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Expires February 28, 1996 228 N. 12th St • Lincoln 4*«ress Yoursg/fr " * We Want to Listen! * * The Task force on Conduct Standards and Behavioral Expectations is holding OTET fOJZ.UyifS on these issues: * Violence on Campus * Theft £ Property Damage * The Student Code of Conduct Come join the discussions! Tues., Jan. 30, <6-7 p.m., City Union v Thurs., Feb. 1, 12:30-2 p.m., City Union Tues., Feb. 6, 5-6 p.m., East Union Wed., Feb. 7, 11:30-1 p.m., City Union M Phoenix HAIR ARTISTS | ‘Bring Sister, Mother, Significant Other W/ HfciU Mondays & Evenings \LJj 3810 OsfarmaC ■483-4726 'Eiqnres 2-12-96 Open every night til 9p.m. Cheering for victory_ Jay Calderon/DN Members of Theta Xi Fraternity celebrate a first-half touchdown by the Pittsburgh Steeiers Sunday during Super Bowl XXX. The Steeiers went on to lose to the Dallas Cowboys 27 17. Human beings finally discovering the answers to cosmic questions By Lynda Williams Staff Reporter The universe has changed — at least the way humans understand it scientifically. Two discoveries that revolutionize our understandingofthe uni verse were announced at the Ameri - can Astronomical Society’s annual meeting this month. Astronomers turned the Hubble space telescope’s big eye on a thin slice of deep space, took a galaxy count and found a lot more galaxies than expected. If that slice is a repre sentative sample, then there are about 50 billion galaxies—40 billion more than previously estimated. Many theories in cosmology and astrophysics depend on the number of galaxies and thus the amount of matter in the universe. In fact, a “missing matter” problem has in spired the notion of “dark matter”— planetoids and particles so dark or weak that we cannot detect them. This discovery will certainly shed some light on the missing matter problem. The discovery of two planets in our Milky Way Galaxy also makes an impact of cosmic proportions. Al though most astronomers believe that planets exist outside our solar system, none have been found. Until this month. Astronomers GeoffMarcy and Paul Butler, of San Francisco State Univer ■ i London $229 i I Parts $229 Frankfurt $229 Madrid $249 Amsterdam $309 Prague $339 Rama $319 Fans an each way tom Omaha based on round tip K chase. Restnctons apply, taxes not induded and es subject to change and/or availability. CaV today for other worfdvMo deafrnettona. | IXravg/^ CIEE: Council on International Educational Exchange 1-800-2-C0UNCIL H-800-226-8624) News Analysis sity and the University of California in Berkeley, have been searching the Milky Way for planets for nearly a decade. By measuring the amount of wobble in a star’s light, they can infer whether there is a planetary companion orbit ing it. Although for years they did not find any likely candidates, they de veloped the most accurate techniques in the world for measuring stellar wobble. When a team of Swiss astronomers announced last October that they had found a planet in the constellation Pegasus, Marcy and Butler turned their telescope toward it and paw the stellar wobble confirming the planet's exist ence. Perhaps even more exciting was the news that the two planets orbit ing stars in the constellations Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) and Virgo have climates that are potentially suitable for some kind of biological life form. But because it is impos sible to see the planets themselves due to the bright light of the stars they orbit, it will be difficult to verity these possibilities. The missing matter problem con cerns the very fate of the universe. According to Albert Einstein’s Gen eral Theory of Relativity, matter warps the structure of space-time — that is, it produces a geometry or shape that the universe moves in as it expands in time. If we know how much matter there is in the universe, then we can predict this geometry. With too much matter, the uni verse will have a “closed” geometry — one that will eventually collapse in a “Big Crunch.” If there’s not enough matter, the universe will ex pand forever in an “open” geometry. But just the right amount of matter means that the universe will come to a halt in what is called a “flat” geom etry. Up until last week, observational estimates on the amount of matter in the universe seemed to have indicated an open geometry. Cosmological theo ries of the universe, however, predict a flat geometry. This is a serious dis crepancy between theory and obser vation that has resulted in the missing matter problem. Being able to deter mine the amount of matter that galax ies contribute to the total mass of the universe will help in the resolution of this discrepancy. Although these findings may seem out of touch with the daily grind, humans always have looked to the stars and wondered, “What’s out there? Where are we going?” With these discoveries, we got a little closer to answering those cosmic questions. Camps Continued from Page 1 Clarke said that six months would not be the maximum sentence, but he did not want to see extremely lengthy stays in the program. “Keeping them in there for a year or so would defeat the purpose,” Clarke said. Currently 27 states, eight counties, one city and the Federal Prison Sys tem have simil ar work camp programs. Nelson said his proposed camp would not model itself after one par ticular program. “We have studied many of the best ideas from similar camps in other states,” he said. “We believe that LB1171 contains the most successful elements from programs across the country.” Costs for a new 100-bed facility are estimated at $6.2 million. To save money, however, the state has been looking at possible existing structures, including the former Rivendell Psy chiatric facility in Seward. “We’ve voiced an interest,” Clarke said. Annual upkeep costs for the camp would be SI.5 million, according to Clarke. David Splichal, president of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln chap ter of the National Organization for the Reformation of Marijuana Laws, was the only other person on hand to testify for the bill. He said he had been hounding the committee for a long time, saying the military approach wouldn’t work. “The military approach of getting in people’s face isn’t what we need,” he said. “People don’t respond to that. If we don’t examine the root causes, then we’re doing no good.” Splichal said he applauded the com mittee for finally realizing that it took more than prisons to make a differ ence. “This is a step in the right direction for corrections,” he said. The committee took ho action on the bill Friday.