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February 25, 1987
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 86 No. 110
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By Stew Magnuson
Senior Reporter
Dedication ceremonies were held
Tuesday morning at UNL's College of
Engineering for a $1 million state-of-the-art
computer system donated by
AT&T Communications.
UNL was one of 150 universities
chosen from 1,000 applicants to receive
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Mike Stec, a member of the Plant Identification Team, studies a patch of switchgrass.
Plant identifiers ear highest finish
By Stew Magnuson
Senior Reporter
UNL has a team that recently placed
fifth in the nation, their best-ever fin
ish amongst "rough" competition. This
team also has one member who placed
ninth of 87 in the first year of competi
tion. No, this team isn't as well-known
as the football team, the basketball
teams or even the wrestlers.
They're not even as well-known as
the much-praised livestock- and meat
judging teams. They're the Plant Iden
tification Team, six students coached
by Kelly Roberts, a reasearch technolo
gist in UNL's agronomy department.
the powerful new system.
Tom Thomsen,. president of AT&T
Technology Systems and a UNL alum
nus, said one reason UNL was chosen to
receive the computers was the com
pany's use UNL's product.
"And that product is their gradu
ates," he said. "Our universities have
to be on the leading edge. You want
them up to speed with the world-class
The plant-identification team takes
little explanation. They identify 200
varieties of plants from North America,
Roberts said.
The team returned Feb. 15 from the
Society for Range Management meet
ings in Boise, Idaho, where they beat
last year's best ever seventh-place fin
ish by placing fifth out of 22 schools
from the United States, Canada and
Mexico.
Roberts said, 'The people who com
pete put in a lot of work. Fifth is really
good. Most of the teams like Texas have
big programs and lots of money."
The plants are taken from a list of
the 200 most important in North Amer
competition." Thomsen said more than
325 UNL graduates work for AT&T.
The computer system will help coor
dinate research and integrate all sys
tems in the sciences, engineering and
mathematics departments at UNL,
UNMC and UNO.
Until the donation, a researcher had
to access different computer terminals
if they wanted to call up information.
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and each competitor has one minute to
identify the plant with its Latin scien
tific name, longevity (annual or perre
nial) and its origin (native or intro
duced). The members of the team come from
all departments, Roberts said. Agron
omy, biology and natural resource
majors are all represented.
Unlikesports teams, the Plant Iden
tification Team gets no money from the
university. Expenses were covered this
year by donations from Natural Resource
Districts, seed companies and team
alumni, Roberts said.
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The new system will help researchers
compute, analyze and share research
data. The system can be used by 40
researchers at the same time.
NU President Ronald Roskens said
this is the first time a major company
has made such a donation for the com
plete university system.
Thomsen said AT&T wants UNL stu
Bus bust evidence OlCd
By Jen Deselms
Senior Reporter
Evidence obtained after buses char
tered by the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity
were stopped will be allowed in the
test case of Ryan Kennell, Saunders
County Court Judge Everett Inbody
said Tuesday. Evidence included num
erous cans and bottles removed from
buses.
Kennell, charged with minor in pos
session, was among 135 people tick
eted for alcohol violations Sept. 13
after buses carrying Phi Psi members
and their dates to a beach party in
Valley were stopped by police.
All passengers on the four buses
were ticketed for minor in possession
or procurring for a minor. But in
October the Saunders county attorney
decided that no charges would be filed
against 74 of the passengers. The fate
of the remaining 60, minors whom
police said had alcohol on their breath,
hinges on the Kennell test case.
In a written decision, Inbody said
the evidence presented by both sides
in a Dec. 3 hearing led him to decide
that Investigator Thomas Nesbitt of the
Nebraska State Patrol had probable
Alumni Association vice president
resigns to take job at Ball State
John H. (Jack) Miller, executive vice
president of the NU Alumni Associa
tion, has been named vice president for
university advancement at Ball State
University in Muncie, Ind.
University president John Worthen,
announced Miller's appointment, which
begins July 1.
Miller managed all of the Nebraska
Alumni Association's programs, activi
ties and publications as its vice presi
dent and chief executive officer.
He founded an alumni legislative
liaison program during his 15-year ad
ministration. Miller has been respon
sible for the planning, funding and
building of the $4 million Wick Alumni
Center at UNL and has been invovled in
the National Merit Scholarship pro
gram and general student recruitment.
Miller said that his 15 years at UNL
have been very enjoyable.
"UNL is a good university with good
alumni, great alumni support, and great
faculty and student support," he said.
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technologies.
"We see pragmatic values, not only
to AT&T, but to other industries," he
said.
Ed llirsch, NU Foundation presi
dent, said, "We can credit this dona
tion for academics and not for build
ings. And in this particular climate, we
are very pleased."
cause to stop the Phi Psi buses. The
judge ruled that evidence obtained
from the search of the buses, informa
tion from the defendant and observa
tions of the defendant will be allowed
in court.
During the December hearing on the
motion to suppress, Kennell's attorney,
Kirk Naylor, tried to prove through wit
ness testimony that police had no rea
son to stop the buses. Charles Wagner.
Saunders deputy county attorney, said
after the hearing that police had cause
to stop the buses because they had
information that members cf an Omaha
fraternity would be-drinking on a pub
lic roadway. Officers were investigating
a possible crime and came across
another one when they stopped the Phi
Psi buses, Wagner said.
Naylor said police did not check to
see who actually had been drinking,
but ticketed and detained everyone. He
said that was unreasonable and unfair
to those who hadn't been drinking.
A pre-trial conference on the matter
is scheduled for March 25.
Naylor said pre-trial conferences are
uncommon in misdemeanor cases, but
this is an unusual case because of the
more than 60 people cited.
"It has made the ideas and programs
workable."
Miller said he is leaving the univer
sity because of the good opportunity
Ball University has given him.
"After 15 years it is time for a
change," Miller said. "I've done the
things I came here to do, the alumni
program is doing well, and I'm ready to
expand professionally."
Andrea Kransford, director of alumni
communications for the Alumni Asso
ciation, has worked with Miller the
entire time he has been at UNL.
"We have experienced drastic growth
since Miller came to UNL," Kransford
said. "From a staff of seven and a few
programs, Miller has added the Scarlet
and Cream Singers, Student Alumni
and individual colleges' alumni associ
ation programs. He was almost solely
responsible for the planning, fundrais
ing, and actual building of the Wick
Alumni Center."
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