January 24,1995
uesday
Sports
Huskers lose at Kansas,
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Arts & Entertainment
Daily Nebraskan rates
Lincoln pizzerias, page 9
UNL costs
low among
peer group
By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter
When it comes to the amount of money
needed to go to the University of Nebraska
Lincoln, students are paying less than a peer
group of universities and less than half of Big
Eight Schools.
But UNL may fall in the rankings with
building projects on the horizon that may in
crease costs.
Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs James
Griesen said in a study done by his office, UNL
ranked as the second cheapest of 11 peer uni
versities in the total cost of attending.
Universities included in the peer group study
were the Universities of Illinois, Iowa, Mis
souri, Minnesota, Colorado, Iowa State, Kan
sas, Ohio State, Purdue, and Colorado State.
For comparison purposes, the study used
what a student would pay for 30 resident under
graduate credit hours in the College of Arts and
Sciences.
Comparisons to peer universities showed
that UNL had the cheapest mandatory student
fees at $201, which did not include health
center fees because of a wide range of quality of
services. A
UNL also had the cheapest room and board
costs at $3,145. The nearest university to UNL
was Iowa State at $3,224, a $79 difference.
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It’s all right to cry
Scott Bruhn/DN
Four-year-old Kelli Kohout’s first Ice skating outing is put on hold as her mother, Liz Kohout, searches for
a cocklebur that was stuck in Kelli’s glove Monday afternoon at Oak Lake.
Prosecution hit with 'trial by ambush’
By Linda Deutsch
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Murder de
fendant O.J. Simpson asked Monday
to speak with members of his jury,
while more legal motions prevented
opening arguments in his murder trial.
Simpson’s request was one sur
prising twist to a day dominated by
attorneys scrapping over last-minute
evidence the defense presented dur
ing the first day of Simpson’s famous
murder trial.
Defense attorneys surprised the
prosecution with a list of 34 new
witnesses and a videotape of police
walking through blood at the murder
scene.
Simpson’s attorneys also offered
evidence of an alibi for the first time
— a witness who says she saw
Simpson’s distinctive white Ford
Bronco outside his home at a time
when the prosecution alleges he was
two miles away killing his ex-wife
and her friend.
Defense attorneys also suggested
in court papers that police may have
moved the Bronco as well as the bloody
glove that matched one found near
the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson
and Ronald Goldman last June.
Deputy District Attorney Marcia
Clark called the new evidence “trial
by ambush” and said she was “abso
lutely shocked” by the last-minute
disclosure.
“This is a willful desire to deprive
the people of a fair trial,” she said.
Her colleague, William Hodgman,
asked for a one-week continuance to
stuffy the new evidence and witness
lis& which includes actress Tawny
■
Kitaen, local TV reporter Trade Sav
age, Los Angeles Police Chief Willie
Williams and author Lawrence
Schiller, who is writing Simpson’s
book.
“The truth, or part of the truth, has
been hidden from us by the defense,”
Hodgman said.
Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran
Jr. responded with equal anger.
“I am absolutely appalled that the
prosecution comes here and says they
are unprepared,” Cochran said. “They
see a few charts from us and become
frightened and want to run away and
hide for a week.”
Superior Court Judge Lance Ito
seemed tense during the exchange,
interrupting attorneys at times to say,
“You’re wasting my time” and “Do
you expect me to believe that?”
The defense’s new disclosures
showed how they plan to challenge
the prosecution’s physical evidence.
A videotape obtained by the defense
shows police officers walking through
blood while the bodies lie nearby un
der sheets.
Defense lawyers say the blood was
so contaminated by the foot traffic
that subsequent DN A tests on it would
be meaningless. Prosecutors said they
had not seen the videotape before and
demanded time to find out when it
was shot. The blood evidence, they
suggested, might have already been
collected by then.WhiLe reviewing
the videotape in court, Ito ordered
one segment of the feed blacked out
for television broadcast. When that
portion was shown on courtroom
monitors, Simpson had a pained look
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Simpson
trial update
► The defense said Detective
Mark Fuhrman failed to reveal
an interview with a woman who
said she saw Simpson's Bronco
parked near his driveway
between 10:15 p.m. and 10:20
p.m. Separately, Judge Lance
Ito said the defense can’t
mention Fuhrman but may
cross-examine him.
► Simpson asked to be allowed to
talk to jurors for about one
minute and show them
“physical scars, injuries and
limitations.” Ito has not ruled.
^ Opening statements will begin
Tuesday.
HuskerNet upgrade may increase UNL housing rates
Higher-cost housing
A $6.5 million plan to rewire the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
campus to improve HuskerNet could increase rates for residence
hall students by almost 10 percent next year.
■ Rates already were going to
increase by $145 to account for
inflation.
■ Student phone bills will
increase by $3 a month to pay for
rewiring.
■ The increase to
pay for the new
system would be
$129 per resident per
year if every hall
resident paid, $179
per resident per year
if only new residents
paid.
By John Fuiwioer
Staff Reporter
UNL residence hall students may
see their housing rates for next year
increase more than 10 percent if a
plan to improve access to HuskerNet
is approved, a UNL administrator
said.
In addition to a $145 increase to
pay for inflation and air conditioning
in Neihardt, residence hall students
could pay up to $179 to upgrade
HuskerNet, said James Griesen, vice
chancellor for student affairs.
The latter increase would be part
of a $6.5 million plan to wire every
residence hall room and faculty office
to allow high-speed computer con
nections. The plan, introduced by
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Chancellor Graham Spanier, is simi
lar to a system already in place in
Abel Hall.
To implement the new system, the
university would need to oe rewired
so each computing terminal would
have direct access to the Internet.
Further increases, $ 12.68 a month for
office phone bills and $3 a month for
residence hall phone bills, already
were approved for that, Griesen said.
The new computer system would
include a center in each building,
which would make up most of the
rewiring costs, said Robert Simerly,
associate to the chancellor for infor
mation technology. Those centers
would send information entering a
building to its destination within the
building.
Simerly said that for the system to
be operable it also would need main
tenance and better hardware and soft
ware.
The increase to pay for the system
would be either $129 or $179 per
resident per year, Griesen said.
The cost will be $17^ if the rate
increase is applied only to new hall
residents, unesen said, and M29 it
every hall resident pays.
Griesen said the housing depart
ment had a policy to freeze residence
hall rates for returning residents, but
university housing could increase
rates if it provided a substantial new
service.
Griesen said he agreed with the
plan’s goal, but not its proposed imple
mentation.
“There’s no question as to the
worthiness of the goals of the entire
project,” he said. “My only hesitancy
is I don’t like saddling the students
with an additional $129 or $179 cost
per year.”
Andrea Casart, the Residence Hall
Association president, said RHA
didn’t like the way the plan would be
paid for. RHA opposed the plan at its
Sunday meeting.
Casart said the increase wouldhave
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