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Technology moves off campus
ay Andrew uicas
Staff Reporter
UNL is experimenting with new
video streaming technology' and has
shared the technology with a Lincoln
school.
“It is instant TV embedded in your
day-to-day computer work,” said Pro
fessor Jim Emal of the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln’s Institute of Ag
riculture and Natural Resources.
IBM developed video streaming,
which starts with an audio-video
adaptor card that breaks down audio
visual signals and then compresses
them. The adaptor is called EduPort.
The compression allows users to
squeeze more signal into the same
amount of space. The compressed sig
nal can then be stored on a computer
hard drive like any other computer
file.
When someone calls up stored
material, me signal is puucu on me
hard drive. It is then sent to the user’s
personal computer in a video stream.
This allows any computer to play the
signal without having to download all
the information.
“Instead of changing mediums,
you just pull up another file,” Emal
said.
The stream can be stopped, started
and replayed just as a video tape
would be.
“The challenge was to see if we
could digitize stuff in real time,”
Emal said.
A1 Stark, manager of computing
services at IANR, said the technol
ogy had been used in a laboratory, but
never in a real-world setting.
UNL is even letting people outside
the university in on the advances.
UNL was the first to put the technol
ogy in schools; Lincoln High was a
test site last school year and part of
unit yum.
Cathy Knight, a Lincoln High
teacher, used the system in her sci
ence fiction class.
“It didn’t create a problem,”
Knight said. “It just added to our
knowledge. It was very easy to work
into the planning of classes,” she
said.
The system allowed Knight to
show a variety of materials without
having to switch video tapes or hand
out photocopies to each student.
“It helped me to teach in an easier
way with a smoother presentation,”
she said. Knight also said the access
to up-to-date information and tech
nology was helpful.
Emal said using this technology
on campus was the project’s next step.
The lecture hall in Keim Hall is be
ing converted to provide space for the
technology, he said.
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engineers were needed, he said. Ac
tually, compelling data shows the
opposite is true, he said.
Another issue is paying for the
improvements in a year when the
Legislature faces a projected $40 mil
lion shortfall, he said.
“It’s fine if you look at these things
in a vacuum,” he said. “But when it
comes to paying for it...
Smith has said a tuition increase
would be considered if the money w'as
not found in stale, federal or private
funds. That possibility was cause for
concern, Hasscbrook said.
Drew Miller of Papillion, who will
replace Regent Nancy Hoch of Ne
braska City, said Sunday that the de
cision would hurt the college when it
came to private funding. A lot of busi
nesses’ support was contingent on
creating a separate college in Omaha,
he said.
Miller said the only positive thing
he found in the weekend decision,
besides the increased funding, was
that Smith didn’t rule out a separate
college. Smith only stated that it was
not logical at the time. Miller said.
The regents now will have to de
cide how to pay for the improve
ments, Miller said.
Friday’s vole did not close the
book on the “chronically pending
engineering issue,” Wilson said.
“1 can’t say it is the end for all
time,” Wilson said, adding that he
' expected the issue to be revisited
within the next five years. “We can
pass these things ... but the Legisla
ture has to appropriate the money for
it.
“In that sense, it is not over.”
Wilson said the conflict between
Omaha and Lincoln engineering fac
ulty was nothing new, and wasn’t
without merit.
However, Wilson said, he did not
know why a cross-campus engineer
ing program couldn't work.
“There is nothing inherently
wrong with cross-campus programs,”
Wilson said. “Why isn’t this one
Regents’ views differ
By Paula Lavlgna
Senior Reporter
The NU Board of Regents
voiced varied opinions during a
three-hour engineering debate at
Friday’s meeting and public forum.
Regents voted 5-3 against cre
ating a new engineering college at
the University of Nebraska at
Omaha. The regents also approved
$4.9 million to improve engineer
ing education in Nebraska.
Regent Rosemary Skrupa of
Omaha said additional funding for
UNO would not solve its engineer
ing problems.
you vc thrown a dog a bone
without meat or marrow,” she said.
