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daily nebraskan
Wednesday, October 31, 1979
NU foundation program allots $23 million forprograms
By Michelle Carr
The NU Foundation has raised more
than $23 million In its $25 million capital
campaign and several UNL programs will
be financed from the campaign, according
to a foundation official.
Ed Hirsch, vice president of the found
ation, said the money pledged from donors
will help finance five categories: improved
teaching and research, which has a mini
mum goal of $5 million; honor scholarships
' and fellowships, $4.5 million; improved
learning resources, $2.5 million; and special
programs, $ 1 0 million .
Three teaching and research programs
will directly affect UNL, Hirsch said. The
Endowed Professorship, program will
appoint and retain outstanding teachers
and scholarly researchers. The Distinguish
ed Visiting Faculty program will pay visit
ing professors, lecturers and researchers. ,
The Faculty Research Fellowships program
will support individual resident faculty
members for teams for short-term research
projects.
Another program, the Honor Scholar
ships and Fellowships, which includes the
Merit Scholarship program, is aimed at
attracting the top students, Hirsch said,
rather than financial need scholarships. The
scholarship program will aid under
graduates and graduate students, he said.
A UNL PROGRAM IN the facilities
category will finance the Life Science
Auditorium, he said. The cost of the 250
to 350 seat auditorium is estimated at
$400,000.
Under special programs, UNL has
received $1 million for the Center of Great
Plains Studies, Hirsch said. The center
focuses its research in documenting the
heritage of the Plains and encourages inter
disciplinary studies of the Plains.
Also, the Center for the Study of the
American Business has already, received
between $250,000 to $350000 in partial
funding, he said. The business program,
established by the College of Business
Administration, coordinates research
projects, offers an executive-in-residence
program bringing business leaders to
campus and offers a summer intern
program to place faculty members in
businesses.
The third UNL special program,
Agriculture and Water Research, also will
receive moriey, Hirsch said. With the
leadership of the Institute for Agriculture
and Natural Resources and the Nebraska
Water Resources Center, the money will be
used for a comprehensive water research
program that will include input from
geology, engineering, political science, the
physical and life sciences, and law.
THE IMPROVED Learning Resources
category of the campaign includes a
Library Acquisition program aimed at t
strengthening weak areas of research , such
as the Humanities and Social Science areas.
In addition to the campaign funding,
Hirsch said donors are encouraged to
contribute $25 to buy a book for the NU
systems libraries.
The Intercampus Library Retrieval
System has already been financed,
according to Hirsch. All NU systems
libraries are connected by a computer,
which enables a person to call up informa
tion from any library, he said.
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1209 "Q Street
Mon. 10:00-8:00 Tu.W, Sat. 10:00-6:00 Thursday 10:00-9:00
Sunday 1:00-5:00
An Intercampus Closed Circuit Tele
vision is another program to be financed in
the learning resource category, he said. The
planned circuit would extend the present
closed circuit television network now link
ing the three main campuses to include the
four Regional Agricultural Experiment
Stations across the state, he said.
The pledge solicitation is directed by a
campaign committee, which includes
business, professional, industrial, agricul
tural and civic leaders, Hirsch said. These
people are responsible for the $25 million
goal from private sources, he added.
Private sources, who are not university
alumni'and who Hirsch termed "friends of
the university' contribute to the
campaign because the university does so
much for the state and because many
people are helped by its services.
Hirsch said solictation of pledges is
divided into three phases. The first year of
the campaign, which was 1977,concentra
trated on receiving pledges from people
willing to give $50,000 or more, he said,
and the second phase concentrated on
persons willing to contribute between
$5,000 to $50,000. .
The third phase, which is now oper
ating, is aimed at university alumni through
direct mail, Hirscjj said. If alumni would
rather contribute to the proposed Alumni
Center that also is encouraged, he said.
Lincolnite peddles butterflies
while he's pedaling his bicycle
By Susan Hendee
While carrying merchandise on his head,
the peddler is not nervous but he does have
a few butterflies.
Bill Danaher, 1441 G St., has slowly
been building his reputation in the Lincoln
area as the butterfly salesman. He can be
seen walking or riding his bicycle across the
city carrying his product on his head.
Danaher is selling a well-preserved
butterfly mounted in its natural environ
ment encased in a clear plastic box.
Making the "Butterfly Gardens" stem
med from a long standing oriental idea of
preserving nature in its natural environ
ment that Danaher's family "picked up on
five years ago."
His family's business, entitled Koshin
Inc. located in Chicago, 111., began experi
menting with different natural settings and
mounting techniques until finally deciding
upon mounting the butterflies on cork
wood in angelic positions.
THE BUTTERFLIES, which are im
ported from a variety of foreign countries,
are shipped flat and must first be made
pliable by dipping them in a special solu
tion, Danaher said. -
Then they are positioned and freeze
baked in a 180 degree oven. They are then
glued to the cork wood.
. He said the heat preservation is done
without chemicals so that discoloring will
not occur. '
The butterflies are what Danaher terms
"the flowers of the insect world ."
Danaher said many ecology enthusiasts
have spoken against the mounting of
butterflies, but what most people do not
realize is that the average life span of a.
butterfly is only 28 days.
"Many butterflies don't eat at all during
their short life span because nature equips
them with enough food to live," Danaher
said.
"To a certain extent, the butterflies are
living eternally just as if you would take a
snapshot of one," he added.
He said many countries grow the butter-,
flies on butterfly farms to ensure their pre
servation. He compared this preservation to
a lumber mill which plants a tree for every
tree that is cut. .
. "If it weren't for this business
many people would not see the Bluebottle
butterfly from Japan or the Narrow Blue
banded specimen from Central Africa,"
Danaher said.
THE PRICE FOR the "Butterfly Gar
den" ranges between $8 to $30. Danaher
said he makes about $25 a day which he
says "is an average salesman'sday ."
"I have a nice product but I don't work
too hard "he added. ... .
Danaher also said he has been selling in
Lincoln for about three months and has
sold hundreds of the butterflies to local
businesses and residents.
"Many people are buying them for
Christmas gifts," Danaher said. .-,;..
Thirty -one year old Danaher said he
plans to keep the butterfly business as a
sideline, but hs plans to continue his
education by enrolling in a human
anatomy course at UNL. He said he wants
to develop a shoe that is good for a
person's foot which he will do by studying
the human body.
Shoes have never been made to fit
people, people are made to fit the shoe,"
Danaher said.
Danaher said he believes he can apply
what he has learned from the butterfly
business to manufacturing his own shoe.
He said every degree of life, to some
extent, is like a salesman's life because a
person is either selling an idea or himself.
He added that although his shoe might
not get national recognition, he believes he
can sell the people of Lincoln on his idea.
KAS BEAST
TFC StOCE
14th &"Q"
(2 blks. So. of campus)