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In a story about the goals of new NU regents, William Swanson was
mistakenly elected a regent. He is the NU corporate secretary
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November 28,1988 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 88 No. 62
UNL and Lincoln industry play with park
By David Holloway
Senior Reporter
Economic competition is driving the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln and indus
try together with the city’s proposed
Research and Development Park, according to
John Yost, UNL vice chancellor for research
and dean of graduate studies.
“University researchers will be able to col
laborate with industrial scientists like never
before,” Yost said. “The park will develop a
kind of brokerage between the university and
industries.”
The park is still in the planning stages, Yost
said, but the plans are based on “solid founda
tions.”
He said research at the park will involve
subjects important to Nebraska such as bio
technology, engineering research and water
quality improvement.
Yost said university and industry research
was separate during the 1950’s when America
was at its height of industrial competition. In
the past 25 years, however, university research
and industry slowly have been driven together,
he said.
UNL Chancellor Martin Masscngale and
Lincoln Mayor Bill Harris appointed officials
to the Research and Development Park com
mittee last December to find a location for the
park, Yost said.
Yost said he and others had wanted plan&for
such a park for a long lime. He said the final
location remains to be announced by the com
mittee. The Highlands subdivision, northwest
of Lincoln, has been proposed.
The park will offer a “world of ideas” from
university research, Yost said.
“Oulof the 100 or more research parks in the
United States, I have found the most successful
parks to be driven by the strength of the re
search of the universities,” Yost said.
The park will benefit the university in many
different ways, Yost said, mainly through fac
ulty and money profits.
“The park will enable faculty to do research,
which, through industrial commercialization,
will bring money back to the university,” Yost
said.
Yost said the park will not only retain the
present researching faculty, but also “recruit
faculty because of relations with businesses
and industries.”
“The parks are going to continue to be a
trend of the future,” Yost said. “Businesses,
industries and universities are coming together
to maintain research strength and economic
growth.”
Yost said UNL will not have to help pay for
the park.
“Federal and private funds will be the main
contributors to the park,” Yost said. “We hope
industries and the government will support the
park when they see the university’s involve
ment.”
John Bruce/Daily Nebraskan
lax bill promotes
college education
By Eve Nations
Staff Reporter
A lax bill recently passed by Con
gress includes a provision that
will help parents who are sav
ing to pay for their children’s college
educations. The bill provides a lax ex
emption for interest earned on U.S.
savings bonds redeemed to pay col
lege expenses.
Susan Olson, an assistant to Doug
Bercuter, R-Neb., said to qualify for
the lax exemption, bonds must have
been purchased by the person seeking
the exemption, and owned solely by
the person or their spouse.
Bonds purchased by someone
under the age of 24, or purchased by
a parent and put in a child’s name, will
not qualify for the exemption, Olson
said.
“It is a measure to allow parents to
put away money on government sav
ings bonds,” she said. “If they use the
money to pay college expenses, the
money is tax exempt.”
Olson said the measure was in
cluded in the tax bill because “Con
gress was looking for a way to help in
financing educations.”
The bill is designed mainly to help
lower income families, Olson said.
The.lax exemption is phased out for
persons Tiling joint returns with in
comes between $60,000and $90,000,
and single returns with incomes be
tween $40,000 to $55,000, she said.
The exemptions arc eliminated en
tirely above those incomes.
“It’s a real help to low-income
students who don’t qualify for fund
ing,” Olson said. “It is a help for
families to save for the future.’'
Depending on the amount of the
savings bonds, the savings could be
substantial, Olson said. He said the
bill is a real help for the future.
“The savings bond exemption will
bccfTcctivc in 1990, and apply only to
U.S. savings bonds scries EE that are
issued in 1989 and thereafter," she
said.
December completion date set
HUSKERnet will make universal access
By Adam T. Branting
Staff Reporter
HUSKERnel, a University of Ne
braska-LincoIn computer net*
work that is set to be completed
in December, will allow students to
access computers virtually anywhere
in the world, said a UNL computer
specialist.
