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Ex-professor acquitted of sexual assault
Case was mistake,
former coach says
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Editor
and Dionne Searcey
Senior Reporter
Former UNL professor Clifford Walton
was found innocent of third-degree sex
ual assault Tuesday by Lancaster Coun
ty Judge Jack Lindner.
Walton was accused of sexually assaulting
University of Nebraska-Lincoln student Josh
Werger in September 1992. Walton later re
signed from his position as an associate profes
sor of chemical engineering and adviser of the
UNL boxing club.
In the ruling, the judge said the prosecution
did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt W al ton
had committed the crime.
“It is for certain that circumstances under
which this incident occurred give rise to strong
suspicion,” Lindner wrote. “But I can not say
beyond a reasonable doubt that the physical
contact which occurred between the two rises to
the level as set forth in the statutes.”
Werger, a former member of the UNL box
ing club, alleged he was sexually assaulted by
Walton during private boxing lessons at
Walton’s house last year.
The case was brought to trial in Lancaster
County Court in April and continued in July.
The judge held the case under advisement until
Tuesday.
Walton told the Daily Nebraskan on Tues
day he was pleased with the decision.
“I was declared not guilty,” he said. “My
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Charges won’t hurt
future, officials say
By Dionne Searcey
Senior Reporter • _ _
Clifford Walton, who was acquitted
Tuesday of sexual assault charges, said
his future was undecided.
Walton said he would not seek his former job
with the university.
“Not at the University ofNebraska,” he said.
“I don’t know what I’ll do yet.”
Walton will consider seeking another job in
a chemical engineering department away from
the university, he said.
Ronald Ross, UNL associate director of
affirmative action and diversity, said he did not
know how other universities would react to
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Richard Dahl from the Nebraska School for the Deaf watches as Kara Guenther, an art education graduate
student, takes a legless lizard from his cage. Guenther works at Morrill Hall’s Encounter Center, where visitors
can touch the animals.
Beacon doubts plan to control college costs
By Alan Phelps
Senior Reporter
A federal proposal designed to contain
college costs, which are rising faster
than the median family income, is
flawed, a UNL financial aid official said.
John Beacon, director of the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln’sOfTiccofScholarshipsand
Financial Aid, said many of the reasons for
increasing college costs were beyond the con
trol of administrators — or government.
“I’m not sure it would keep the cost of going
to college down," he said.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported
recently that Clinton administration officials
were considering a plan involving “reasonable
cost standards."
Under the plan, the government would de
cide how much money a student should pay for
an education at a particular type of institution.
The gap between actual cost and reasonable
cost would have to be covered by the student or
the institution.
Such a cap on government assistance theo
retically might help keep college costs down by
restructuring the system so rising prices arc
discouraged.
Beacon said he would be against such a
system.
“That would suggest that casts arc not di
rectly related to anything,” he said “That sug
gests institutions raise costs just to raise them.”
In reality, Beacon said, college costs have
increased fora variety of unavoidable reasons.
For example, many schools arc dealing with
higher maintenance costs because of decaying
buildings. Beacon said. College campuses un
derwent a huge expansion after World War II,
he said, and buildings constructed in those days
arc now due for repairs.
“Those costs have to be borne somewhere,”
Beacon said.
Also, the average college customer has
changed. Schools used to rely heavily on tradi
tional students who lived in residence halls and
took full loads of classes for funds.
Nowadays, many students arc nontradition
al, taking only a tew classes and living of!'
campus.
“All that costs money,” Beacon said.
Beacon said capping federal college funds
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more than we absolutely
have to. —Beacon
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could mean students would have to pay even
more for^chool, because institutions would not
be able to make up the difference.
“They may be forced to provide fewer ser
vices if they’re stuck with a Figure they can’t
live with,” he said.
Fewer federal dollars also could mean more
students would have to take out larger loans to
afford classes. Beacon said, discouraging some
from going to college altogether.
Beacon said the federal government histor
ically had stayed out of education. If Washing
ton wanted to somehow stave off the spiraling
costs of college, it could be in for a tough job.
“We don’t raise costs any more than we
absolutely have to,” Beacon said. “We’re not
out to make a huge profit."
hiring a person acquitted of sexual assault
charges.
Ross said UNL would not mark for life an
employee or refuse to hire a person who has
been accused of sexual assault.
“The person is not tainted by the accusa
tion,” he said.
“If you’re ever accused, the mere accusation is
not going to hold you back from employment.”
Whether UNL officials would hire appli
cants accused of sexual assault would depend
on all circumstances involved, Ross said. Such
decisions arc made on a casc-by-casc basis, he
said.
“There is no standard way to handle those
types of cases you have when someone resigns
under those conditions,” he said.
The safety of students would be a primary
consideration, Ross said, as would the rights of
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Violence hits
home, shocks
Russian student
By Alan Phelps
Senior Reporter
A Russian student studying at the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln said he
was shocked by the violence in Mos
cow, but he hoped real reforms would follow.
Gleb Evfarestov, a sophomore marketing
major from Moscow, said his mouth dropped
open as he watched television reports of Pres
ident Boris Yeltsin’s troops storming rebels
holed up in the Russian White House.
“It was a shock for me,” he said. “When I
saw these four tanks in a row sitting on a bridge
and shooting at the building. I just opened my
mouth.”
Russian troops loyal to President Boris
Yeltsin stormed the Parliament building Mon
day after hard-liners attempted to take over
several government buildings Sunday.
Evfarestov, 20, said reports of the fighting
moved him to call his mother Sunday night. She
lives near a Moscow television station, which
hard-liners tried to overrun.
“She said there were crowds of people mov
ing just under our windows/’ he said. “She was
hoping they wouldn’t enter the buildings of
apartments.”
Evfarestov said his mother stayed in her
apartment during the fighting, afraid to travel to
her job. As calm was restored in Moscow on
Tuesday, Evfarestov said she finally ventured
outside.
Evfarcstov said he kept in touch with friends
in Moscow through a computer network. A few
armed men still roamed Moscow’s streets Tucs
day, but Evfarestov said the city seemed safe.
Evfarestov said he and his friends helped
protect Yeltsin during the 1991 coup attempt,
but the recent clashes were more dangerous.
Several of his friends told him bullets barely
missed them outside the television station.
“Some were telling me it was kind of fortu
nate for them that the shots went a little to the
right,” he said. “That’s scary.”
Evfarcstov said he, like most Russians, sup
ported Yeltsin over Russian Vice President
Alexander Rutskoi andother hard-liners. How
ever, Evfarestov said Ycltsin’3 victory Monday
came at a high price.
“I wouldn’t really think that it was the right
idea to make such bloodshed in the center of
Moscow,” he said. “Democracy should be es
tablished in a democratic way.”
Now that Yeltsin has dissolved the Russian
parliament until new elections can be held,
Evfarestov said he feared the concentration of
power in the hands of one man.
“The power should be separated between the
government and legislative body,” he said. “I
don’t think one person can issue laws and
enforce them at one time.”
Evfarcstov said Yeltsin was a good leader,
but as a product of Russia’s communist years,
he might not be the right man to lead a democ
racy.
“Yeltsin is not a perfect president,” he said^
