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VOL. 97 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 48
Power posse plans post-snow provisions
v?-' By Ted Taylor
Senior Reporter
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The wagons are circled, the
weapons are drawn and the reinforce
ments have been called
Troops from near and far are weary,
but ready, to work through the weekend
- all day and night if needed - to get
power restored to the remaining 20,000
Lincoln area residents who still do not
have electricity.
Lincoln Electric System adminis
f
trator Terry Bundy said Wednesday
LES’s 70 line-repair technicians have
been joined by about 200 private-elec
tric contractors from across the region to
help assist in getting the lights turned
back on in areas of die Capital City.
The power posse could grow to 400
by Sunday, Bundy said.
“The support from outside die com
munity is almost overwhelming,” he
said.
Crews have already been working
around the clock trying to repair fallen
power lines Sunday’s massive snow
storm caused
Warmer temperatures and melting
sno$ allowed workers to getabetter feel
fdfthe severity of the problem Tuesday,
Bundy said, but fallen tree limbs contin
ues to be a major obstacle in getting
por^ea* restored.
“It’s just been a massive destruc
tion,” he said, that was worse than they
originally thought.
Initial repeats by LES Tuesday after
noon said there were only about 5,000
customers without power, but revised
figures later in the day indicated the
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KEVH COLE, associate mechanical engineering professor, takes a look at Der Viener Schllnger Friday afternoon. First-year engineering
students have been enlisted to Improve the launching distance of the Fairbury Brand Meats hot dog shooter.
Engineering students schling wiener-launch ideas
By Ted Taylor
Senior Reporter
Ifyou’regoingtohaveahotdog
launcher, it might as well be the best
damn hot dog launcher around.
Fairbury Brand Meats, the
official hot dog of Husker athlet
ics, thought as much, so it began
searching for a way to increase
die fire power needed to fling its
fairly famous Fairbury franks.
It wanted its cute hot dog
shaped shooter to be a lean, mean
hot dog-slingin’ machine.
Lucky tor rairbury, Kollin
Hotchkiss is a volleyball fan.
The associate civil engineer
ing professor happened to be in
the crowd at an early season NU
volleyball game and something
away from the action on the court
caught his eye.
“I noticed they were picking
up a lot of drag and wind resis
tance,” he said critiquing the hot
dog’s flight pattern that night. “It
looked like an opportunity.”
So Hotchkiss got up from his
seat in the NU Coliseum and
introduced himself to the man
*
pulling the trigger of Fairbury s
“Der Viener Schlinger.”
“I told him there was probably
a way to improve his efficiency”
Hotchkiss said.
The Hotchkiss way involves the
first-year students of the College of
Engineering and Technology.
And now, after a few meetings
and a handshake or two, finding a
way to improve the launcher’s
efficiency (that to you and me is
flinging frankfurters as far as
they can fly) is an introductory
engineering class project.
Fairbury’s future in the frank
furter-flinging business now rests
in the. hands of two classes,
Associate Professor Suzanne
Rohde’s Mechanical Engineering
100 and As$ociate Professor Dean
Sicking’s Civil Engineering 112.
About 170 University of
Nebraska-Lincoln freshmen and
sophomores are responsible, in
four weeks, to improve the exist
ing plan - or construct from
scratch - the best damn hot dog
launcher in the world.
And you thought engineering
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number was closer to 20,000.
Bundy said the power company has
a new, more efficient plan of attack that
it hoped would the pace of getting more
homes lit.
Instead of having one crew go and
cut broken tree branches and remove
limb§, and another crew to come and fix
the {fewer, he said, “super crews” have
been formed to take care of it all in one
trip.
Mayor Mike Johanns said Lincoln
was at die disposal of the power compa
ny.
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“We are committed to help LES,” he
said during a morning news conference.
“My direction is clear. Whatever we
have, on the city side, to help LES
restore power, that is where we’ll be.”
But Bundy hesitated to say when he
thought Lincoln’s week of darkness
would finally come to an end.
“Monday is a long way away,” he
said assuring those without power that
crews would be working through the
weekend.
“I cannot tell you with ary degree of
confidence what our end date will be.”
l . 1
cultural
message
delivered
By Lindsay Young
StaffReporter
Students, while they should think of them
selves, also need to think of those who are differ
ent, a cultural diversity speaker told students
Wednesday night.
Ray Davis, executive director of the
Washington, D.C., Student Coalition Against
Racism, told students that looking at the big pic
ture will help in cultural understanding.
“If we don’t have diversity we shortchange
ourselves,” Davis said.
Davis was brought to campus by the
Diversity Council and the University Program
Council. He spoke in the Centennial Room in the
Nebraska Union.
Event Coordinator Jamie Grayson said UPC
wanted to co-sponsor the event wife the Diversity
Council because “of the climate of campus last
semester, there is a lot of tension between the
races.”
naving uavis come ana speaK, sue saia, was
one way of promoting racial diversity.
Davis told students about diversity with
social action. SCAR focuses cm this aspect.
Davis said there is a difference between
racism and the three words - prejudice, bias and
discrimination.
Prejudice, bias and discrimination are not
specific, but racism is, he said.
“We’re talking about a system where a set of
prejudices or biases or discrimination is based
upon race ”
To combat these attitudes, diversity is needed,
he said. And, diversity is for all people.
“Whatever lineage you are, you should be
celebrated for that,” he said. “We’re all different
and we’re all special.”
He said all groups should work together,
though, and not separate, to accomplish diversity
anH understanding
The university is the ideal place to do this, he
said, but it isn’t being done. Often, separatism
prevails.
“They need to create an environment where
there is a better understanding of different people
and different cultures. I think it’s important that
there is a global understanding,” Davis said.
He said it seemed there were some good
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