The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, October 01, 1993, Image 1
4a&e Slamfest Concert to help CrWoit local youth at rNOiiy the Pla-mor 62/33 | ^ Page 9^ '^ Jp KObl' ’■ I Judge allows most statements in Biorklund trial By Dionne Searcey Senior Reporter_ t A judge overruled nine motions to sup press evidence relating to the first degree murder trial of Roger Bjorldund on Thursday. District Judge Donald Endacott said almost all the evidence presented in pretrial suppres sion hearings would be allowed af the trial scheduled for Oct. 25. Bjorldund and Scott Barney were charged with first-degree murder in the 1992 slaying of University ofNebraska-Lincoln student Candice Harms. Endacott suppressed some remarks Bjorklund made to police on Dec. 6,1992, the day Barney implicated Bjorklund in the slay ing. The judge said Bjorklund made the state ment before hearing the completion of his Miranda rights. The evidence to be allowed in the trial includes a letter Bjorklund wrote to Harms’ parents stating he had a guilty conscience. * Earlier in Thursday’s hearings, Endacott heard motions from the defense and prosecu tion. Chief Public Defender Scott Helvie asked that jury members be sequestered while in Lincoln. Jury members will be selected from Cheyenne County. Jury members probably will not know de tails about the case before the trial because they live 300 miles away, Helvie said. But when they arrive in Lincoln for the trial, he said, members could be tempted to discuss the case with Lincoln residents or read local news arti cles about the case. Endacott said jurors would be told to refrain from discussing the case or reading news re ports. Sequestering the jury means members will have limited contact with outsiders during the trial. Endacott said he would consider that motion carefully. The judge said jury members’ names would not be disclosed until the Sunday before the trial. t r Helvie asked that references to the robberies with which Bjorklund has been charged not be brought up in the murder trial. Deputy County Attorney John Colbom said some evidence about the robberies played an integral part in the prosecution’s case. It would be difficult to try the Bjorklund case See BJORKLUND on 2 - i Nebraska s waters flow through lab By DeDra Janssen Staff Reporter Eighteen months ago, a storage building on University of Ne i braska’s East Campus sat filled with old plant-growing cham bers. Now, the same building houses a 2,100-square-foot wet research labo ratory — one of about 12 such facil ities in the nation. With 32 artificial stream tanks, 12 250-gallon artificial lake tanks and , 32,000 watts of greenhouse lighting, r UNL students and researchenrtmng % Nebraska’s lakes and streams indoors. Two associate professors in the department of forestry, fisheries and wildlife spearheaded the transforma tion of the storage building into the * new Aquatic Research Facility. Ecologists Kyle Hoagland and Ed Peters saw the storage building’s po tential as a lab. They pushed for ren ovations and solicited money to fund ) the project, which cost between $50,000 and $100,000. The lab was funded by the U.S.' ! Fish and Wildlife Service, UNL’s Water Center and UNL’s Agricultur al Research Division. “It has added a whole new dimen sion to what we can do,” Hoagland said. “We can literally go to the stream > we are going to study and bring it back \ here.” Researchers use a 1,000- gal Ion ► * tank to transport natural stream and lake water to the laboratory, Hoagland ? said. Motor-driven paddles in the artifi cial stream tanks create a realistic circular current around a center is land, and protective liners arc placed in the tanks so the system is not con taminated for future experiments. Also, aset ofwater-treatment tanks purifies the water before it is drained after use, Hoagland said. Hoagland said the lab allowed University of Nebraska-Lincoln re searchers to conduct controlled ex periments in an ecologically realistic way. See AQUATICS on 6 Travis Heying/DN “I didn’t know there were eny Mexicans in Nebraska,” Joked Edward James Olmos before giving his speech Thursday night at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. “We’re all in the same gang. Shared ancestry World needs to focus on common roots, Olmos says By Jan Calinger StMff_ Reporter Actor Edward James Olmos spoke on racism, gangs, and entertainment to a crowd of about 975 people at the Lied Center for Performing Arts Thursday night. Olmos, known for his roles in the movies “Stand and Deliver” and “American Me,” and the tele vision series “Miami Vice,” fo cused mainly on racism and vio lence. He said racism could be reduced with an “augmentation" of history as it was being taught. He said people needed to focus on the common roots found in his tory rather than on the differences between people. “We must augment because our community is so diverse now, that people are starting to be afraid of it, and people are starting to be aware of it," he said. Olmos said that although hu mans today had diverse appearanc es, they all had a common ancestry. All humans originally came from Africa, he said, and American Indi ans came to the continent by way of Asia. Olmos is of Mexican descent, See OLMOS on 2 Book display focuses on censorship By Ann Stack Staff Reporter What do “Snow White,” “The Catcher in the Rye” and Stephen King have in com mon? They all have been banned or cen sored in some way in Nebraska. The Mill, a coffee house located at 800 P St. in the Haymarket, is doing its part to protest what it says is a violation of First Amendment rights. Teaming up with the Nebraska Civil Liberties Union and University Bookstore, The Mill has displayed a In conjunction with Banned Book Week, books such as “The Adven tures of Huckleberry Finn,” “Bridge To Terabithia,” “The Catcher in the Rye,” “Of Mice and Men” and “A Light in the Attic” are being shown in the front of The Mill. Some of the authors of banned books include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Maya Angelou and Stephen King. These books have been restricted by some parents’ groups and libraries and schools in the state. “The purpose of the display is to get people aware of what’s going on ... to see what the powers that be have determined as right and wrong,” said Ed Higgins, a part-time University of Nebraska-Lincoln student and an employee at The Mill. Restrictions reach as far as chil dren’s nursery rhymes, he said. ‘“Little Red Riding Hood’ (was restricted) because she carried a bot tle of wine when she went to see her grandmother,” he said. Tim Rickerl, also an employee at The Mill, said although censorship wasn’t a major problem yet, people should be wary of the long-term ef fects of censorship. If the restrictive trend continues. Rickerl said, censors may prevent works from being published or re strict works so much that wri ters even tually give up writing. “They are only after a few books now, but what happens if it gets so bad See BOOKS on 6 tournament presents "ultimate7 challenge tor UJNL club By Dionne Seercey Senior Reporter Between the setting sun, the rising moon and swarms of mosquitoes, the UNL Ulti mate Club practiced Wednesday in preparation for the sport’s largest lo cal tournament ever. Much of that training involved teaching the rules of ultimate to the club's JO or so new members, said Jeff Vincent, a third-year broadcast ing nuyor. I ■ * ... ! “You have to teach people all of the rules from the beginning,” he said. “It’s not like basketball and football where people have been watching it for years.” Ultimate, Vincent said, uses a com bination of football and soccer rules. Vincent explained the rules of the game: f Teams are made up of seven play ers. The field is 40 yards wide and 75 yards long with 25-yard deep end zones. The game begins with a Frisbee ! . r ' ' ' ‘ , ' ■ 3:'r :■ like disc toss, similar to a football kickoff where the teams are lined at each goal. Teams work the 175-gram disc toward their goals, throwing the disc using backhand and forehand tosses. Members can’t run with the disc, but must simply pass it ahead or behind them. Action is fast-paced because the only time the game stops is when the disc hits the ground and becomes the — See ULTIMATE on 6 Ultimate Terminology Disc • The 175-gnun object used to soon goals. Frisbee is a brand name. Picking - An illegal action where a team . member uses another player as an obstacle to gain control of the disc. Stripping • An illegal action where a member knocks the disc out of another player's hand. y^ dtractioaleat throw. Hiick A lu^ditch throw, tinular to a j H*il-M*ry throw in football.