Wednesday
March 2, 1983
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 82, No. 115
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By John Koopman
Campus communication, trains and
computer science problems were the three
main issues discussed at an ASUN
presidential debate Tuesday night at the
Harper-Schramm-Smith snack bar.
Representatives from the four major
parties involved in the ASUN campaign,
Action, Reach, Spare and Anarky,
presented their respective party platforms
and answered questions about campaign
issues. The Health, Education and Culture
Committee of Harper-Schramm-Smith
sponsored the debate. ,
Matt Wallace, presidential candidate
for the Reach party, said he wants to
create a student liaison position for ASUN.
He said the liaison would go to various
UNL organizations to maintain open lines
of communications.
Wallace said he would also like to see
a regular column in the Daily Nebraskan
written by ASUN senators on a rotating
basis. He said the column would discuss
campus and individual college problems.
Glen Stuva, presidential candidate for
Anarky, said his party has no need for
communications, as they intend to abolish
ASUN.
"If we need to talk to someone, we'll
storm their offices," he said.
Greg Krieser, first vice presidential
candidate for the Action party, said he
was glad to see such a positive reaction to
the ASUN newsletter, which he initiated
this year. He said the Action party has
made an arrangement with a local pizza
parlor to provide funding for the
newsletter for next year.
Krieser said he rates the present ASUN
senators and officers as "excellent," but
he is setting a goal of "superior" for next
year.
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By Mona Koppelman
The Anarky Party may attract new
voters to the ASUN Senate polls, vice
presidential candidate Beth Berigan,
a junior life sciences major, said.
"Basically, I think we (Anarky) reach
a different vein of students," Berigan
said. "Students vho have never been
affected by a party or who never found
a part) that met their needs are showing
an interest in us."
Berigan said this interest could result
in greater voter turnout this year "other
than the traditional Greek-block vote."
not vote at all, Anarky will claim that as
a moral victory," she said. "It will support
the fact that they (students) are against
government just as we are.
"But, it enough (students) do cast a
vote for us, they'll never have to vote
again."
Anarky's party platform states that:
"ASUN is, for all legitimate purposes,
dead . . . the vestiges of ASUN deserve to
be disposed of properly and hastily.
Anarky supports all activities which could
hasten the inevitable course of this
university toward its ultimate goal of
entropy."-
"Or, if people do as (Daily Nebraskan Berigan said the idea for the movement
columnist) Mike Frost is encouraging and was "already on campus," and that she
and presidential candidate Joni Jacobs
"just picked up on it."
"We thought the best way to get the
idea across was to put us (Anarky) on the
ballot," she said. '
ASUN is an ineffective system that
has outlived its usefulness, Berigan said.
She said that being elected to office now
is "just something to put on a resume."
"There are alternatives to ASUN that
people aren't exploring," the candidate
said. "We could organize a group of
students . . . and require only that they
have an interest and want to work on
university problems.
"ASUN is stagnant," she said. "Look
at the energy expended during elections
compared to what you get out of it. During
the rest of the year you don't hear
anything about it and no one really cares.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
"Look at our posters," Berigan said.
"We think ours show some creative
intelligence.
"Their posters are generic," she said.
"You can't tell the difference between
one year and the next. We think that's
a pretty clear indication that they can't
do anything new or different. They're
stagnant.
"The other parties are so predictable,"
Berigan said. "If voters want something
different, why vote for Action or Reach?
They're already ingrained in the system."
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'A coypie good stomps. . . it's all over'
By Martin Koster
High above the fresh lawns of East Campus, on the
third floor of Plant Industry Hall, the morning sun shines
upon a wall lined with garbage cans.
In each can, a dark, seething horde is breeding.
"As far as an estimate, all I can say is that we raise
them by the thousands," said Jim Ballard, referring to
the cockroach colonies he keeps for research.
Ballard, an urban entomologist, works as a research
technician in UNL's environmental programs department.
t The aim of his research is to help tenants and landlords
control cockroaches by evaluating types of roach controls
and registered products.
The five roaches that are common to Nebraska are
the Oriental, American, brown-banded, wood and German
roaches. But not all cockroaches are created equal.
"The German cockroach is the number-one urban pest
worldwide," Ballard said.
That is why he devotes most of his energies to research
ing its control.
Ballard said that once German cockroaches are
established at a location, they are extremely difficult to
control.
He lists high resistance to insecticides, rapid
reproductive rate and large variation in behavior as reasons
the German roaches are more difficult to control than
other types of roaches.
Also, people's perceptions play an important role in
control.
"Oriental roaches are big, so people respond quickly
to them," Ballard said. "A couple of good stomps and it's
all over for the Orientals.
"They also have a slow reproductive rate and a low
resistance to pesticides," Ballard said. "You can show
them the can and they die."
Ballard said Oriental roaches usually live outdoors in
foundations and driveways and sometimes find their way
into basements in the spring and fall.
Wood roaches live outdoors near woods, he said,
although "individual males might stumble inside at night
because they like the light."
The brown-banded roach is rarely found indoors,
although it loves heat, Ballard said.
American roaches are the large ones associated with
the inner city, but are also rarely found in houses.
However, they are found in the sewer systems and in the
steam tunnels on East Campus, he said.
But German roaches like the indoors and have self
preserving advantages that other roaches lack.
"Portions of the German roach population aren't
attracted to baits or sex pheromones (chemical substances
produced by an animal that stimulate response by animals
of same species)," Ballard said. "1 could put some
pfteromones on a trap and every American roach in the
building would crawl out of the woodwork."
Also, the German coaches do not respond to ultrasonic
sounds as some manufacturers claim.
"This department is the only One in the nation to
publish any research about ultrasonic effects on German
cockroaches," Ballard said. "Texas A&M's research
backs us up, but they haven't gotten around to publishing
anything yet. There is no field data to support the
manufacturers' claims."
In addition to these competitive advantages, Ballard
said, people don't respond as quickly to them. (German
roaches aren't as large as other roaches like the Orientals.)
Ballard said some of the roaches he uses in his research
are called Orlando Normals.
"We ship Orlaniao Normals in from Florida because
they have no resistance to insecticides," Ballard said.
The Orlando Normals provide a basis of comparison
for pesticide resistance of cockroaches in the field, he
said.
Ballard said his lab roaches have to be the same and
his field sites equal in order for his research to be properly
controlled.
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Staff photo by Craig Andresen
Top: Roaches selected for breeding. James Ballard
collects German roaches from his breeding stock;
he separates the males from the females since only
the males are used in research.
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