Oars women to join men
in Massachusetts regatta
Women's liberation has made its presence felt in the world of
sports again with the formation of a women's crew team which
will compete during the 1973 season.
According to Head Coach Peter Zandbergen, a women's and a
men's team will compete in the Head of the Charles Regatta, to
be held in Boston, Mass. on Oct. 21.
"It is the largest and most prestigious crew race in the world,"
Zandbergen said.
Last year in the regatta the men's team defeated such
established crew schools as Dartmouth, Yale, Columbia and Holy
Cross while competing in the intermediate class.
Crew workouts have been held daily since Sept. 6 at Branched
Oak Lake.
Interested students should contact Zandbergen at 489-0802.
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Chemical testing process
may curb herbicide use.
By Charles Wieser
While studying ways of increasing the
protein in wheat, a significant discovery was
made by Lowell Klepper, UNL assistant
agronomy professor, which will affect weed
control. The discovery, he said, was a process
that explains why certain plants die when
herbicides are used on them.
Klepper said the process revealed that
herbicides cause an accumulation of nitrite in
the plant tissue which is responsible for killing
plants.
He explained that nitrite is normal in the
nitiogen metabolism growth of plants, but that
herbicides block nitrites' conversion to protein.
When that occurs, the plant dies. ,
D.G. Hanway, chaiiman of the agronomy
depar tment, said that the process will "greatly
increase" the efficiency for screening new
chemicals used for effectiveness as herbicides.
"Analysis of chemicals to judge their value
for being used as herbicides used to be a long
and tedious process. This new process will
enable us to determine more rapidly the single
chemicals capable of being used as herbicides,"
Hanway said.
Klepper says it used to take anywhere from
"one to several" weeks to test chemicals, but
now it only takes "around 30 minutes" with his
technique.
Being more specific in determining useful
chemicals, he says, will result in the use of less
herbicides. "This is an added advantage when
looking from an environmental point of view,"
Kleppor said.
Hanway said there has been "widespread
interest" among herbicide companies to start
workinc) with the process.
Klepper said he obtained a patent to keep
companies from using the process exclusively.
"We discovered the process last October, but
kept it a secret within the wheat research group
in order to protect it. Then we obtained a
public-use patent to make sure that the process
could be used by all persons," he said.
He said some harmful herbicides now being
used are 2,4-D, Atrazine and Sencor.
"I hope this process will help develop
herbicides that will better control weeds which
in return would lead to a higher quality of
food," he said.
Hanway said barley, wheat, corn, vegetables
and citrus fields along with other food crops
would all benefit by improved weed control.
"In many developing countries throughout
the world weeds are one of the principle
limiting factors in the production of crops. If
we can develop more effective and cheaper
herbicides, this could contribute directly to
increased food production," he said.
Klepper could not say whether farmers
would benefit from lower herbicide costs as a
result of his research.
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come visit us at the Activities Mart, September 12 and 13 in the Student Union.
Have fun as a Cadence Countess as you meet nrw friend and see new places.
Interviews- Thursday, sept. 13, 1973
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