Professor shows how to make money from rocks
By Sarah Duey
Staff Reporter
During his first visit to Nebras
ka, Paul Eimon is talking
money.
Eimon
Not the kind ot
money one wins in
the lottery, or the
kind that is collect
ed in church on
Sundays.
Eimon, an inter
national geologist
and visiting profes
sor at the Universi
ty of Nebraska
Lincoln, is talking
money m terms ot minerals.
“The real object of my stay at
UNL is to talk to students about the
business side of geology,” Eimon
said.
Eimon is teachiilg a class about
mineral economics. Mineral econom
ics is getting money from rocks, he
said. Eimon said geology students at
UNL should consider the economic
aspects of their profession.
“I’m opening the student’s vision
of what geology is all about.”
Eimon’s vision of geology is glo
bal, the result of working as a geolo
gist in about 25 countries. He said
the fields in geology were becoming
broader in scope.
The mining industry is interna
tionalizing on a major scale, Eimon
said.
“As minerals deplete in the Unit
ed States, we may have to go some
where else to find them.”
Eimon, who is at UNL as the
Schramm Chairman in the geology
department, said students should be
aware of the changing opportunities
in geology and mining.
“Students need to know how the
opportunities are changing and how
to be prepared to work in their indus
try.”
“They need to know how to ex
plore for, evaluate and find mineral
deposits. I want them to know that
they need a broad background to be
successful in geology,” he said.
Eimon said UNL’s geology stu
mr
dents were being prepared to do a
number of things.
One student said she already had
gained valuable information from
Eimon.
Ewa Ossowska, a graduate stu
dent from Poland, said Eimon taught
her practical information about how
to start mining and how the mining
companies were changing to be
“mega-sized.”
The business of geology is only
part of Eimon’s message. He said he
also wanted students to find a bal
ance between environmental and eco
nomic geology.
“We must do a better job at pro
tecting the environment at the same
time taking what resources we need
to benefit mankind,” he said.
His travels, including a three
month trip to Mongolia last summer,
arc the basis for many of his class
lectures.
Eimon also presents lectures that
arc open to the public. The free lec
tures arc held in Besscy Hall Audito
rium on Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m.
At his next lecture, Eimon will
speak about and show slides from his
Mongolian trip.
“I think this lecture would be in
teresting to anyone because not many
people know about Mongolia,” he
said.
New major combines
European programs
By Amie Haggar
Staff Reporter
he end of the Cold War in
Europe and a focus on a more
global world have sparked a
change in UNL’s European studies
program, a UNL professor said.
European studies, a new major
combining Western and Eastern Eu
ropean studies, is being offered
through the College of Arts and Sci
ences.
Tom Carr, modern languages and
literature professor and coordinator
of European studies, said the new
major was being offered to prepare
students for global changes.
“The old divisions we had just
don’t make sense anymore. This
change gives students a way to see
Europe in a more realistic way,” Can
said. “It’s a reworking of things we’ve
had before, just under a new level.”
Requirements for the European
studies major call for a basic founda
tion in four core courses in European
history, political science, geography
and the humanities, Carr said.
“These requirements provide a
platform for studying Europe in more
detail,” he said.
In addition to the College of Arts
and Sciences’ language requirement,
students majoring in European stud
ies must take six hours of a foreign
language at the 300 level or above.
However, Carr said studying
abroad in a university where the na
tive language was spoken would
count toward the language require
ment.
“We think studying abroad is an
important aspect of this program,”
he said.
A senior seminar and 15 hours of
electives also arc required for the
major, Carr said.
A minor in European studies in
cludes 18 hours in three core cours
es, combined with nine hours of elec
tives. However, the additional lan
guage hours are not required for the
minor, Carr said.
Carr said the new major was a
useful double major for journalism
or history students, or for students
who needed to declare a major for a
professional program.
The new program is a good minor
in conjunction with virtually any
field, he said.
