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Reallocated funds help
engineering dilemma
By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter_
Money reallocated by the Legis
lature for engineering education is
just the first step in resolving a
larger issue, a University of Nc
braska-Lincoln official said Sun
day.
A move to give $200,000 to en
hance engineering education in
Nebraska, especially at the Univer
sity of Nebraska at Omaha, was
added to the Legislature’s main
budget bill last week.
The amendment, sponsored by
Omaha Sens. Brad Ashford and
Chris Abboud and Sen. Don Wcscly
of Lincoln, reallocates money in
NU central administration for UNO.
The money will be drawn from a
faculty savings fund that holds ben
efits and pay from unfilled posi
tions.
On Sunday, Stan Liberty, dean
of the College of Engineering and
Technology, said temporary mon
ey allowed for only one-time ex
penditures, like equipment and fa
cility improvements, and not ongo
ing costs such as faculty.
“We can use any funding pro
vided to enhance our programs on
either campus,” Liberty said. “We
certainly have needs.”
Liberty, who oversees engineer
ing education for the state of Ne
braska, said the money was not
enoimn to meet an nccu».
However, Liberty said, he 11 take
what he can get.
Ashford said immediate needs
in engineering education at UNO,
brought to light by a recent consult
ants’ report, spurred the amend
ments ._ . „
“We need to stop the bleeding,
he said. “After we stop the bleeding
we can sec where to go in the future,
but now they need four faculty mem
bers.”
The idea behind reallocating
money for UNO was simple,
Ashford said.
“They are underfunded,” he said.
“They need faculty.
“If you have to make a choice
between funding central adminis
tration and faculty ... faculty comes
first,” Ashford said.
Wesely said he got behind the
bill because he was fearful of the
reaction to the consultants’ report
supporting a separate engineering
college at UNO.
“I was fearful that the response
would be a rush to implement it,”
he said. “Knowing politicians, there
is a lot of pressure to act on this.”
The issue of increased funding
for engineering education is uni
versally agreed upon by the Legis
lature, Wesely said. The amend
ment was just a start, he said.
The Legislature's main budget
bill still is under consideration and
will be debated Wednesday.
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growing up,” he said.
Bjorklund said his involvemcnNn
the Seventh Day Adventist Church
came to an abrubt end when the church
“let him down” in 1991.
“I mentally collapsed,” he said. “I
quit.” e
While Bjorklund’s involvement in
the church decreased, his activity in
computers increased.
Bjorklund met his accomplice in
the Harms murder, Scott Barney,
through his computer involvement.
While Bjorklund went on an elab
orate tangent about computer net
works, Lacey covered his eyes and
rested his head on the table.
***
After Bjorklund’s statement, Lacey
told reporters he was unimpressed
with his appeal for mercy.
“I think Mr. Bjorklund has his
priorities as skewed as the day he
killed Candi Harms,” Lacey said. “Any
time you have the chance to tell a
judge at a time so important in your
life, you don’t talk about computers
and experiences about things that don’t
make a difference.
“He should have told the court in
no uncertain terms how sorry he was,"
he said. “The only emotion (shown)
was when talking about his own wife
and family. 1 just ask him to consider
what he did to Stan and Pat Harms.”
During closing arguments, Special
Deputy Publ ic Defender Richard Goos
questioned Endacott’s objectiveness
of deciding Bjorklund's sentence
alone.
“I’ve taken an oath to uphold the
law. When 1 can't uphold the law I
won’t be ajudge,” Endacottsaid.“My
personal feelings have nothing to do
with that, and I don’t want to hear that
argument again.”
Chief Deputy Public Defender Scott
Helvic said Bjorklund had no signifi
cant history of violence. Bjorklund
and Barney’s alleged robbery streak
from Aug. 29, 1992 to Sept. 21,1992
was Bjorklund’s only major criminal
activity, Helvie said.
Under Nebraska statute, the crime
must be proven to be especially henious
to warrant a death sentence. Lacey
argued throughout the sentencing
hearing that the Harms abduction and
murder fit that description. Helvie
disagreed.
“I’m not going to si t here and argue
this wasn’t a heinous murder, it cer
tainly was,” Helvie said. “Deciding
what is especially heinous is diffi
cult.”
Helvie oficrcd about 30 reasons
Bjorklund should not receive the death
penalty.
Barney led police to Harms’ body
and signed a plea agreement with
prosecutors. Barney has been convict
ed of the murder and will be sentenced
in June. As part of the agreement,
Barney cannot be sentenced to death.
“To impose the death sentence on
Mr. Bjorklund wouldbc excessive and
disproportionate to the sentence Mr.
Barney will receive,” Helvie said.
***
Lacey made a final plea to Endacott
on behalf of Harms. Lacey told the
judge to put himself in Harms’ place
on the night of Sept. 22, 1992.
“Think how it must have felt laying
in a cold field with your clothes off,”
Lacey said.
In earlier statements, Bjorklund
said the rape of Harms took about five
minutes, although he said it must have
seemed a lot longer to her.
Lacey wept as he tried to convince
the court that the atrocities of the
abduction, rape and murder were
enough to sentence Bjorklund to death
in the electric chair.
“To me that is especially henious
and cruel — there's no way to get
around that,” Lacey said. “No argu
ments in a. courtroom many months
later can change that. Just five min
utes ... was especially heinous and
cruel.”
Seaior kditor Adt-ana I-eftin contributed
to this report.
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Omaha, Baldwin was shot, paralyzed
and arrested.
LB498 would allow courts to use
omissions by a patient to determine
whether they were dangerous. Failure
to take medication would be an omis
sion.
The bill also would mandate the
development of individual treatment
plans for the patient consistent with
the court’s orders. If a person was
found not complying with the treat
ment, a warrant could be issued, and
the patient could be put into an appro
priate facility.
Wcscly said the bill had been a long
lime in the making. He said he had
help from many sources, including
judges, attorneys and University of
Nebraska-Lincoln law professors.
Treatment of mental illness has
progressed,and the law hasn’t, Wcscly
said.
“W ith modem drugs, (doctors) have
identified many (mental) conditions
that can be treated,” he said. “Our
laws do-not reflect that.”
The bill was difficult to draft, but it
is a good bill. Wcscly said.
“Mental health laws are technical
and dilTicult,” he said. “They have to
balance the rights of the mentally ill
with the right to safety.”
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