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. ”
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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.
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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
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Smith had a docket call set for Oct.
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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.”
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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.
