Investigators closer
to identifying victim
By Chad Lorenz
Senior Reporter
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—
County investigators are awaiting
forensic test results to identity the body
of a murder victim found north of Lin
! coin Sunday.
Sgt. Owen Yardley of the Lancaster
County Sheriffs office said forensic
tests to be completed this week will
prbvide clues such as determining how
long the woman had been dead.
Investigators are also trying to
match dental records and fingerprints
with the body, Yardley said.
Originally, police couldn’t identify
the severely decomposed body found
a half-mile west of 1-80 near North 40th
Street.
A dog trainer discovered the
clothed skeleton at 9:15 Sunday morn
ing while taking black Labradors out
for a training exercise.
The body is being investigated as a
homicide because of “suspicious cir
cumstances,” Yardley said. He would
not say exactly what led investigators
to believe the woman had been mur
dered.
Until the body is identified,
Lancaster County sheriff’s deputies
and Lincoln police are checking every
possible lead, Yardley said.
“We’re doing a lot of legwork right
now until the body is identified.”
Officers are questioning residents
and businesses near the crime scene,
Yardley said. Other officers are check
ing missing-person reports from sur
rounding police agencies.
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Graduate students
TO QET GIFT
NEXT YEAR
By Phillip Reese
The Technician
(N.C. State U.)
(U-WIRE) RALEIGH, N.C.—Many
graduate students will be putting some
extra cash back in their pockets after
paying next year’s tuition and fees.
N.C. State Teaching and Research
Assistants will not have to pay out-of
state tuition and/or will receive free
comprehensive health insurance next
year.
The benefits will be paid for by an
$800,000 chunk of an annual $8.6 mil
lion General Assembly appropriation
recently allocated to NCSU for “aca
demic enhancement.”
Graduate school Assistant Dean
Robert Sowell said the question of how
to divide the $800,000 between the two
benefit programs is still being consid
ered.
' Ransomed toilet
FOUND ON ROOF
By Dan McKay
The Daily Lobo
(U. of fyw Mexico)
(U-WIRE) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.
— UNM student Andres Martinez was
reunited with his toilet Sunday after
noon.
The commode had been missing for
about a week when security aides found
it on the roof of Hokona Hall, where
Martinez is a resident advisor.
“We got it back,” Martinez ex
claimed while using a skateboard to
wheel the toilet into his dorm room.
“I’m locking my door now. Home
sweet home. Welcome home, baby.”
Thieves stole Martinez’s toilet
while he showered more than a week
ago. He later received a ransom note
demanding a one-pound box of lard, a
jar of peanut butter, strawberry cream
cheese and one black sock.
The thieves signed the note “Jerry’s
Kids.” Martinez said he couldn’t afford
the demands so he took them a peace
offering. He got a letter and phone call
afterward saying he’d get his toilet
back Monday.
Martinez added that the stolen toi
let wasn’t safely stowed on the roof.
“It was very precariously situated
up there,” he noted. “A gust of wind
would have blown it off onto
someone’s head.”
Speech shows
DANGER OF MIXING
ALCOHOL, SEX
By Bridgette Blair
The Collegian
(Pennsylvania State U.)
(U-WIRE) STATE COLLEGE, Pa.—
Although laughter and jokes were
heard among members of the capacity
crowd last night in the HUB Ballroom,
T.J. Sullivan and Joel Goldman deliv
ered a very serious message about safe
sex and alcohol awareness. _
“The biggest lesson I learned, to
date, was not to mix sex and alcohol,”
Goldman said.
Goldman, who is HIV-positive,
contracted the disease through college
fraternity experiences at Indiana Uni
versity. During last night’s discussion,
sponsored by the Panhellenic and In
terffatemity councils, Goldman told the
audience that he put others at risk. “I
would drink, I would hook up, and I
would rationalize,” he said.
Sullivan said he thought the HIV
virus was something that affected other
people, in other places and not his
friend. ,
“But for the first time in my life one
of my best friends told me he was HIV
positive,” Sullivan said.
Sullivan presented statistics con
cerning AIDS, safe sex and alcohol. He
also showetLtwo films; one about the
AIDS quiltand another about alcohol
and safe sex.
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Memorial Stadium ‘unbearable’
By Erin Schulte
Senior Reporter
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When the Baylor Bears rush the
field to take on the Comhuskers at
UNL’s homecoming game Oct. 12,
they’ll be missing two of their hairi
est scariest team members—Billy
ana Ginny.
A tangle of snarling football
players is all the wildlife Memorial
Stadium can handle, so Baylor must
leave its two North American black
bear mascots—officially known as
Judge William “Billy” Boyd and
Judge Virginia S. “Ginny” Crump
—at home.
The two performing bears,
which are kept chained during
games, are banned from UNL’s sta
dium, as are all live animals. The
policy has been around at least since
the time Bob Devaney was athletic
director, associate director of ath
letics Don Bryant said.
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It’s not a matter of prejudice
against live mascots, he said. Me
morial Stadium simply doesn’t have
enough room on the turf to accom
modate live animals.
“We don’t let the Sooner Schoo
ner on or the Army mule, and Colo
rado can’t bring Ralphie (the buf
falo),” Bryant said. “If we had a lot
of space outside the end zones, no
body would care.”
Although Baylor can usually
bring at least one bear to games, the
Nebraska ban hasn’t left officials
too broken up.
Dub Oliver, director of student
activities at Baylor, said they’ll still
be bringing their costume mascot,
Bob the Bear.
The live bears are required to
travel by trailer anyway, and it
would be tough carting them all the
way to Nebraska in their cages.
So, the bears will stay at home
in Waco, Texas, where they have a
special place in a small zoo on the
Baylor campus, Oliver said. The
bears are kept in a display similar
to that of zoos, which is a pit that
tries to resemble a bear’s natural
habitat.
Because of the fans’ and the
bears’ safety, the only time the cubs
(full-grown bears are too big to
handle) are on chains, Oliver said,
is when they are at the games.
The bears, which are replaced
every two years, are always given
the first name “Judge,” after Judge
Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor,
who founded the university. They
are then given a second name of an
important campus official.
The bears are handled by the
same trainer for two years, and that
person is always picked from the
Baylor Chamber of Commerce.
“They’re very comfortable,”
Oliver said of Ginny and Billy —
even if staying home means they
have to grin and bear it.
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