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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 84 No. 122
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State for students must be in
cresssd to 11 the gaping void crested
by federd M reductions, according to
a host cf stBdsnts erd eduction of3
cids who testified ti Tussdss Educa
! t!on Ce&siittee hesring st the Cgpitol
A stitswide wcrk-stcdy 'prosrsia
would be the rst step Nebok could
tsko en the state student eid stdrcsse,
ssid Exporters cf a bill thst would
UEdcr LB113, resident students t
Nebraska cdk'cj tad csiversities
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End local or state government agencies
to ttm up to $1,800 a year. Those
employers would psy SO percent cf stu
dents' salaries, and the stste would psy
the rest
Don Adpoii, director of Scholarships
end Financial Aid at UNL, estimated
thst unmet need for student aid in
Nebraska is $22.8 million.
"We redly don't need to lock at
funding that whole gsp," Arlpoli ssid.
"Zzt if you co give $1 million that's $1
million less that v;e neod."
Arlpoli termed work-study an "at
tractive option" and one psrt cf what
he hopes will bacons a balanced pack
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"1 2D2 he isn't. Cut the agriculture
if engineering department's robot,
il v known as KESO 1.0, has many
things in common with his "Star
Wars" cousin.
Neil Sullivan, an agriculture engi
rt instructor ar.d the robot's
creator, showed how EEEO can walk,
pickup and place electa and memo
riza.detailed coranands. The robot
ako csn see, hear and speak.
Sullivan and lb students built the
rctot from a kit throe years ago for o
Engineering-Week project. How,
HEEO is used u on educational and
training unit.
Sullivan ssid the possibility of
sterling a robotics class in the indus
trial engineering department in the
near Mure exists. He said the course
probably will be an, introductory
course dealing with theories and ...
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From the inside, EEEO looks like
most robots, including R2D2.
With KEEO's outer cover removed,
the robot's circuit boards appear.
Each function is isolated on a spe-
Work-study provides more than stu
dent aid for needy students, ha said. It
gives students a chancs to "test out''
career aress by giving them a taste of
evezyday work. Work-study brings more
money to colleges and universities by
enabling more people to enroll Arlpoli
added that research has proved stu
dents who are employed perform better
academically.
Ho one testified against the measure.
Debate on whether private, profit
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to participate in the prcgrast prompted
the only contrm'srsy.
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Council cf Private Vocational Schools,
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cific board and laMod. The robot is
battery-powered and can be pro-'
grammed to memerhe and follow a
given set of instructions or operated ....
by a hand-held control box.
IIEF.O's memory can story 64,000
pieces cf information, giving it the
ability to carry out lengthy or
detailed assignments.
Sullivan said the robot's sight
comes from a radar device commonly
found in Polaroid cameras. It let3 the
robot detect motion and make navi
gation and distance calculations.
KEBO also has a voice spthesizer
that canle3 64 phonetic sounds,
including various degrees of irilec
tion, he said. The roM can speak any
phrase in any language with this fea- -ture.
All functional commands,
including speech, are programmed
into the robot's computer brain by
punching the keyboard digits on top
cf the unit.
Most robots in cs'tsdsj Ere re
employed ia' highly dsagoroiss, repeti
tive or boring jobs, Sullivan said. The ;
auto industrj' uses many robots for
jobs like precision welding and
painting.
Although robots have a high initial
cost, they can compete effectively
said profit-oriented businesses should
be included to save the state money
and to provide more applicable expe
rience to students. He said that states
that limit their programs to non profit
organisations end up paying about 70
percent cf the students' salaries. '
Tore .Nelson cf Emerson, a Wayne
State Collego student, told the com
mittee that profit-oriented businesses
would be encouraged to hire students
merely because they would be less
expensive than traditional employees.
Nelson said students 'would displace
workers who need those jobs just as
badly. Work-study would, in this case,
be t state subsidy to business, he ssid.
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Soviet Union' lesdsy after a 15
mcath break od called the first
Bat chief U.S. negotiator Bias
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agreed on a "principle cf confiden
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with human labor, Sullivan said.
Robots never sleep, take a lunch
break or get bored with their tasks.
They can keep production costs low
and maintain high quality standards,
ho said.
Many people, especially those in
labor-related jobs, fear robots will put
them cut of work because they won't
be able to compete with robots'
speed and efaciency, Sullivan said.
Robots probably will replace
humans on the assembly line,
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van said. But these people will be
retrained to do tasks that robots can
not, such as designing, teachkg,
supervising, and servicing these
machines, he said.
According to Sullivan, studies are
being done with artificial intelligence
. that would allow robots to make
decisions using programmed logic
rather than having to respond with
only a limited number of assigned
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Using robots in agriculture is
limited now. While agriculture has
many boring or repetitive jobs, Sulli
van said, several obstacles hinder use
of robots, on farms.
Ccstiimed on Psgi 10
State Sen. Gerald Conway of Wayne,
co-sponsor cf the bill, agreed that pri
vate businesses should remain exempt
and said he opposed an amendment
that would include them.
Since 1981, federal student funding
has decreased 20 percent. The admin
istration's fiscal 1888 budget calls for a
$2.3 million redaction, which would
drop one million students irom federal
programs. Guaranteed Student Loans
would go to students where families
make less than $32,500 a year. A
. $25,000 income cap would be placed on
'Pell Grant applicants and students
could receive no more than $4,000
' annually in federal aid. -
at the 2s4-honr meeting or Has o3
cials hinted beforehand, it was da
voted mamiy to ptanrdng a work
program for negotiitlons that were
likely to take several yesrs.
Other, diplomats said a session
scheduled for a U.S. cf3ce bmldk
ca Thursday would stsrt getting
into red detail on issuos of sub
stance. They acknowledged Tues-
have involved some substantive
The t?lks opened on sehedbb
despite tha desth cf Soviet Presi
dent Kcnstantin Chcrrxnko late
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