thursday, September 1,-1977 '
daily nebraskan
Union task force will meet
The task force studying any changes in
the "Structure and services of the Neb
raska Union will meet soon to begin the
first step of-a long-range renovation plan.
The task torce is charged with deter
mining the time table for proposed changes
which could significantly alter the Union,
according to its director. However, no
actual changes will occur ' until 1980.
''The future needs of this facility simply
have to be assessed. The assessment is the
objective of the long range planning
committee (task force)," said Allen Ben
nett, Union director.
The task force, formed last spring by
the Union Advisory Board, this summer
drafted a three-phase commitment to long
range planning. The phases are:
-to administer . a survey to students,
faculty members and administrators during
the first semester of 1977-78 to determine
their needs and wishes
-to analyze the results by the first
semester of 1978-79 and suggest new ser
vice and changes in existing ones
-to plan for programming based on
phase two recommendations. Phase three is
to be completed by the end of second
semester of 1978-79 but can be extended if
needed.
"I think I've described roughly a three
year process when the time to make
changes is considered," Bennett said.
Junior Dave Roehr, president of the
Union Advisory Board said that to get .
"a very accurate survey, we're going to
get professional help." A Minneapolis firm
which has conducted similar surveys at
other universities is being hired. Bond re
serves of. $30,000 are available to finance
the survey. .
Bennett said that "the real dilemma is a
financial dilemma." All money for such
capital improvements comes from the same
bond reserve fund, supported, by a portion
of student fees. He said smaller improve
ments, such as renovating the Crib add up
to a sizeable figure. "Ten thousand dollars
here, $12,000 somewhere else, you can add
them up to a $100,000 bill a year. We're
trying to play a balance between drawing
out each year and what's going in."
The same fund financed the construc
. tion of the Nebraska East Union and this
year's student fees increase will help
replenish the fund, he said.
"We want as much student input as we
can get to meet the needs of the students,"
Roehr said. Currently f usage and revenue
from the Union is declining, he said .
Interested students are welcome to join
the task force, he said. It comprises four
Union Advisory Board members, two
faculty members and a central planning
committee member.
Mead lab studies waste use
The NU field lab in Mead is studying the
effectiveness .of using agricultural and
industrial waste in o food production,
according to Warren Sahs, assistant
director.
Paunch manure, the undigested food in
an animal's stomach; feedlot manure and
ash residue from food processing plants
now are being used on the Mead test farm
in place of inorganic fertilizers, herbicides
and pesticides, he said.
Composted organic material, which
replaces inorganic ferilizers contain the -necessary
nutrients for crop production,
he said. The goal of this research is to pro
duce the same amount of crops using less
synthetic materials, Sahs said.
Also, using more agricultural and indus
trial by-products instead of petroleum
products, such as chemical fertilizers on
the farm will conserve oil, he said.
"Although the project is in its third
year, it may not show definite results for
several years," he said, "because the past
three years have been dry and the land is
not irrigated."
"Irrigated land shows results much
sooner," he said. - .
Sahs expects that by next year the field
using organic fertilizer will produce a net
yield higher than that of the field using
inorganic fertilizer, he said.
Sahs also is experimenting with crop
rotation as a means of conserving fertilizer,
he said.
"Corn has a tendency to get rootworm
when it is planted in the same field year
after year," he explained.
When it is rotated with clover and oats
one season and soybeans the next season it
not only helps eliminate rootworm, but
also reduces the need for fertilizer because
the other crops put nutrients back into the
soil, he said.
In a related area of research, Sahs and
Leon Chesnin, UNL assoicate agronomy
professor are planning to investigate the
possibility of using sewage sludge for
fertilizer.
"We are composting it now, but we
haven't started to use it yet," Sahs said.
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