Fall Technology Fair shows off bits, bytes of future
By Kasey Kerber
^ Senior Reporter
More than 30 businesses and UNL
organizations put the future on display
Tuesday at the Information Services*
Fall Technology Fair.
Major corporations,auch as Apple
and IBM, were represented, as were
many campus organizations, including
the Computer Shop and University of
Nebraska-Lincoln libraries.
Many booths included multimedia
displays and a look to the future.
The virtual reality booth provided
a hands-on demonstration to visitors,
complete with a virtual reality headset
and glove.
Aaron Hosier, information technol
ogy analyst, said virtual reality tech
nology could be used in the Coilege of
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“Instead of building an actual
model, they can construct one an a
computer,” Hosier said. “Then they
could virtually take a tour of a kitchen
and do things like open cabinets.”
Hosier’s virtual reality could be a
reality for the pocketbook as well.
The system he had on display was
a “home-batch” system. The virtual
reality glove was a $5 Nintendo glove,
the software was free and die $500
headset was optional.
The booth for Apple Computer Inc.
displayed two products of die future
—a QuickTime Conferencing Kit and
Newton Message Pad 130.
The QuickTime Conferencing Kit
allows a computer user to confer face
to-face with another user continents
away.
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computer’s monitor catches the image
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The $300 QuickTime program also
allows both parties in the conference
to share views of a document or video
presentation.
*Tt gives you the chance to commu
nicate point to point and also collabo
rate on ideas,” said Apple account ex
ecutive Grant Hansen.
Apple also revealed a new version
of the company’s hand-held computer
—the Newton Message Pad 130.
With the message pad, users have
the ability to write freehand notes on
Newton’s monitor and automatically
have them transformed into neat, clean
text.
Hansen said this made Newtons a
big seller, but that a newer feature
might make them even more appeal
ing.
Using a wireless network card, us
ers of the Newton Message Pad 130
can send and receive information with
out a need for a modem or cables.
“In a hospital, a nurse could take
vital signs, enter them into the database
and have the hospital records automati
cally updated,” Hansen said.
“She could also check and see
which prescription would be best for a
patient — all from her Newton Mes
sage Pad.”
The Newton Message Pad 130
ranges in price from $600 to $700.
IBM also announced new innova
tions, including its 560 Think Pad and
TME 10 NetFinity.
The 560 Think Pad is the lightest
laptop computer on the market, and
TME 10 NetFinity is IBM’s answer to
Microsoft’s Windows program.
A younger company, South Dakota
based Gateway 2000, gained an audi
ence at the fair with a system includ
ing a 31-inch monitor and multi-me
dia on-screen capabilities.
Designed as a “living room sys
tern,” the Gateway 2000 Destination
Big Screen PC is capable of showing
television shows with a clearer resolu
tion, running any PC computer pro
gram or doing both simultaneously.
The system will run from $3,500
from $4,800.
In addition to businesses, UNL ser
vice providers were at the fair to let
students know what they can offer.
The UNL library system announced
new features for its on-line services,
including an area where students can
view circulation records, ask questions
about the library and find out its hours
at the click of a button.
Joan Konecky, electronic refer
ences services coordinator for the UNL
Libraries, said plans recently were
made to upgrade the Specialized Data
Network and Innovative Research In
formation System.
- “People should start seeing en
hanced databases in a few months.”
ASUN prepares for round table
By Kasey Kebber
Senior Reporter
Senators will focus on leadership
and the continuation of existing goals
at tonight’s meeting of the Association
of the Students of the University of
Nebraska.
The upcoming meeting of the Presi
dential round table will be discussed,
said ASUN President Eric Marintzer.
At the round table, presidents of
student organizations will look at
Homecoming activities and take a
closer lode at the Safety Aide Program.
Marintzer said ASUN has worked
closely with the Safety Aide program.
The program is similar to the Health
Aide program sponsored by the Uni
versity Health Center.
“The program gives tips to help
people be safe,” Marintzer said. “It’s a
good opportunity for students to stay
informed and in die process, stay safe.”
ASUN also will focus on leadership
at Wednesday’s meeting with discus
sion on upcoming “Meet Your Sena
tor” days.
The days, set for Sept. 18,25 and
Oct. 2, will let students have an oppor
tunity to meet the ASUN senators who
represent them.
“I hope that students will take ad
vantage of this,” Marintzer said. “Most
students just see their senator’s picture
on the wall, but never really get the
chance to meet them.”
