Jurors allowed limited breaks
From the Associated Press
SIDNEY — Jurors selected to
hear the Roger Bjorklund murder
trial will be allowed to return home
for Thanksgiving and weekends, a
judge said Wednesday.
But Lancaster County District
Judge Donald Endacott told poten
tial jurors they would have a cur
few and wouldn’t be allowed to
visit several places associated with
the case. Jurors are being chosen
from Sidney, a town 350 miles west
of Lincoln.
“I don’t apologize. Jury duty is
an inconvenience and a hardship.
But it is so important,” he said.
Bjorklund’s trial is scheduled to
begin Monday. He is charged with
first-degree murder and use of a
weapon to commit a felony in the
abduction and shooting death of
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
student Candice Harms.
Lancaster County Attorney Gary
Lacey listed several places jurors
could not visit while in Lincoln,
including the field where Harms’
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/ don’t apologize. Jury duty is an inconve
nience and a hardship. But it is so impor
tant.
— Endacott,
Lancaster County district judge
body was found and Pawnee Lake,
where guns police believe were
used in the slaying were found.
Endacott decided to seek a jury
in this western Nebraska commu
nity of about 6,000 people because
of extensive publicity in the Lin
coln area about the case.
He instructed all of the prospec
tive jurors not to discuss the case
with anyone, read or listen to any
news accounts of the case.
“We’ve been treated very well
here in Cheyenne County,” Lacey
said. “Our goal today is to find 12
good men and women true who can
be fair and impartial.”
Defense and prosecution law
yers spent a third day narrowing the
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jury pool to 36. Twelve jurors and
four alternates will be chosen from
that pool Thursday.
Harms, 18, was missing for al
most three months before another
man charged in the case led police
on Dec. 6 to her shallow grave in a
field south of Lincoln.
Prosecutors have said they will
seek the death penalty against
Bjorklund if he is convicted.
The other man charged in the
case, Scott Barney, 24, has agreed
to plead guilty to first-degree mur
der and testify against Bjorklund,
31. In exchange, prosecutors have
promised not to seek the death pen
alty against Barney.
Senate: Fee issue needs debate
btudents deserve
time to air views
By Becky Becher
Staff Reporter
Student senators hope the passage
of a new bill will ensure students tnc
right to be heard before administra
tors make any future changes in stu
dent fees.
Wednesday
** wUIl
sed a bill ask
the senior vice
ASUN
cnanceuor lor ac
ademic affairs to
i seek student input
§ on future fee
cnanges. —
The ASUN bill was a response to
increases in laboratory fees and the
creation of new laboratory fees that
went into effect this semester.
Graduate Sen. Doug Oxley, who
sponsored the bill, said the bill would
allow students to review all student
fees, not just laboratory fees.
He said the administration was
willing to work with ASUN to imple
ment a process involving student in
put in assessing student fees.
Oxley said ASUN president Keith
Benes had received a letter from the
administration asking ASUN to pass
the bill.
In other business, the Association
of Students of the University of Ne
braska increased the number of stu
dents serving on a teacher evaluation
task force.
Brian Kubik, speaker of the ASUN
Senate, said the bill creating a task
force to evaluate teachers had been
passed last spring.
Kubik said the task force’s evalu
ations could be used by other students
to help them choose their teachers.
The original bill specified that two
students at large and two ASUN sen
ators would serve on the task force.
Kubik amended the bill Wednesday
to include five students at large. He
said the increased work force would
allow the group to complete more
research.
Besides passing legislation, ASUN
senators increased their understand
ing of diversity.
During the first hour of the ASUN
meeting, Reshell Ray presented a pro
gram on Students Creating Opportu
nities in Pursuit of Equity.
Ray, who is the coordinator of
SCOPE, said the program was de
signed to heighten student organiza
tions’ awareness of diversity.
Trent Steele, ASUN first vice pres
ident, said the program taught him a
lot about working together and seek
ing different viewpoints.
Steele said groups and organiza
tions sometimes had a tendency to
look inward. Steele said he learned it
was important to listen to different
views and to include views from as
many people with different back
grounds as possible.
Fair promotes studying abroad
By Matthew Waite
Staff Report# _^
Opportunity was the word of the
day at the Culture Center.
On Wednesday, the office of Ca
reer Planning and Placement hosted
an International Opportunities Fair in
the Culture Center. The purpose of
the fair was to heighten students'
awareness of opportunities to study
abroad,Geri Cotter, assistant director
of Career Planning and Placement,
said.
Cotter said she hoped the fair would
expose students to some of the reali
ties of the global market. Studying
abroad, she said, gives students an
awareness employers arc looking for.
Kristi Nokkcn, assistant study
abroad adviser, said she had been
overseas on several occasions. She
has been to England, Malaysia, India,
Australia and New Zealand.
“It’s a mind-opening experience,”
Nokken said. “You realize there is so
much more out there.
“Just being in another culture you
arc going to be aware of similarities
and differences.”
The keynote speaker was Arthur
Richardson, former president of
Tarkio Westmar College in Iowa and
a business management consultant.
Richardson, who spoke on cultural
synergy, said businesses practiced
looking at peoples* similarities, not
their differences. Cultural synergy
encourages businesses not to force a
business partner of a different culture
to conform to American standards, he
said.
Cultural synergy “is a response to
cultural divereity,” Richardson said.
“In cultural diversity, you study how
cultures are different. Cultural Syner
gy is a different thrust.
“How do you bring cultures to
gether to create a greater reality with
out destroying their uniqueness?"
Learning about other cultures by
studying in them, he said, is one way
to bring people together.
Nokken said studying abroad made
students more marketable because
many fields encouraged multi
cultural ism.
Jennifer Kumm, a freshman inter
national affairs major, said she at
tended the fair because she was inter
ested in studying abroad.
‘Tm coming here to sec what my
options are and if I can afford it or
not," Kumm said.
Kaplan center to offer free diagnostic tests
By Ann Stack
Staff Reporter
Kaplan Education Center is trying
to make graduate school preparation a
little less stressful for students.
On Oct. 24, Kaplan is offering free
diagnostic tests to anyone interested
in preparing for graduate school en
trance exams such as the LSAT,
GMAT.GRE or MCAT.
Angeline Lavin, a University qf
Ncbraska-Lincoln graduate student in
finance and GMAT instructor, said
Kaplan also offered professional li
censing exams in the fields of medi*
cine, dentistry, nursing and teaching.
“The test will be just like the real
exam. They’ll get the scores back in
about 10 days, along with a computer
analysis of their strengths and weak
nesses, and what they need to improve
on,** Lavin said.
If students fail the preparation exam
, or think they didn’t achieve the best
possible score, Lavin said, Kaplan
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The test will be just like the real exam.
They’ll get the scores back in about 10
days, along with a computer analysis of
their strengths and weaknesses, and what
they need to improve on.
— Lavin,
UNL graduate student and GMATinstructor
offers classes to help prepare the stu
dent for the actual test.
"If they want to enroll in a Kaplan
course after the test drive, we offer
courses in all areas with actual in
structors," Lavin said.
Kaplan offers eight, four-hour
classes with a test-and-lapc lab. ex
tensive home study and a final simu
lated exam.
Lavin said classes cost about $650,
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but she said scholarships were avail
able.
Lavin also said Kaplan offered
courses in speed reading and prepara
tion classes for high senool students
taking college entrance exams such as
the ACT, SAT and PSAT.
For more information about Kaplan
or to register for the evaluation test,
students should contact the Kaplan
Lincoln Center, 245 N. 13th St.
MON-FRI 7am-lam
T 8am-8pm
SUN 12 noon-6pm
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