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■ SPORTS Husky experience Nebraska quarterback Scott Frost has already won a game at Husky Stadium, site of this Saturday’s game between NU and UW. PAGE 9 A&E Waxing eclectic Four UNL broadcasting students speak of noth ing - and everything - on their no-topic talk show, “Three Men and a German.” PAGE 12 September 17, 1997 Good Day Sunshme Mostly sunny, high 80. Clear tonight, low 52. Wired Engineering lab offers students hands-on learning By Kasey Berber Staff Reporter Step through the door and you just might think you’re in the wrong room. Colorful pipes and wires spiral up walls while numerous dials and devices show that this room isn’t just a classroom - it’s a living, breathing work of machinery and education. It is the new $25,000 mechanical systems lab oratory in the Walter C. Scott Engineering Building, where professors hope learning has gone far beyond textbooks and lectures. Tim Wentz*Ji$L a5s4staiitj!rofessor of con struction management, hopes students will use the Please see LABon 3 Ryan Sodbrlin/DN TIM WENTZ, a construction management associate professor, stands in front of part of the new lab in the Walter C. Scott Engineering Building. Wentz said that the goal of the lab was to allow students to visually grasp fundamental mechanical and electrical systems. Cancer claims UNL professor By Erin Gibson Senior Reporter Naba Gupta, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemistry profes sor known worldwide for his pio neering research in biochemistry, died Tuesday after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 63. “Certainly it was a great loss for the university and a significant loss for the scientific community,” said Gupta’s friend and colleague Don Weeks, a UNL chemistry professor. “His contributions are going to be sorely missed.” Weeks said Gupta was one of the first scientists to research protein synthesis, or how cells make pro teins, after coming to UNL in 1968, and he remained a prominent con tributor to his field throughout his lifetime. In 1988, Gupta discovered p67, a protein directly related to a cell’s resistance to viruses that is essential for protein synthesis. Lawrence Parkhurst, UNL chem istry professor and interim chairman of the chemistry department, said the protein may prove essential to understanding and controlling viral infection because it begins the process of stringing together amino acids to make other proteins. The discovery could help scien tists develop new anti-viral medi cines, a university report stated. Weeks called Gupta “a very Please see GUPTA on 2 Students make impact’ ; - By Darren Ivy Staff Reporter When the Student Impact Team was initially developed, organizers weren’t expecting the flood of inter est they saw on Tuesday night. Last night’s attendance at the first-ever SIT meeting affirmed chairwoman Carrie Pierce’s belief that UNL students’ interest in student government is on the rise. Pierce said when the idea of the SIT was dis cussed last year, ASUN members were only expecting 50 people to join die open-membership committee. However, before last night’s meet ing, the SIT had already received more than 160 applications and 40 I more applications were taken after ■' the meeting. I r\ “I was so blown away by the num ber of people who attended,” Pierce said. “Seeing this many people gave me a total rush.” The 150 people who packed into Room 224 in the Nebraska Union lis tened as Pierce, Tom Heacock and Marcy Rabe, vice chairmen for the SIT, and several other members of ASUN gave them information on how to become more involved on campus and in the community. ASUN President Curt Ruwe said he was impressed with all the people who attended the meeting and urged them to stick with it. He said that because of the large membership, the group had the potential to become a u Seeing this many people gave me a total rush Carrie Pierce SIT chairwoman nationally known group. Pierce hopes the SIT will provide opportunities for all students to get involved. “There were some opportunities for students to become involved before, but through SIT there are now more avenues available to all stu Please see IMPACT on 6 Speaker: Make peace ■ We must make peace within to tackle world peace, says Camelia Sadat. By Brian Carlson Assignment Reporter The first step toward making peace in the world is to make peace with ourselves, Camelia Sadat told a Lied Center audience Tuesday. Sadat, a senior professor at Bentley College and founder of the Sadat Peace Institute, said many of the world’s problems result from people’s failure to rec ognize and deal with their anger. “We all suffer from hate, but all at the same time, we deny it,” she said. Sadat is the daughter of the late Egyptian President Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat, who signed the his toric 1978 Camp David Accord with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Anwar al-Sadat received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976. Tuesday’s lecture by Sadat, a candidate for a doctorate degree at Boston University, was part of the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues. In the aftermath of tragedy in her own life, Sadat was forced to come to grips with her own feel ings of anger. On Oct. 6, 1981, Anwar al Sadat was assassinated in Cairo by a right-wing extremist opposed to his alliance with the West and efforts at peace with Israel. As a college student in the United States, Sadat watched as television news programs covered her father’s death. She recalled hearing Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat say, “God bless the hand that pulled the trigger that killed Sadat.” Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini touted the “death of an atheist.” Sadat said the experience was numbing. Looking back, she said, she was repressing her emotions and allowing them to broil within her. “There was an internal collapse of all the values, principles and tra ditions I grew up with as a Moslem and Arab woman,” she said. A breakthrough in her under standing of her emotions, she said, Please see SADAT on 6 Correction A typographical error on the front page of the Daily Nebraskan Monday listed the incorrect dollar amount for the sale of Lincoln General Hospital. The hospital was sold to Bryan Memorial Hospital for $42 million. Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at http: / / www.unl.edu /DailyNeb