Each hour, two senators will man
the ASUN booth located near the north
entrance of the Nebraska Union, near
the food court.
Marintzer said senators had already
signed up for the hourly slots.
No new legislation is planned for
the meeting, and work on Chancellor
James Moeser’s proposed code of eth
ics will not begin at Wednesday’s meet
ing, Marintzer said.
Nelson confronts Hagel’s proposal
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Nelson said Hagel’s cuts could af
fect student load programs, the Pell
Grants, impact aid that supports
Bellevue public schools and other Ne
braska educational programs.
In a press release, Hagel said
Nelson was protecting die status quo
in the department, which includes fund
ing programs that pay for the closed
captioning of the television show
“Baywatch” for school children.
Hagel’s release, however, did not
present details of his cuts—a practice
for which he has been criticized.
Hagel said in press releases that he
has never advocated cutting student
loans, partly because he used student
loans to get a college education. He
said he would cut bureaucracy in the
department.
“It is ridiculous to suggest that
eliminating this bureaucracy would cut
student loans, not to mention untrue
because not once have I said that it
would,” Hagel said in a press release.
Administration made up only 1.43
percent of the Department of
Education’s budget, Nelson said. Even
if the entire administrative budget were
cut, he said, educational programs
would still face a 29-percent cut.
“Maybe he doesn’t think we need
the $35,000 to the Columbus library
for a literacy program,” Nelson said.
“He needs to say that.”
Nelson said he would not make any
cuts in the U.S. Department of Educa
tion. He said education was a priority
to his campaign.
“You can’t say it’s a priority and not
treat it like a priority.”
Participants learn to deter terrorism
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Instructor Robert M. Scofield
said preparing far a terrorist attack
was not paranoia, but a legitimate
concern for citizens.
“litis is not McCarthyism at its
best,” Scofield said. He added that
Americans “can’t play into the
hands of terrorism” by being com
placent.
Scofield is the director of
Scofield Associates in Norfolk,
Mass., and has extensive experience
in law enforcement and emergency
planning.
Citizens can help law enforce
ment in the fight against terrorism,
said John Wood, Lincoln Munici
pal Airport executive director.
In the past year, airport security
has been tightened, Wood said, but
people need not be more concerned
with terrorist attacks in the airport
than in town. He said Americans
should be aware the threat is legiti
mate anywhere.
“People need to pay more atten
tion to their surroundings,” he said.
“Everybody can be eyes and ears”
and help detect possible terrorist
activity.
Resing said that after the Cen
tennial Park bombing during the
Olympics in Atlanta, people be
came very aware of abandoned
backpacks and other unaccompa
nied bags and packages.
Behavior changes are important
steps to reduce the opportunity for
an attack, he said.
For example, Scofield said,
“When people on the subway see a
suspicious abandoned package,
they’re out of there. It’s like a skunk
at a lawn party.”
But instructors said they knew
educating Americans about the ter
rorist threat would not guarantee
that they would take the warning
seriously. " j
“It’s like smoking,” said
Scofield. “There’s a threat It’s real.
But how many students do you see
still smoking?”
Lab move means less space, more hours
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“Tnis has been a problem,” Gilde
said. “There are people who think they
have the right to anything left in the
open, and that’s a sad thing.”
Gilde said there had been only (me
tape reported missing, but that the pos
sibility of future tapes being swijped
was always there.
Tb avoid this problem, the language
lab recommended that all language in
structors collect students’ tapes and
drop them off at the lab.
“I think the instructors have been
very cooperative in this effort,” Gilde
said. ’Thao’s been absolutely no com
plaints.”
Gilde said he hoped the move had
not caused too many troubles for stu
dents.
“We’ve tried to reduce student frus
trations as much as possible and we’ve
dope it from various angles,” Gilde
said.
Susan Zulkoski, a sophomore pre
med major, thought the lab’s changes
had helped.
“The new hours are good,” die said.
“I would like weekend hours, but the
regular ones are still OK.”
Jeff Protextcr, a senior political sci
ence and psychology major, said he
thought the language lab had traded the
good with the bad.
“It doesn’t have as much space as
it used to, but I guess that’s the trade
off with the new hours,” Protextor said.
The language lab’s new hours for
fall are 8 am. to 8:20 pm. Monday
through Thursday, and 8 a.m. to 4:20
pin. on Fridays.
