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Good ‘witch’
Anderson works as
resource, inspiration
guiding greek affairs
By Alan Phelps
Senior Reporter
Jayne Wade Ande rson d id n ’ t se t ou t to be
the Wicked Witch of the West.
UNL’s director of Greek Affairs takes
nicknames students have given her with a sense
of humor, and has even been known to wear a
witch’s hat to meetings.
But Anderson, who is being honored by her
sorority with a national scholarship in her name,
said she never planned to help advise greeks at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
“I’m only here by accident,” she said.
Anderson first came to Lincoln in the 1940s
from Plainview, a small northeast Nebraska
town. Her parents encouraged her to attend the
university while most of her female friends
went to nearby Wayne State.
She soon joined Alpha Xi Delta sorority,
where she said she enjoyed the feeling of
knowing others cared. She earned an education
degree in 1952 and married her husband, Bill,
in her sorority house.
The couple eventually moved to Cincinnati,
where Bill was killed in a car accident. With her
18-month-old daughter, Anderson moved back
to Lincoln to be close to relatives.
“Life is a series of, sometimes, timing and
accidents,” she said.
Anderson met with the dean of women
students at UNL, who told her she could work
for the university if she earned a master’s
degree.
“I wasn’t geared to staying home and play
ing bridge, and that was fashionable at the
time,” she said.
Anderson’s first job at UNL was a generalist
in the student affairs office. At the time, during
the 1960s, the university’s Panhellenic adviser
was a volunteer who was about to leave after 18
years. Greek affairs were put into Anderson’s
job description and gradually grew to fill her
time.
Today’s greek system, Anderson said, is
different in some ways from when she lived in
the Alpha Xi Delta house. A larger university
means a larger system, she said, with more
services and more resources.
Anderson also said the system had become
more formally oriented toward academics. As
the former national president of her sorority,
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Alpha Xi Delta national sorority will honor UNL Greek Affairs Director
Jayne Wade Anderson by offering members a scholarship in her name.
Big 8 to foot bill for officials’ trip
Dionne Searcey
Senior Reporter
niversity of Nebraska student regents
and administrators will spend part of
their winter break in Florida at no cost
to NU, a university ofTicial said.
Jack Goebel, vice chancellor for business
and finance, said the trip to the Orange Bowl in
Miami for a group of administrators, athletic
department officials, athletes and four student
regents would be paid for by a budget construed
by the Big Eight.
Each year the Big Eight authorizes an ex
pense allowance for the bowl, he said. The
allowance includes money for athletes, admin
istrators and the University of Nebraska-Lin
coin band and cheerleaders. The budget is close
to $1 million, Goebel said.
“It is that expense allowance that is autho
rized from which we try to
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is involved,” he said, “it will
be covered either from the expense allowance
or the proceeds.”
Goebel said he thought UNL might exceed
the budget put forth by the Big Eight because of
a request for players to leave early for Miami
from NU football coach Tom Osborne.
Osborne has asked that the nearly 120 team
members go to Florida three days earlier than
last year to allow them extra practice time. That
would mean the players and coaches would
leave Lincoln on Dec. 22 and return Jan. 2.
Not all members of the athletic department
will leave early with the team, Goebel said.
Some will travel Dec. 28 with other administra
tors who have been invited by the chancellor.
UNL Chancellor Graham Spanicr has invit
ed administrators, members of his staff and
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UNL launches
trips to gather
views of state
By Steve Smith
Senior Reporter__
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has
officially taken its act on the road.
UNL Chancellor Graham Spanier
launched a statewide community lour last month
that will roll into about 30 Nebraska communi
ties by March.
“UNL has a unique mission to serve the
entire state,” Spanier said. “This project gives
us the opportunity to meet the people of Nebras
ka in their communities.”
Spanier said he hoped his statewide tour
would help him and his staff gather down-to
earth input from community leaders about the
university’s long-range planning.
Spanier and IrvOmtvedt, vice chancellor for
agriculture and natural resources, toured Nor
folk and Wayne on Tuesday. He and NU Regent
Don Blank met with community leaders in
McCook on Nov. 18, and also visited Syracuse
on Nov. 30.
“We are going to try to touch all the bases
that arc interested in education in each commu
nity,” Spanier said.
Spanier said the input he and other UNL
officials had received from the individual com
munities had been almost all good.
“The feedback has been exceptionally pos
itive that we arc going out,” Spanier said.
“People appreciate the fact that the university
is coming to them.”
The UNL delegation normally meets with
service clubs, business leaders, elected offi- _
cials and UNL alumni in each of the communi
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Harms family files
lawsuit against
Bjorklund, Barney
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Editor
andicc Harms’ parents and sister filed
a wrongful death lawsuit in Lancaster
County District Court against Roger
Bjorklund and Scott Barney.
In a six-page motion filed Monday, the
family said they were deprived of Candice
Harms’ society, comfort and companionship.
Bjorklund was convicted of Harms’ murder
on Nov. 17. Prosecutors have said Barney
agreed to plead guilty to the crime if the death
penalty isn’t sought against him.
In the lawsuit, the Harmses asked for
$7,290.83 to pay for funeral expenses.
The Harms family also “suffered emotional
distress more severe than any reasonable per
son could be expected to endure,” the lawsuit
said.
“The defendants’ intentional, outrageous
and extreme conduct towards Candice Michelle
Harms, went beyond all possible bounds of
decency and is regarded as atrocious and utterly
intolerable in a civilized community,” the law
suit said.
Because of the defendants’ actions, an un
specified amount of money is being sought for
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Nebraskans unearth alleged war crimes in Yugoslavia
By Steve Smith
Senior Reporter
Four Nebraskans, including a
UNL adjunct professor, have
seen the effects of war on citi
zens in former Yugoslavia firsthand.
Cal Calabrese, Doug Scott, Ralph
Hartley and Melissa Connor, all of
Lincoln, were part of a 14-mcmbcr
forensic team that returned recently
from Croatia. While overseas, they
and other members of Physicians for
Human Rights, investigated alleged
war crime graves in Croatia.
The team was working under the
sponsorship of the United Nations
War Crimes Commission, which was
established in 1992.
PHR specializes in forensic inves
tigations of alleged war crimes, such
as torture and unlawful executions,
including incidents in Israel, Iraq,
Kuwait and Thailand.
Scott said uncovering and docu
menting such atrocities could per
suade the killers that their actions
could be detected and eventually pun
ished.
The forensic team is working on a
report of its findings during its
monthlong stay in Croatia, Calabrese
said.
Scott led an exhumation team to
the Croatian town of Vukovar. The
team included scientists from Arkan
sas, Washington, Argentina and Gua
temala.
After two days near Vukovar,
Scott’s excavation was stopped by
local Serbian authorities, who dis
solved an earlier agreement with
Serbian officials to allow the group to
exhume the graves.
“The Serbs alerted us to leave, so
we did. It’s that plain and simple,”
Scott said. “(The Vukovar excava
tion) was a bust, if you will.”
But when Scott’s team members
joined another forensics group near
the nearby Croatian town of Packrac
Poljana, they turned up nine mass
graves and 19 bodies.
As many as 200 bodies are thought
to be buried near the site his team was
expelled from, he said.
Scott said portions of their investi
gation had to remain confidential be
cause it could be used to prosecute
alleged perpetrators.
“I’m not sure when it will become
public,” Scott said. “It’s all part of a
legal investigation, and it’s sensitive
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