tuesday, january 29, 1980
daily nebraskan
page 7
Committee to study toxins
An NU steering committee is studying
ways for the university to help meet the
national need for toxic substance analysis,
the committee chairman said.
"The university has many people who
are actively involved in toxicology at UNL,
UNO and at the NU Medical Center,"
Dr. Kenneth Barker, committee chairman
and dean of graduate studies and research
at the Med Center,. said. "The committee
is cataloging toxicology research and re
lated classes and studying the possibility
of organizing an interdepartmental toxi-
oology program."
Barker said the steering committee's
study is in its initial stage. The final report
is expected in six months, he said.
The nine-member committee met for
the second time last week in UNL's che
mistry department. Professor Michael
Gross, director of UNL's Midwest Cen
ter for Mass Spectrometry, explained the
chemistry department's sophisticated
Awards deadline looms
Each year, UNL offers students the chance to
nominate one of their professors for consideration for the
"Distinguished Teaching Awards." The deadline for this
year's nominations is Feb, 1 ,
All rull-time faculty members are eligible to receive the
award . ,
Nominations should be made on the basis of expertise
in the field, the ability to communicate that expertise, the
ability to stimulate and inspire academic endeavor, "and
concern for the students.
Students can pick up nomination forms at the Teach
ing and Learning Center and return them to the dean's
office of their college. Nominations will be reviewed by a
committee of faculty members, undergraduate students
and alumni.. -
Ter.clurs receiving the award get a medallion, $1 ,000
and recognition for excellence in teaching,
Larry Andrews, assistant vice chancellor for academic
affairs, is handling nominations.
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. chemical analyzing equipment, and discus
sed its possible application to toxicology.
"The Center for Mass Spectrometry
is one of the best, if not the best, in the
country," Gross, said. It will soon be
receiving new equipment that will increase
the number and type of samples it can
analyze, he said.
One piece of equipment, a mass spec
trometer, can detect the presence of cer
tain chemicals in the parts per billion and
parts per trillion range, he said.
The mass spectrometer was purchased
with a grant from the National . Science
Foundation, which stipulated that the
grant be used in part for collaborative
scientific research. An inter-campus
toxicology program done with the Eppley
Cancer Institute's cooperation would be a
collaborative effort. Gross said.
In the future, students might see the
effects of the toxicology study with the"
offering of an upper level toxicology class,
Barker said.
Two UNL ag
recognized in
Two UNL agriculture professors have
been honored in separate ceremonies
recently.
William E. Splinter, professor and
head of the Department of Agricultural
Engineering, has been elected to the
four-man executive committee of the
American Association of Engineering
Societies' Board of Governors.
The AAES had its organizational
meeting in Washington, D.C., earlier
this month. The group will represent
the formal association of more than 1
million engineers belonging to 20 pro
fessional societies.
The group will bring together the
spectrum of disciplines within the
engineering profession like the Ameri
can Bar Association and the American
Medical Association do for. their pro
fessions, Splinter said.
A UNL professor and extension
veterinarian was named Veterinarian of
the Year at the 83rd annual convention
professors
ceremonies
of the Nebraska Veterinary Medicine
Assocation in Kearney. -
Alex Hogg received the honor for
his work in establishing better lines of
communication between the university
and practicing veterinarians throughout
the state. Hogg has been on the NU
extension staff for seven years.
He said he wants to continue helping
practicing veterinarians with continuing
education so they can meet the
demands of livestock producers in
today's markets.
He also expressed mixed emotions
about the proposed College of Veteri
nary Science at UNL. He expressed
concern about the possibility of over
producing veterinarians, but added that
there is a need for more veterinarians
in the state.
"If we overproduce, it will be bad,
but business will grow if more veteri
narians are available. The livestock
producers will seek them out if they are
available," 1 logg said .
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WASHINGTON REPORT
"We will be at war with Russia in thirty days." With
knowing looks that whisper went from one Member to
the next in the cloak-rooms of Congress. The time was
the spring of 1948.
A few days later some of us had a visit with Admiral
Hillenkoetter, then Chief of the Central Intelligence
Agency. This organization heads up America spy and
secret service efforts. As such, its Chief is the best
informed man in America of what goes on in all coun
tries. Admiral Hillenkoetter talked to us off-the-record.
That meant that we could not go out and promptly
report what he told us. This off-the-record technique is
regularly used (and abused) in Washington.
Now three years have gone by, So the off-the-record
limitation is out-dated. What he told us would have
amazed the American people. But if he had spoken out
publicly he would have gotten the axe one way or
another. If the Members who heard him had done so,
they would have been cunningly discredited.
WHY? Because Admiral Hillenkoetter, who knew
what was going on, declared that signs of offensive war
by Russia in the foreseeable future were completely
lacking. Answering our question he detailed a mass of
factual data from his secret sources indicating just the
opposite situation. Developments since that time have
proven his facts.
Why did the war drums beat 10 loudly In America at
that time? For one thing, the Administration wanted to
put through a draft law for compulsory military servi
tude. They wanted the people frightened - so that
Congress would be bludgeoned into ending freedom for
our youth. The scare worked.
Hitler and Mussolini found the cry "the Russians are
coming" the perfect weapon with which to enslave the
people. But now we know the real peril to those people
was not in Moscow. It was in tneir own capital cities.
Will we learn by their experience before It ii too late?
-copy of letter released by Representative Howard
Buffet. Nebr.'s 2d Dist. Sept. 15, '51
the above letter was published in a Benson Nebr.
(Omaha suburb) newspaper then reprinted for wide
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which I abhor. Heroism on command, senseless violence,
and alas the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name
of patriotism - how passionately I hate them I I would
rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an
abominable business. My opinion of the human race
is high enough that I believe this bogey would have
disappeared long ago had the sound sense of people not
been systematically corrupted by the commercial and
political Interests acting thru the school and the press.
Albert Einstein
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