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'What the Butler Saw'
Menace, wit and mayhem
Arts & Entertainment, Page 6
Cornhusker State Games
set for this weekend
Sports, Page 7
July 18, 1986
Osborne, Shada say
DN stoiy wrong
Nebraska Assistant Academic Coun
selor Marsha Shada said Thursday that
a report in Tuesday's Daily Nebraskan
was false.
The story reported a source in the
Nebraska athletic department told the
Daily Nebraskan that Shada allegedly
cosigned for a loan for a car for
Nebraska I-back Doug DuBose or pos
siblyarranged for actual payments on
the car through one of her relatives.
"The source was wrong," Shada said
Thursday. "I have not cosigned for any
thing for Doug DuBose and none of my
relatives have ever given any money to
go towards payments for anything for
Doug DuBose."
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Two dips of cool sweet lemon custard Ice cream from
UTiL's East Campus Dairy Store spill over the cone
ordered by Jeff Blow, whose hand barely keeps the "best
ice cream around" from toppling over.
airy store
sales during summer
By Scott Thien
Staff Reporter
Ah, the dog days of summer.
Things seem to be slowing down
everywhere because of the heat,
except ice cream sales at the UNL
Dairy Store on East Campus. In fact,
business couldn't be better, says
store manager Jill Gifford.
"We've been really busy lately,"
Gifford said. "We average about 400
customers a day now, an increase
due mainly to the heat "
The UNL Dairy Store, one-of sev
eral arms of the Food Science and
Technology Department and an ex
tension of the Nebraska State Food
Processing Center, is located in
H.C. Filley Hall on East Campus.
The Food Processing Centerworks
closely with the state's food pro
cessing industry doing research and
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Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne
said Wednesday that the Tuesday story
was false.
"I am in a position to know," Osborne
said. "It's absolutely not true."
"There is no evidence that anyone
other than Doug or his family paid for
the car," Osborne said. "You can take
that to the bank."
DuBose is one of the nation's leading
Heisman Trophy candidates for the
1986 season. He rushed for 1,161 yards
last season. He has been named to sev
eral pre-season All-American teams and
could become the first player in Neb
raska history to rush for 1,000 yards in
three consecutive seasons.
scoops up
extension work. The UNL Food
Science and Technology Department
focuses mainly on academics teach
ing graduate and undergraduate
classes.
Packaged cheese sets usually top
sales at the store around Christmas,
but ice cream sales during the
summer rank a close second, Gif
ford said. Merlin Znamenacek, UNL
Dairy Store plant manager, esti
mated the store sells nearly 60 gal
lons, or 600 cones, of ice cream a day
during the summer months.
Although the Dairy Store's pro
ducts are available only on UNL's
East and city campuses and not in
local retail stores, the store still has
a good public following.
"Overall, business has increased
over the last few years," Gifford
said.
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A chemical fire called Chemistry Professor Henry Baumgarten, left, and Del Weed, officer of
environmental health and safety, to Hamilton Hall's eighth floor for clean up Thursday morning.
Room 821, Inorganic Chemical Research lab, was extensively damaged. Powder from dry fire
extinguishers covered the lost research equipment, cabinets, chemicals and containers.
Fire damages Hamilton Hall.
Dust from fire extinguishers adds to damage
By Linda Bendixen
Staff Reporter
Fire extinguishers used to combat a"
fire on the eighth floor of Hamilton Hall
Wednesday evening may have caused
more damage than the actual fire, UNL
officials said Thursday.
The fire, apparently caused by the
reaction of a chemical to damp air,
damaged a storage cabinet and an
adjoining desk. Heat from the fire also
caused the windows and ceiling plaster
to crack.
No official estimates concerning the
extent of the damage have been made.
"It looks like a mess," said State
Fire Marshall Wally Barnett. "If you
ever want to find Dr. Frankenstein's
laboratory, that was it. It has dust all
over it, except it wasn't dust, it was
powder from the fire."
UNL receives new Harris computer
UNL has received the updated ver
sion of a superminicomputer and soft
ware from Harris Corporation. The
computer was dedicated at a ribbon
cutting ceremony in Walter Scott
Engineering Center Thursday.
"The Harris 1200 will serve the com
puting needs of three distinct user
communities on campus," said Doug
Gale, director of the Computing Re
source Center. "Those are the sophisti
cated FORTRAN "number crunchers,"
computer science systems programming
classes and upper class engineering
students."
He said the Computing Resource
Center is beginning to have a rich,
competitive environment.
"We're like a buffet where there is a
wide variety of delicious food," Gale
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The powder was left by the fire
extinguishers. Water could not be used
due to the nature of the fire.
"Dry powder from the fire extin
guishers left a fine, enveloping dust
that scattered everywhere," said Assis
tant Professor George Sturgeon, vice
chairman of the chemistry department.
Sturgeon said the powder also dam
aged some specialized electrical
equipment used in the laboratory.
"We're taking everything apart and
cleaning it right now," said chemistry
professor Henry Baumgarten. "The
powder is abrasive and needs to be
cleaned up before it causes any corro
sion of the equipment."
Cleaning up involves vacuuming the
dust, then sponging off what is left. The
task was complicated by the ventila
tion system, which spread the dust.
Although it was a chemical fire, offi
said, "but at the moment the trays of
food aren't piled too high right now."
He said although a wide variety of
equipment is available for university
students, faculty and staff, there may
not always be enough equipment for
everyone.
Gale said the available equipment
includes three Control Data Corp.
superminicomputers, one IBM model
4381, three VAX supermini's and the
new Harris 1200.
The original Harris machine donated
to UNL was never delivered, Gale said.
The Computing Resource Center found
out that if they used the original for a
trade-in, with a small amount of money
from the center, they could have a
machine with five times more capacity.
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cials are not anticipating any health
hazards involved with the cleaning and
disposal of the residue.
"There were not a lot of solvents in
the cabinet," said Baumgarten. "The
chemicals involved were alleged to be
safe or they wouldn't have been in that
room."
As for the cleanup, Baumgarten
commented, "If it wasn't safe, the
cleaning people wouldn't be in there.
We wouldn't be in there."
The fire, which broke out Wednesday
around 9:00 p.m., took fire fighters
about three hours to extinguish. Dam
age was confined to the laboratory and
the immediate surrounding area. Al
though there were about a dozen grad
uate students on the eighth floor when
the fire broke out, all were safely evac
uated from the building. No injuries
were reported.
"It was like if GM gave you a new
Chevy, and you offered to let the com
pany keep the Chevy to trade in, and
ended up buying an Oldsmobile," Gale
said. "We try to leverage every dollar."
One of the Computing Resource
Center's long-standing goals is to dev
elop a "true" network for all computing
equipment as associated with UNL.
Gale said this process will never be
completed entirely because of con
stant updating, but in order to have
"reasonable completion" by 1995, the
Center will need more money.
"That is why we have to work hard
with corporate donors, such as Harris,"
Gale said. "We need to be efficient in
order to provide the university with
quality and quantity."
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