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Super Snyder
Brian Snyder finished fourth at the NCAA
wrestling championships last weekend. The
Nebraska team finished 15th overall. PAGE 9
A & E
Gwyneth in love
The 71st Academy Awards honored Gwyneth
Paltrow for her performance in the Best Picture
winning film “Shakespeare in Love.” PAGE 12
MON »AY
March 22, 1999
Aim to Breeze
Cloudy and breezy, high 50. Cloudy tonight, low 33.
VOL. 98 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 121
Wreck kills UNL student, injures 5
ByIevaAugstums
Senior staff writer
A weeklong spring break ski vacation turned
tragic when one UNL student was killed, a sec
ond paralyzed, and five others injured in a car
wreck March 12.
Junior Jason Rose, 22, was killed after the
Chevrolet Suburban he was driving slid on the ice
on 1-80 near Gothenburg, rolled twice and slid
into a ditch.
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Brian Linnell, a junior music major, was
ejected from the vehicle, sustaining spinal cord
injuries and a bruised lung.
Sunday, nine days before his 21st birthday,
Linnell was in critical condition in the intensive
care unit at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney.
Two other University of Nebraska-Lincoln
students, who were passengers in Rose’s vehicle,
were treated in Kearney. One student suffered
shoulder injuries and another needed reconstruc
tive ear surgery. Later they were both released.
The other three students, who suffered minor
injuries, were all treated at Cozad and
Gothenburg hospitals and released that day.
The group of students were on their way to
Jackson Hole, Wyo., when the accident occurred.
Rose was thrown from the Suburban and was
struck and killed by a westbound vehicle driven
by 19-year-old Cozad native Zachery Lebrayere.
The Nebraska State Patrol reported
Lebrayere was weanng his seat belt, while Rose
and other passengers in his vehicle were not.
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The real emotions have not
struck -1 haven’t seen my
brother for over a week.”
Steve Linnell
victim’s brother
Heather Glenroski/DN
PHIL KESSLER, A STUDENT at Southeast Community College, and UNL alumna
Andrea Rigby perform the Invocation of Lord and Lady on Sunday afternoon at
Mahoney Park in Lincoln. The invocation is part of the celebration of Oestara,
the Wiccan spring equinox.
EWITCHED
Wiccans must face misconceptions
By Jessica Fargen
Senior staff writer
Standing in a circle in a Lincoln park at sunset
Sunday, Phil Kessler wore a dark purple robe, closed
his eyes and chanted spells in a Wiccan celebration of
Oestara.
At the center of the circle was a makeshift altar of a
cake on a silver platter and a bottle of juice surrounded
by five glasses.
As millions of Christians prepare to celebrate
Easter and the end of 40 days of Lent, four Lincoln
Wiccans clad in robes and ritual garb joined Kessler at
Mahoney Park to celebrate the Wiccan equivalent of
Easter.
During the hourlong ceremony Sunday, the group
sat as a small core and meditated while they ate the
cake and ale. Then they chanted and swayed their arms
and at one point skipped in a circle and sang.
Afterwards, energy abounded.
“I’m ready to take on new endeavors,” 24-year-old
Wiccan Andrea Rigby said. “It gives me a connection
to a higher power.”
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Lincoln man
found dead
■ Police are expected
today to release further
details about the victim,
who was reported found
with two knives in his back.
By Josh Funk
Senior staff writer
A Lincoln man was found dead in
his apartment Sunday morning with
two knives in his back, neighbors
said.
Police would not release any
details about the death because the
man's family had not been notified,
and the crime scene was still being
processed early this morning.
The man is believed to have died
between 10 p.m. Saturday and 10:30
a m. Sunday.
Dan Freimund said a woman and
man knocked on his 1635 F St. apart
ment door at 10:30 a.m. and woke
hint to call police.
The woman and man knew the
dead man and discovered the body
when they went to his apartment.
While the woman and man were
in Freimund's apartment, he said, the
woman, when asked if she was sure
the man was dead, said, ‘Well he’s got
two knives in his back.’”
Police arrived shortly after the
call, and after finding the body, cor
doned off the area while they
obtained a search warrant.
Crime-scene technicians spent
more than eight hours cataloging evi
dence in the third-floor apartment.
Sunday, police also interviewed
people who knew the deceased to
determine the cause of death.
Freimund, a physics graduate stu
dent, said the dead man was in his late
30s.
Another neighbor, who was walk
ing past the building between 10 p.m.
and midnight Saturday, said he heard
a vocal argument in the dead man's
apartment.
“1 heard a woman's voice, and it
sounded scared and frantic,” said
Michael Barrett, who could not
remember the exact time he walked
by.
“What bothers me now is 1 should
have called police," Barrett said. “If 1
had called, things would be different
now.”
More information about the death
is expected to be released today.
Regents vote down
proposed alcohol ban
By Josh Funk
Senior staff writer
KEARNEY - The NU Board of
Regents refused to adopt a policy ban
ning alcohol at university sporting
events in favor of existing policy.
After lengthy discussion, the
regents voted down the policy because
state law and individual campus poli
cies already address the issue, they said.
At their monthly meeting, the
regents also approved the construction
of a residence hall on the University of
Nebraska at Omaha’s campus and the
hiring of two new faculty members.
Regent Charles Wilson of Lincoln
said he proposed the alcohol policy to
send a clear message.
“It is a grave concern to me that the
message we send is unclear,” Wilson
said.
Part of the impetus for the policy
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