Professors say Bentsen
better understood issues
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debate rules, Bentsen won. He also
said the debate marginally helped the
Dukakis/Bentscn ticket because there
are still close to 10 percent of the
voters who haven’t decided how they
will vote.
Bill Avery, political science pro
lessor, said Bentsen had a better grasp
of the issues and more depth.
In terms of presentation of self,
Avery said, both candidates did a
good job. This is a very important
aspect of any election, Avery said.
Avery said that Quayle dispelled
some fears people had about him, but
he said he got the impression that
Quavle had prepared statements for
the questions.
Jack Kay, chairman and associate
professor of speech communication,
said in terms of scoring debate points,
the debate produced a “clear Bcntsen
victory.” Bentsen’s image and the
substance of his arguments were the
keys to his success, Kay said.
Bcntsen was more specific and
offered more factual information
about the issues, while Quayle was
more evasive, according to Kay.
Avery said he doesn’t think the
vice-presidential debates matter be
cause people are going to vote for the
candidates on the top of the ticket.
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2 p.m. — Car battery reported stolen from vehicle in area lu, lour
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UNL police officer saves child
from burning apartment house
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"All of the other apartment resi
dents were evacuated by the time we
got there,” King said. "We were able
to contain die fire in die one bedroom
apartment, but everything in the room
was on fire.”
AP reported that Merwick said die
fire apparently started in the living
room.
Petersen said Kratochvil was
treated for smoke inhalation and re
leased from St. Elizabeth Thursday
afternoon.
Thursday night, a St. Elizabeth’s
spokesperson said Christopher was
listed in fair condition. Elizabeth and
Ryan were still in critical condition.
The Bureau of Fire Prevention is
investigating the cause of the fire.
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Forensic anthropology helps scientists
to identify missing, dead by remains
By Pattie Greene
Staff Reporter
Forensic anthropology enables
scientists to help law agencies
identify missing or dead people by
their skeletal remains, said Doug
Owsley of the Smithsonian Institu
tion in Washington, D.C.
Owsley, associate curator of the
anthropology department at the insti
tution, spoke Thursday at the Ne
braska State Museum brown-bag lec
ture series about the role forensic
anthropologists play in human identi
fication cases.
Owsley said the Smithsonian’s
goal is to provide all the facts about
deceased people for law agencies so
the agencies can go to missing per
sons files and identify the bodies.
Once law enforcement officials
have established a general identity,
Owsley said, they request specific
information concerning facial photo
graphs and dental and medical rec
ords.
“It begins a process of ante-mor
tum,” Owsley said, “meaning (com
paring) the records taken of the indi
vidual in life with the post-mortum,
with the skeleton that you’re dealing
with.”
The forensic anthropologists try to
establish a positive identification, he
said, “so that you can have that body
identified and given a death certifi
cate.”
forensic anthropologists identify
bodies in three different types of
cases, he said. Owsley said that at the
Smithsonian, anthropologists deal
with FBI cases and medical
examiner’s cases from different
states.
General disappearances when
someone wanders away are one type
of case, he said.
“You can’t use the traditional cri
teria to identify this person,” he said.
“You can’t use facial appearance,
tattoos or fingerprints.”
Another type of case is severe
trauma, Owsley said. In this case, he
said, the person has been involved in
a plane crash or automobile accident
and is distorted beyond recognition,
he said.
“The third general category that
we're dealing with involves the
darker side of people,” he said. This is
intentional efforts on someone’s be
half to try and disguise a body and
make it unrecognizable, he said.
“Our first objective is to say
whether it’s human or not,” he said.
Owsley said there are many animal
bones that resemble human bones.
In one case, Owsley had iqprove
that tiny chips of bone belonged to a
human and not to a deer.
He did this by magnifying the cells
100 times. Animal bone cells are dif
ferent from human bone cells because
human bone cells have haversion
systems — the network of capillaries
and nerves running throughout the
cells, he said.
Deer bone is plexicom bone,
which is made up of vascular chan
nels, he said.
If the bone is human, Owsley said,
the second step is to go into a very
detailed analysis using the skeleton.
This shows the age, sex, race and
stature.
The skeleton also can show cause
of death, such as bullet wounds or
blows to the head and can provide a
nutritional analysis.
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