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Kerrey, Hagel weigh
nuclear treaty’s merits
By Josh Knaub
Staff writer
U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey urged his
Senate colleagues on Tuesday to ratify
the nuclear test ban treaty Sen. Chuck
Hagel wants to delay.
Although the two Nebraska sena
tors said they would vote in opposition
if a vote was held this week, they both
cited national security as the reason
behind their positions.
Fewer than 50 senators have stated
support for the Comprehensive Nuclear
Test Ban Treaty being debated in the
Senate this week. A two-thirds majority
of the Senate, or 67 votes, is needed to
ratify the treaty.
Hagel, a Republican, said in a
speech on the Senate floor Friday that
the Senate had not had enough time to
consider the treaty, which would end all
physical tests of nuclear weapons. The
treaty must be ratified by the 44 nations
that have some nuclear capability
before it would take effect.
Hagel said if a vote was held this
week he would be forced to vote against
the treaty.
“We are far better off to take the
time necessary to work our way through
the critical questions and issues,” Hagel
said Friday.
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We are far better off to take the time
necessary to work our way through the
critical questions
Sen. Chuck Hagel
He said the issues included who
would monitor compliance with the
treaty and what body would enforce the
treaty.
Kerrey, in a speech on the Senate
floor Tuesday, said it was in the United
States’ best interest to ratify the treaty.
“Bluntly speaking, we have the
most effective and deadly nuclear force
in the world,” said Kerrey, a Democrat.
“Therefore, to maintain our existing
nuclear edge, it is in our interest to rati
fy the CTBT and halt nuclear develop
ment and advancement of other
nations.”
Kerrey called nuclear weapons the
“Rolex wristwatch of international
security.”
He said nations had begun to devel
op the weapons not for security but for
status in the international community.
Kerrey and Hagel differed in then
assessment of how the treaty would
affect the safety and reliability of exist
mg U.S. nuclear weapons.
Hagel said he needed more infor
mation.
“The safety and reliability of the
nuclear arsenal... must be maintained
above all,” Hagel said.
“We might be able to do that with
computers and means other than testing
... but I want to be assured a lot more
than I am now.”
Kerrey said he was comfortable that
the U.S. nuclear arsenal would be safe
even with a ban on future testing.
“I have an extremely high level of
confidence in the nuclear stockpile even
without continued testing” he said.
“The United States has not conduct
ed a nuclear test for over seven years,
but the American people should under
stand our nuclear stockpile is safe.”
The Senate will resume debate on
the treaty today. A vote is scheduled
today, but the Senate may postpone
action.
Center to offer radio technology
■ The UNL facility will
allow firms and students to
test developing technology.
By Kimberly Sweet
Senior staff writer
Nebraska corporations specializ
ing in radio frequency and wireless
technology will soon get a chance to
test their new gadgets, thanks to the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The addition of a radio frequency
and wireless testing center to UNL’s
technology park in northwest Lincoln
will soon be a reality, in part because
of $162,000 worth of matching funds
given to the university by the U.S.
Department of Commerce.
The facility will allow Nebraska
firms that specialize in the radio fre
quency and wireless industry to test
their developing technologies.
The center will be important to
small firms in Nebraska that don’t
have enough money to purchase the
expensive testing equipment that
large firms have, said Robert Palmer,
an associate professor of electrical
engineering who is involved in the
project.
“In Lincoln there are a lot of start
up firms that can’t afford major test
ing facilities,” Palmer said. “The
equipment is very expensive but is
needed for testing.”
Ram Naryanan, a professor in the
electrical engineering department
who is leading UNL’s efforts, said
having a testing site will allow small
companies to develop new technolo
gies more quickly.
Instead of firms going out of the
state and region to test their products,
they can do it quickly at the Lincoln
site.
“You can go out of the local envi
ronment, but you want to test it right
away, otherwise you stifle develop
ment,” Naryanan said.
The center will benefit UNL stu
dents as well, Naryanan said.
Later in their undergraduate
career, electrical engineering stu
dents will have the opportunity to get
hands-on experience working with
the testing equipment.
Right now, students don’t have
contact with the instruments until
they are employed at the companies.
“I think it’s exciting because stu
dents will be working in the industri
al environment and not just in a lab in
the university,” Naryanan said.
The partners in the project
include UNL, the Nebraska Center
for Excellence in Electronics and
Southeast Community College.
UNL will share the costs of fund
ing the facility with the grant from
the Department of Commerce.
The facility is estimated to cost
$349,776. Firms will be charged fees
to test their instruments.
Naryanan said he expects it to
take nine months before the facility
will be in operation. Before the end of
the year, a test engineer will be hired
and state-of-the-art test instrumenta
tion will be ordered.
Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, who jr
announced the awarding of the
matching funds, said the project will
further emerging technology in
Nebraska.
“The project will help Nebraska
capitalize on the emerging expertise
to encourage economic growth and
the creation of new jobs while focus
ing on companies which specialize in
radio frequency and wireless technol
ogy,” Kerrey said in a statement.
The links formed between the
industry and the university will be
positive, Naryanan said.
“This will present lots of opportu
nities for companies and the universi
ty to interact,” Naryanan said. “This
is a small step in a growing relation
ship between businesses and the uni
versity.”
The federal dollars the depart
ment of commerce is providing pro
motes the university’s goal of acquir
ing more government dollars for^
research, Naryanan said.
“This is a unique development
meant to foster these types of interac
tions,” he said.
Californians debate e-mail privacy
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
Privacy advocates say California has lost
the chance to clarify whether companies
have a right to monitor employees’ e
mail and punish them for transgressions.
As hundreds of companies imple
ment monitoring policies, a bill vetoed
Sunday by Gov. Gray Davis would have
required those doing business in the state
to notify employees in writing of such
action. Davis said the law would infringe
on employers’ rights and leave them
open to unjust lawsuits.
David Sobel, general counsel for the
Electronic Privacy Information Center, a
nonprofit research group, called Davis’
veto “befuddling.” Some states are con
sidering banning e-mail monitoring
altogether as a cottage industry evolves
to make it easier for companies to snoop,
he said.
Davis, a Democrat, likened e-mail
monitoring to other employer rights,
such as the right to limit personal long
distance phone calls. He also noted that
businesses can be sued if employees use
work computers to defame or harass
someone.
“It therefore follows that any
employer has a legitimate need to moni
tor, either on a spot basis or at regular
intervals, such company property,
including e-mail traffic and computer
files stored on either employer-owned
hard drives, diskettes or CD-ROMs,” he
said
About 20 percent of Fortune 1000
companies and six federal agencies now
use monitoring software to watch over
their office computers, according to the
American Management Association. By
2001,80 percent of laige companies are
expected to be using such software,
according to International Data Corp., a
research firm in Framingham, Mass.
Employers say they want to improve
productivity, ferret out computer prod
ucts that could malfunction in 2000 and
avoid legal problems, such as leaking
company secrets or someone sending
racist or harassing computer messages.
But state Democratic Sen. Debra
Bowen, who sponsored the notification
bill, said employees should at least be
fully informed when a company plans to/
keep tabs on than electronically.
“I disagree with the governor’s start
ing point, that equipment in a business is
always company property,” Bowen said
Monday. “Because an employer pro
vides you a restroom, that doesn’t give
him a license to videotape everything
you do in there.”
