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thursday, January 17, 1977
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UNL'i wheat ressarch program was
exarninsi kst w:tk by Nobel Prize winner
Ncrmsa Eorhu?. .
Th8 1970 Nobel Peace Prize winner for
baunittxksisn was part of a sevcn-rcian
tzzn at UNL which examined and
dlstusd wheat research to 'increase yields
c&l protein content.
Virpl Johnson, an asricisltural research
tckntict with the UJ. Department of
Personnel chosen
for Housing Office
Two administrative positions in the
UNL Office of Housing have been filled,
according to Housing Director Richard
Armstrong.
Richard McKinnon has been appointed
assistant director in charge of special
residential education, Armstrong said.
McKinndn was assistant director of housing
at Colorado University and was i residence
hall director at UNL in 1967.
Glen Schumann has been appointed
assistant director of housing administra
tion, Armstrong said. Schumann was
coordinator of residence hall administra
tion at UNL
Schumann has worked as a student
assistant, a graduate assistant and a resi
dence director at UNL
Agriculture, said the research is Inter
national. "Ve have a winter wheat evaluation net
work that involves 63 sites in 39 count
ries," Johnson said. Ths justification for
this is improvement ot" wheat in countries
where people rely on it as the principle
food." ,
Borlaug was awarded the Nobel prize in
1970 for his work in the 1940s and 1950s
m developing special strains of high-yield
dwarf wheat in Mexico. Because of his re
search, Mexico became self-supporting in
wheat production levels and many im
poverished nations were able to 'increase
their wheat production.
His work in Mexico brought Borlaug re
cognition as a part of the "Green Revolu
tion." Johnson defined this as a Research
package" which included increasing crop
yields, eradicating diseases and controlling
insects and weeds. Last Monday, Borlaug
was one of 22 Americans presented the
Medal of Freedom by President Gerald
Ford for what Ford called "outstanding
accomplishments." The medal is the
nation's highest civilian award.
In addition to reviewing UNL's wheat
research, Borlaug spoke to a group of stu
dents and faculty members. He called for'
the use of all technology to increase land
yields and meet the food demands of the
future. "
In the past, Borlaug said, food product
ion was increased by opening more lands to
cultivation. But now uzs of arable land has
"gone to the ILrits" vJ othtr r.ttheds ef
increasing food production must be four; J,
"Ve have to look forward in most cases
to solving the problem of food production
in the next two decades by increasing the
yields of land already under cultivation,"
he said.
New Union. . .
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The top floor of the new Union will
contain office space for university health.
. services, student legal services, and possibly
the ombudsman and financial aids offices,
Swanson said.
An ad hoc planning committee, under
the auspices of the Union advisory board,
has been meeting for four years to study
financing and space allotment, he said.
Among requests suggested by some
students and faculty that were not
accepted was a swimming pool, he said.
If anything is missing, the community
will tell us," Swanson added.
East Union Program Council (EUPC)
President Craig Hertel, a junior from Clay
Center, said EUPC will be coordinating
' programs, speakers, concerts and sharing .
budgets with the city campus union.
Introduction to East Union programs
and tours of the building will be given
during the grand opening, Feb. 20 to 27,
Borlaug also expressed doubt 'about the
ocean's ability to provide a sizable percent
re of the world's food. He tsii the oceans
cover three-fourths cf t!,e earth's surface
and provide only 2 per cent of food for
humans.
Ecrlaug, a Cresco, Iowa, native, is the
director of wheat improvement with the
International Center for Maize and Wheat
Improvement in Mexico.
said Warren Petersen, junior from Bertrand
and second vice president of -EUPC in
charge, of the event.
Swansea said the East Campus
. community may be "quite shocked" when
they view the rags-to-riches move from the
old Student Activities Center.
Ray Coffey, UNL assistant business
manager and head of the central planning
committee, . said the lower level of the
Student Activities Center used for a Union
since the early 1950s, will be used for
temporary ' storage and office space until
the Plant Science Bldg. is completed and
the Agricultural Engineering Bldg. is
remodeled.
He said the upper level of the Engineer
ing Bldg. will be used for recreational
activities, as will the lower level - once
construction on the two buildings is
completed.
Reduced Rates on 2nd Semester Scries Tickets
UNL Students . . . . . $5.00
UNL Faculty-Staff . . . ; .6.G0
tickets available at the Union South Desk
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Films this semester:
love Affair, Or the Case of the
Missing Switchboard Operator"
"Snow Country" "Black Holiday" "Medea"
"Playtime" "Koala" "Wedding ?n Bleed"
"The Citter Tears cf Pctra Von Kant"
Your ticket abo entitles ycu to a discount
price on the Foreign Classics Films.
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