Shuttle astronauts
successfully receive
Air For^e signals
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After
four days of trying, Discovery’s astronauts
received laser signals Sunday that were beamed
up at them from Florida by the Defense Depart
ment.
The lime-colored light signals, which con
tained navigation data, were sent from an Air
Force facility in Palm Bay.
“The green laser was clearly visible, visu
ally and through the camera,” said shuttle
commmander David Walker. “Whatever
they’ve done to change the laser on the ground
has fixed our problem.”
Operators of the Palm Bay station had re
placed the laser transmitter before firing
Sunday’s test beams. The old transmitter had
been operating at just 20 percent of normal
power, said Dave Hess, a spokesman for the Air
Force Space and Missile Systems Center.
The next two laser tests failed, however, one
because of bad weather and the other for un
known reasons.
Until Sunday, bad weather at laser stations
scattered throughout the United States had
thwarted the Army experiment. Fourteen laser
tests had been scheduled through Sunday, four
of which were scrapped because of clouds, rain
or snow and two that were attempted but spoiled
by clouds.
The Army wanted to see if lasers could relay
navigation data from the ground to space. Such
information currently is transmitted via radio,
which is more susceptible to enemy detection.
“The concept has been proved” as a result of
Sunday’s success, Hess said.
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Patches of life Julia Mikolajcik/DN
The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt visited Omaha this weekend. Only about 5 percent of the quilt’s 22,128
panels were displayed in the Omaha Civic Auditorium. An estimated 4,200 people visited the exhibit Saturday and
many more were expected for Sunday.
Whittier houses band,
business, brine shrimp
By Ted Taylor
Staff Reporter___
One year ago, the Whittier Build
ing was the home for three small
businesses that needed affordable
space to help them get started.
The former junior high school, lo
cated at 22nd and W streets, still
provides space for those businesses
— plus a home for brine shrimp, a
stage for a local band and a gymna
sium for the UNL Fencing Team,
among other things.
The building was built during the
1920s and was the first facility in the
United States that was specifically
designed for junior high students. In
1980, the Lincoln Public School Dis
trict proclaimed the school obsolete,
and it remained vacant until the Uni
versity of Ncbraska-Lincoln purchased
it in 1983.
Henry Baumgartcn, interim asso
ciate vice chancellor for research at
UNL, said the original goal was to
have a place where a small business in
Nebraska could gel started.
But since UNL bought the build
ing, the users have been diverse, he
said.
The Nebraska Technological De
velopment Corporation runs the build
ing and, in a joint program with UNL
and the University Foundation, rents
the building out to anyone in need of
space for an activity.
Any sort of activity that will not
cost us anything and provides a good
social purpose will be considered,”
Baumgarten said. “We wouldn’t al
low anything we thought to be dan
gerous or something that would make
the university community feel un
comfortable.”
At one point, the College of Jour
nalism considered moving into the
building. But Will Norton, dean of the
college, said those plans were aban
doned because of the building's dis
tance from campus and the extensive
renovation costs needed to make it
suitable for the college’s needs.
But for many other university de
partments and private businesses,
Whittier is ideal.
The university’s Agriculture Re
search Service has taken out a five
year lease and will be pay ing $250,000
in renovations for its entomology lab,
which should be finished in Novem
ber, Baumgarten said.
The university animal care service
labs and offices also call Whittier
home, as well as the Sirge snow and
ice research group, which analyzes
- it
We want the building to
become a true incuba
tor facility where busi
nesses can start up and
eventually stay here in
Nebraska.
— Baumgarten
interim associate vice chancel
lor for research at UNL
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snow and icc from Greenland.
A statewide organization called
Epscor, which distributes grants from
several agencies to the faculty, has its
main office in Whittier.
Private businesses also arc filter
ing into thcoldclassroomsof Whittier.
Aquatic Productions International,
a business that produces brine shrimp,
which arc fed to tropical fish, has used
the Whittier Building for the ptast four,
and a half years, said Jim Rosc^wski.a
biology professor at UNL. Rosowski
is one of five faculty members who
started the business.
“It’s been an ideal place for us,”
Rosowski said. “We had to do some
rewiring and insulating, but we would
have had to do that to any building,”
he said.
Baumgarten said businesses rent
ing space in the building had to pay for
their own renovations.
When we bought it, we had a set
amount set aside to pay for some basic
safely requirements like smoke alarms
and a sprinkler system,” Baumgarten
said.
However, not all of the building is
healed. The unhealed portion is used
mainly for storage, he said.
Other Whiuicr renters include the
Lincoln FcncingClub, which uses the
gymnasium for its meetings, a local
band, which uses the band room, a
small accounting firm and a business
called Eidos, which makes aircraft
equipment that allows people to work
on the underside of airplanes.
‘‘We want the building to become
a true incubator facility where busi
nesses can start up and eventually stay
here in Nebraska,” Baumgarten said.
But university programs probably
will continue to use Whittier as well,
because there is no other place for
some of them.
“It would be ideal for the state to
take care of the university functions
with a university building, but they
don’t have the money right now,”
Baumgarten said.
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