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Dido & Aeneas, Friday
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_ _ _ Variable cloudiness
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Controversy surrounds president selection
O’Brien discusses
NCAA allegations
By Andrea Kaser
Senior Editw __ _
A candidate for the NU presidency re
sponded to questions at a Thursday
press conference regarding controver
sies surrounding his office, including NCAA
violations and scholarships awarded to his
daughters.
Gregory O’Brien, chancellor of the Univer
sity of New Orleans and one of four finalists
O’Brien
tor the University ot Ne
braska presidency, held the
press conference after a
public interview with the
NU Board of Regents.
Since O’Brien was named
chancellor in 1987, his two
daughters have received
scholarships from the Tay
lor Scholars Program, a
fund O’Brien said he was
instrumental in starting.
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Curris’ Iowa past
raises questions
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Editor
The NU Board of Regents met for 45
minutes in closed session Thursday with
presidential candidate Constantine
“Deno” Curris discussing an issue he was in
volved in at the University of Northern Iowa.
The issue stems from a “semi-accurate”
newspaper report about Iowa legislative issues
five or six years ago, Curris said after the
closed session. He would not elaborate.
Curris
uurns was me iourm can
didate interviewed by the
regents. The board will se
lect the new president Sun
day.
Regent Chairman John
Payne of Kearney gave
Curris the option to discuss
the Iowa issue in closed
session.
“I would like to go into
closed session with the issue in Iowa,” Curris
told the board.
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Officials
say hazing
may have
led to fall
By Alan Phelps
Senior Reporter
Fraternity members apparently
hazed a 19-year-old UNL stu
dent before he fell out a third
floor Phi Gamma Delta window
Wednesday afternoon, university of
ficials said.
Jeff Knoll, a freshman from
Ogallala, remained in critical condi
tion Thursday at Lincoln General
- Hospital.
James Griesen, University of Ne
braska-Lincoln vice chancellor for
student affairs, said police interviews
with fraternity members indicated
Knoll, a Fiji pledge, had been drink
ing “in a coercive environment” be
fore the accident.
Active members of the fraternity
found Knoll in the house Wednesday
afternoon during a “pledge sneak,”
Griesen said, when pledges were not
su d to be in the house at 1425
R
“He was caught before he could
sneak away,” Griesen said.
After Knoll consumed alcohol, he
told fraternity members he felt ill
and wanted to go into the bathroom,
Griesen said. Knoll entered the bath
room alone as other fraternity mem
bers went downstairs to eat dinner.
Soon after, one of the members
downstairs glanced out a window and
saw Knoll lying on the parking lot,
Griesen said. The bathroom window,
about 25 feet above the concrete in
the back of the house, did not have a
screen.
Emergency teams arrived about
5:30 p.m. Knoll apparently did not
lie unnoticed in the parking lot for
long, Griesen said.
“We know it was a very short
amount of time,” he said.
After Knoll was taken to Lincoln
General Hospital, university and Lin
coln police officers began interview
ing fraternity members. UNL Police
Chief Ken Cauble said Knoll’s fall
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Joyce Yen, a junior math major, is involved in many campus activities but manages to
keep a 4.0 grade point average.
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All the way
No matter what, Yen gives only her best
By Melanie Branded
Staff Reporter
UNL junior Joyce Yen
doesn’t do anything half
way.
Whether its maintaining her 4.0
grade point average, working as a
student assistant on the honors
floor in Neihardt Residence Hall
or giving tours of the university as
a New Student Enrollment host,
Yen gives it her all.
“You don’t stop half way,” Yen
says of her work ethic, “you take it
all the way.”
The math major from Hastings
also spends her time as a member
of the University Honors Program
Student Advisory Board, Pi Mu
Epsilon math honorary and Gold
en Key Honor Society.
She is the coordinator of the
Student Alumni Association, a jun
ior adviser for Alpha Lambda Del
ta freshman honorary and an Od
yssey Peer mentor.
“I’m a person
CTIinCMT who needs
^ * rJi ■ things to do,”
profile yen says
r keeps me go
ing and ncips
me to stay on
\ top of things.”
