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daily nebraskan
Graduate Association reorganizes,
representatives' meeting planned
By Pat Gentzler
Graduate students from five UNL departments are
making an attempt to reorganize the Graduate Students
Association, an organization which has been inactive for
some time,
Ross Vreeland, life sciences graduate student, said
students in life sciences, chemistry, geography, sociology
and modem languages are involved in the reorganization
of the association.
An organizational meeting is planned for 7 pjn.
Nov. 16 in the Nebraska Union, said Jane Ollenburger.
a graduate student in sociology.
Vreeland stressed that this is an open meeting for
graduate students and said that the more representatives,
the better.
Graduate students need an organization to act as a
spokesman on campus, Vreeland said.
There currently are committees in other areas on
which graduate representatives serve. However, Vreeland
said, some of these positions either are not filled or are
filled by students appointed by the different departments.
The graduate students need a voice, Ollenburger said,
and it would be better if the graduate students elected
their own representatives for these committees.
Vreeland said he would like to see-the association
take on the form of a senate, with elected representa
tives from different departments.
The main issue that the association is working on
right now, Ollenburger said, is the graduate tuition issue.
"We managed to get four people on Chancellor (Roy)
YoungY committee " Vreeland said.
The association, Vreeland said, is against the tuition
hike, rie said the four students on the committee have
made an impact. Of the six ideas presented in the commit
tee's report, three were from the students, he said.
Vreeland said he hopes the association can stand
not just on a political basis but on a social one as well.
Vreeland said the association was not reorganized
just to take action on the graduate tuition issue but will
continue to be active once this particular issue is over.
"Organizations like that are dead before they start,"
he said.
National Bank of Commerce reduces
energy-saving improvement loan rate
Lincoln's National Bank of Commerce joined the
battle to conserve energy Thursday by announcing a
reduced interest rate on energy-saving home improvement
loans.
The announcement was made at a news conference.
Lt. Gov. Gerald Whelan, Lincoln Mayor Helen Boosalis
and a U.S. Dept. of Energy official attended and praised
NBC for its conservation incentive program.
Home improvement loans historically have cost 12 to
13 percent, according to Jerry Thornton, NBC director
of marketing. The NBC offer will make energy-saving
improvements loans at a 10 percent interest rate.
Whelan said Americans have a "John Wayne syn
drome," expecting the cavalry to come charging over the
hill, or a Johnny Rodgers to make a touchdown run which
will solve the problems.
The energy crisis will not be solved that way, Whelan
said. "The answer this time is conservation " he said.
The acting regional representative of the U.S.
Department of Energy, James Newman, praised the NBC
program for taking action before Congress passed energy
legislation expected to include tax credit for energy con
serving investments.
The program is offered in cooperation with the Lin'
coin Electric System (LES), LES is displaying insulation
techniques, heat pumps and a model of a solar energy
home in the NBC lobbv at 13th and 0 streets.
LES will have seminars Nov. 17 and Nov. 22 on"Heat
Pumps and How They Work," "Solar Homes"and
"Saving Energy Around the House."
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Campus Police reported the following thefts and van
dalism cases between Nov. 2 and Nov. 8:
Nov. 2;
Larceny from Auto, Area 32 Agronomy Greenhouse,
battery, $50.00
- Larceny from Auto Area 32 Agronomy Greenhouse,
battery, $50.00
Larceny from Architecture Hall, Money, $20.00
Larceny from Coliseum, fire, extinguisher, $50.00
Larceny from Women's Physical Education, fire ex
tinguisher, $25 ,00
Larceny from Auto, Area 3 Abel, battery, $25.00
Larceny from Barkley, billfold, football tickets,
$44.00
Larceny from Smith Hall, slacks, $20.00
Larceny from Nebraska Center, billfoldcontents,
$44.00
Nov, 3:
Vandalism, Selleck, windows, $27.00
Nov, 4:
Larceny from Neihardt, money, $80.00
Larceny from Abel, coat , $55 .00
Larceny from auto, Area 2 19thQ, cassette tapes,
$40.00
'Nov.?:
Vandalism, Bancroft, 3 window panes, $70.00
Vandalism, Health Center, 3 window panes, $20.00
Larceny from auto, Area 2 17thR, 24 cassette tapes,
$110.00
Larceny from Harper, billfoldcontents, $45.00
Larceny from Love Library, calculator, $90.00
Larceny from Teachers College, jacket, $40.00
Nov. 8:
Larceny from Nebraska Hall, couch $150.00
Vandalism from Henzlik, spilled paint, $50.00
Total damage was $ 1 ,1 33.00
Information was provided by Sgt. Joe Wehner of
Campus Police,
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aids research
Four UNL researchers, funded by the U.S. Air
Force, are looking for an, inexpensive way to produce
devices that are important in communications and solar
energy. n ,Tw
According to Rodney Soukup, UNL associate pro.
fessor of electrical engineering, the Air Force's Office
of Scientific Research has poured about $150,000 into
his project since the autumn of 1975. He moved his
research when he came to UNL last year-from the Uni
versity of Iowa.
Soukup said he considered the UNL position a
better one and that the equipment available is better.
He said he uses an oven, various measuring devices and
a vacuum system in his research.
Soukup and three assistants, Dan Mosher, A.K. Kul
karni and David Still, are working on a process to make
electronic components from gallium arsenide. The
compound made from gallium and arsenic is more
useful in electronics than conventional silicon crystals
because it withstands a higher frequency range. Unfor
tunately, it also is less abundant and therefore, more
expensive.
The goal of his research is to produce better com
ponents by a cheaper method.
"The most efficient solar cell today is made from
gallium arsenide,' Soukup said. "But because it is very
expensive, it is still somewhat a laboratory
phenomenon."
He said the results of his research might be used
by others to develop a device of practical value to the
Air Force. That development and research might be
made by industry, he said.
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