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daily nebraskan
Wednesday, September 21, 1977
New East Campus main entrance nears completion
By Diane Carroll
Construction of a new main entrance to East Campus
from Holdrege St. will begin this faH and should be com
pleted by spring, UNL Business Manager Ray Coffey said
Friday.
- But the soonest the accompanying traffic light will be
installed is "probably next fall according to Tom But
cher, Lincoln transportation director.
UNL will pay for renovations on East Campus
property, and the city will pay for the traffic light and
street changes, Coffey said.
The new entrance will be 15,0 ft. west of the main
entrance at 38th and Holdrege streets, Coffey said. When
the new one is completed, the 38th St. entrance, will be
closed, he said. ' . V
UNL did not whimsically choose to move the entrance
to a spot between 37th and 38th streets, he said.
Before the city would agree to install the traffic light,
the Traffic Engineering Division insisted the entrance not
' be located at a four-way intersection, he said. ,
j- Larry Brage, city traffic engineer, said the city does not
w?nt tcsee 38th St. or other numbered streets between
33rd and 48th become arterials for traffic
. . "The city did not want to draw traffic from East Cam
pus down "to the neighborhood to the south; he said.
Persons on East Campus and residents in the neighbor
hood have been clamoring for the traffic light for more
than three years. . '
Ted Hartung, Dean of the College of Agriculture and
chairman of the college's facilities committee, said the
committee has been recommending to UNL's Central
Planning Committee that a traffic light be installed for
about five years.
i am amazed that there haven't been more fender
benders and personal injuries on Holdrege St. than there
have been "he said. .
Vera Mae Lutz, chairman of the East Campus Neigh
borhood Community Organization, said she is disappoin
ted that the light will not be installed until next fall:
Lutz said the organization has been fighting for the ,
light for three years, but "we have been getting .thejun-
around. . v :
She said that during 1974-75 and 1975-76, the city
budgeted funds for the light, but the university said
it could not afford its portion of the project.
To overcome UNL's budgetary problem the neighbor
hood organization went directly to the State Legislature
last year. They requested and received $25;000 for UNL
tn mnstruct the main entrance, Lutz said.
Now UNL has the money, but the city did not inlcude
funds for the light in this year's budget.
Butcher said there was no indication that the university
would be able to afford the street project when the city's
budget was drawn up.
The city and the university have been working toge
ther, Butcher said, but coordination is sometimes diffi
cult because the two are on different fiscal calendars
(Lincoln's fiscal year begins Sept.. 1 , UNL's begins July 1 ).
"We have just received the design plans (from UNL)
which were prerequisite for us to begin," he said. , '..
"Installing a traffic light can't take place overnight,"
he said. It takes time' to design, bid and construct it.H
' Coffey said the light will remain green unless traffic
is coming from East Campus or unless a pedestrian uses
the pushbutton to cross the street.
Drill stuck in ice freezes procjress
on Ross shelf project in Antarctica
By Mary Jo Howe
The UNL Ross Ice Shelf Project (RISP), is stuck in the
ice.
The drilling program through the shelf, a floating mass
of ice in Antarctica, began in 1975. But an unexpected
shift in the ice halted the project last year when the drill
got caught about three-fourths of the way down, accord
ing to RISP director John Clough, r
. This is the second delay in the project since its concep
tion in 1974, Clough said. The project has its management
office at UNL
; The Ross Ice Shelf is a 1200 foot thick mass of ice
about the size of Spain.
The project evolved from the interest of scientists
who believe that a number of scientific problems could be
solved if holes; were drilled through the shelf to, sample
the ice and the bottom sediments, he said.
; Clough said 70 scientists from the U.S., Norway,
Australia, the Soviet Union, Denmark, and New Zea
land, spend from early October until the end of January
in Antarctica doing experiments on the shelf.
The first step in the examination of the Ross Ice Shelf
a geophysical and glaciological program. Clough
said the program measures ice and water thicknesses,'
snow accumulation, surface movement, and response of
the shelf to tides.
;7 But the project was postponed in 1974 by the lack of
money and aircraft support, Clough said,
; Work resumed in the 1976-77 season, and Clough said
the geophysical and glaciological experiments are 90
complete.
But the drilling has not been successful, Clough said.
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The ice is moving about three feet a day at the drilling
site, Clough said, and closed in on the drill before there
was time to remove it
Clough said the scientists will go back in .October
with equipment to circulate hot water around the drill
and melt it out. The remaining 250 feet of ice will pro
bably be melted also, he said.
If the hot water is successful, the drilling and the
geophysical programs should be completed this season,
Clough said.
Before 1973, only sketchy data was available on the
shelf, Clough said Since then, the studies have discovered
that the region is about one degree C. wanner than 20
years ago, Clough said.
Clough said the scientists discovered the coastline of
the shelf is gradually moving back, an indication that the
ice cap is shrinking. If the ice cap melts, sea levels would
raise roughly 5 feet, he added, . .
Scientists . are studying the possibility of using ice
bergs that break off the coastline as a water source for
Saudi Arabia or Australia, he said ,
The changes found during the studies are small, Clough (,
said, but they are indicators of what may be happening to
climate, on a global scale. The results also give indications
of what the geologic and climatic history of the region
was, Clough said. - " - '
The project is funded by a $1 .million research grant
from the U,S, Antarctic Research Program of the U.S,
National Science Foundation awarded to former UNL
Chancellor James Zumberge, ' ,r, ..
Zumberge is now the president of Southern Methodist
University in Dallas, Texas but still follows the project
with active interest, Clough said.
getting eJie&
Getting ahead is a new regular feature of the Daily
Nebraskan.. It will highlight achievements and awards
byfor students, faculty and staff.
Contributions for Getting Ahead should be submitted
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Two UNL College of Agriculture students have been
awarded $400 Ak-Sar-Ben scholarships.
Scott Clemens, 21 , is a junior general agriculture major
from Wallace.. Larry McAfee is a 21-year-old sophomore
from Allen.
A UNL cancer research project has been awarded a
three-year grant for $145,000 by the National Institutes
for Health.
The project, directed by chemistry professor C.J,
Michejda will study suspected cancer causing agents called
nitromasimes.
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Two College of Engineering and Technology students
have been awarded $1,000 Peter Kiewit Son's Educational
Grants, " v - -
The recipients are Ellen Ramirez,' a civil engineering
major from Morrill and Anthony Sisneros, an electrical
engineering major from Gothenburg.
Sharon Baiters, senior home economics major, is one
of 61 .qualifiers for the Golden Plate Scholarship. &
The scholarship is sponsored by the International Food
Service Manufacturing Association Educational Founda
tion. . X
Baiters already has been awarded a $600 scholarship!
by a Wichita restaurant chain.
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Former . UNL vice-chancellor for. academic affairs
Virginia Trotter has been named vice president for aca
demic affairs at the University of Georgia, Athens.
She joined the UNL faculty in 1950 and was appoint
ed vice-chancellor in 1972. . ' .
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