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Motion to be appealed by accused man From Staff Reports Clifford Davlin, accused of a 1993 murder, is appealing a decision . a judge has said was not appealable. r Davlin appeared in court Wednesday morning to appeal Lancaster County District Court Judge Paul Merritt’s Oct. 15 ruling on a motion contesting charges he has not entered a plea for. Davlin is accused of strangling Tamara Ligenza in her apartment at 1640 Washington St., and then set ting fire to the residence on Sept. 7, 1993. He was chaiged with first-degree murder Feb. 19 in Lancaster County Court) after police began a review of the evidence in the case in August 1996. Davlin was bound over to district court for arraignment March 18, but has delayed entering a plea. Davlin’s lawyer, Robert Hayes, filed a plea in abatement motion, which was rejected, and he appealed that decision and was rejected on Oct. 15. The motion contests the charges filed against the defendant without contesting the facts in the case. On Wednesday, Hayes filed an .appeal of the decision to the state supreme court. Accused killer, 19, chooses to advance trial From. Staff Reports A 19-year-old man accused of killing his foster-home mate in 1995 opted to forego his preliminary hear ing Wednesday and proceed to arraignment. Timothy Hopkins appeared in Lancaster County Court Wednesday to waive his right to a preliminary hearing. In a preliminary hearing, the state must prove there is enough evi dence to warrant a trial. Hopkins was charged Sept. 11 with first-degree murder in the death of Michael Schmaderer. Schmaderer was found beaten, stabbed and buried in a shallow grave near Antelope Creek on 48"* Street on Dec. 23,1995. Lancaster County Court Judge Mary L. Doyle asked Hopkins if he understood he had a right to the hear ing. Dressed in a blue shirt, blue jeans and wrist and ankle cuffs, Hopkins said “yeah.” Doyle then bound the case over to district court and set a Nov. 5 arraign ment. Public Defender Dennis Keefe said after the hearing that Hopkins chose to forgo the hearing in exchange for the “thousands” of pages of police reports generated in the case. Keefe said the agreement was fairly common in Lancaster County, but the defense was not nec essarily entitled to the reports. “It’s much easier for us to see those reports than for us to listen to the hours and hours of testimony,” he said. American Heart Associations^^ Fighting Heart Disease and Stroke AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION MEMORIALS & TRIBUTES 1-800-AHA-US A1 Students contribute to cafeteria waste ■ The food service director says unused food from the serving line is not the main problem. By Josh Funk Assignment Reporter Growing up in a family of six children, sophomore Jamie Grayson learned to clean her plate and not waste food. And when she started working in the cafeteria at the Harper Schramm-Smith Complex, Grayson said she was appalled by the amount of food thrown away each day. “The food we throw away after every meal could feed 100 people,” Grayson said. The majority of the waste in resi dence hall cafeterias comes from the plates of students, said Dale Ekart, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Recycling Services director. Ekart did a study of food-service waste for recycling purposes last spring. “We need to teach students to eat what they take, and then come back for seconds,” Ekart said. Food from serving lines is thrown away for health reasons, and what can be donated is given to a food bank, said Pam Edwards, coor dinator of food service operations. “Waste is not a problem at all in serving lines,” said Janet Prochaska, HSS food service director. Every day each residence hall cafeteria throws away 50 to 100 pounds of food it cannot use because of health regulations, Prochaska said. The state Department of Health requires food to be kept at a certain temperature during preparation and on the serving line. “When we can’t be sure of the cleanliness of the food we have to throw it out,” she said. Also, food is never kept more than 48 hours, she said. “We’re real conscious of wasting food,” Prochaska said. “We don’t just make food so we can throw it away.” Each residence hall cafeteria maintains careful records to manage overproduction and to predict turnout, Edwards said. Another difficulty for the cafete rias is trying to predict what students will eat on any given day, Ekart said. “It is a nightmare for food plan ners to predict what will be popular,” Ekart said. The university donates a large amount of food to the Lincoln Food Bank. Since January, the university has donated 12,518 pounds of food to the food bank. But the food bank has strict requirements for dona tions, Prochaska said. “We can’t send anything from the serving line, in an open container or that may be contaminated,” she said. The food bank picks up dona tions of 50 to 100 pounds three times a week from UNL cafeterias, food bank accountant Rodney Griess said. In the future, unsafe food may be used in a compost program that is still being developed by the universi ty, Ekart said. “The compost program is a few years down the road,” Ekart said, “but now we can use this information to develop a program.” 1 m Pvl I 9 I HUH b^m Hfl IE HP Jj 1 BHH . . ^ .... Wk^m j |0Hfi| j P^!LjI H| JH ■ I o ne Pacific Place, Omaha - * 10am to Midnight! * The store will be closed from 5-6 pm to restock merchandise.
