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I WEATHER: Friday, breezy and ■ much cooler with partly cloudy ■ skies. High in the mid-50s. Friday ■ night, mostly clear and cold with ■ scattered light frost. Low in the ■ 30s. Saturday, mostly sunny, I breezy and warmer. High in the October 2, 1987__University of Nebraska-Lincoln_Vol. 87 No. 27 Two-step No, they’re not twins. Brad Brunz and his reflection walk down the steps to the University Bookstore. Students aid campaigns By Bob Nelson Staff Reporter As the change of season begins to cool the Midwest, the U.S. Senate race starts to heat up across Nebraska. Along with the state-wide cam paign organizations of Rep. Hal Daub and Sen. David Karnes, both of Omaha, several University of Ne braska-Lincoln students have set their stake in the race. Karnes and potential Senate con tender Bob Kerrey, agreed that stu dent groups are assets to their cam paigns. Former Gov. Kerrey, who will announce whether he will run for the Senate sometime this month, said the student campaigns “unquestionably make a difference in the campaign.” “They bring a high level of enthu siasm to the campaign,” Kerrey said Thursday in a phone interview from New York City. “They often influ ence party positions.” Daub agreed with Kerrey about the importance of student involve ment in the Senate race. “The best political results come from the bottom up,” Daub said. “I learn a lot from the views and atti tudes of students. That input helps me do my job much better.” UNL student Rob Abel, coordina tor of the Daub for U.S. Senate or ganization on campus, said the race between Daub and Karnes for the Republican ticket spot has been going since the first Comhusker home foot ball game. Abel said the group organized before the UCLA game to create exposure for Daub as soon as pos sible. Ten students campaigned for Daub at the last home football game, he said. The group, which has 42 student members, meets every other week. Nebraska football games are ideal for campaigning because of the large concentration of Nebraskans in a small area, he said. Greg Beam, a UNL graduate stu dent involved with Karnes’ cam paign, said his group also stresses exposure during football games. Like the Daub campaign, Karnes support ers hand out stickers, balloons and many other promotional items. Beam said the 40 UNL students involved in the Karnes campaign meet weekly. The Karnes campaign is planning a reception before an upcoming foot ball game, Beam said. The reception, for students only, will give students the chance to meet Karnes in person. No date has been set for the reception, he said. Abel said the Daub student cam paign is trying to set up a debate between Daub and Karnes in Lincoln. Kathleen Neary, past president of UNL Young Democrats, said al though the group has no candidates to back yet, there would “definitely” be an organization formed if a Demo cratic candidate for Senate was an nounced. Kerrey would most likely be the first Democrat to announce his candi dacy, she said. Steve Mossman, another member of the Karnes student campaign, said the Karnes central office gives the campus group much autonomy. He said the main office offers assistance, but the student group plans most of its activities. Daub said the campus group sup porting him also makes its own deci sions. “It’s up to them to decide most of what they do,” Daub said. “To tic one arm behind their back wouldn’t be fair.” Mossman said he got involved with the Karnes campaign because he was impressed with Karnes. Karnes is an up-and-coming and experienced politician, he said. Beam agreed that Karnes is good for Nebraska and said he wanted to be a part of re-electing him to office. Abel, the campus Daub campaign leader, said a summer internship helped him decide who to support. “I worked in Washington this summer and got to see David Karnes perform first hand on the Senate floor,” Abel said. “I wasn’t all that impressed with what I saw. I just think Hal Daub is a lot more experienced and from what I heard from different lobbyists and government workers in Washington, a lot of other people feel tins way too.” Abel said the campus organiza tions are more important than many people think. He said previous Senate races have been decided by less than a thousand votes. With UNL’s enroll ment of more than 23,(XX), he said the difference in the whole election could be decided by UNL students. Campus political campaigns not only give students a chance to get involved in politics, he said, but also give them an opportunity to meet other students in a social atmosphere. Abel said the group’s activities often bring members close together. Daub also said campaigns are a good way for students to get started in politics. He said three members of his pro fessional staff started out in campus political parties. Then they worked on internships with him after which he hired them to his full-time staff. Abel stressed that the Daub or ganization isn’t involved with “hard core” politics. “Most students