Teri Watkins, a senior majoring in Home Economics, and the other 42 members of this spirit organization start blowing up balloons at 7:30 a.m. on home football Saturdays. It takes about two and a half hours to inflate all 2,000 balloons, and between 60 and 90 minutes to sell them. They prepare nearly 5,000 balloons for the Oklahoma-Nebraska matchup.