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Professor earns mathematics medal From Staff Reports Combinatorics may sound like an ancient language, but it is actu ally a branch of mathematics. Doug Stinson, UNL professor of computer science and engineer ing, was recently awarded the Hall Medal from the Institute of Com binatorics Applications. Combinatorics can be compared to cryptography, or solving secret codes, but these security codes happen to deal with computers and ways to keep them from being tampered with. Stinson’s research has dealt mostly with cryptography, which in his case is codes in computer languages, by making use of com binatorics applications. The award is given to research ers who have achieved recognition for their work before age 40. “It is nice to receive an award such as this from my peers” Stinson said. “I have been working on this since I was a college student, 20 or so years ago.” ''Student I n Basketball Season Tickets % are m on sale now! 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Hurtgen urges cut protest UNL lagging in opposing pending student aid cuts By Kasey Kerber Staff Reporter UNL has not done enough to fight Congressional financial aid cuts, ASUN President Shawntell Hurtgen said at Wednesday night’s meeting at the East Campus Union. James Griesen, vice chancellor for student af fairs, spoke to the Association of Students of the University of Ne braska about a bill that would cut nearly $ 10.8 billion from student aid. “Three things will happen under this bill,” Griesen said. “The first will require students to begin paying off their loans immediately follow ing graduation, as opposed to the current six-month grace period. “The second involves the placing of a .85 percent tax on student loans. For us, this means we must now come up with an additional $340,000.” The final effect will be on direct lending, Griesen said. The Univer sity of Nebraska-Lincoln has recently joined a program to make it easier for students to borrow from leading in stitutions or banks, he said. The bill would put a 20 percent cap on direct lending. Griesen asked the student senate for help to fight the proposal. “This bill will be vote! on no later than Oct. 10 and we have little time,” he said. “We need more of a grass roots effort at this point.” Hurtgen pointed out the lack of such an effort at UNL. “I’ve had reporters from Wash ington to the Journal Star calling to find out why the University of Ne braska is not. protesting this legisla tion as much as other universities,” Hurtgen said. Another topic of the meeting was Senate Bill No. 10, which was sent back to committee for revision at last week’s meeting. The bill would rec ognize four campus organizations. Before voting on the bill, a motion was made to postpone the vote for another week. Plato Chan, a graduate senator, said there were problems with one of the organization ’sbylaws. Other sena tors said the senate did not need to look at bylaws to recognize an orga nization; the bill was approved. Also at the meeting, Hurtgen ad dressed the senate’s attempts to im prove advising. “I met with the Admission and Advising Committee and some of our advising ideas were hit pretty hard,” she said. ASUN’s proposed changes were in three areas: faculty advising train ing, advising records and standard ized drop forms for each college. But the committee said it would take too much effort and time to make these changes, Hurtgen said. “We might need to revise our ideas before presenting them again for con sideration,” she said. Health Continued from Page 1 have to work through several case .workers or fill out several forms. Nelson said the streamlined sys tem would save money. With the federal government’s drive to bal ance the budget, he said, the state must be prepared to handle finan cial changes. “It’s not a question of whether we make changes,” Nelson said, “but how.” The Nebraska Partnership Project will report back to the gov ernor in December. Robak said the project would introduce legisla tion in January. With legislators’ cooperation, she said, the changes could go into effect by January 1997. THE MUSIC “AN EN audie R ^FRANK RtCH,THE NEW YORK TIMES ^^Y^WABDSjJ993 THE F IRST TIM E IMl A NEW MUSICAL - " MUSIC AND LYRICS BY PETE TOWNSEND BOOK BY PETE TOWNSEND & DES McANUFF odober 6 8pm October 7 2 & 8pm mH October 8 2pm ■ Locally sponsored by Nebraska Bookstore Ifftf/lm ^or t'c^ets ca^ 402-472-4747 iffljfl or ^ree 'n Nebraska, 800-432-3231 lUm Box Office hours: 1 lam to 5:30pm LIED CENTER AOftrafOftMINGAKn LiodC«nterprogramff»ng a supported by d*Frionds of lid and giants from Naliotd EndpwMi* far fro Arts. 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