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School of Journalism
Number 1
June 16,1983
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Photo by Mark Bsstin
Gov. Bob Kerry dedicates Agri-Vis Wednesday,
Little piece out of Vietnam
serves Lincoln ethnic foods
BY JOAN NE Y01NG
(Joy. Bob Kerrey dedicated a r.ew video
information service for Nebraska farmers,
ranchers and agribusinesses Wednesday al
the Nebraska Ideational Television sta
tion, and moved state agriculture a giant
step into the work! of fu-techno3ogy.
AG HI VIS. or Agriculture Video Infor
mation Service, went into full service when
Kerrey typed the dedication into the com
puter and kicked off a host of new sen ices
including commodity futures quotations
from the Chicago Board of Trade and Mer
cantile Exchange. LSI) A market reports,
National Weather Service, and news and in
formation from the Institute of Agriculture
and Natural Resources
During the dedication and news confer
ence, which was broadcast live over the
NETV network. Kerrey encouraged viewers
lo "use the valuable new service, criticize it,
and enjoy it."
AG HI-VIS operates like its sister service
for the hearing impaired, lil-VIS. the Line
21 service, project coordinator Scott Ieigh
said. The material is transmitted over the
same signal as the network's regular pro
gramming, but can't be received without a
special decoder which can be purchased for
around $245. The service is free, and recipi
ents may deduct the cost of the decoder as a
business expense on federal income tax re
turns. Nebraskans for Public Television funded
the start-up of AGRI-VIS with a $20,000
grant. The service has broadcast USD A and
Kansas City farm market reports since
January.
Nebraska's farmers and ranchers seem
most interested in delayed quotations, Ix-igh
said.
We want to make sure the people know
the quotations are not tick b tick." Ix-igh
said. "Uecau.se of our contract, we must
delay them al least 10 minutes. We are not
competing with commodity brokers, but aid
ing them."
Because of the service, Leigh said, bro
kers should gel fewer nusiance calls.
I-ejgh said the sen tees offered by AGRI
VIS are the best available. " What would you
rather have." he asked, "a Ws Volkswagen
or a S';:i Porsche? What we've get is a tSs.3
Porsche.
The program schedule is ihe key to the
success of the service. Leigh said. The pro
gram was written by a public TV employ ee
m Madison, Wis., Ken Emmerich, whom
Ix-igh calls a 'genius."'
"This guy could be making $50,000 work
ing in the software industry, but instead he
has chosen to stay in public TV," Leigh said.
In the future. Leigh said, they hope to
have remote terminals for direct input from
ag departments.
AGRI-VIS is broadcast on Text Channel
1 over all stations of the N ETV network dur
ing the network's entire daily broadcast
schedule:
Monday-Wednesday. 6:45 a.m.-ll p.m.
Thursday -Friday, 6:45 a.m.-midnight.
Saturday, 7 a.m.-midnight.
Sunday, H a.m. -II p.m.
Program schedules and information are
available bv writing:
AGRI-VIS
Information Department
N ETV
P.O. Box 831 11
Lincoln, Nebraska 68501.
UN-L faculty will discuss
UN-0 pay raise June 22
BY JAYE AUSTIN
There's a little piece of Vietnam in Lin
coln at 242 N. 13th St. It's the Vung Tau
rest a urant,it serves ethnic foods.
Luong Vu, a small dark-haired woman,
manages the Vung Tau. She left Vietnam
with her family when the fighting reached
her village. The restaurant is named after
Vung Tau, the village in her homeland.
Jasmine tea is the house drink. Vietnam
ese music mixes in with conversations. A
flowering plant winds across one of the cor
ners. People sit at tables atop carpet and along
the walls and in the room's center, Brown
wood paneling extends halfway up the walls.
There is a reserved silence here, the cash
register ringing, people eating, coming and
going. People talking in low voices that
could be heard if one were inclined to listen.
Vung Tau's Chow Mein is wholesome.
Noodles and sauce with carrots, cauliflower
and other vegetables lightly cooked with
your choice of meat.