aren T interested in hard-core politics,” Abel said. “We just want to make people aware of who Hal Daub is and why he should be Senator.” Both Beam and Abel said that al though the Republican Senate race will be an intense battle, the emphasis of each candidate’s campaign will be on his own positive aspects instead of the negative aspects of the opposing candidate. UNL atomic lab called ‘one of best equipped' By Jane Hirt Staff Reporter Walking between Bchlen Labora tory of Physics and Richards Hall, most students would never guess that six feet beneath them is an atomic collision lab complete with an 18-inch thick ceiling and an escape hatch. The lab is part of a project called inelastic processes in atomic colli sions, a type of research that has been going on since 1946. M. Eugene Rudd, University of Nebraska-Lincoln physics professor and co-principal investigator of the research, said the purpose of the proj ect is to gain basic knowledge of the behavior of atoms colliding at high i speeds. UNL physics professor Duane Jaccks, the other co-principal investi gator, said the electrons are acceler ated to high velocity down a vacuum lube and made to crash with each other. “We look at the products of that collision,” he said. At the lab, Rudd said, several basic inelastic processes arc studied. They include electron ionization, excita tion, electron transfer and dissocia tion. Rudd said the purpose of the proj ect is only to gain knowledge. “The knowledge may have uses, but we don’t look into the uses,” he said. However, he said some of their findings may lead to further under standing of things such as radiation damage to biological tissue, and the operation of the sun and stars and the northern lights, all of which involve colliding atoms, Rudd said. Rudd has worked on the project since 1966 and works with a staff that includes faculty, postdoctoral re search associates,graduate and under graduate students. Though the underground lab itself was built beneath BehlenLabin 1964, research on atomic collision on this campus was started in 1946 by Profes sor Theodore Jorgensen who has since retired from the university. At the lime, he began his research alone and later gained a staff of gradu ate students who were interested in doing graduate work in physics, Jor gensen said. He said he worked for a couple of years before he applied for a grant from the Atomic Energy Commis sion. Donal Bums, assistant executive vice president and provost, is a faculty associate to the lab. He came to the University from Ireland in 1968. “One of the reasons I came from Ireland was because I thought it was one of the best-equipped labs in the world,” Bums said. ~ Rudd said the escape hatch, which surfaces between Behlen and Richards Hall, is there in case of a fre. The thick ceiling was built for shield ing to enable the lab to use neutrons. But Rudd said they have never worked with neutrons and don’t plan to in the near future. This year, the project received a grant from the National Science Foun dation for about $1.2 million for 3 1/ 3 years. Rudd said that the lab began in 1966 and this grant is an extension of previous grants. He also said that the University of Nebraska makes some contributions toward salaries of the professors, some shop facilities and sometimes equipment. Rudd said there arc other labs of this kind throughout the country but the lab here conducts a wider range of experiments and more specialized experiments than some others. ■-1 Patch of nature defies brick, elements By Trevor McArthur Staff Reporter In the shadow of Oldfathci Hall, between the bike racks and the greenhouse, a patch of nature de fies concrete and brick. Students walk by it on their way to classes, bees make their rounds searching for pollen, and flowers begin to lose their petals as the Harry Lloyd Weaver Native Gar den prepares for another change of seasons. The garden is taken care of by the greenhouse staff and used by classes such as botany and ecology, not to mention birds. “It’s mostly, I would say, seed eating birds rather than the insect eating birds,” said Glen Drohman, greenhouse manager for the School of Biological Sciences. “It seems like the doves like it the best.” But the real stars of the garden’s show arc the plants, which include huge chokecherry bushes and frag ile red columbine. Most of the plants are native within a 100-mile range of Ne braska. The rest are plants which have been introduced to the area and now make up a part of the slate’s plant life. Construction of the garden be gan in 1971 and was completed in 1973. Drohman decided to create it to give students a chance to sec some native Nebraska plants with out having to leave the campus. I did most all the work on it myself,” Drohman said. The proj eel had no budget, but went for ward through volunteers. ‘‘Whoever I could talk into giv ing me some brick and whoever 1 could talk into building me a pond,” he said, laughing. Also helping out were the UNI grounds department and the Col See WEAVER on 3
