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UNL student
encounters
memory loss
after fall
From Staff Reports
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Police spoke for the first time
last week with Jeff Knoll, who
fell from a Phi Gamma Delta window
Nov. 3.
University officials say Knoll, a
19-year-old UNL student from
Ogallala, was forced to drink alcohol
in a Fiji hazing incident before the
fall.
UNLPoliceChiefKenCaublcwas
unavailable for comment Sunday. A
Lincoln newspaper reported Caublc
as saying Knoll apparently had diffi
culty remembering events relating to
the fall.
Caublc said Knoll’s parents
planned to transfer him to a Colorado
rehabilitation center that specializes
in memory loss.
Caublc said Knoll could not pro
vide a complete account of the inci
dent when investigators spoke with
him Wednesday. Knoll could not con
firm fraternity hazing was involved,
Cauble said, but he told investigators
nothing to suggest otherwise.
University officials say Knoll fell
out of a third-story Fiji window after
being forced by fraternity members to
drink alcohol. Knoll was caught dur
ing “pledge sneak,” officials said, and
may have been trying to escape the
house by climbing down a drain pipe.
Knoll was taken to Lincoln Gener
al Hospital with head injuries and
facial fractures. He was in a coma for
several days. He was transferred later
to Immanuel Medical Center in Oma
ha for rehabilitation.
The Fiji chapter was later suspend
ed by national directors. Members of
the fraternity were allowed to eat and
sleep in their house, but all activities
were suspended pending an investi
gation into the incident.
The hazing allegations arc under
investigation. Student Code of Con
duct violations could also be filed
against fraternity members, universi
ty officials said.
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Bjorklund’s
attorneys
file request
for new trial
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Editor
Attorneys filed a seven-page mo
tion last week requesting a
new trial for Roger Bjorklund.
who was found guilty in the first
degree murder of UNL student
Candice Harms.
A district judge will hear the new
trial motion Dec. 17.
Harms was abducted, raped and
murdered in September 1992. The
case went to trial in October and
ended four weeks later.
Chief Deputy Public Defender
Scott Hclvic listed 63 reasons for a
new trial. Irregularities existed in the
court proceedings, he said, which pre
vented Bjorklund from having a fair
trial.
The motion said the court erred in
overrul i ng Bjorkl und ’ s mot ion to sup
press the following evidence:
•Statements Bjorklund made to
police on Dec. 6, 1992 and May 25,
1993.
•A letter Bjorklund mailed to
Harms’ parents in December 1992.
•Evidence found during two
searches of Bjorklund’s house last
December.
During the trial, recorded conver
sations Bjorklund made to police were
played for the jury. Bjorklund de
scribed the kidnapping and abduction
of Harms in the conversations. The
statements were the basis of the pros
ecution’s case.
The motion also said the court
should not have allowed Lincoln Po
lice Detective Sgt. Sandra Myers to
be present in the courtroom during the
trial. All other witnesses were seques
tered throughout the trial.
Testimony from many expert wit
nesses should not have been allowed
in the trial, the motion said, including
the opinion of a Lincoln doctor who
said Harms was tortured before her
death.
Regional center will decide Baldwin s future
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Editor
he Lincoln Regional Center must rec
ommend a suitable treatment program
and facility in Nebraska for Scott
Baldwin within 30 days, a district judge ruled.
Lancaster County District Judge Paul Merritt
ruled last week that Baldwin’s treatment facil
ity must follow recommendations set by the
Department of Public Institutions.
Baldwin, a former University of Ncbraska
Lincoln student and football player, was found
not responsible by reason of insanity in the
January 1992 beating of Gina Simanek. In a
subsequent psychotic episode, Baldwin was
paralyzed from the waist down when an Omaha
police officer shot him in September 1992.
Shortly after the shooting. Baldwin was
committed to the regional center, which is
under control of the Department of Public
Institutions.
The regional center recommended that
Baldwin be placed in the Madonna Rehabilita
tion Hospital in Lincoln or a similar private
facility.
When an appropriate facility is found for
Baldwin, he must not leave the grounds without
adult supervision during the first three months
of the program, the judge said.
In earlier hearings, Baldwin requested his
treatment be continued in his home state of
New Jersey, but Merritt denied the request.
Baldwin’s placement must be consistent
with the safety of the publ ic, the judge said. The
Department of Institutions recommends the
program include:
•A structured group living arrangement.
•A program for Baldw in ’s emotional, phys
ical and vocational needs.
•A plan to ensure proper intake of medica
tion, including testing about every two weeks to
ensure it is being taken as directed.
•A goal toward independent living.
•A method to report any problems with
Baldwin to the Lancaster County Attorney’s
office.
In an October meeting with regional center
and Madonna officials, a plan was established
in case the court decided to place Baldwin in the
rehabilitation hospital.
Baldwin initially would be placed in the
acute rehabilitation unit. After a brief stay in the
unit, which would include a visit with a psy
chologist three times a week, Baldwin would be
transferred to a skilled nursing unit for up to six
months.
This program would focus heavily on
Baldwin’s physical needs. He would receive
training in self-care issues and would work in
the community on home-type situations in which
he could continue his own physical develop
ment.
A review hearing is scheduled for August
1994, when Merritt will review Baldwin’s
progress.
After 20 years, UNL may never have yearbook again
Editors’ Note: College heritage is
an important part of student life.
UNL students today, however, don’t
have the chance to take part in
many long-standing campus tradi
tions. This is the first in a week-long
seriesofUNL’sforgotten traditions.
By Jody Holzworth
Staff Reporter
The yellowed pages of The
Cornhusker yearbook arc still
talking. The UNL yearbook
expresses more than 70 years of stu
dent emotions through words and
photographs.
The pages also tell a story of a
University of Nebraska-Lincoln tra
dition that died.
“When you page
through the year
books, you get the
feeling of wnat the
attitude was on
campus, what peo
ple were really
feeling at that
time,” said James
DeMars, copy editor of The
Cornhusker in 1966.
DeMars, now a Lincoln lawyer,
worked on the yearbook for three
years during his stint at UNL.
The book chronicled the changing
times, he said.
DcMars said he voiced student
concerns about current events in many
of the narratives he wrote while on
yearbook staff.
“I remember writing about the mad
scramble to keep out of the draft,” he
said.
Barb DeMars, yearbook editor in
1966, said looking at the book was
like a trip down memory lane.
“1 can’t tell you the number of
times we still look at it,” she said.
Barb DeMars, a graduate of the Teach
ers College, married James DeMars
after they worked together on the
yearbook.
“The Cornhusker was very impor
tant to the university—truly a history
of that year,” she said.
James DeMars said he looked a!
the yearbook more after he graduated
than when he attended UNL.
“Everyone knew the yearbook had
only marginal use while you were a
student,” he said. “The purpose of the
yearbook was to go back 10 years
down the road.”
Today’s students don’t have that
option. Lack of funding and student
interest silenced the voice of The
Cornhusker after the 1972-73 school
year.
Jayne Wade Anderson, director of
LIN L Greek Affairs, said students only
have the Greek yearbook now. Ander
son, a UNL graduate, began working
at the university in 1964.
The UNLGreek system began their
own yearbook 17 years ago because
they thought The Comhusker’s de
mise left a void, she said.
The grcck yearbook stories focus
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