Man arrested for assault
Police arrested a man this
week involved with burning two
teen-age girls with a wire coat
hanger as part of a gang initiation
ceremony.
The mother of one of the 16
year-old girls noticed the bums on
her daughter’s shoulder and
reported them to the police March
6, Lincoln Police Sgt. Ann
Heermann said.
The victim said her back was
burned with a wire coat hanger as
part of a gang initiation ceremony
Feb. 21.
Another 16-year-old girl who
was branded at a similar ceremony
the next day reported the incident
herself. A pitchfork, covering her
entire shoulder, was burned into
her back.
Police arrested Robert
Mahoney, 21, this week for first
degree assault in connection with
the incidents.
Both incidents allegedly took
place in Mahoney’s home in the
2700 block of California Court.
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Citation issued for assault
Police cited a man for assault
Tuesday after he allegedly pulled a
knife on a woman in traffic Tuesday.
An 18-year-old woman
noticed a gray car following her
closely at the intersection of 48th
Street and Cornhusker Highway,
Heermann said.
When she turned onto
Havelock Avenue the car contin
ued to follow her all the way to
70th Street, then to Adams Street
where the two cars were stopped
by a traffic light.
A man got out of the gray car
wielding a knife and began
approaching her car.
To escape him the woman
turned into Gas ‘N Shop on the
comer of 70th and Adams streets.
The man got into his car and
drove away, but not before the
woman took down his license
plate number.
Police cited Adam Cardoza,
22, for assault. Police did not
know what provoked the incident.
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Besides his intensive research,
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Pardy often roams his classroom
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Good teaching requires him to do
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Pardy first became interested in
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The goal is to take 50 minutes and have
people s lives change. That is the real
challenge.”
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UNL professor of biological sciences
research at the University of
California at Los Angeles.
Since then, Pardy has taught at
the University of California, Irvine
and currently teaches at UNL, where
he was selected to the Teaching
Acadepry in 1996.
“There are some very, very fine
instructors in the academy,” Pardy
said. “I’m quite honored and hum
bled to be in it.”
In addition to teaching, Pardy
said he has published more than 40
research papers - “a continual source
of intellectual stimulation,” he said.
Outside of teaching, he busies
himself with various hobbies includ
ing his favorite, cycle touring.
He and his wife, Ann Pardy, have
toured many states including
Missouri, Vermont, Wisconsin,
Michigan and North Carolina by
bicycle. They have toured Germany,
Italy and Nova Scotia by bicycle.
Besides cycling, Pardy said he
also enjoyed racquetball, playing the
flute and fishing with his son. He has
traveled as far as Prince of Wales
Island in Alaska for a fishing expedi
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Though he enjoys traveling with
his family, Pardy said one of his most
memorable trips was to the South
Pacific, where he led a geographical
expedition to study coral reefs in the
Western Carolina Islands.
“It’s a scientific experience that’s
hard to match,” he said.
Lawrence Harshman, Associate
Professor of Biological Sciences,
said Pardy’s teaching reflected his
active lifestyle.
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said.
Pardy does an exceptional job
teaching his students how to under
stand concepts, Harshman said.
Pardy said his goal as a professor
was to break the one-way flow of
information that usually occurs
between a lecturer and students in a
classroom.
“The more ways of interacting,
the better chance of internalizing,”
he said. “When you’re teaching each
other, there’s more chances to get it
in your head.”
Pardy said he enjoyed teaching,
because working with students con
stantly rejuvenated him.
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