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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.
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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
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