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September 9, 1994
Missing woman spotted in panhandle
By My hew Waite
Senior Reporter
Kendra Marshall was spotted Wednesday in
northwest Nebraska, police said Thursday, as a
statewide search into the former NU law students’
whereabouts entered its fourth day.
Chadron Police Sgt. Dennis DaMoude told the
Daily Nebraskan Thursday night Marshall was
seen alone in Chadron, a town of 5,588 people
near the South Dakota border.
Photographs were used to give a preliminary
identification of Marshall, who was thought to be
in no danger. Authorities declined to elaborate on
the type ofphotos used or how they were obtained
Positive identification of Marshall, who has
Efforts to stop
campusdrinking
may be working
By Paula Lavigne
Senior Reporter
University officials said it was too early to
tell whether increased efforts to prevent on
campus alcohol parties had been effective.
James Griesen, vice chancellor for student -
affairs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoin,
said the university stepped up efforts list year
to stop alcohol use on campus.
The increased efforts started when a frater
nity pledge, Jeffrey Knoll, fell from the third
story window of the Phi Gamma Delta Frater
nity house after being forced to consume alco
hol.
So far this semester, two arrests were made
on campus in a fight between members of
greek organizations that occurred during an
on-campus party.
About 2:40 a.m. last Friday, university and
Lincoln police encountered a group of about 50
students fighting at Theta Xi Fraternity, 1535
R St.
Officers broke up the fight and ushered
members of Theta Xi and neighboring frater
nity Phi Delta Theta to their respective houses,
as shouts of “I’ll kill you. I’ll kill you right
now,” came from a second-story window.
UNL Police Chief Ken Cauble said the
altercation was the first fairly major incident
between twogrcek houses this year. Most if not
all of the people involved had been drinking
alcohol and were intoxicated, he said.
The fight began when members of Phi
Della Theta walked onto the lawn of Theta Xi,
whose members were preparing for their“Drift
wood” party, Cauble said.
A fight ensued, he said, and two UNL
students, Jason Hendrickson and David
Hegarty, were arrested. Nochic at the scene was
cited for alcohol use.
“We made two arrests for disturbing the
peace and probably could have made several of
them,” he said, “ft’s just a matter of getting
them.”
The incident was captured on videotape,
Cauble said, and police are identifying people
on the tape and trying to determine what
caused the fight.
‘There was fighting, punching, kicking.
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been missingsince Monday, still wasbeingsought
Thursday by state patrol investigators, said Major
uon Niemann, ncaa oi inves
tigative services for the Ne
braska State Patrol.
Earlier Thursday, Niemann
had said foul play may be in
volved in the disappearance of
Marshall, who lived and
worked in Lincoln.
Marshall, 23, was reported
-»--—1 missing by her brother, Mitch,
Marshal I when she did not stow up for
work in Lincoln Monday morning. She was last
seen Sunday at 9 p.m. leaving Johnson Lake near
Lexington after a weekend with her family.
' She was driving a blue, four-door Honda
Accord with Lancaster County license plates.
Friends, family and law enforcement officials
pleaded Thursday for anyone with information on
her whereabouts to notify authorities.
State patrol spokesman Jeff Hanson said de
scriptions of Marshall’s personality led the patrol
to believe foul play was involved.
’This is uncharacteristic, and that is why we
are actively pursuing this,” Hanson said.
Timarree Brown, Marshall’s roommate, said
Marshall would not leave for an extended period
without telling someone. She said Marshall had
no reason to run away.
“We’re scared,” Brown said. “The waiting is
difficult. We don’t know what to do.”
Brown said she and Michelle Snurr, another
roommate, waited by the phone Thursday night
and were trying to keep things as normal as
possible.
Dennis Leonard, a criminal investigator with
the state patrol, said Thursday he was busy follow
ing leads but had found nothing.
“We don’t even have evidence that criminal
activity has taken place,” Leonard said from
Holdrege. However, because of Marshall’s per
sonality and the nature of the disappearance, he
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Locked out
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UNL Crew President Brad Crawford closes up the boat house after the group’s meeting Wednesday evening. The
group discussed practice schedules.
Violations cancel crew practice
By Ken Paul man
Staff'Reporter
Practice was cancelled abruptly for UNL
Crew members last week because campus
recreation believes members have too many
unauthorized keys.
Crew members showed up for practice
last Thursday morning and found the Office
of Campus Recreation had locked them out
of the boathouse and placed no trespassing
signs on the facility. Members were denied
access to the building for six days until
Tuesday.
Leah Hall Dorothy, assistant director for
sports clubs, said campus recreation changed
the locks to keep the access policy consistent
among sports clubs and campus recreation
facilities. The boathouse is owned by campus
recreation, she said.
v Bill Goa, associate director for facilities
management, said the building’s locks arc
changed regularly to prevent unauthorized
people with duplicate keys from entering.
Neither Goa nor Dorothy knew the last
time the locks were changed, but agreed it
had been several years.
Before Thursday’s lockout, three crew
members carried keys to the boathouse and
could access it at any time. Under the new
guidelines, those members can check out
only one key from the OCR and must return
it that day. No one can be in the boathouse
between 11:15 p.m. and 6:15 a.m., when
campus recreation is closed.
JefTTejral, a senior natural resources major
and crew member, said restricted access would
make it more difficult for members to use the
boathouse for individual workouts. That
would hurt the club in the long run, he said.
“It seems like a control issue.
They (campus recreation)
don t want to attempt to see
it our way, or even
compromise. ”
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JEFF TEJRAL
Crewmember
Crew President Brad Crawford, a senior
English major, said campus recreation had
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Police discover marijuana while investigating burglary
By Brian Sharp
Senior Reporter
A former University of Nebraska-Lincoln stu
dent was charged Thursday in a mariiuana-grow
ing operation that police said they discovered at
his home.
Beniamin Myers, who was a freshman in
general studies last spring, was charged with
unlawful manufacture and distribution of a con
trolled substance. He was arrested Wednesday.
Police reports give the following account of the
incident:
Police went to Myers’ residence, 4635 Madi
son A vc., after neighbors reported hearing shouts
and breaking glass. Myers and his roommate,
Christopher Rankin, met police at a neighbor’s
house around 6 a.m.
The two had been asleep when two men
wearing ski masks broke into the home and began
beating them with a pair of nunchaku and a
wrench. Rankin said one of the men tried to
strangle him.
Police later arrested Jeffery Heng near 47th
and Madison streets heading east. Heng, a fresh
man business administration major, was charged
Thursday with second and third-degree assault
and burglary.
Police went into Myers’ home to search for the
burglars. When police opened one of the closet
doors, they found several marijuana plants.
and fouixHb marijuana plants in the closet, four
large plants on a top shelf and 12 smaller 8-inch
filants in trays on the floor. Police also found grow
amps and drug paraphernalia in the closet and a
25.8-gram bag of marijuana in a dresser drawer.
Police Sgt. Ann Hcermann said the victims
didn’t report anything stolen. She said the cause
for the assault was unknown.
There also were no leads on a possible second
burglar, she said.
Myers and Rankin were taken to the hospital
for their injuries. Myers required staples for a cut
on his head He also had cuts and bruises on his
shoulder, arms and knuckles. Rankin received 50
staples for eight or nine cuts on his head.
