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James Griesen, vice chancellor of student
affairs at UNL, also testified in favor of the bill.
He said it would help students realize the seri
ousness of hazing.
Griesen said in the past, fraternity members
dropped out of school to avoid sanctions. He
said LB 1129 would hold people responsible for
their actions.
Members of fraternities, past and present,
also testified on behalf of the bill.
In 1972, Joe Einsberg was hazed as a fresh
man pledge in a fraternity still on campus.
Einsberg would not identify his fraternity
because he said he did not want to do damage to
alumni.
“They know who they are, and they know 1
still remember,” he said.
Einsberg said he was kidnapped on a pledge
sneak and was taped to a pole on the comer of
16th and Vine streets. He said he had his clothes
removed and was covered by a sheet.
The fraternity member hazed him and then
sprayed the sheet with water, which froze,
Einsberg said. He said the tape began to cut his
hands and left a permanent scar.
While he was taped to the pole, Einsberg
said, a Lincoln police officer drove by the scene
and did not stop. Because of the incident, he
said, the chapter’s membership was cut to two
members, and he thought hazing would not
happen again at his fraternity.
Michael Murphy, a member of Phi Gamma
Delta, said hazing still existed, and it was the
enemy of the greek system. He said the Fiji
chapter regretted what had happened to Jeff
Knoll.
Murphy said if criminalizing hazing was the
way toeliminate it on campus, then Fiji support
ed the measure.
No one testified against LB 1129.
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Jeffrey Knoll’s father, Jim Knoll (right), attends a hearing Wednesday
afternoon as Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity member Michael Murphy
testifies in favor of state anti-hazing legislation.
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The.shots were fired from a .22
caliber handgun, Lacey said, which
had not been recovered as of Wednes
day afternoon.
Investigators
Lacey said Nebraska State Patrol
investigators found a bullet Wednes
day in the trunk of Bohac’s 1988
Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais and a por
tion of another bullet in the car’s right
rear quarter* panel.
Williams was a passenger in a ve
hicle with Kareem Moss and Ed
Stewart, also Nebraska football play
ers. The vehicle belonged to Kara
Citrano, also a UNL student, who
wasn’t in the car.
Lacey also said Williams had been
drinking at the time of the shooting.
No alcohol-related charges were filed.
Earlier this week, Nebraska coach
Tom Osborne said the shooting was
accidental.
Lacey disagreed Wednesday.
“We couldn’t come to an intelli
gent and logical conclusion this was
accidental,” he said.
Osborne said at a Wednesday press
conference some of his earlier state
ments about the incidents may have
been inaccurate.
“There were a couple of things I
said a couple of days ago that were not
totally accurate,” Osborne said. “I
didn’t have as much information as 1
have now.”
Osborne said he learned more from
examining the car at which Williams
is accused of firing. He also talked to
Bohac and most of the players in
volved.
However, Osborne said he was not
at liberty to reveal additional details
he learned about the case.
He said NU coaches would stand by
Williams throughout the trial.
“We will definitely support Tyrone
just as if we were his parents,” Osborne
said. “That doesn’t mean we condone
anything that was done.”
Williams’ status on the football
team will not be determined until crim
inal charges are settled, Osborne said.
“I want to see exactly what he is
charged with and we’ll go from there,”
he said.
Cooperation
Osborne said team members were
cooperating with the police investiga
tion.
However, Lacey said the investiga
tion initially was hindered by a lack of
cooperation from Moss and Stewart.
Lincoln Police Chief Tom Casady
would not comment on whether
Osborne was cooperating.
Lincoln police also continued
Wednesday investigating a second
weekend incident involving NU foot
ball players at the Residence Inn in
Lincoln.
Two officers were dispatched early
Sunday morning to the motel, where
several Nebraska football players and
recruits were congregated.
Nebraska redshirt freshman
Ramone Worthy reportedly was
stabbed in the back and wingback
Abdul Muhammad received lacera
tions to his right hand when unidenti
fied assailants entered the room,
Casady said.
Muhammad and Worthy were
treated and released from St. Eliza
beth Community Health Center.
Osborne said Monday the players
involved intended to file charges. But
as of Wednesday afternoon, no charg
es had been filed.
Connection
Osborne said he thought there was
a connection between the fight at the
motel and the shooting.
“What happened at the Residence
Inn had something to do with the state
of mind the players were in,” he said.
Osborne said one assailant in the
fight at the Residence Inn said some
thing to the football players about
going to get some “heat."
Lacey said Wednesday the players
involved in the shooting were not the
same ones involved in the Residence
Inn fight.
The investigation is continuing,
Lacey said. He was uncertain if addi
tional charges would be filed.