4 SPORTS
Tigers tamed
Quarterback Tommie Frazier
leads Nebraska past Missouri
Saturday. The Cornhusker
defense stymied the Tigers a
week after giving up a
Big-Eight-record 489yards
passing to Kansas State.
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Partly sunny,
and cool today.
Tuesday, a little cooler
with afternoon sun.
October 25, 1993
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 93 No. 45
Bj orklund trial opens new chapter in Harms case
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Editor
On September22,1992, Candice
Harms left her boyfriend’s
house shortly before midnight
to go home. Late that Tuesday night,
between 333 N. 22nd St. and 6100
Vine St., Harms mysteriously disap
peared.
For the next 11 weeks, news of the
18-year-old University of Nebraska
Lincoln student’sdisappearance filled
headlines and billboards in Lincoln
and Nebraska.
The trial of one of the murder
suspects, Roger Bjorklund, is sched
uled to begin Monday in Lincoln after
more than a year of publicity. If con
victed, prosecutors have said they will
seek the death penalty against him.
Bjorklund, 31, and Scott Barney,
24, were both charged with first-de
gree murder in the case. The pair was
arrested Dec. 2 in connection with a
string of robberies committed last fall
in Lincoln.
Harms’ car was found abandoned
Sept. 23 in a field north of Lincoln.
Few leads were discovered in the case
until Barney led police to a shallow
grave in a field southeast of Lincoln
where Harms’ body was discovered
Dec. 6.
Authorities said Harms was sexu
ally assaulted, shot four times and
strangled.
Prosecutors made a deal with
Barney saying they would drop the
robbery charges and wouldn’t seek
the death penally against him if he
cooperated in the Harms case.
Lancaster County Attorney Gary
Lacey has said he will not call Barney
to testify.
A jury of seven women and five
men was selected last week in Sidney.
The jury was selected outside the
Lincoln area because of the extensive
pretrial publicity.
Lancaster County District Judge
Donald Endacott ruled the jury would
not be sequestered during the trial in
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Bjorklund trial update
► First-degree murder trial is scheduled
to begin Monday in Lancaster County
District Court. Judge Donald Endacott
will hear the case.
► A jury of seven women and five men
was selected last week in Sidney
because of extensive pretrial publicity
in the case. Four women are
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► The trial is scheduled to be held in
the County-City Building, 555 S. 10th
St., district courtroom No. 3, and is
open to the public.
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Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., spoke with a small group of reporters outside the Wick Alumni Center on Saturday
afternoon.
Kerrey praises Beadle Center after tour
Senator: recruiting,
research to improve
By Steve Smith
Senior Reporter
While most people on the UNL cam
pus Saturday were focused on get
ting to Memorial Stadium for the
Nebraska-Missouri football game. Sen. Bob
Kerrey had education on his mind.
The senator took a half-hour tour of the
construction site of the George W. Beadle
Center for Genetic and Biochemical Re
search and met with educators about a new
form of classroom communication technol
ogy.
Kerrey praised the progress being made'
on UNL's newest research center and said
the Beadle Center would assist the nation by'
enhancing Nebraska’s biotechnology re
search capabilities.
“There are so many ways to build upon
our strengths, so many ideas to build on"
with the Beadle Center, Kerrey said.
“When it’s completed, the center is going
to give our research programs an enormous
competitive advantage.”
The Beadle Center, a 138,000-squarc
foot facility located at 19th and Vine streets,
is expected to be completed in early 1995.
In addition to the beneficial research that
will be conducted at the Beadle Center,
Kerrey said the center possibly could bring
more jobs to Nebraska and more students to
UNL.
The center “will help recruitment on all
levels, and that’s the idea,” he said. “It will
be part of the community, not an ivory
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Forteans get to bottom of ghost stories
Editor’s note: This story is the first in a
Halloween week series about Lincoln
ghost stories.
By Mark Baldridge
Staff Reporter
When there's something strange in your
neighborhood—whoya’ gonna' call?
Try Phyllis Benjamin, president of
the International Fortean Organization.
“We’re the real Ghost Busters," Benjamin
said Sunday in a phone interview.
The Fortean Organization, based out of Ar
lington, Va., is a clearinghouse for research and
information on all kinds of unexplained phe
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garden variety ghosts.
Founded by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, among others,
the organization carries on
the research work ofCharlcs
Fort, journalist and investi
gator in “anomalistics” —
the study of anomalies and
strange phenomena.
Fort f‘was considered the
father of science fiction,”
Benjamin said. “He coined
the word ‘teleportation.’”
And he began the task of collecting and
cataloguing the unexplained, she said.
“This whole thing was anti-dogma,” Ben
jamin said. “If you look at things with an open
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mind, you never know what might fall in.”
But she said the organization was not “a
bunch of new-agers or old ladies in tennis
shoes.”
“We’re also skeptics,” she said.
She said when members of the Fortcan
Organization investigated a haunting, they took
along a “sensitive” or psychic and as much
scientific equipment as they could. Their equip
ment includes recording equipment, infrared
film, cameras and instruments for measuring
all kinds of electromagnetic energy.
Benjamin can tell stories that sound like
campfire tales.
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Office opens
to comfort
crime victims
By Amie Haggar
Staff Reporter
In hopes of having crime victims’ needs
better met and having more campus crimes
reported, UNL has opened a Victim’s Ser
vices Office.
Lisa Cauble, director of the office, said the
service began with the goal of increased report
ing of crimes on campus.
“We want to increase the reporting of crimes
like sexual assault so that the victims can gel the
help they need,” she said.
Because many victims are intimidated by
the police stations, many don’t report crimes
and avoid going through the judicial process,
Ken Cauble, university police chief, said.
“The criminal justice system to an outsider
is really frightening at times,” he said. “We
want to provide the university community with
the proper assistance so that victims of crime
are not re-victimized by the system.”
Ken Cauble said police stations also do not
address properly victims’ anxieties following
crimes. Lisa Cauble said the Victim’s Servic
es Office, located in room 407 of the Adminis
tration Building, would provide a completely
confidential environment. Victims can turirto
the office for supportive listening, direction for
reporting a crime, explanations of court proce
dures taken when pressing charges, and refer
rals to professional counselors.
“Our main goal here is to help victims of
crime make it through the system,” she said.
Lisa Cauble said, as an officer, it was frus
trating to know that crimes were being commit
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Closed street
changes access
to parking lots
By Jeff Singer
Senior Editor
UNL students who arri vc on campus Mon
day may not only have to worry about
Finding a parking stall, but a parking lot.
At 8:30 a.m., a portion of 1 Olh street near the
University of Ncbraska-Lincoln campus will
be closed so construction can continue on the
new 10th Street viaduct. The closure will make
the viaduct more accessible to construction
workers.
Tenth Street will be closed from Q Street
north to the viaduct.
But to help students and faculty reach park
ing lots near Memorial Stadium, portions of
N inth Street will be converted into a temporary
two-way street so parking lots affected by the
10th Street closing can be reached, said Paul .
Carlson, UNL’s associate vice chancellor for
business and finance.
The changes will last about three weeks, he
said_ __
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