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At least one university professor
thinks a proposed congressional
amendment to protect plant variety
researchers is a good idea.
Dr. Stephen Baenziger, agronomy
department head, said Sen. Bob
Kerrey’s proposed Plant Variety Pro
tection Act Amendment of 1993 would
provide additional protection for orig
inal seed breeders and remove fanner
exemptions from protected vanety
breeding restrictions.
The amendment, which amends
the Plant Variety Protection Act of
1970, was proposed to protect the
rights of original breeders and would
brag the United States into agree
ment with current international poli
cies. , _
“The bill greatly reduces farmer
exemptions and allows for a person
with a pure line to protect the sale of
it,” Baenziger said. “It will lessen
unauthorized sale of varieties and will
stem unethical use.”
The exemptions often led to uneth
ical marketing of protected varieties
with original breeders not being reim
bursed lor new developments.
If Kerrey’s proposal passes, origi
nal developers will receive credit for
new strains.
But Baenziger said the proposed
amendment would leave UNL largely
unaffected. University researchers
release new varieties to reliable pro
ducers, he said.
“We have no problem meeting the
new laws,” he said.
Baenziger said the proposed law
would allow the university to provide
more varieties to its producers be
cause researchers would have the se
curity of the law’s protection.
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Sorensen, who advised Bjorklund
of his rights after his arrest, said he
believed Bjorklund wanted to talk to
him.
In afternoon proceedings, the de
fense lawyers finished cross-examin
ing Sorensen. They then questioned
Lincoln police officers involved in
the monitoring of the wiretap and
Bjorklund’s arrest.
Officers who monitored the wire
tap were asked about their under
standing of the case and the language
used in the instructions they were
given by officials from the county
attorney’s office.
Helvie objected to the phone-tap
logs oo the grounds that they violated
Bjovkhind’s constitutional rights and
that they were not obtained according
to the stale constitution. But the mo
tion was overruled by District Judge
Donald Endacott, and the exhibits
were allowed.
The hearing will continue at 9 a.m.
today.
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accepted, blue ones if rejected
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form to a worker, the process takes
about 10 minutes, depending on the
nuntber of changes requested Tomost
students, that might seem like a short
time compared to the hours they’ve
put into making schedule dwy*
Drop add was an all-day event for
Amy Hurd, a junior biology major,
who awailed the outcome ofner sched
ulc requests.
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down here at 6:45, and 1 was right by
Burnett in line." she said. Hurd b
looking forward to the new touch
tone registiabon system.
"Anything would be better than
this," she said. "It’s a mess."
But Schkade said the system unad
now provided the best persoo-to-per
son contact possible.
“This system we’re working on is
still the cutting edge of technology
when you have live bodies” he said.
Students will miss the personal
attention of the system, Schkade said,
when touch-tone drofVadd is installed
“It’s you, a phone and a machine,”
he said. “With this system, you can
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five full-time staff members who an
swer questions. Employees from* v
cral colleges sit at booths during the
day to help indents
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January, workers such as Joy Boster
will no iniyr guard the entrance to
the Union Ballroom to check time
cards. Kay Gilbertson won’t hdp hand
out the 1,440 pencils provided by the
University Bookstore.
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