Education
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School, said computer, satellite and telecom
munication technology allowed her students to
communicate directly with their German peers.
Technology is crucial, Kuehl said, if stu
dents are to learn the language instead of simply
learning about the language.
“It gets my students out of the classroom and
into the world.”
Pledges
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Tau Kappa Epsilon has reduced its pledge
program to three weeks, and Alpha Gamma
Rho abandoned its pledge program altogether
last fall.
Dennis Bracht, president of Alpha Gamma
Rho, said his chapter switched to having no
pledge program this year. He said freshmen
were activated into the fraternity after only a
few days.
The dec ision to drop the pledge program was
made by Alpha Gamma Rho’s national office,
Bracht said.
“We still make (pledges) learn the history of
the house, give them tests over itand things like
that,” he said. “But they get voting rights and
privileges sooner.
“There have been a few adjustment prob
lems for the older members in the house, but
everything has gone well otherwise.”
Bills said members of Kappa Alpha Theta
nationals and UNL’s Panhcllcnic officials were
working to accommodate the earlier initiation.
“I don’t really know the arguments on cither
side,” she said.
Anderson said she was unaware that UNL
greek chapters had activated pledges before
they had obtained a GPA — a violation of
UNL’s greek constitution.
Bracht, though, was unfeigned.
“Well, I don’t know,” he said, “but we do it
anyway.”
But that may change soon.
“Nothing can be done if they do,” Anderson
said. “But if they do, their national headquar
ters will hear from us, and I would guess they
won’t be doing it next year.”
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Change of Seasons
Tom Jensen and Steve Dyer (hidden) of Signs Incorporated replace The Haymarket snowflake banners with
flowered ones at 9th and Q streets Wednesday. “You’d think this would be easier,” Jensen said.
Fight
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event, Moeller said.
In addition to safety gear, registered referees
will do their part to protect the boxers from
serious harm.
Fight Night will take place Friday at 7 p.m.
at the 4-H Hall at the State Fairgrounds. Tickets
are $4.
The events are sponsored by Sigma Chi,
Pepsi, Gas-N-Shop and O’Douls.
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New pinto bean variety to ease
farmers’ worries about disease
By Nicole Sheets
Staff Reporter
A new pinto bean variety being released by
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln should case
headaches for disease-weary d/y bean farmers
throughout Nebraska.
This new variety. Chase, resists bean rust
and common bacterial blight, diseases that
have hurt pinto bean yields and seed quality in
recent years, said Dermot Coyne, dry bean
breeder for the Institute of Agriculture and
Natural Resources and a horticulture teacher at
UNL.
“This is the first pinto bean with resistance
to so many different diseases,” Coyne said.
Presently, pinto bean yields are being re
duced by bean rust, a reddish fungus that ap
pears on the surface of the seed, and other
bacteria diseases.
Chase was named after the county in south
west Nebraska where farmers were suffering
the most losses and where a large percentage of
Nebraska’s pinto bean supply was grown.
Coyne came to UNL in 1961 as a plant and
bean programmer and vegetation breeder. He
soon began working to improve a variety of
bean types, including great northern and pinto
beans, both found in Nebraska.
Since 1982, Coyne has been working to
improve the pinto bean, which is used for
refried beans as well as many other Mexican
bean products. His goal was to develop pintos
resistant to disease.
Yield and disease resistance aren't the only
important traits of a first-class bean variety,
Coyne said. Seed size, plant height and spread
are all important factors in a good bean.
Chase’s bean rust resistance came from a
South American bean called Tacaragua, brought
to Nebraska by a graduate student from Ven
ezuela.
“It took years of breeding to incorporate the
useful traits from Tacaragua and pinto bean
qualities from other lines into the Chase vari
ety,” Coyne said.
“Chase’s ancestry is an example of benefits
from international cooperation.”
Recent testing on the Chase bean has found
it favorable for cooking with no real taste
difference, as well as suitable for canning, he
said. The bean also has a strong seed coat.
The Chase bean is being bred for parts of
western Nebraska, northeast Colorado and east
ern Wyoming. The bean will be available to
certified growers this summer and will be sold
for commercial production in the fall of 1994.
The Nebraska Foundation Seed Division will
build the seed supply as demand increases.
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This Is the first pinto bean
with resistance to so many
different diseases.
—Coyne
UNL dry bean breeder
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“This bean is an example of what we call
sustainable agriculture," Coyne said. “There
arc no chemical sprays used to control diseases,
which makes it safer for the environment. The
disease resistance is all in the genes.”
Coyne said Chase’s development was a com -
bination of the hard work of a team including
plant pathologists Jim Steadman and Anne
Vidaver; Dale Lindgren, horticulturist at Nil’s
West Central Research and Extension Center at
North Platte; Dave Nuland,dry bean specialist,
and Doris Boecking, plant breeding assistant at
NU’s Panhandle Research and Extension Cen
ter in Scoltsbluff.
The Nebraska Dry Bean Commission and
the U.S. Agency for International Develop
ment help fund the dry bean research conducted
through IANR’s Agricultural Research Divi
sion.
Coyne said he would continue with his bean
developments and was working on an upright
pinto, which is even more resistant to viruses.
Coyne said he planned to stay in Nebraska
and continue teaching and researching.
“Nebraska is a good place to work and
conduct research,” Coyne said.
---POLICE REPORT-1
Beginning midnight Monday
1:56 a.m. — Car found with doors open,
parking lot at 17th and R streets.
8:12 a.m. — Cassettes stolen, Oldfather
Hall, $80.
9:58 a.m. — Accident, Dental College,
$600. 1
10:18 a.m. — Meter heads stolen, East
Campus Arboretum, $650.
11:35 a.m. — Accident, Law College,
$1,750.
1:04 p.m. — Plant stolen, Plant Science
Hall, $25.
Beginning midnight Tuesday
12:54 a.m.—Window broken, parking lot
at 17th and Court streets, $200.
12:15 p.m. — Tail light broken out of car,
Hast Campus, $100.
3:10 p.m. — Compact disc player/ampli
fier/speakers stolen/recovered, parking lot
at 19th Street between R and U streets, $170
damage, three persons arrested.
4:30 p.m.—Person with warrant for arrest
for theft and failure to appear in court.
8:26 p.m.—Hit-and-run accident,parking
lot at Harper-Schramm-Smilh, $500.