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Firm’s arrival to help Lincoln community, NU By iff Randall Staff Reporter Transcrypt International dedicated its new home on Thursday in Lincoln at an open house and press confer ence. Transcrypt is a corporation that deals primarily in the research, de velopment and marketing of security technology for wireless communica tion systems. Its new headquarters are located in the University of Nebraska Lincoln’s Technology Park in the Highlands. John T. Connor, Transciypt Inter national chairman and chief execu tive officer, said the new facility pro vided the company with everything it wanted. “We asked for a Silicon Valley style building with a Nebraska price tag,” he said, “and that’s exactly what we received.” The Technology Park covers 130 acres in west Lincoln. Transcrypt In ternational, the park’s first tenant, built a 22,500-square-foot, two-story building for its headquarters. The park will be developed more in the next four years, Connor said. Lincoln Mayor Mike Johanns said Transcrypt’s growth benefited not only the company but also its part ners. “This is a very exciting day for the city of Lincoln and the University of Nebraska,” he said. “This is a very exciting day for the city of Lincoln and the University of Nebraska. ” ■ MIKE JOHANNS Lincoln mayor Transcrypt President Paul Mueller said UNL and Transcrypt had several internship programs that accepted students from the colleges of engi neering and business administration at UNL. “The whole internship program has really been a win-win situation for us,” Mueller said. UNL senior Brad Riensche, an electrical engineering major, has been an intern at Transcrypt for the past two years. “My internship has let me pick up a lot of skills a lot faster than I would have learned them in class,” Riensche said. UNL Chancellor Graham Spanier, who also spoke at the building dedi cation, said UNL would continue to cooperate with Transcrypt. “We at the university feel there is an open door out here for us,” Spanier said. Seattle Style S*P***** LATTES«CAPPUCINOS*MOCHAS BULK BEANS*ATMOSPHERE*FINE MUSIC i^OlT All Espresso Drinks with Proof /u of Student I.D.-Til Oct. 14 ^^pP^^WppPPPj|j^F Ipp^iff Opens Friday, September 30th at A Theatre Near you. Omaha man arrested in Holbein shooting From Staff Itoporto Bail was set at $500 on Thursday for an Omaha man arrested and charged with the shooti^o^f Univer sity of Nebraska foeroMl player Brendan Holbein. Walter C. Smith was arraigned in Lancaster County Court on charges of second-degree assault and use of a weapon to commit a felony. Bellevue police arrested the 22 year-old man on Wednesday after noon in connection with the Sept. 10 Shooting, Lincoln Police Sgt. Ann Heermann said. A warrant for his arrest was issued on Tuesday. The shooting occurred at a party at 3087 Vine St., and police reports indicate that Holbein, a sophomore, was not the intended target. The shot from a 9 mm handgun grazed Holbein’s left side. Reports show the wound required several stitchesf * ' Smith had a docket call set for Oct. II. Computer Continued from Page 1 There is a shortage of computers in the college, Dusek said. There are no more than 25 computers available for 500 students, he said. “It is progressive. It is ahead of the times,” he said. “It seems radical ... But it would be better to do it now and be on the cutting edge than wait and fall behind.” When the idea of requiring archi tecture students to purchase the com puters was made public last spring, it was followed by heated debates. Questions have been answered since then, and the cloud of confu sion has lifted, Dusek said. At that time, people were speaking out who weren’t qualified or knowledgeable of what the policy would entail. Some weren’t even in the college, he said. Ben Perry, a fourth-year architec ture student, said he approved of the decision even though it could prove a hardship for some students. “It’s pretty stiff,” Perry said. “Ar chitecture is already a selective pro fession. Even before the computers, you still had to have the money to buy all the crap for projects.” The computers will make the col lege even more economically exclu sive, he said, which is unfortunate. Mutunayagam said officials had worked with the financial aid office to guarantee an additional $3,000 in aid per student for architecture stu dents who need it, he said. Officials looked to Mississippi State University as a model when developing the system, Dusek said. That plan works for students because they can take their computers with them after graduation, he said. Gengler said that although that may be true, he questioned just how useful the computers would be. Those type of issues and com plaints will have to be resolved after the regents approve the revision, Mutunayagam said. That’s phase two, and there’s still a lot of work to be done, he said. “Something you buy today, six months from now it’s outdated,” he said. “Especially at the level they’re expecting students to buy.” “There’s a whole gambit of impor tant issues that still need to be asked and answered,” Mutunayagam said. “The earlier we start, the better off we are going to be.” Smith Continued from Page 1 years for support staff positions like his own, he said. That doesn’t help employee morale, he said. He said raising staff salaries to the levels of other peer institutions ranked first on his agenda. But the technician said he prob ably wouldn’t get an opportunity to put his agenda to work. Instead, he will continue to work at the comput ing center, repairing UNL’s data hub. He said he fell into his job after coming to UNL in 1983 for graduate school. The center hired students to set up computer systems around cam pus, he said. When repair technicians began to quit their jobs, he found himself with a promotion. Friends have told the technician he should finish his thesis and com plete his master’s degree in commu nity and regional planning, he said. But his interests have strayed since then, he said. He had completed the required course work for the degree and was researching his thesis “The Trail of TWo Cities,” which was to be about a possible bike trail between Lincoln and Omaha. About the time he was beginning to prepare his impact statement, a group of farmers bought the land where the trail would have gone, tak ing his thesis idea with them. Now his project is restoring a stock car. If he can get $5,000 into it and have it running by next year, look for him at area race tracks. He’s looking for sponsors now, he said. Maybe it’s time to give Presi dent Smith a call.