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Fraternity hazing takes toll on greek system
National Fiji officer
looks into problem
By Jeffrey Robb
Staff Reporter -_
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln pre
sented its investigation of last week’s
hazing incident at Phi Gamma Delta
Fraternity to the chapter’s national representa
tives Monday, a university official said.
Glenn Moor, Fiji’s national director of busi
ness affairs, came to Lincoln to discuss with
t
administrators the hazing and subsequent inju
ry of UNL freshman JciT Knoll.
Knoll fell out of a third-floor window of the
house Wednesday while trying to escape after
being forced to drink alcohol, officials said.
Knoll is in serious condition but is con
scious, a Lincoln General Hospital official
said.
Moor and four local alumni met with James
Griescn, UNL vice chancellor for student af
fairs; Jayne Wade Anderson, director of the
greck affairs; and Linda Schwartzkopf, direc
tor of UNL student judicial affairs.
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House presidents:
stereotypes ‘unfair’
By Paula Lavigne
Staff Reporter
A Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity pledge’s
fall from a third-story window has in
creased awareness about the dangers of
hazing.
But University of Nebraska-Lincoln frater
nity presidents say the incident has given the
greek system a bad image.
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Tom Osborne, left, and members of the football staff stand on the sidelines at the Kansas game Saturday. It
was the 1,000th game in Husker history.
Grand tradition
Nebraska football program marks milestone with win
By Jeff Singer
Senior Editor__
It began more than 100 years ago, when
Nebraska’s football team defeated
Omaha YMCA 10-0 on Nov. 27, 1890.
And 999 games later, the Nebraska foot
ball tradition is still going strong.
Nebraska football has become an icon
within state borders and is recognized na
tionally as one of the most consistent pro
grams in the country.
Saturday, the Huskers played their
1,000th game, which ended with the same
result as their first — a victory. This time,
their opponent was Kansas, a team Nebras
ka has played 100 times in its 1.000 games.
The Huskers beat the Jayhawks 21-20.
Although many of Nebraska’s teams had
success before the 1960s, the Huskcr pro
gratn came to the national forefront when
former coach and athletic director Bob
Devaney came to Lincoln in 1962.
Dcvaney turned Husker football into a
program that has produced a humber of
continuing NCAA records. The team has
had 32 consecutive winning seasons, 25
straight nine-win seasons, 25 straight bowl
appearances and 193 consecutive sellout
games at Memorial Stadium.
But Nebraska Associate Athletic Direc
tor Don Bryant, who saw his first Husker
football game in 1937, said Nebraska foot
ball folklore was popular even before the
Devaney era.
Beginning in the 1920s, he said, Husker
football has been a rallying point for Ne
braskans.
“Nebraska football had a great tradition
and a great spirit of excellence before Bob
Devaney,” Bryant said. “It set a great foun
dation for Bob Devaney to help catapult the
program to perennial excellence, and Coach
(Tom) Osborne has continued to build upon
that.”
Nebraska has won more than two-thirds
of its 1,000 games, with 671 wins, 289
losses and 40 ties. Nebraska’s victories led
to more conference titles than any other
Big Eight school, as well as to two national
titles in 1970 and 1971.
“We have had a great football tradition
here at Nebraska,” Devaney said. ‘‘And as
long as Tom Osborne is here, we will con
tinue to have a good program.”
Osborne succeeded Devaney in 1973,
and in the process has become the nation’s
winningest active coach. Osborne also has
teamed with Devaney to be the only coach
es in college football history to post con
secutive 100-win careers in back-to-back
stints at the same school.
“We’ve enjoyed a 31-year stretch that’s -
been uncqualed,” Osborne said. “It hasn’t
been difficult to follow what Bob accom
plished with the players and coaches we’ve
had here, but it has been difficult in that he
set a very high standard of success.”
While looking forward to their next 1,000
games, this year’s fourth-ranked Huskers
have succeeded with a 0-0 record in pursuit
of their first national title in 22 years.
Bryant said the success level Nebraska
has had to date is remarkable.
“The most impressive thing about this
program is to be able to maintain this type
of excellence with only 1 1/2 million peo
ple in the state,” Bryant said. “It’s a mira
cle.’’ ^
Osborne said he was proud of his pro
gram because it often was seen as a symbol
of Nebraskans’ desire for excellence.
“One thing that exemplifies Nebraska
football is a good work ethic,” Osborne
said. “Players realize you have to pay a
price for success, and this goes along with
the similar type of ethic we nave in the state
of Nebraska.”
“Any time something happens connected
with hazing, (stereotyping) runs rampant
through the greek system,” said Brent
Burmood, president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Fraternity.
Stereotypes that the public has formed about
fraternities are untrue, he said.
Burmood said the images associated with
fraternities were distorted and came from iso
lated incidents. Burwood said he did not con
sider hazing a serious problem at UNL.
“The No. 1 thing the greek system faces is
not hazing, drinking and running wild,” he
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Massengale
withdraws
from search
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Editor
Martin Massengale withdrew from Flor
ida State University’s presidential
search Monday, five days after inter
viewing with the search committee in Talla
hassee, Fla.
Massengale, the outgoing University of
Nebraska president, was one of nine finalists
for the FSU position. He had a preliminary
interview with the search committee Thurs
day.
In a letter dated Nov. 8 that was faxed to
the search committee chairman, Massengale
cited professional reasons for withdrawing from
the search.
“After considerable reflection following the
visit to Florida State University, I have decid
ed for professional reasons not to pursue the
position further at this time,” Massengale wrote
in the letter.
“I enjoyed my visit and consider FSU an
excellent university well positioned to take
greater leadership nationally and internation
ally in public higher education,” he said in the
letter. “I appreciated the many courtesies
shown me during my visit.”
Massengale could not be reached for com
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Expert testifies
dirt on shovel
from grave site
)w- The trial was scheduled to resume at 9 a.m. Monday,
but was delayed until about 11:15 while attorneys and
the judge had a discussion in chambers.
► An FBI soil analysis expert testified that the dirt found
on Bjorklund's shovel matched the type of soil found in
the grave south of Lincoln, where Harms was found.
By Steve Smith
Senior Reporter
In more than two hours of testimony Mon
day, a federal soil analysis expert said the
dirt on a shovel belonging to Roger
Bjorklund came from Candice Harms’ grave
site.
Bruce Hall, an FBI forensic minerologist in
Washington, D.C., said the soil from Harms’
grave at 134th Street and Yankee Hill Road
was similar to the dirt on a shovel at Bjorklund’s
home. Hall said he analyzed the soil samples
on the basis of color, texture and composition.
Police recovered the shovel from
Bjorklund’s home during a Dec. 8 search of
the house.
Bjorklund, 31, is being tried for the first
degree murder of Harms, a University of Ne
braska-Lincoln student.
“BascdLon the investigation, it’s my opin
ion that the grave was the source of the shov
el’s dirt,” Hall said.
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