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•4A&E Concert Review Crosby, Stills and Nash still thrill the audience, even after 25 years. Page6 Monday 37/10 Today,variable cloudiness with flurries at night. March 7, 1994 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 93 No. 118 Bjorklund sentencing to last three weeks ^ By Kara G. Morrison Senior Reporter -___ Proceedings begin today to de termine whether Roger Bjorklund will be sentenced to death or life in prison. Bjorklund was convicted in No vember of first-degree murder and using a weapon to commit a felony in the 1992 death ofUNL student Candice Harms. His sentencing hearing is ex pected to last three weeks. weiense attor neys have said they would argue Bjorklund should i not receive the ft death penalty I since prosecutors S were seeking a i lighter sentence i against his accomplice. As part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, Scott Barney pleaded guilty last Thursday to murdering Harms. Barney, who led police to Harms’ grave in December 1992, said he would plead guilty and testify against Bjorklund if the death penalty was not sought against him. Lancaster County Attorney Gary Lacey has said he would not cal 1 Barney to testify against Bjorklund. Barney will be sentenced June 10. J. Kirk Brown, chief of the crimi nal appellate section of the Nebraska Attorney General’s office, said prose cutors would have to prove one or more aggravating circumstances for Bjorklund to receive the death penal ty-' Brown said such aggravating cir cumstances included: • The perpetrator has been con victed of another murder or violent crime or has a history of serious assaultive behavior. • The victim of the crime was killed to conceal the fact that a crime had been committed or the victim was killed to conceal the perpetrator’s iden tity. -44 The only way to avoid (life in prison) is to have the pardons board reduce that sentence. —Brown Nebraska Attorney General's office -99 ~ • The murder was especially hei ious, atrocious or cruel. (Brown said his usually involved whether the vic im was sexually abused or tortured.) Lacey has said he would try to wove beyond a doubt that one or more these aggravating circumstances ipplied to Bjorklund’s case. Brown said Bjorklund’s previous record, which was not relevant in the trial, would be important in proving aggravating circumstances in his sen tencing hearing. Bjorklund and Barney were arrest ed in connection with a string of Lin coln robberies in 1992. Sentencing hearings are mini-tri als, where the prosecution and de fense enter new evidence and call a number of witnesses. Brown said. Brown said although prosecutors were limited to presenting documen tary evidence, the defense could use any mitigating evidence and circum stances, including the defendant’s personal life, for its case. Ifone or more aggravating circum stances cannot be proven, Brown said Bjorklund’s sentence would be life in prison, which typically meant a natu ral lifetime in prison without parole. “The only way to avoid (life in prison) is to have the pardons board reduce that sentence,” Brown said. Under current parole procedures. Brown said, a parole board would not See BJORKLUND on 3 Signs of spring Michelle Paulman/DN A group of fans shun the bleachers at Buck Beltzer Field for the outfield during Nebraska's game against Western Illinois on Saturday afternoon. Talk key to combating sexism in academia, author says By Kara G. Morrison Sonior Reporter Instances of sexism, similar to those alleged in the Committee W report on the College of Business Administration, arc widespread in academic institutions, an author said Friday. Paula Caplan, author of “Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman’s Guide to Surviving in the Academic World,” spoke about her book to more than 100 students and faculty members Friday in the Nebraska Union. Caplan, who teaches women’s studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, said the UNL American Association of University Professors report was similar to women’s expe riences she recorded while researching her book on women in academia. Caplan said she met Friday with CBA Dean Gary Schwendiman and other administrators at tfyeir request. She said she was encouraged by the fact that UNL administration seemed dedi cated to solving the problems. “Dean Schwendiman told me he has been putting aside an enormous amount of time to work on this,” Caplan said. “I think (the admin istration) should be given a chance to follow through.” In her speech, Caplan shared some of her own experiences with sexism. She recalled one instance in which a male supervisor commented on her research on sex differences, asking. “When are you going to stop doing that and start doing something im portant?” Another time, a colleague assumed Caplan wasn’t working as hard as other professors just because she had four children. As an undergraduate, Caplan said male pro fessors became defensive when she wrote a paper mildlychallenging Freud’s viewsof wom en. Caplan said although academia was not worse in terms of sexism than the work force in general, sexism in academic institutions had gotten worse in the last 20 years. “If you’re a woman and you walk on campus and look around, it’s very deceiving in a way, because you think: women are obviously wel come because look how many there are. In reality, she said, “the academic funnel” exists. Women administrators are increasingly difficult to find in high-paying, high-profile positions, creating a funnel-like structure. Caplan said other problems for women in academia included: • a devaluing of women’s work. (Professors believing women and minorities who do well arc not doing their own work). • stereotypes and fears of powerful women. Caplan said women who speak out or band together are seen as threatening. • a lack of incentives for women (The best jobs seem out of reach, she said). • frequent use of sexist language. One of the best ways to combat sexism, she said, is to prioritize ways of making campus more conduc i ve to women and minorities and to talk openly about problems. “It’s important to talk and talk and talk about this,” Caplan said. Luck played part in airplane crash survival, pilot says By James Hruska Staff Reporter KEARNEY — On July 19, 1989 what began as a routine flight on board Unit ed Airlines, Flight 232. took a turn for the worse. After the flight departed from Denver at 2:09 p.m„ it climbed to an altitude of37,000 feet. At 3:16p.m. the crew notified the air traffic control center at Minneapolis that the No. 2 engine had failed. The crew experimented with the controls on the remaining No. 1 and No. 3 engines and was able to direct the DC-10 to Sioux City, Iowa, where it prepared to land at Sioux Gateway Airport. When the plane approached the runway, the left wing lifted while the right wing hit the J;round. Upon impact, the airplane broke into our pieces. The DC-10, a new type of aircraft, depends on hydraulic pressure. “It is absolutely essential you have hydraulic pressure and fluid or you have no way to fly the airplane," Captain Alfred Haynes said. The odds that a DC-10 would loose total power of the hydraulics is a billion to one, he said. “On July 19th, Murphy’s Law caught up with us, and we lost all hydraulics," Haynes said Haynes spoke in Kearney on Friday and Saturday at the Aeronautics Aviation Mainte nance Seminar sponsored by the Nebraska De partment of Aeronautics. One crew member and 111 passengers were killed in the crash, but 184 people survived. There were five factors Haynes credited to the survival of so many: luck, communication, preparedness, execution and cooperation. Haynes said luck played a large part in directing the aircraft out of a densely populated area. The crew experimented with the throttle control of the two remaining engines, Haynes said, and were able to approach the runway. After approach, another problem faced the crew. “We had no way to steer it and no way to stop it,” Haynes said. “There were times when we all doubted we would keep the airplane in the sky long enough to get it to the airport.” Haynes also said luck played a large part in the rescue operations. At the time of the crash, an annual golf tournament was being played. Many doctors were there and were notified before the plane hit the ground. Also at the time of the crash, shifts were changing at two local hospitals. This allowed the hospitals to be double staffed. t About 250 guardsmen from the 185th Air National Guard in Sioux City also helped with See PILOT on 2
