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Janice Hayes, UNL student and city council candidate
Student in running for City Council seat
By Adeana Leftin
Staff Reporter
Wife, mother of two, part-time bookkeeper
and full-time UNL student Janice Hayes has
many roles in life. Now she’s hoping to add an
other: city councilwoman.
Hayes, a 39-year-old financial counseling
major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
has announced her candidacy for City Council
in Lincoln’s southwest district.
She said she thinks she has a good chance of
winning.
“I think I have an excellent chance if people
hear my issues,” Hayes said.
One of Hayes’ biggest platforms is opposi
lion to the proposed convention center in
downtown Lincoln.
Hayes said the center would take unneces
sary tax money and land from small businesses
and industries, which are needed to provide
jobs for the unemployed.
“A convention center would not do any
thing for the majority of the people,” she said.
Another issue Hayes opposes is expanding
the library in the southeast district.
Hayes said her district and the northwest
districtdo not have libraries, so building librar
ies in those districts should take priority over
expanding the southeast library.
Hayes is running against Mary Searcy, Dale
Young and incumbent Jo Gutgsell.
Hayes said that although she doesn’t have
political experience, she has the qualities to
handle the position.
“I’m new to politics and I probably can’t
learn to be a politician,” she said.
Hayes lias been in the work force for 26
years, including 15 years of accounting experi
ence that she feels makes her “budget con
scious.”
She said that because few UNL students live
in the southwest district, her election does not
depend on a large student vote.
But, she said, many things the council docs
affect the university. Students who help with
her campaign would be pleased with her votes,
she said.
Graduate program
targets educators
of junior high level
By Kelly Ann Kennedy
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Teach
ers College has developed the only graduate
studies program in the nation that focuses on
the needs of middle-level educators, according
to a professor.
Alfred Arth, a professor of education in the
Center for Curriculum and Instruction, said the
Nebraska Middle Level Leadership Program
will address the needs of middle-level educa
tors, who work with children between the ages
of 10 and 14.
“Our program is different than any other
program offered,” Arth said. “It focuses on
four different levels. We offer the middle-level
program which is backed up by our four-year
undergraduate program, master’s degree and
doctorate degree.”
hc said me program will address lU points:
empowerment, dcvelopmcntof a mission state
ment, creation of an effective school-building
climate, educational equity, interdisciplinary
teams, cooperative learning, coordinating cur
riculum, establishment of school-community
relations, program assessment and staff devel
opment.
The course is scheduled this summer, from
June 24 to July 5. Arth said he expects to have
10 Nebraska educators enrolled in the course,
including school principals and leaders who
deal with middle-level students.
The program has been developed over the
past two years with field studies in nine cities
throughout Nebraska, Arth said.
Although junior high schools have existed
for decades, Arth said, teachers still arc not
specifically trained to work with junior high
children.
Junior high educators usually are trained to
teach at the high school or elementary school
levels and then must adjust as they see fit to
work with children ages 10 to 14, hc said.
“Children at this age are very passive-ag
gressive. Our teachers need to learn how to
work around that,” Arth said, because junior
high is a very powerful time for teachers to
influence students.
“Hie key is they have to belong and our
teachers need skills to help this occur,” he said.
Method to improve ethanol yield earns patent
By Jean Lass
Staff Reporter
A University of Nebraska-Lincoln
faculty member and his partner last
month engineered their way into re
ceiving the five millionth patent for
developing a wa> to improve the effi
ciency of ethanol production.
Tyrrell Conway, an assistant pro
fessor of biological sciences at UNL,
along with Lonnie Ingram, a profes
sor at the University of Florida, ap
plied for the patent August 31, 1988,
after three years of genetic engineer
ing research.
“I’m very excited about having
the process patented, and it being the
five millionth patent was a bonus,”
Conway said.
Although it took three years of
research to invent a process for im
proving the efficiency of ethanol
production, Conway said, he and
Ingram conceived the original ex
periment and analyzed the positive
results in one week.
“The experiment was so success
ful that we knew we had hit on some
thing that was going to be very use
ful,” he said.
The process combines the proper
ties of two kinds of bacteria — Zy
mornonas mobilis and Escherichia coli
— to speed up ethanol production.
Conway said he and Ingram in
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serted the gene from Z. mobilis, which
is a bacterium responsible for effi
ciently converting polysaccharides into
ethanol, into the bacterium E. coli. E.
coli synthesizes a number of sugars
not normally used by alcohol-pro
ducing organisms such as yeast and
Z. mobilis.
“Genetic engineering allows us to
extend traditional methods and use
sugars that cannot currently be con
verted into alcohol or ethanol,” Con
way said.
When he started genetic engineer
ing in 1985 as a post-doctoral re
search associate with Ingram at the
University of Florida, he said, he did
not know his work in genetic engi
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ethanol production.
“Genetic engineering allows us to
make advances more rapidly than by
traditional approaches, and Mother
Nature hasn't seen fit to provide us
with bacteria that increases ethanol
production,” Conway said.
Conway’s goal is to make new
bacteria in the lab that can speed up
the process so Nebraska can use corn
resources and lower the cost of etha
nol per gallon.
“If we switch from our depend
ence on foreign oil to ethanol as an
alternative fuel, we would need to
increase ethanol production 100-fold,”
he said.
Right now, Conway said, 100 bil
lion gallons of petroleum gasoline are
burned every year in the United States,
but only a billion gallons of ethanol
are made.
Com production only would have
to be increased four fold, he said, to
make up the 100-fold increase in
ethanol production.
Conway said UNL will benefit from
his research because faculty mem
bers will have access to the technol
ogy and “they have the best interests
of Nebraskans in mind.”
The other benefit is that any future
patents will be held by UNL, he said.
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materials earlier— it doesn’t seem to
be that difficult,” Streckfuss said.
He said publishers probably will
decide to charge royalties and stu
dents in turn will have to pay more for
the packets.
Streckfuss also predicted that the
cost of the packets will increase even
tually because Kinko’s will have to
cover costs of obtaining permission
to print copyrighted material.
‘‘Considering the ruling and the
effect itcould have had, this (Kinko’s
move) makes it less of a burden,” he
said.
Stricklin said he thought Kinko’s
decision to cover the cost of obtain
ing permission to print the material
was a “very smart thing to do.”
“It helps the students, and the name
of the game is how we can make this
material available to the students as
easily as we can,” he said.
Stricklin said he thinks he will not
be affected greatly by the decision,
but said professors who use more
current material in their packets might
have problems submitting them early
enough to be approved for use.
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Week, the University of Ncbraska
Lincoln will participate in a state
wide tornado drill alter a simulated
warning is sounded at 10:30 a.m.
on Wednesday.
The Civil Defense sirens and
the UNL internal building alarm
systems will be activated, although
Advisers available fo
The Graduate Studies Office in
the Administration Building will
be open Saturday from 8 to 11:30
a.m. to assist graduate students with
early registration for summer ses
not all U NL buildings are equipped
with the alarms. A warning mes
sage also will be carried over local
television and radio stations.
Drill participants will be asked
to proceed to the nearest desig
nated shelter area and remain there
until the drill is successfully com
pleted, after 5 to 10 minutes.
r graduate students
sions.
Advisers will be available and
no deposit is required to pre-regis
ter.