Regent John Payne of Kearney
backed NU President Dennis
Smith, saying the number of engi
neering graduates exceeded the
number of jobs available. Produc
ing quality graduates was more im
portant than having a targe quan
tity of graduates, he said.
Payne also said the issue was
unique because the UNO and UNL
campuses were under the jurisdic
tion of one body. He suggested the
engineering dean report to Smith
instead of to University of Ne
braska-Lincoln Chancellor Gra
ham Spanier.
Regent Nancy O’Brien of Wa
terloo said UNO’s engineering is
sue should have been treated like
a child abused by its NU parents.
After seeing four engineering
deans fail at UNL and alter seeing
“You've thrown a dog
a botie without meat
or marrow. ”
■
ROSEMARY SKRUPA
NU regent, Omaha
the deterioration of the engineer
ing program at UNO. O’Brien said
an independent college was the
only way to resolve the issue.
“You do not put the abused child
back under control of the abuser,”
she said.
Regent Robert Allen of
Hastings said the UNO engineer
ing program was to blame for its
own lack of funds. UNO engineer
ing representatives never ap?
proached the Legislature when
they needed funds, Allen said.
“It’s not the parent abusing the
child,” he said.
Allen, who admitted he made
negative statements during the de
bate, said the decision was made
and that it was time to end the con
troversy.
O’Brien, who said she was dis
appointed with the decision, said
an educational debate should never
again be tried in a political arena.
“There arc no winners or losers
except the state of Nebraska,” she
said.
working?”
Wilson said NU’s nursing pro
gram, which exists at sites across the
state, was running smoothly.
The real solution, he said, may be
in finding the source of the discord
and resolving it.
Wilson said he thought the tension
among the regents had passed, and
they were prepared to accept the de
cision and work to implement it.
At the end of Saturday’s meeting,
Wilson told regents their action had
set a future course for the university.
“It’s critically important that we
make it work,” he said.
Smith
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would pay for “phase-one” of the
projects.
Smith said he would ask donors
from across the state to help NU.
“We really do need the Omaha
business community to help us,”
Smith said. He said he also would
seek the help of the University Foun
dation, a fund-raising group for NU.
Smith said he couldn't respond to
comments made by some regents that
support in Omaha would dry up be
cause he had not spoken to Omaha
business leaders.
UNO Chancellor Del Weber said
he would not be involved in imple
menting Smith’s recommendations.
“It’s not our responsibility for en
gineering,” he said.
UNL Chancellor Graham Spanicr
said the first thing that needed to be
done in Lincoln was to appoint an
interim dean of engineering. Search
committees for both a permanent en
gineering dean at UNL and an asso
ciate engineering dean for the Omaha
campus would then be appointed.
Omaha would be well-represented
on both search committees, Spanier
said. He said it was likely those search
committees would look outside the
NU system to fill the positions.
Senior Vice Chancellor for Aca
demic Affairs Joan Lcitzel said she
would meet with engineering depart
ment chairmen and the associate dean
early this week to discuss prospects
for the interim position. Leitzel said
she would begin to conduct inter
views from a “short list” this week.
The interim dean would not nec
essarily have to come from within the
engineering college, she said.
Spanier said one of the interim
dean's first jobs would be to
strengthen the ties between the UNO
and UNL engineering programs.
Senior Reporter Praia Lavigae contrib
uted to this report
Meeting
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to give coaches a share of the profits
that come from national tournaments
or bowl games.
In other business, the board ap
proved a $150,000 settlement with
the Internal Revenue Service that
stemmed from an audit of the uni
versity. 7
NU General Counsel Dick Wood
said the dispute arose over the use of
complimentary football tickets. He
said the IRS had said there was a lack
of sufficient records to show that the
tickets were being used for business.
As part of the settlement, Wood
said, the university would keep record
of all complimentary tickets to show
that they were used for business pur
poses. He said that if the tickets were
not used for business, the university
would have to pay taxes on them.
Over two years, 375 complimen
tary tickets were used. Wood said.
The regents voted unanimously to
approve the settlement.
“Who says no to the IRS?” Skrupa
joked.
