Professor wins top award
■John Boye was chosen to be
the Carnegie Foundation's
Nebraska Professor of the Year.
BY VERONICA PAEHN
After teaching electrical
engineering classes for nearly 30
years, John Boye was recognized
last week for his dedication.
The Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of
Teaching named Boye the 2000
Nebraska Professor of the Year.
He was chosen from 16 candi
dates.
“It was very nice," Boye said
of the honor. “I knew I was nom
inated, but I was surprised. I
didn’t expect to get it. There
were a lot of other good, excel
lent people."
Boye, interim chairman of
the University of Nebraska
Lincoln's electrical engineering
department, said he’s never
wanted to do anything besides
teach.
His first teaching experience
was as a senior UNL electrical
engineering major in 1968.
Boye, who earned his bache
lor's, master's and doctoral
degrees from UNL, was a teach
ing assistant for electrical engi
neering labs - a job normally
held by graduate students.
He has continued to teach
over the years because of the
enjoyment he gets from working
with students.
“That’s a highlight,” Boye
said.
Though he admits teaching
isn’t always easy, Boye said he
never gets sick of it
“Obviously, it’s work, but to
do good teaching, you have to
spend the time and effort,” he
said. “I don’t mind doing that.”
, Christopher Lawson, a sen
ior engineering major, said Boye
was a great teacher.
“I’ve had a lot of teachers
that were always really smart
but weren’t very good at relating
the information to students,”
Lawson said in a press release. “I
think Dr. Boye is the opposite.
He actually interacts with the
class.”
The 2000 Nebraska Teacher
of the Year Award isn’t the only
honor Boye has received. Last
April, he was given the
University of Nebraska
Distinguished Teaching Award.
He also received an Outstanding
Faculty Award for 1999-2000.
The Council for the
Advancement and Support of
Education established the
Professors of the Year program
in 1981. It works with the
Carnegie Foundation in doling
out the awards.
Boye, who also does
research on control systems in
electrical engineering, said he
wouldn’t be happier doing any
thing else.
“I really do enjoy it quite a
bit,” he said. “I wouldn’t change
it for anything.”
Study: Proteins help spread HIV
■Blocking the work of the
group of proteins can reduce
die diffusion by 98 percent.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - A protein
that does housekeeping chores
inside cells plays a key role in
spreading the AIDS virus to other
cells of the body, researchers
report
In studies appearing in the
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, researchers
say a group of proteins, called
proteasomes, are used by HIV, the
AIDS virus, to assemble new viral
particles and to spread those new
particles to other uninfected cells.
Ulrich Schubert of the
National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases said test tube
studies show that blocking the
action of the proteasome proteins
can reduce the spread of HIV
infection by about 98 percent
Schubert, the first author of
one study in PNAS, cautioned
that the research was conducted
only in test tubes and it is not
known if the proteasome
inhibitors would work against
HIV in humans.
"We would never inject this
drug into an HIV-infected person
because we do not know what
would happen,” said Schubert
The proteasome inhibitors
will be tested in monkeys before
any human tests are considered,
and those animal studies could
take months, he said.
Dr. Jonathan W. Yewdell, a
NIAID researcher and a co
author of the study, said that
although inhibiting proteasome
shows promise as a strategy for
treating HIV “it is possible that it
may not have any effect at all.”
He said the proteasome func
tion is essential for healthy cells
and that a drug that blocks that
function could affect every cell in
the body.
“It is possible that the HIV
infected cells will be more sensi
tive or that there are effects
against the virus before” the
healthy cells are affected, said
Yewdell
Yewdell and Schubert said
cancer researchers are experi
menting with proteasome
inhibitors for the treatment of
prostate cancer and early studies
have shown no side effects in can
cer patients. The drug, however,
has not been used in HIV-infected
patients, they said.
Proteasome’s job inside the
cell is to identify and destroy old
or unneeded proteins.
Another PNAS study, by
researchers at Pennsylvania State
University, suggests that a mole
cule called ubiquitin plays a key
role in how viruses use the protea
some function in a cell to make
new viral particles. Still another
PNAS study, by researchers from
“We would never
inject this drug into
an HIV-infected
person because we do
not know what would
happen
Ulrich Schubert
researcher
the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute,
Harvard Medical School and the
University of Padua, Italy, also
demonstrate that ubiquitin plays
a role in HIV particle formation.
HIV spreads its infection
inside the body by forcing white
blood cells, called CD4s, to make
new viral particles. These parti
cles are released from the cells
and can then infect other cells,
spreading the infection through
out the body.
The final part of this virus
making process is called budding.
