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Weather: Continued cloudy and cold today. Light rain possible this afternoon with a high of 42. Continued cloudy tonight and Wednesday with a 40 percent chance of snow or freezing drizzle. Low tonight near 30. High on Wed nesday near 40. eat Puppets 'cover' a wide range of music Arts and Entertainment, page 7 y Cold weather hamper scalpers' ticket sales Sports, page 9 Dailv j rC) 7) i (T November 12, 1985 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 85 No. 56 f Hark DavisDaily Nebraskan A day to remember... I Col. Toby Corey of UNL remembers the POWs and MIAs on the eve of Veteran's Day. About 120 nationwide squadrons, including the Arnold Air Society of the Air Force ROTC at UNL, kept a candle burning during an overnight vigil ending at sunrise with the raising of a POWMIA commemorative flag. Home Economics Dean Anthony announces plans for retirement By Jane Campbell Staff Reporter Hazel Anthony, College of Home Economics dean, said on Monday that she will retire in June 1986. Anthony, the only woman dean at UNL, took that job in 1972. She said the most exciting part of her career at UNL was when the college moved into its new' building in 1974. The quality of faculty members that the college has acquired and the growth in the master's degree program and in creased enrollment also have been exciting for her, she said. "It hasn't been bad," she said. "It's been frustrating atf times, but enjoy able." ' Anthony said re cent budget cuts frustrated her be cause they limit what the college could accomplish. "But it's gratify ing to see what we Anthony can do with limited funds," she said. After she retires, Anthony said, she plans to travel and do some of the things she has put off. - John Yost, UNL associate to chancel lor Martin Massengale, said an advisory committee will be appointed to search for a new dean. Anthony received her bachelor's and master's degrees from UNL. She earned her doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Anthony became chairwoman of the UNL home economics education depart ment in 1963. In 1970, she became associate dean of the college. Instructor hopes to raise retention Class planned to help new students By Molly Adams Staff Reporter A new course on academic programs that would give new students an idea of what the university offers is being planned. Jim McShane, associate professor of English and organizer of the program, said the course would help students understand the university's system better. The course would cover information about student services, academic pro grams, libraries and learning centers, he said. McShane said it is important for students to know how to take full advantage of the university. "In order for the university to retain students, we have to enable them and let them know they're worth some thing," he said. The course is being modeled after a course at the University of South Caro lina. McShane said USC has better stu dent retention rates. He said UNL students have expressed a need for a similar course. "I haven't been anywhere where it's been discussed that students don'.t think it's a good idea," he said. McShane has talked to campus rep resentatives and received favorable responses. However, a few problems such as faculty recruitment still must be solved before the curriculum committee will consider the course for final approval, McShane said. He said the course would consist of a 2-credit-hour seminar and a 1-credit-hour lecture. "Information from the lectures would feed back into the seminar," McShane said. "We want to start with and lead back into academic discipline." Senators reconvene; students give final push for lower budget cuts By Todd von Kampen Senior Reporter Student groups will be at the Capitol today to begin their final push for smaller NU budget cuts, ASUN Presi dent Gerard Keating said Monday. The Legislature is scheduled to con sider bills to raise the state's income tax and cigarette tax rates when it reconvenes today after a three-day week end. Senators will decide late today or Wednesday whether to allow further amendments to the main budget bill or vote on the bill's final passage. The special session might adjourn by Fri day, said Scottsbluff Sen. William Nichol, speaker of the Legislature. Richard Brown, assistant to Clerk of the Legislature Patrick J. O'Donnell, said Friday that no amendments to further reduce NU's budget cut have been submitted to the clerk's office. The Legislature voted Nov. 4 to lower the proposed cut in state support for NU and the state colleges from 3 per cent to 2 percent. Keating said members of ASUN and UNL's Government Liaison Committee plan to give each senator a blue balloon and pamphlet that says NU students and faculty members oppose the budget cuts. The balloon and pamphlet, he said, are meant to remind senators of Saturday's Nebraska-Iowa State game at which students and football players wore blue in protest of the cuts and released blue balloons when Nebraska scored its first touchdown. ASUN will continue encouraging students to call or write senators about the cuts and to lobby at the Capitol until the session adjourns, Keating said. Student s, he said, must keep fighting for lowir cuts, because even a 2 percent cut uill mean the elimina tion of necessary urograms. "I feel it's been a tremendous suc cess getting it down to 2 percent," he said. "But I'm optimists that senators will introduce another amendment if, in fact, an income tax increase is passed." Senators who support NU will be concentrating their efforts this week on winning passage of the two tax increase bills so Gov. Bob Kerrey will accept the budget bill, said Lincoln Sen. David Landis. Without an indica tion that a further reduction in NU's budget cuts would be passed, suppor ters probably will not offer an amend ment to do so, he said. Input from students and parents will make the greatest difference in per suading senators to reduce the cuts even further, said Joe Rowson, NU director of public affairs. "I think students have done a ter rific job on all our campuses (in win ning lower cuts)," he said. "They've communicated well, and what you've seen is a result of that." UNL joins network Computer system links the world By Jane Campbell Staff Reporter UNL computers have opened up communication lines across the nation. Last June, two of UNL's main frame computer systems joined BITNET, a computer network that links more than 600 U.S. universi ties and several U.S. businesses. Counterpart networks in Canada and Europe also are linked to BITNET, which stands for the "Because It's Time Network." "(BITNET) is a way of hooking up main-frame systems all over the country and the world," said Michael Ruhrdanz, programmer analyst at the UNL Biometric and Information Systems Center. Files, messages and research can be sent through BITNET to universi ties across the United States, Can ada and Europe, Ruhrdanz said. BITNET also is used to exchange information between U.S. and French medicai centers that are research ing acquired immune deficiency syndrome, he said. At UNL, BITNET is used primarily to send information between two of the university's main-frame compu ter systems the International Business Machines Corp. and the Control Data Corp. systems, he said. Although the UNL systems are only about 200 feet apart, informa tion must pass through eight con necting links on the network before it reaches the other system, Ruh rdanz said. To go from the CDC sys tem to the IBM system, a file travels through the University of Iowa and the University of Wisconsin before it reaches the central United States link at Central University in New York. CUNY translates the CDC file to an IBM file and sends it through five more nodes before it reaches the IBM system. The process takes about five minutes, he said. "We've found it's a very quick network," Ruhrdanz said. BITNET charges no fees for use of its network, he said. However, com puter systems hooked up with the network must buy their own com munication software and pay rent for a telephone cable to the univer sity they are linked with. There is only one path from one node to another, he said, and every system in the network must agree to be a connecting point for another system. Please see BITNET on 3