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By Ward W. Triplett III
Sid Pinney, Nebraska Union Board
secretary, was voted president for the
upcoming term during the board's Tues
day meeting at the Nebraska Union.
Pinney, a junior engineering major,
defeated Pat Meister in an election to
determine Laura Meyer's successor. Mey
er', who served two terms as the board
president, officiated the voting at her
last board meeting.
Meister, also a junior , was voted vice
president, while Connie Kay Eberspacher
was elected secretary.
Pinney said in his election speech that
increasing public awareness of the union's
facilities and setting goals among the
board's committees were the most import
ant issues facing the board.
A pamphlet advertising what the union
offers could be prepared, he said, and a
separate advertising campaign for the
food service should be started.
The committees, whose chairmen will
be named next week, should be made up
of students with specific academic back
grounds, Pinney said.
"I suggest that we go around to the
different deans of the colleges, and have
them tell us who the best and most quali
fied people are," Pinney said.
Pinney, a member of the executive
board of the American College Unions
International Organization, said the book
store, South Crib renovation, proposed
allocation of the deli space to a private
business and plaza signs were the main
issues facing the union.
Pinney also proposed that a student
poll, conducted by a professional polling
service, be taken to determine what union
services students consider most valuable.
The survey results would help determine
space allocations and indicate what ser
vices need a closer look.
"For example, I see a need to move the
Women's Resource Center to the second
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floor, and move Student l-egal Services
downstairs," Pinney said.
"They (the Women's Resource Center)
seem to be taking up a lot of space, and
it would be, to the board's advantage to
look into that possibility," he said.
Pinney said that survey results, while
being a good indicator, would not be
the basis for all his decisions.
Meister had said in his election speech
that a committee re-structing was called
for, and proposed a cabinet meeting
arrangement between the board executi
ves so a better idea of meeting discussion
topics could be established.
Meister also questioned the role of the
Women's Resource Center, said to be
requesting the room currently held by the
Student Y and UPC Tri-Culture Center
when room allocation requests come up
this spring.
"A survey was done among sororities
and only 5 percent of them had ever used
the center," Meister said. "I'm not saying
get rid of it, but I think we need to get
input from students and see just how
they're using it."
A committee formed by Campus
Activities and Programs, through Vice
Chancellor for Student Affairs Richard
Armstrong's recommendation, already is
studying the resource center. Meister said
that group might be able to produce an
answer for the board's decision on space
allocations in April.
Before the elections, Meister reported
that the plaza signs are being constructed.
Two locations, one 40 feet and the other
30 feet from both sides of Broyhill Fount
ain, were established.
Union Director Daryl Swanson suggest
ed that board members begin considering
the space allocation issue now. While the
Student Y and the Tri-Culture Center may
not need the amount of space they have
now, their needs still must be addressed,
he said. The resource center and legal
services both have been mentioned to take
over that space next year,1
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Karl-Heinz Brose, a graduate student from Berlin, Germany, eyes a laser beam used
to study the elasticity of crystals.
Spectroscopy allows cluemosts
to trace atoms Dim molecules
By Lori Sullivan
New scientific methods enable chemists
to "fingerprint" a molecule by tracing
the atoms that compose it. Karl-Heinz
Brose, a graduate student in chemistry,
is a leader in this atomic detective work
at UNL.
Brose came to UNL from Berlin
University in 1977 as a Fulbright scholar.
He began his master's degree work here
in spectroscopy, the process used for
tracing atoms. His basic tools are the
rainbow colors of light, equipment for
measuring light absorption, a computer
that draws a spectrum diagram, and a
substance to be analyzed.
Different colors of light, called light
frequencies, are shined onto the substance,
At precise points, the substance will absorb
part of the light. The absorption occurs
when electrons, that orbit atoms within
a substance react with light and literally
jump out of their orbits.
These jumps are recorded by the
computer on a two-dimensional graph, that
shows how fast the substance absorbed
different colors of light. Each type of atom
has a characteristic pattern of light
absorption; once any substance has been
broken down and traced to find out what
atoms are in it, the chemist knows exactly
what the substance is.
Brose's work is interesting enough
even before you find out that the project
can work backward and still be successful.
Some substances may be opaque to light.
When he is working with one, he explained,
he just reverses the light process and
measures light mat bounces ott the
substance rather than absorbed into it.
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views on drinking age ASUN administration
By Jann Nyffeler
Action Party candidates spoke against raising the
legal drinking age at a meeting of party members in the
Nebraska Union Wednesday.
Since Monday, Action has been circulating two
petitions, both for and against raising the drinking age.
As of Wednesday, of the approximately 700 students
who had signed these petitions, 95 percent were opposed
to raising the drinking age. The petitions, along with
letters explaining corresponding student opinions, will
be sent to the Legislature.
Laura Meyer, Action presidential candidate, said
Action sees LB56 as an important student issue.
Meyer added that both viewpoints should be
presented to senators, so they can see the number of
UNL students who are opposed to raising the drinking
age.
Greg Krieser, first vice presidential candidate, said that
Nebraska has the highest drinking age of the surrounding
states, with the exception of Missouri, where the legal
drinking age is 21 .
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By Vicki Ruhga
Members of the Anarky Party climbed over bicycle
racks to hold their second press conference on the north
steps of the administrative ouilding's closed south
entrance Wednesday.
Anarky presidential candidate Joni Jacobs, a senior
English major, revealed more details of the "Master
Plan."
Jacobs did, however, reveal two details of the "Master
Plan."
- The first major goal of the Anarky Party is to abolish
ASUN. Once elected, all members of ASUN will either
resign or be fired. Henceforth, there will be no more
elections to distract the students' attention from worth
while concerns. Vote for Anarky and you'll never have to
vote again.
- Once in power, Anarky will require every admini
strator to justify his or her position, both as a public
servant and as an assistant to higher education. If no
justifiable purpose for their existence can be determined,
central administration, like ASUN, will be eradicated from
UNL. What has your administration done for you lately?
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Wallace: Reformation
of ASUN charier needed
By Bill Allen
The Reach Party is calling for the constitutional re
formation of the ASUN, Matt Wallace, presidential
candidate for the party , said Wednesday.
At a 2:30 p. m. press conference in the Nebraska
Union, Wallace said the ASUN constitution, instituted in
1967, has many "outdated provisions" and positions
that don't apply in 1983.
As an example, Wallace said that the senate position of
director of records is obsolete because its duties have
been superseded by the current director of development.
Wallace said Reach proposes several ideas for reforming
the constitution. These include :
-Faculty members serving on the student senate
to foster a better working relationship between the two
groups.
A proposal to create a new executive position,
presidential liaison, who would be responsible for ex
panding lines of communication to and from ASUN.
-The advent of presidential assistants, selected by
the president, to help ease the workload of the student
body presidentstudent regent.
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