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Autopsy identifies body as Harms_
Cause of death
was four gunshot
wounds to head
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
A body found Sunday southeast of Lin
coln was that of missing UNL student
Candice Harms, Lancaster County At
torney Gary Lacey confirmed Monday.
The body was found shortly before noon
Sunday in a shallow grave near 134th Street and
Yankee Hill Road, after Lacey’s office re
ceived a tip Saturday.
An autopsy performed Monday morning
confirmed the body was that of Harms, Lacey
said, and revealed the
cause of death to be
four gunshot wounds
to the head.
The body was
identified as Harms’
through dental ex
amination, as well as
a comparison of fin
gerprints taken from
the body with the Harms
known fingerprints of Harms, Lacey said.
Harms’ body was found nude, Lacey said,
and no clothes had been located as of Monday.
The time of Harms’ death still is under
investigation, and other forensic testing will
continue for several days.
Harms, 18, had been missing since Sept. 22.
She was last seen leaving her boyfriend’s apart
ment at 332 N. 22nd St. at about 11:40 p.m., and
never made it to her home at 61st and Vine
streets.
Her father and boyfriend reported her miss
ing the next day.
Harms’ blue 1987 Chevrolet Corsica was
found at the edge of a milo field at North 27th
Street and Bluff Road, about two miles north of
Lincoln.
After her disappearance, authorities turned
up few leads. Previous searches for Harms had
been targeted primarily at the area where her
car was found.
The discovery of the body was the culmina
tion of events that began with a telephone call
from a Lincoln attorney to Lacey’s office Sat
urday morning.
The attorney, whom Lacey would not iden
tify, said one of his clients had information
about Harms’ disappearance.
Lacey said the client was Scott A. Barney,
24, of 967 N. 56th St. Barney, an inmate at the
Lancaster County Jail, was arraigned in
Lancaster County Court last Friday with Roger
D. Bjorklund, 30, of 610 S. 52nd St., on charges
of conspiracy to commit robbery and posses
sion of a weapon during the commission of a
felony.
Each man also was charged with two counts
of robbery, two counts of use of a weapon to
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Students
relieved
search
is over
By Shelley Biggs
Senior Reporter
Students expressed both relief
and sadness Monday afternoon
after they learned that the two
month search for missing UNL fresh
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It’s really scary. You
wouldn’t think things
would happen like this
in Lincoln.
-Jabs
junior education and English
major
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man Candice Harms had come to an
end.
The body of Harms, who had been
missing since Sept. 22, was discov
ered southeast of Lincoln Sunday
morning.
Rob Powers, a junior electrical
engineering major at the University
of Ncbraska-Lincoln, said he had
mixed feelings about the news.
“I’m glad the ordeal is coming to
an end," Powers said, “and that the
family can begin to come to terms
with it.”
Joel Priest, a senior German major,
agreed.
“I’m happy her parents finally know
what happened, and that they found
out one way or another,” Priest said.
Harms, 18, was last seen Sept. 22
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Robin Trimarchi/DN
Candice Harms’ boyfriend, Todd Sears, right, leaves a press conference called by Harms’ family Monday afternoon. During
the conference at KOLN/KGIN10/11 news station, 40th and W streets, an announcement was made that a body found Sunday
had been identified as Harms.
Prayers, support help family
By Shelley Biggs
Senior Reporter _ _
Minutes after receiving of
ficial word of his
daughter’s death, Stan
Harms said at a press conference
Monday afternoon, “Thank God
it’s over.”
Pat Harms said she, loo, was
relieved.
“We’re glad Candi didn’t have
to suffer very long,” she said.
The body of Candice Harms, a
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln
student who had been m issing since
Sept. 22, was discovered southeast
Funeral set for Saturday
of Lincoln Sunday morning after
one of two suspects arrested for
armed robbery told police that he
and a friend had abducted Harms
the night of her disappearance.
Funeral services arc scheduled
for 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary’s
Cathedral, 14th and K streets.
At the press conference at Chan
nel 10/11 news station, Candice
Harms’ parents and her boyfriend,
Todd Scars, wore buttons and small
pink ribbons in her memory.
“Wcarecoping the best weean,”
Pal Harms said.
Sian Harms thanked “the thou
sands of wonderful people” in and
around Nebraska for their support
while his daughter was missing.
“I don’t sec how anyone would
have gotten through this without
the support and prayers,” he said.
“Anyone without God in their life
couldn’t make it through this.”
Pat Harms said, “We appreciate
the thoughts and prayers, and we
still need them.”
Candice Harms, 18, was last
seen Sept. 22 leaving Scars’ apart
ment at 332 N. -22nd St. shortly
before midnight. She was on her
way to her home at 61st and Vine
streets, but she never arrived. Her '
father and Scars reported her miss
ing the next day.
Hours alter she was reported
missing, her car was found in a
milo field at North 27lh Street and
Bluff Road, about two miles north
of Lincoln.
Although Stan and Pat Harms
said they were relieved to finally
have an answer to their daughter’s
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Open admissions policy deficient, official says
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Staff Reporter
The Un i versily of Nebraska’s open
admissions policy must be
strengthened because it admits
students who arc destined to fail, an
NU official told about 21 Lincoln
teachers Monday.
Lee Jones, executive vice presi
dent and provost of the University of
Nebraska, explained NU’s proposal
to lighten admissions requirements
during a meeting at the Lincoln Pub
lic Schools District Office building,
5901 O St. The meeting was the 11 th
of 12 such gatherings across Nebraska.
Jones said one out of five freshmen
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Our purpose is not to restrict enrollment... but to better^ communicate what
we feel is required for success.
-Jones
NU executive vice president
admitted to the University of Nc
braska-Lincoln, the University of
Nebraska at Kearney and the Univer
sity of Nebraska at Omaha did not
return for his or her sophomore year
because of academ ic d i fl ic ul lies, Jones
said.
Admitting students who are not
prepared for college and then drop
out, he said, is worse than making the
students correct their deficiencies
before they enter college. Students
who arc not prepared and still are
admitted only will experience failure,
he said.
“It is difficult for any of us to feel
we are unsuccessful at things,” he
said. “(Failure) is a pretty traumatic
experience.”
To avoid having unprepared stu
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denis drop out of school because of
academic difficulties, NU must raise
its admissions standards so students
who arc admitted arc prepared for
education at the college level, Jones
said.
Higher standards would better com
municate to students what they must
do in high school to succeed in col
lege, he said.
When a siudcni gels a letter ol
acceptance f rom N U .Jones said, “that
student should be confident... that we
believe lhal student has every likeli
hood to succeed.”
Current NU admissions standards
require students to complete one of
three requirements. They m ust gradu
ate in the top 50 percent of their high
school class, score at least 20 on the
ACT, or complete a core curriculum
of 10 units of classes, including four
units of language arts and two units
each of math, science and social sci
ences.
Proposed changes in admissions
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