DIGEST
President
Bill Clinton
February 15, 1993
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 92 No. 103
Men register upset
over K-State
23/10
Today, snow Hkely and
colder. Tonight, lingering
snow and cold. For
Tuesday, cloudy and a
chance of snow.
SPORTS
Regents discuss budget cut, housing changes
UNL room and board fates
to increase, but will remain
the lowest in the Big Eight
By Kristine Long
Staff Reporter
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The NU Board of Regents approved
increased room and board rates for
1993-94 and passed three other resolu
tions affecting UNL at their meeting Saturday.
The new room and board rate for a double
room with 20 meals per week will be $2,995, an
$80 increase from this year’s rate. The price for
a double room with 13 meals per week also will
increase $80 to $2,940.
Chancellor Graham Spanier said the room
and board rates must increase every year be
cause the residence halls had to consider bonds
that must be paid off, cost of food, occupancy
rates and employees’ salaries and benefits.
“This particular year the
rate increase is rather low,”
Spanier said.
Doug Zatechka, director
of UNL housing, said the
University of Nebraska-Lin
coln had one of the lowest
room and board rates in the
Big Eight.
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Legislature’s proposed cut
would hurt future of UNL
and state, Massengale says
By Kristine Long
Staff Reporter
NU President Martin Massengale told
the board of regents Saturday that the
proposed 5 percent budget cut would
severely hurt the university system.
Massengale said the cut of $14 million was
the largest cut he had ever heard proposed.
‘To give you some perspective on the mag
nitudeof this cut,” Massengalesaid,“itamounts
to 2/3 of the annual state-funded budget for the
University of Nebraska at Kearney.”
The university has survived budget cuts in
the past by absorbing
smaller, less visible reduc
tions such as reducing fac
ulty phones and copy ma
chines and cutting back on
maintenance, Massengale
said.
“But we cannot hollow
out the shell indefinitely,” he said.
Massengale said NU was not the only uni
versity facing these problems, but the univer
sity was in a worse situation than most schools
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—
rrotessor
says UFOs
no fantasy
By Becky Becher
Staff Reporter
Earthlings aren’t alone in the
cosmos, a UNO professor said.
But two UNL instructors
doubt at least some aspects of the
somewhat shocking theories of Jack
Kashcr, a physics professor at the
University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Kasher said he believed at least
two alien civilizations were abduct
ing and observing earthlings, and the
government was hiding information
about the visitors.
‘This is a big enough thing that
people need to know about it, and
there is a great deal of evidence to
back it up,” Kasher said. '
Kasher, who does research for
NASA and is also a consultant for the
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in
Lawrence, Kan., said one alien civili
zation was here to observe life on
Earth. He’s not certain what the other
group’s purpose is, he said, but they
are conducting medical research.
The first civilization doesn’t ab
duct people, Kashcr said, but the sec
ond group docs.
He said the abductions wcrcacross
cultural occurrence with victims from
a variety of backgrounds.
“There doesn’t seem to be a pat
tern,” he said.
People from around the world who
have been abducted give similar de
scriptions of the aliens, and describe
similar experiences, Kasher said.
Kashcr said most abductces de
scribed the aliens as 4 feet tall with
large heads. He said they had thin,
gray bodies and large, dark eyes.
Besides the similarity of descrip
tions, Kashcr said some of the
abductces have been found to carry
implants. The technology used to
make the implants is far beyond that
which could be designed on Earth, he
aid. . .. - _
Kashcr said the implants were
found in the noses or cars of the
victims and could be tracking de
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Travis Heying/DN
High lights '
Scott Hoteling of Hoteling Enterprises and Boom Service reaches out to remove a string of Christmas lights from the top
of a tree along O Street Sunday morning.
Motion to delay charges in Harms case fails
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Reporter
A defensive motion to delay
first-degree murder charges
against Roger Bjorklund was
overruled Friday in Lancaster County
District Court _
Public Defender Scou Helvie, who
represents Bjorklund, alleged that his
client’s constitutional rights were vio
lated in several ways in the Candice
Harms murder case.
Hclvie said Bjorklund arrived in
district court without a grand jury
indictment, which is in violation of
the Fifth Amendment.
All charges were not clear to
Bjorklund, Helvie said, which further
violated his rights. Each alleged of
fense must contain material evidence,
he said, which the charges against
Bjorklund failed to do.
“Those are the technical problems
we believe exist,” Helvie said.
Bjorklund, 30, and Scott Barney,
25, both allegedly abducted, sexually
assaulted and killed Harms, who dis
appeared Sept. 22. Police found her
body in a field southeast of Lincoln 12
weeks later, after Barney told his at
torney of hisand Bjorklund’s involve
ment in the case.
Helvie said a jury would have a
difficult time deciding between pre
meditated murder and felony murder
during a trial.
“Tne only thing they would agree
on is murder,” Helvie said.
Judge Jeffre Cheuvroiu said the
motion to quash Bjorklund’s charges
possibly was premature, and it
wouldn ’t become an issue before sen
tencing.
Helvie said he was raising the issue
at this point to prevent future prob
Deputy County Attorney John
Colbom responded to Hclvie’scharges
and said jurors only decided guilt or
innocence based on the charges tried
before them.
Budget cuts would hinder campus accessibility plans
By Doug Kouma
Staff Reporter
Possible university budget cuts could
make the job of creating a campus free
of obstacles for disabled students even
more difficult, an official said.
Proposed cuts would not put the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln in danger of falling out of
compliance with the Americans with Disabili
ties Act, said Christy Horn, director of services
for students with disabilities. But she said the
university would not be able to do everything
Improvements needed to boost dignity, director says
she would like.
Horn, the ADA compliance officer for U NL,
said her initial budget request was about
$700,000, but depending on sludcn is' needs the
amount could change. -*
“It’s hard toputadollars-and-cenis ticketon
it/’ she said, “because it depends on what
people’s needs arc.”
•Horn said the issue was one of moral respon
sibility versus legal responsibility. While UNL
is legally in compliance wilh ADA, morally,
many changes still should be made, she said.
Horn said the university already had met
many ADA requirements because oi a 1973 act
that required accessibility for disabled people
in public institutions.
But she said ADA did bring some upgrades
in accessibility at the University of Nebraska*
Lincoln.
“The first thing we had to do was buy an
accessible van,” Horn said. Previously, dis
abled UNL students used a special van pro
vided by the city. But since the passage of ADA,
she said, regular city buses were installed with
lifts, and th&cily no longer provided use of the
special van.
The campus van runs according to students’
schedules and takes them directly to their
classes, while city buses only stop at specified
points.
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