Foundation eyes major drive
By Alan Phelps
Senior Reporter
The total market value for the University of
Nebraska Foundation’s assets topped $300
million during the 1993 fiscal year, foundation
officials said.
Theresa KJein, director of public relations
for the Foundation, said the $305,449,121 in
assets as of June 30 reflected an increase of
$33.8 million, or 12.4 percent, from last fiscal
year’s total.
Klein said the foundation had a total income
of $41.5 million last year, up nearly $ 100,000
from the previous year. Gift donations increased
almost 92 percent, she said.
“It was a good year,” Klein said. '
The foundation, a private, non-profit corpo
ration that supplements university support, gave
$18.2 million to the university last year, Klein
said. Of that, $6.2 million went to student
assistance funds such as scholarships.
Klein said the foundation wasr considering
launching a major new fund drive. The last
major capital campaign, which raised nearly
$70 million, was done in the 1970s, she said.
A smaller campaign was carried out during
four years between 1988 and 1992, when $38
million was raised.
Klein said the foundation was evaluating the
needs of the university system in order to come
up with a campaign goal.
The fund drive, Klein said, would be the end
result of a long process of determining univer
sity needs. Originally, the campuses identified
over $900 million of need, which was later
trimmed to $300 million. Klein said the final
target probably would be between $ 180 to $210
million.
The long task of identifying what the four
campuses might want money for is good for the
university, Klein said.
RHA seeks more funding for next year
From Staff Reports
The Residence Hall Association may be
able to give itself a raise starting next year.
RHA is seeking to increase its funding by
taking an additional $5 of residence hall room
and board. RHA now takes $6 from student
room and board.
Room-and-board costs for students living in
the residence halls this semester will not be
increased.
But RHA Vice President Kris Larson said
rent could go up si ightly for freshmen next year,
depending on the surplus funds left from resi
dence hall operation costs last year.
From the $5 increase, the RHA office would
get an additional $3 per student, each residence
nail would get an additional $1 per student and
each floor would get another $1 per student.
Larson said the money allocated for the
RHA office would be used to replace comput
ers and cover the association’s administrative
costs, such as the cost of sponsoring conferenc
es.
Larson said she urged RHA members to take
the proposal back to their halls and discuss the
issue with residents.
RHA will vote on their proposal at their Nov.
7 meeting.
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Carlson said parking officials didn’t know
about the street closure until Friday, when
Lincoln Mayor Mike Johanns’ office in
formed UNL the work would begin Mon
day.
Carlson said, however, that it made sense
to have the construction done now.
“We apologize for not giving enough
notice, but the city felt that in order to get
things accomplished in the proper time
frame, this was the way to have it done,”
Carlson said.
“The city wanted to try to get it done
between home football games, and with the
three-week period we have between games,
from a game standpoint, it’s the best solu
tion.”
Nebraska played a home game against
Missouri on Saturday and will not play again
in Lincoln until facing Iowa State on Nov.
13.
Carlson said the earlier the city tried to
construct a new road for the viaduct, the
better it would be. The city also wants to
avoid working on the project during the
winter.
“The contractor will not be able to get this
done if there is bad weather,” he said. “When
there’s snow on the ground and it’s 20 below
out, you can’t put a new road in.”
Carlson said he hoped commuters
wouldn’t have major problems with the
alternate traffic route.
“I don’t think it will be a real big incon
venience for students,” Carlson said. “It will
just mean that there will be only one road
headed north to get to those lots instead of
two.”
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Lincoln.
Publicity surrounding Bjorklund’s
alleged involvement in the case has
been extensive since December.
Bjorklund filed many legal motions
in the case. He represented himself
for a short time, but then regained the
representation of the Lancas ter Coun
ty public defender’s office.
The case received even more pub
licity in August and September dur
ing 10 days of pretrial evidence-sup
pression hearings.
Josephine Potuto, professor of law
at the University ofNcbraska, said the
amount of publicity in the case was
normal.
“1 assume the reason for the pub
licity was the victim wasn’t found for
quite a while. It was kept in the public
eye,” she said. “There hasn’t been any
undue coverage. The press has been
covering events as they occur. This
one has had several events.”
Although publicity in the case has
been high, the murder case itself was
not unusual, she said.
“From what 1 know from the paper,
the way the murder was committed
was not uncommon,” she said. “You
don’t kill people in front of a crowd.”
Potuto said the prosecutor’s an
nouncement of seeking the death pen
alty against Bjorklund was typical.
That type of plan must be known so
defense attorneys can prepare for the
case, she said.
Prosecutors have said they would
only use evidence dealing with the
Harms murder case, not the robbery
case.
Prosecutors said evidence used in
the trial would include:
• Statements Bjorklund made to
Lincoln Police last Dec. 6, May 25
and June 5.
• Physical evidence gained in the
search of Bjorklund’s house, 610 S.
52nd St.
• A letter Bjorklund mailed to
Harms’ parents last December asking
for forgiveness but not specifying why
he was asking to be forgiven.
The trial is expected to last at least
four weeks.
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tower.”
Kerrey helped the university ob
tain federal funds totaling almost $22
million to build the Beadle Center.
When the project is finally complet
ed, the total cost of the research build
ing will be about $32 million.
Kerrey also said he wanted tele
phone, cable and broadcast compa
nies to connect classrooms to a na
tional communication network.
Kerrey is pushing for a national
policy that eventually would connect
all schools to a communication net
work called Internet. The network has
the power to bring students around the
nation together through interactive
sound and video.
The technology would enable stu
dents to narticipate with those mother
areas of the country, Kerrey said.
“Because of its high capacity, it's
superior to other forms of telecom
munication,” he said. “Imagine that
in every school in Nebraska.”
Kerrey said the University of Ne
braska system was hooked to a similar
communication system, Midnet,
which is not as complex as Internet
but serves as a valuable communica
tion device.
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ted on campus. bu t not be ing reported.
A majority of the crimes commit
ted are sexual assaults, she said, and
mainly are committed by an acquain
tance of the victim.
“Those victims of date or acquain
tance rape are the people who are not
coming forward to report it, which
means the perpetrator is getting away
without any punishment, and the vic
tim is not getting the help that is
needed to cope with it,” she said.
Because of guilt, fear and uncer
tainty, which victims of date or ac
quaintance rape commonly experi
ence, many decide it is easier to try to
forget the crime than go through the
the court system, Ken Cauble said.
“Victims feel somewhat responsi
ble— which they shouldn’t, because
it is a friend or acquaintance who has
violated them,” he said. “They worry
about what their friends will say, and
if their parents will find out.”
The importance of having crimes
reported is not only for the sake of
victims, but also for general aware
ness purposes, Lisa Cauble said.
“People need to realize that crimes
are happening on campus, and we
need to do something about it," she
said.
Although the Victim’s Services
Office and the University Police De
partment are functioning with the same
goal in mind, rules established to pro
tect victims’ confidentiality are fol
lowed when transferring information
between the two offices, Ken Cauble
said.
“The Police Department can trans
fer new reports to Lisa because she is
a commissioned police officer, but
she cannot transfer reports to us un
less she has the victim's permission,”
he said.
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