Yen said her
campus in
volvement
wasn’t iust
motivational. It provides her with
new experiences, public speaking
and interviewing skills, and the
opportunity to interact with all
types of people, she said.
But she admits keeping up with
her schedule takes some work.
Yen said she found time for
school and activities by prioritiz
ing and planning ahead.
“I live and die by my daily plan
ner,” she said.
Despite her workload. Yen de
nies she has any superior abilities.
“Everyone has this misconcep
tion that I’m smart,” she said. “Per
sonally, I don’t think that I’m that
smart.”
She attributes her success in the
classroom and in activities to hav
ing an open attitude, to being un
afraid to ask for help and to being
unsatisfied with doing less than
her best.
Yen plans to graduate from
UNL in May 1995 and go on to
graduate school. After graduate
school, Yen said she was consid
ering teaching high school or col
lege math. She also is considering
a career in operations research.
30 students
hope to find
themselves
in Jeopardy
By Ann Stack
Staff Reporter
The answer is: Trying out to be
on the television quiz show
Jeopardy.
Please phrase your response in the
form of a question.
What are 30 University of Ne
braska-Lincoln students doing this
weekend?
Those students will in the first
round of Jeopardy college tryouts Fri
day in Omaha. Similar tryouts will
be conducted in Los Angeles, New
York City and Walt Disney World in
Orlando, Fla., as part of a nationwide
search for teen-age and college con
testants.
After registering by phone in ear
ly September, 100 contestants from
Nebraska were selected randomly for
the actual tryouts.
The contestants will be given a
general knowledge test composed of
50 questions, said Amy Kennedy, a
senior broadcasting major at UNL
and intern at Omaha’s KMTV Chan
nel 3.
Contestants who pass the tests will
go on to participate in a mock jeop
ardy game. They then undergo a per
sonality interview with two Jeopardy
staff members, Kennedy said.
After that, 15 Nebraska finalists
will be chosen for championship
rounds in February, Kennedy said.
Senior finance major Greg Hill
said he called more than 10 times
trying to secure his spot in the first
round of Jeopardy tryouts. He will
put his knowledge to the test Friday
at 3 p.m.
“A friend who did it last year said
that you have to get 35 out of the 50
questions right in order to get an in
terview and compete in me mock
game,” Hill said. “I’m not really ner
vous. I figure I’ll either know it or I
won’t.”
Autopsy physician: Harms was victim of sadism, torture
By Dionne Searcey
Senior Reporter
and Mike Lewis
Staff Reporter
A pathologist testified Thursday
that Candice Harms was the
victim of what he called sex
ual sadism and torture before she died.
Dr. Matthias Okoye, the Lancaster
County coroner’s physician and a fo
rensic pathologist at Pathology Med
ical Services in Lincoln, testified
Harms’ left nipple was cut off while
she was alive.
“It’s more likely than not this in
jury occurred before death,” said
UKoye, wno con
ducted Harms’
medical legal au
topsy.
Okoye came to
that conclusion,
he said, because
the wounds near
the nipple area bled.
“Dead people do not react to inju
ry,” he said. “Dead people do not
bleed”
Special Deputy Public Defender
Richard Goos asked Okoye during
cross-examination whether the sev
ered nipple could have been a result
of predatory animals.
T did not see any damage consis
tent with predatory activity around
the nipple,’’ Okoye said. ‘This is con
sistent with sexual, sadistic homicide
and torture.”
Okoye showed the jury 30 slides
of Harms’ badly decomposed body
during ‘its autopsy. Several of the
— X X—,
slides showed four bullet wounds in
the skull.
The bullets entered the skull
through its back base, through the
left temple and through the left side
of the jaw, Okoye said. One bullet
entered the skull through the left
cheek and nearly exited the skull
through the right side, he said.
Okoye said he determined the bul
let wounds occurred before the vic
tim died because blood was found in
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► A pathologist testified that Harms
was the victim of what he called sexual
sadism and torture before she died.
► A dismissed juror contradicted the
judge's explanation for his dismissal
ana said he thought his telephone had
been tapped.
I rxtecott dismissed Friday's
so jurors could have a
»ekend. The trial resumes
Monday at 8:30 a.m.