During budding, anew viral parti
cle wraps itself in a membrane
from the surface of the infected
cell and completes its develop
ment
• When the budding process is
completed, the virus particle is
released and can then attach to an
uninfected CD4 cell and continue
the infection spread.
Bars follow nudity ban liberally
■ Dancers at two topless
businesses use transparent,
not opaque, nipple coverings.
BY JOSH FUNK
Lincoln’s three businesses that
feature topless dancing have
tweaked the city’s month-old
public nudity ban, which man
dates nipple coverage, to their
own liking.
Over the last year, the city has
sought to regulate its adult enter
tainment businesses with regula
tions prohibiting sexual contact
and public nudity.
The affected businesses have
responded with lawsuits chal
lenging the validity of some of the
regulations and efforts to find
, loopholes in the laws.
A Daily Nebraskan investiga
tion last weekend showed poten
tial violations of the nudity ban,
which requires a “fully opaque
covering" of a woman’s nipple and
the surrounding areola, at two of
the clubs.
The owner of the third club -
Mataya’s Babydolls Gentlemen’s
Theatre Club - maintains that his
club is not governed by the ban on
nudity in public places because he
has made it a private dub.
Mataya’s was not visited for
this investigation because of its
claim to be exempt from the nudi
ty ban and the history of police
investigations there documenting
violations. Those cases are still
pending in Lancaster County
Court.
The Night Before Lounge,
1035 M St., and the Foxy Lady,
1823 O St., use a similar form of
pasties. The transparent, or flesh
colored, material is painted on the
dancers’ breasts, and it leaves little
to the imagination. Some of the
dancers use glitter along with the
plastic coating to match their out
fits.
“Well it wouldn’t surprise me
that they're going to have fun with
that,’’ City Councilwoman Cindy
Johnson said. “I’m sure there are
all kinds of clever things they do
(to get around the ban).”
The public nudity ban first
took effect Oct. 10 and was revised
Nov. 6 to indude the entire areola,
or the colored ring around the
nipple. The law also requires men
and women to cover their genitals
in public.
City Council members
Johnson and Jon Camp said they
would rely on police to investigate
the dubs and determine whether
the nudity law is being violated
Camp said it seemed like the
city and these businesses were
splitting hairs on the implementa
tion of these laws.
“We’re probably getting a lot of
attention drawn to this,” Camp
said. “I would like to see us focus
on the future vision for the city.”
The Night Before’s owner, Ken
Semler, said last week police had
been in his club since the nudity
ban took effect to evaluate his
dancers’ pasties, and they
approved. The Foxy Lady uses the
same pasties.
* One dancer at the Foxy Lady
complained she had to keep “re
painting” the pasties back on
throughout the night The nipple
coverings that are being used
seem to be a liquid, which is
applied to the breast, and then
dries clear or flesh colored.
John Ways Jr., owner of the
5620 Comhusker Hwy. Mataya’s
Babydolls, said he now sells pri
vate club memberships, instead of
charging a cover, which he said
exempts him from the ban on
nudity in public places. However,
Ways also said his dub is using liq
uid latex pasties.
tamer this year the City
Council also banned sexual con
, tact in Lincoln businesses. That
law, passed in April, is being chal
lenged in federal court byWays,
and its only application thus far
has been an August raid on
Mataya’s.
The no-contact law prohibits
contact between the breasts, but
tocks or genital areas of patrons
and performers.
Last Friday’s investigation of
the Foxy Lady and Night Before
showed sexual contact, though
still present incidentally, has been
reigned in considerably since a
September Daily Nebraskan
investigation.
Most of the contact comes
when customers sit next to or lie
down on the stage with a dollar bill
in their mouths to tip dancers. The
dancer then gyrates above the
customer often separated only by
the length of the folded dollar bill
held in a customer’s mouth.
One of the dancers at The
Night Before on Friday went to
great lengths to unfold every dol
lar bill to its full length before
dancing over a customer. Dancers
use the dollar bill to determine
when their crotches are nearing
customer’s faces.
Incidental contact between
dancers and customers was pres
ent at The Night Before on Friday,
but it did not appear to be inten
tional or blatant
One of the more egregious
potential violations of die sexual
contact law Friday occurred at the
Foxy Lady where certain patrons
were allowed to place their dollar
bill tips in a dancer’s g-string while
she held the strap out of the way,
but that did not occur often.
“We’re probably
getting a lot of
attention drawn to
this. I would like to
see us focus on the
future vision for the
city.”
Jon Camp
city councilman
Even though City Council
members would like to concen
trate their efforts on other issues,
Johnson acknowledged that the
council’s back-and-forth
exchange with adult businesses
will not end soon.
“I think what will happen is
thtey’ll get used to what we’re
requiring,” Johnson said "It really
hasn’t been that much more that
we asked them to do.”
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