A picture of an Oriental landscape deco
rates one wall. It must look much like Viet-
Business education
topic is computers
Computer applications for business
education will be the main topic at the 24th
Annual Conference on Business Education
Friday at the Nebraska Union.
This will be the first year that the confer
ence has cocentrated solely on computers,
said Dr. Birdie Holder, director of the con
ference. Dr. Mildred Johnson, Professor of Busi
ness Education at Cheyney State College,
will be the guest speaker.
nam where the original Vung Tau is.
Luong Vu left Vung Tau in 1975 with her
four children. She said that when the fight
ing reached her village people were rushing
back and forth. No one knew where to go.
She and the children went where there
were fishing boats to get away from the
fighting. Luong Vu's husband, who was serv
ing in the army, found them before they left.
Luong Vu said that many people died.
She now has six children, the youngest a
boy of 3.
His bright -brown eyes crinkle at the
edges as if catching a bit of peaceful sun.
BY BILL CONRADT
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln
chapter of the American Association of Uni
versity Professors will meet June 22 to dis
cuss the recent 6.6 percent pay increase
awarded to the University of Nebraska
Omaha faculty.
Erwin Goldenstein, an AAUP past presi
dent, said the association will discuss the
UN O settlement and its effects on UN-L,
but it won't discuss the possibility of form
ing a bargaining unit.
Goldenstein said he'd "hesitate to make a
guess" whether the AAUP will form a bar
gaining unit, but it is possible with the
present situation.
"It seems there would be things to moti
vate people" to accept a bargaining unit,
Goldenstein said. "I think it would give pro
fessors clout" with the administration.
Goldenstein said the possibility of cut
backs in instructors and programs due to a
pay increase would not be a problem since a
cutback already seems inevitable.
UN-L's current president of the AAUP,
Dave Moshman and vice-president, Linda
Pratt, were not available for comment.
ivision II athletes to lose four sports
BY DAVID TROUBA
Dropping national championships for
several sports in Division II schools could
mean the loss of some fine athletic talent,
according to the men's gymnastic's coach at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Francis Allen said lack of participation is
the reason the National Collegiate Athletic
Association is giving for dropping Division
II national championship's in men's gymnas
tics, ice hockey, water polo and women's
field hockey.
The loss of national championships for
those Division II sports won't have "that
definite of an effect" on Division I schools
but it will make it much harder for athletes
who aren't Division I caliber to find a place
to compete, Allen said.
Assistant men's gy mnastics coach at UN
L, Jim Howard said, "Once that level of
competition is gone, there is no place for
Division II athletes to go. Most Division II
athletes couldn't achieve the ability to com
pete at the Division I level."
He added, "Most colleges won't sponsor
teams if there isn't the opportunity for a
championship. And without a championship,
there won't be anyplace for those kids to
show their achievements al a national
level."
Howard said he feels that once the cham
pionships are taken away, the sports them
selves may soon follow.
"Losing the sports means that there will
be a smaller base of athletes available for
competition. A smaller base makes it harder
for a school to reach an elite program,"
Howard said.
An "elite" program is one that can
produce champion athletes and Olympic
hopefuls, according to Howard.
Allen said NCAA rules state that a cer
tain percentage of it's members must spon
sor teams in a sport in order for the NCAA
to have tournaments to find a national
champion or a division champion.
When sponsoring a championship tourna
ment, the NCAA pays to stage the event,
pays travel costs for participating teams
and pays all boarding costs of team mem
bers, with NCAA membership dues helping
offset, most of the costs, Allen said.
But without adequate participation, the
NCAA loses money and sees no reason for
holding championships, he said.
One exception to the rule is if a cham
pionship tournament makes more money
from ticket sales and television contracts
than it costs to operate. In that case, Allen
said, the sport may continue.
Men's gymnastics at UN-L is such an ex
ample of a sport that has few participants,
yet still makes money, he said.
And, as long as the championships are
held at places large enough to attrart a lot
of people, men's gynnastics program will
make money, Allen said.
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