Gerald Kulish, associate director
of UNL’s Computing Resource Cen
ter, said HUSKERnel will allow stu
dents to send, receive and log infor
mation between computers.
Kuush said the system is run simi
lar to a telephone system, with com
puters linked together by a network of
fiber optic cable. This allows a com
puter to “talk” to others on campus,
including microcomputers.
HUSKERncl is linked to MIDnct,
a system headed by UNL that allows
Big Eight schools to speak to one
another, which, in turn is linked to the
National Science Foundation net
work. The National Science Founda
tion network is linked to ARPAnel,
which is one of the networks of the
Department of Defense.
It is through the ARPAnel system
that students, if they have they access
codes, can reach virtually any com
puter in the world, he said.
“Three years ago, none of this
could have happened,” Kutish said.
Kutish said the network is a major
advance in education because it will
allow all departments on campus to
speak with colleagues and to access
information from other colleges and
universities.
“We have people on this campus
who do research in other places and
log into other computers, and they do
it to us,” Kutish said.
Kutish estimated that it cost UNL
$200,000 per year during the past
three years to install the fiber optic
cables for HUSKERnet.
Kutish said that because all instal
lation was done by the resource cen
ter, the cost was considerably less
than if an outside contractor had been
brought in.
“I don’t think that, in our experi
ence, local companies could do this
kind of work,” Kutish said “They
don’t have the experience.”
Kutish said the network could tx
installed in residence halls and some
fraternities and sororities in the near
future if grant money comes through.
‘Buddies’ to help, comfort Lincoln AIDS victims
By Brandon Loomis
Staff Reporter
Starting in January, Lincoln
AIDS victims will have “bud
dies” to help them through
trying times.
Susan Garwood, a University of
Nebraska-Lincoln health services
senior, said the Nebraska AIDS Proj
ect-funded Buddy Support System is
already strong in Omaha.
Garwood, a volunteer “buddy,”
told the Mayor’s Task Force on AIDS
that volunteers in the project provide
emotional and physical support to
victims.
Volunteers do everything from
taking clients to the doctor to buying
groceries and listening to their prob
lems, Garwood said.
“You do everything they need that
you arc willing to do, she said. “But
the main thing you do is just be there
with them.”
Garwood said Lincoln needs the
project, so volunteers don't have to
travel to Omaha for training. The
Omaha project has trained 24 volun
teers, and some work with two clients.
but only a few operate in Lincoln, she
said.
Buddies-in-training will spend
three Saturdays starting Jan. 28 learn
ing active listening, counseling tech
niques and pastoral care, Garwood
said. Volunteers should be committed
to staying with their clients until
death, she said, though there is no
formal obligation.
Garwood said she recently lost one
of her clients. She said volunteers
have to be trained not only to help
their clients cope, but to be prepared
to handle the death themsqlves.
“Being a buddy is really pretty
• i,
intense,” she said. “It’s like losing
your brother.”
Only stable people who can handle
becoming attached to someone and
then losing them should volunteer,
Garwood said. For others, the Ne
braska AIDS Project sponsors a pro
gram in which volunteers provide the
physical support AIDS patients need,
but do not become emotionally in
volved.
Garwood said college students
should be particularly concerned
about Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome, and should do all they can
to help viclimsof the disease. She said
that one in every 300 college students
tests positive for the disease.
AIDS will also become an incrcas
ing economic burden on sociei),
Garwood said. During the average
two years from diagnosis to death, sh
said, each AIDS patient costs aboo*
$130,000 in health care.
The Buddy Support System i‘
designed to alleviate much of thus
cost by keeping the patients out of
hospitals, Garwood said.
tlOur society is just going to have
to develop more of these systems,
because we're not going to be able to
afford the cost of AIDS," she said.
