Wednesday, August 24, 19S3
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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.
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buildings construction.
He said the cost will not
exceed $100,000.
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Wesley said the pro
posals for the lab were pre
sent ed to the Founda
tion's Laymen Fund Giant
Source by Robert Shear
man, UNL a-ssociate pro
fessor of horticulture.
Shearman is on vacation
and could not be reached
for comment.
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
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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. "But it
wouldn't work in the end."
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