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From Staff Reports
UNL’s College of Engineering and Tech
nology recently received the National Society
of Professional Engineers’ Education Profes
sional Development Award.
The awards, presented at the society’s annu
al meeting held in June, are presented to recog
nize an organization’s employment practices
Bjorklund
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“I told Mr. Vanderslice his client had just
confessed to a homicide,” Sorensen said.
Endacott cleared the courtroom later in the
afternoon when Sorensen returned to the stand
and recalled a Feb. 23 conversation he and
Lincoln Police Detective Sandy Myers had
with Bjorklund while at the Lancaster County
Jail.
The two officers were visiting the jail on
other business, Sorensen said, when they spot
ted Bjorklund in a holding cell near the jail’s
booking area.
In separate testimony, the two officers said
they began talking candidly with Bjorklund.
Sorensen said Bjorklund told the officers
college wins award
and professional career development programs.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is the
only college in Nebraska qualified to receive
the award because it offers degrees in civil,
chemical, industrial, electrical, mechanical,
and agricultural engineering. It also offers two
new programs in computer and biological
systems engineering.
that he’d talk with them as long as the Harms
case or any of his alleged wrongdoings were
not mentioned. Bjorklund expressed concern
about what Scott Barney had told police,
Sorensen said.
“Mr. Bjorklund said Scott Barney had done
other robberies, and he didn’t feel that it was
right that he was getting a deal,” Sorensen said.
During his hour-long testimony, Sorensen
said Bjorklund told the two officers he also had
been questioned about a missing person near
Ord.
“Mr. Bjorklund said he had not done any
more homicides and if he had done more, he’d
tell —" Sorensen said. He was interrupted by
another motion by Hel vie to seal the courtroom
to the press.
The hearings will continue Sept. 8,9 and 10.
UNL hires environmental adviser
By Matthew Waite
Staff Reporter__
The University ofNebraska-Lincoln may
be turning a few shades of green in the
coming year.
Paul Carlson, vice chancellor of business
and development, said that with the addition
of environmental consultant Dale Ekhart,
UNL had taken another step toward the
formation of a campus-wide recycling ef
fort.
“I hope to see a lot of results next year,”
Carlson said. Ekhart runs an environmental
consultant firm in Beatrice.
Ekhart is scheduled to start work Wednes
day, and on his desk already is a grant
application for recycling efforts through the
Nebraska Department of Environmental
Quality.
Patrick Langan of the department said the
office gave out $500,000 to $650,000 per
year in grants for public and private organi
zations. Of that money, 40 percent goes to
public education for recycling efforts and
litter and waste reduction.
UNL is eligible for these grants, but has
not applied for them yet.
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I hope to see a lot of results
next year.
— Carlson,
vice chancellor of business and
development
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“We have the application, and I put it in
the file for the new contractor,” Carlson
said.
But many, such as Jeff Riggert, a design
specialist for recycling at UNL Housing,
aren’t waiting for the consultant to get start
ed with recycling on campus.
“In housing, we’ve done more with light
paper recycling in the offices,” he said.
“We’re doing some planning for recycling
bins and actually designing and building
prototypes.”
Riggert said other recycling efforts were
goingon in residence hallsand in the unions.
“We do aluminum cans, and now we’re
doing steel cans in the food service areas,"
Riggert said.
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strate environmental consciousness
and sensitivity and my concern for
conserving energy,” he said.
By maximizing the use of natural
light through the 14 existing sky
lights and additional planned sky
lights, the structure will conserve
energy, he said.
In addition, Steward said he and
his wife would be able to sell one of
their cars because they could walk to
work.
Steward said he planned to dem
onstrate his concern for disadvan
taged people by creating two apart
ments in back of the building for
low-income housing.
“There will be mixed use in that
context as well,” he said.
Finally, Steward said the project
would serve as a case-study for ar
chitccture^students. The building will
he said.
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classes, as some undergraduates do.
Merlin Lawson, dean of graduate
studies, said he anticipated a contin
ued, steady increase in the number of
master’s degree recipients in the next
few years.
Lawson said the increase in the
number of students achieving mas
ter’s degrees was higher than the in
crease of undergraduate degrees be
cause more of the undergraduates were
going to graduate school.
“It reflects our mandate to enhance
opportunities for graduate programs
for our citizens and people in Nebras
ka look to UNL for a large portion of
graduate degrees.”
“We are providing programs, and
they are enrolling in increasing num
bers," Lawson said.
But Lawson said the state of the
U.S. economy was also a factor in this
increase. During periods of recession,
such as the one experienced recently
in the United States, many people go
back to school.
“People invest in the future, espe
cially when the economy is de
pressed,” he said.
Another factor leading to the in
crease in degrees awarded was stu
dents’ realization that their opportu
nities are enhanced in the competitive
world when they advance their educa
tion with a graduate degree, he said.
Recent figures indicated UNL
granted 2,742 bachelor’s degrees in
the 1981-82 school year, compared to
2,965 in 1991-92. the University of
Nebraska at Omaha presented 1,174
undergraduate degrees in 1981-82 and
1,364 in 1991-92.
UNL awarded 605 master’s de
grees in 1981-82 and 721 in 1991-92,
while UNO granted 433 graduate de
grees in 1981-82 and 517 in 1991-92.
Benson said the absolute number
— the difference between the num
bers for the years 1981-82 and 1991
92 — for undergraduates, which is
223, was higher than the absolute
number for graduates, 116, because
fewer masters degrees programs were
offered. i
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