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Wednesday, August 24, 19S3 Page 14 Daily Ncbraskan NU to build underground field lab By Gene Gentrup A lab designed to st udy roots of turf plants will be constructed at the NU Field Laborat ory at Mead, said Bob Wesley, research assistant at the UNL De partment of Horticulture. Wesley said the under ground sturcture, also re ferred to as a Khizotron lab, will be the third built in the United States for turf plant study. Other Khizotron buildings used in t urf st udy are at Texas A&M University and Ohio State University. Wesley said the first known Khi zotron lab was construct ed at Kemp, England in 1903. Bob Carpenter, archi tect for the lab, is cur- also includes instru ments, data computers and weather machinery" he said. The NU Foundation is rent ly taking bids for the funding the lab. Students falling b 3iov maylo By Jin Benyman buildings construction. He said the cost will not exceed $100,000. "The $100,000 figure -- -r-r i 1. 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Wesley S3id the under ground building will allow "direct observation of the plant's rooting system." lie said the plants are rooted in small, trans parent boxes called root ing cells. The cells can be taken out and the test soil replaced with a dif ferent test type. The studies, which Wes ley said will begin as early as the spring of 1 985, will benefit turf grasses cul turally, environmentally and from the soil-factor standpoint. The cultural method in these studies will be used for the effect of mow ing and fertilization of grasses on a common lawn," Wesley said. The environmental method will study how grass roots react during the differ ent seasons of the year. The soil-testing method will include how water use differs in different soils." Though the studies will easily" Vickers said, be time-consuming and fairly costly, Wesley said Warner disagrees College st udent s who receive low grades may soon be denied financial aid if a bill pending before Congress is passed. The bill, proposed by Sen. Don Nickels, R-Okla., would cut off federal financial aid to students who are unable to maintain at least a C grade average in their college courses. "It seems to me that setting a C average to determine who receives financial aid may not be t he best way to proceed," Don Aripoli, director of scholarships and financial aid at UNL, said. The bill was launched as a result of a study conducted last year by the General Accounting Office for the Seriate Labor and Human Resources Committee. The study found that 20 percent of college students receiving federal aid graduate with an average below a C. The number of UNL students affected by the bill could be quite substantial, Aripoli said. Ap proximately 15,000 UNL students will be receiving federal financial aid this fall, he said. Students must earn D Under the current UNL policy, students must earn a D or better in at least 50 percent of their classes to be eligible for financial aid. About 1,200 students currently are exempt from receiving aid because of these requirements. State Sen. Tom Vickers of Farnam is also against the proposed bill. Equal concern must be given to both lower and higher achievers, he said. "It sounds as if Uncle Sam is only concerned in helping those with an above C average," Vickers said. "I'm afraid of what would happen to those with a below C average." Vickers said if the bill becomes law, the pressures of doing well may eventually encourage students to take simpler, less challenging courses to avoid falling below a C average. "A person who is trying hard and getting a 2.5 is the same thing as a person who is getting a 3.5 it is hoped that the pro ject will generate more support, funds and grants. Inn i U UcEJU u Sen. Jerome Warner of Waverly doesn't agree. Warner said expecting a student to maintain a C average is reasonable, but only after the student has been in college for two years. Students, he said, need a chance to make the transition from high school to college. Warner's opinion is similar to the bill pending in Congress. The bill would allow students one year to develop good study habits. If they didn't have a C average by then, they would get another grading period to bring their grade up. If then the student's average was still below a C, the financial aid would be dropped. There is an importance in having better grades," Warner said. If a student is getting Ds he may be in the wrong field. The bill provides the right incentive for students to try harder " he said. Vickers said if the bill is passed, the improvement in higher education will be minimal and it would prevent many people from going to college. "It's a nice simplistic idea," he said. 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