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By Merry Hayes
Staff Reporter
Four years ago a handful of chemis
try students drove a Volkswagen into a
Hamilton Hall elevator to take a pic
ture of it. It wouldn't fit.
Last year some chemistry' students
threw a watermelon out an eighth-floor
window.
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u-w Wp do mostlv is work," said To fight boredom when waiting due
Jeff Urbauer, a doctoral candidate in ing experiments, the students said
biochemistry. thty mostly Play computer games, read
He said chemistry undergraduates, and sleep,
graduate students and lab technicians A group of chemistry students who
spend many nights at Hamilton Hall would only be: identified as Merle, Burl,
because it is easier to get their work Earl and Dave said they take breaks at
done at night. Chesterfield's and sometimes even
'. . i i A,tn return to the labs afterwards.
Page Mehlhaff, a doctoral cand date Ear, sajd ..
in biochemistry, said, 'There a e so lh rcquired to
many interruptions during the day. At h m b,
night I don't have to wait lor equip- Jhesterfielcrs cne(,ult
ment and l uon t nave 10 iai io
anybody."
Mehlhaff said sometimes she will
work on five experiments at once.
"If anybody's in your way, everything
completely falls apart," she said.
Urbauer said he spends about 60
hours a week in the lab working on his
dissertation.
Another time some students took Mehlhaff said the time she spends in
the furniture out of a professor's office the lab depends on her mood.
and replaced it with couches. The stu
dents were lounging on them when the
professor came to work the next
morning.
These are just a few examples of
what goes on in Hamilton Hall at night.
When those lights are burning late in
UNL's white skyscraper the chemistry
students aren't necessarily burning the
midnight oil.
"When I'm in a bad mood, I come
here a lot," she said.
Merle said sometimes they throw,
roll and slide things down the halls'
and perform "stupid laser tricks with
hundreds of thousands of dollars of
equipment" and play with toy guns.
"When I'm bored with the guns, I do
research," Merle said.
He said a lot of chemistry students
sit around and "think of ways to make
millions because they'll never do it as
chemists."
Dave said, "We get together for wine-and-cheese
parties and discuss modern
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Bruce Kahn, doctoral candidate in problems like what chemicals are doing
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doesn't want to talk to. as chemists."
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