“For the student who just wants a
minor, this provides a broad liberal
arts background as far as what's go
ing on in Europe,” he said.
The original 20-member core fac
ulty group involved in the change
will expand to include other instruc
tors who are interested in its success,
Carr said. The group sponsors regu
lar programs that often feature speak
ers on European issues.
Bjorklund
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out calling a single witness, saying
prosecutors failed to present enough
evidence to prove beyond a reason
able doubt that Bjorklund killed
Harms.
Hclvie objected to several witness
es’ testimonies, setting the stage for
a possible appeal if the jury convicts
Bjorklund. He also suggested
throughout the trial that police vio
lated Bjorklund’s constitutional rights
by offering him cigarettes and sodas
in exchange for self-incriminating
statements.
Defense attorneys have suggested
throughout deliberations that it was
Barney, not Bjorklund, who killed
Harms.
Perhaps the most powerful evi
dence against Bjorklund was present
ed in the trial’s final two days, when
prosecutors played tape-recorded con
fessions Bjorklund gave to police on
Dec. 6, May 25 and June 5.
In the trial’s first day, Todd Sears,
Harms’ boyfriend, moved two jurors
almost to tears as he described the
couple’s last kiss and a farewell in
which she told him to have sweet
dreams.
During the trial, jurors were al
lowed to read a Dec. 24 letter that
Bjorklund sent to Stan and Pat Harms,
Candice Harms’ parents. Bjorklund
asked Harms’ parents for forgiveness,
though he did not confess to the mur
der in the letter.
Prosecuting attorneys also present
ed the jury with evidence intended to
corroborate Bjorklund’s statements
to police.
Two guns, a .380-caliber handgun
and a .38-caliber revolver, were
pulled by police from Pawnee Lake,
west of Lincoln. A ballistics expert
testified the guns may have been used
in Harms’ murder.
Police also described an ash pile
found at 86th Street and Havelock
Avenue. Bjorklund told detectives he
and Barney sexually assaulted Harms
there, and later returned to burn her
clothes.
A piece of fabric that may have
been part of Harms’ coat was found
in the pile, along with hooks, eyelets
and other items.
A pathologist testified Harms died
of strangulation from a broken neck
and four bullet wounds in her head.
A soil expert testified dirt taken
from a shovel found at Bjorklund’s
house was consistent with dirt found
at Harms’ gravesite.
Midway through the trial, the judge
dismissed Jack Ellis, one of five males
on the jury. Endacott told reporters
after the Ellis’ dismissal that Ellis
was released from jury duty because
of a personal hardship.
Bjorklund apparently came close
to testifying Wednesday. During a
brief hearing outside the presence of
the jury, Bjorklund was overheard
discussing with Hclvic the possibili
ty of his testifying.
The hearing, which involved
Bjorklund’s confession, lasted only a
few minutes. Bjorklund did not testi
fy.
Journalism
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Columbia, Temple University in Phil
adelphia, Virginia Commonwealth
University at Richmond, and San Jose
State University in California, said
Daryl Frazell, an associate professor
of news-editorial journalism at UNL
Last year, six UNL students were
chosen to participate in the program,
Thicn said.
Because that was the highest num
bcr of students the company ever had
chosen from one school, Thien said,
UNL caught the company’s atten
tion.
But it wasn’t the first Dow Jones
had heard of UNL.
The training sites originally were
established after Dow Jones received
a written proposal from former dean
of UNL’s Journalism College Neale
Copplc and Jack Botts. former news
editorial chairman of the college.
The training'program started in
1968 after Botts wrote a proposal to
the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund sug
gesting an intense copy editing train
ing session to prepare students for
their internships.
UNL was one of the three original
training sites for the program, Botts
said. Temple and Ohio State Univer
sity were the other two original cen
ters.
UNL’s training center was turned
over to the University of Missouri in
1975. Botts cited personnel problems
and an overload of work as the rea
son for the change.
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