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A little money goes a long way toward excellence.
This was the consensus of faculty members who gave
progress reports Thursday nyt on three of the six areas
of excellence. The areas were given this designation along
with extra money for program improvement in 1974.
With close to $1 million in excellence money over the
past three years the departments have increased staff and
faculty members, bought equipment, added to curricu
lums end improved existing programs.
These additions in the Animal Science Dept. have laid '
the groundwork for excellence in the future, Department
Chairman Irvin Omtvedt told the audience of approxi
mately 50. State legislators, UNL and NU administrators,
students, visiting faculty members, and NU regents
attended the 7 pan. dinner meeting at the Nebraska Cen
ter for Continuing Education.
The Animal Science Dept. concentrated its appropria
tion in its swine program.
Ecneflis to the program include an electronic device
for measuring the thickness of the back fat on hogs,
Omtvedt said. Other equipment, post-doctoral fellow
ships, visiting professorships and additional operations
were supported with the department's $140,000 in
excellence money since 1974, Omtvedt said.
Some of the changes in research and in the classroom
can better be evaluated five years down the road rather
than today, said Robert Bray, director of the College of
Agriculture and life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The state will feel the "rippling effect" of the money
spent on swine teaching, research and extension, Bray
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friday, february 4, 1977 vol. 100 no. 70 lincoln, nebraska
Two owl statues
have flown .'coop
Two copper owls, sitting on the roof. One disappeared,
and then there was one.
Two three-foot copper owls have perched on the roof
of Architecture Hall since its construction in the 1800s,
until Architecture Hall administrators noticed one was
missing two weeks ago, according to John Benson,
associate dean of the College of Architecture. .
But no one knows when, how or why one owl is
missing, or how much it is worth.
The second owl was removed by the university Thurs
day afternoon so no one would steal it, said Jerry Delhay,
UNL maintenance manager.
The only people who know the history of the owls
have died or moved away, Delhay said. However, he said,
a physical plant employe told Delhay the owl was missing
when he came to UNL 10 years ago.
Linus Smi'Jiretired architecture professor, said. "old.
people who come back to visit the campus admire that
building (architecture hall) more than the new" buildings.
Smith said Architecture Hall is one of the oldest
buildings on campus.
It is constructed of "material then called St. Louis
pressed brick," Smith said, with copper covering for
protection. -
The copper owls were .deaned -and painted. once, he
said, which was a great sin." Smith said when copper
oxidizes and turns green, the owls are more attractive.
"We're going to make a fiberglass mold and make two
more owls," he said. The original owl will be preserved
in the university archives or a historical display in Archi
tecture Hall, Delhay said.
The original owl is not solid copper, he said, noting
it has bullet holes through it
said, became the state's swine industry is dependent on
the knowledge obtained in UNL's research laboratories.
Bray is chairman of the committee which has eva
luated the department's progress in ac!u:rlrg it's goals
toward excellence. Visitation teams, named for each area,
included regents, administrators, outside faculty members,
students and state legators.
Nebraska is the sixth largest hog-producing state in the
nation. ' '
G. G. Meisels, chairman of the Department of Chemis
try, explained how the state would benefit from money
spent in this area.
The department has brought over one-half million
dollars in research grants to the state. In 1973, before the
excellence money was allocated, the department received
$300,000 in research money from outside the state. Now,
outside research money has reached almost $1 million.
Most of this money stays in Nebraska, Meisels said.
"We more than pay for the excellence program our
selves," he said.
Unprecedented enrollment increases forced the School
of Journalism to revise its plans for the excellence mosey
said Neale Cop pie, CLactor of the school. He added that
despite a 44 per cent enrollment increase, the school
continues to place all of its job-seeking graduates, Copple
said.
Updates on the School of life Sciences, Non-Traditional
Education and Crop Physiology areas will be pre
sented Feb. 24.
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Conservation ideas
ScversI simple practices can be followed by students to
help conserve energy, said Frank Grant, coordinator of
'customer information for. tin Lincoln Dectric System.
Consolidating cleaning chores, such as dofcg laundry
only with a full lead and avoiding unnecessary dish
waslier" runs, would ssve electricity. Grant saM.
Insulting windows with sheets ofdssr plastic, epering
curtains cn sunny days to let solar heat warm the room,
keeping iila-s sr.d hest registers unobstructed and
' cot ctir the thermostat like a radio or TV dial," also
wi3 curtai cltricsl us?ge, Grant said. - '
lie siicd that switching limits effsnd m citry frT cr
ten nrjei does not consrn? electricUy, but he urr .d
st-ienU to turn cfT innscessary lights.
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fsld. He szU LES has been woxkirg cn ccrem'uon
ctho-ds since the 1973 c3 price hikes.
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A 60lay state energy emergency may lower most Neb
raska thermostats to 65 degrees, but will not change the
climate at UNL.
la a special address to the Nebraska Legislature Wed
nesday Gov. J. James Exon asked Nsbraskans to comply
with the standards of his six-point energy emergency plan.
Thermostats should be set at 65 degrees during the day,
zzi to 55 at night, Esoa nL
Exon also asked that businesses, the government and
SwuOOiS turn tucxr tucrmsstats to 45 cr less on weekends.
In a memorandum from interim NU President Ronald
Roskens to UNL ChanceSor Roy Young, Roskens voiced
an "enthusiastic rapport of the governors emergency phm.
"Energy conservation has been in effect throughout
the NU campuses for several years," Roskens said in the
memorandum. la view cf V even more critical energy
dilemma facing the nation, Roskens ssid he "expects the
principsl points of the governor's proposal to be applied
throu.lKJut the university."
Roskens said room temperature kreli in UNL build
ings should be if viewed 0 comply with the recommended
65 to 63 degree daytime readings. Night and weekend
thermostat levels tt&vM be inalstaiacd at 55 degress, he
meraasea, U& dnccllor cf busiaca and Cnance said,
lie explr.bsd Ul.X has tssa v.-crlirs cn energy censsm
tlon methods en-e 1973, when cl prices hfsn to sJcy
rocktt. 7.e turned &&mx the whole system as far as we
could Tcmmeraaxa ciii. The cdy rs; !y Ui:L can have
to Excn's requ-sst for emergency energy action is weN
alres.'y d?r.e it,"herll.
Tommeraasen explained it would be impossible to
lower weekend temperatures in many campus buildings to
the recommended 45 degree level.
UNL buildings are heated by steam, and the only way
to lower weekend temperatures in many of the more than
100 campus buildings would be to individually adjust each
thermostat, Tommeraasen said.
Roskens said thermostats will be lowered to 55 at
rrght and cn weekends wherever possible. "It's probably
being done in some cases," he said, citing his own office
lincoln businesses are not taking any more energy
precautions than are in use now, Duane Vicary, execu
tive vice-president cf the Lincoln Chamber cf Commerce
said. Vicary added the chamber "will cooperate with the
governor's request."
An eawgy resolution, introduced to the legislature
Monday by Omaha Sea. Patrick Vendltte, urged retail
businesses to close ca Sundsys. lis resolution failed
to win approvaL
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