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Lincoln, Nebraska 44 Gain Background In Math Forty-four high school math teachers from ten states are spending summer vaca tions developing their "sub ject matter background" at the National Science Founda tion Mathematics Institute on the NU campus. The math institute, one of 481 being conducted through out the country, is headed in Lincoln by Dr. Walter Mient ka. The program runs from June 11 to August 3. Updating the training of "the weakly trained but 6cholasticatly able mathemat ics teachers" is the pro gram's main purpose, accord ing to the institute's bulletin. 1,000 Inquired The teachers, representing more than a thousand inquir ies and 315 completed applica tions, receive $600 for at tending, $120 for each depen dent and a travel allowance not to exceed $80. This year's math institute is planned as first in a series of three. Dr. Mientka said. During this three-summer sequence courses in algebra, elementary analysis and ge ometry are to be offered. The teachers are divided into two groups, one of which is for teachers studying in their first math institute or those who have not had the more extensive training of the members of the second group. Continuity Is Goal Continuity is developed by this three-year program much better than by a one-year program, such as held last year, Dr. Mientka explained. "I can take one group and follow it through the three years to reach a certain level of accomplishment," he said. During this time the math institute-trained teacher is to "gain confidence in his teach ing," and become a "critic of mathematics," Dr. Mient ka said. One example of be ing a good critic of mathe matics, he added, was the se lecting of textbooks. While members of the in stitute the teachers live in NU dormitories, dine in the Stu dent Union and "share in the full program of cultural, so cial and recreational events sponsored by the University," according to the institute b ifletin. Dr. Broad Lectures Tonight On English School System The English education sys tem should become more familiar to the members of the National Science Founda tion Summer Science Insti tute. The high school teachers Who compose the Institute heard Dr. Herbert F. Broad, an English physicist-educator, discuss the organization of education in England in Love Library Auditorium. Dr. Broad, who is headmas ter of the Cedars School in Leighton Buzzard, Bedford shire, England, is appearing on the NU campus for a week out of a busy summer sched ule that includes such science institutes across America. The National Science Foun dation and the American As sociation for the Advance ment of Science are sponsor ing his visit to the U.S. English School Dr. Broad, who arrived with his wife by plane Fri day, will speak tonight at 7:30 in the Love Library Audi torium on the curriculum of the English grammar school. Before becoming headmas ter of the Cedars School, Dr. Broad was Senior Physics Master in the City of London School and, before that, was Physics Master at Crandleigh School in Surrey. A London University gradu ate, he obtained his M.A. in phvsics and Diploma in Edu cation at Cambridge Univer sity. Nebra&lxi Center Hosts Conference On Care of Sick About 80 to 100 police offi cers, ambulance drivers and others received training in the immediate care of the sick and injured at a confer ence Thursday through Sat urday at the Nebraska Cen ter for Continuing Education. r Ml - - n m - w ? Cri-iJ . kT ilferf "I "m . ' Giant Cranes Help Two 65 foot high cranes, op erated from simple controls like the transformer of a toy electric train, are being used in the construction of the new Twin Towers dormitory. Each of the Swedish-made cranes has a 100 foot boom that can be moved by a con trol box with three levers, Dan Werkmeister, assistant University construction engi neer, said. By turning the le vers, a single man on the ground can raise, lower, swing around, extend, or re, tract the boom. Werkmeister estimated the cost of each crane at $100,000. Work on the new dormitory that is just east of the Resi dence Halls for Women, was begun last April and plans are to have it ready for oc cupancy by September of 1963, Nole Smith, University construction engineer said. Construction costs of the new housing unit are $3,059,038, he said. He is a member of the Air Cadet Council, an Air Min istry organization; a member of the Science Panel of Sec ondary Schools Examinations Council, of the Ministry of Education, and a member of the Science Masters Associa tion Committee on Science and Education. Dr. Broad was General Secretary of the Science Mas ters' Association from 1956 1961. oasts The modern school of to day will be built of hexagon al units consisting of class rooms and an instructional materials center. Five or six irregularly shaped class rooms will encircle a central audio-visual resource and equipment core forming a hexagon. Such is the new high school at McPherson, Kans., the first of its kind in the Mid west, which will open in the spring of 1963. McPherson High will have five hexagonal units of class rooms and central areas sep arated by corridors. The sub jects taught in each hexagon al unit will be similar such as all English classes or all social studies or science classes. Thus the central area can contain instructional equip ment directed to the teaching of specific subjects. This cen ter includes reccrds, record ing equipment, maps, hooks and all other audio-visual aids. 1 McPherson Senior High will also contain every other mod- New 8 olhhtnu Summer Nebraskan 4 Simple controls swing these huge Until the new dorm is com pleted, a number of women students will be housed in the 8000 building of Selleck Quad rangle, W .C. Harper, direct or of University services, said. Some 130 male students, who had contracts with Sell eck for next fall, will be moved into the top four floors of the Capital Hotel, he said. These students, who volun J.C1CV1MU11 Tourism Picture Page Page 4 Reading List Calendar TV Schedule See Page 3 Do You Know The Enemy? See Page 2 Have a SAFE, SANE 4th chool Features Carpe em idea in school building. It will have carpeting, op erable walls, air conditioning, teacher offices, work rooms for student teachers, rooms for large groups, space for individual study, also a cir cular field house, modern audio-visual aids tools, mov able furniture, irregularly shaped classrooms and op portunity for functional sep aration of activities. Projectors and television will become standard equip ment in all classrooms. The theory behind their use, ac cording to Ruth Mcline, audio-visual instructor at the University of Nebraska, is that no teacher knows a 1 1 that the student of today should learn. "Records, television and projectors can bring guest speakers into the classroom," she said. "The major miscon ception concerning the use of TV is that it will and can replace the teacher. This isn't the case. A machine cannot counsel, assist, direct and inspire students. Pexson- ill, cranes on the Twin Towers site. Build Towers teered to live in the hotel, A counselor and an assist will have their own lobby and ant counselor will be stationed elevator in the building. The on each of the four floors, student elevator will not stop I The University is making until it reaches the seventh floor of the hotel and elevat ors for hotel guests will not be taken above the sixth floor. One section of the main floor will be made into a stu dent lounge. Part of this area is now leased by a jewelry store, Harper said. lndexto Inside Pages JL al, responsive teaching will still be needed. Teachers aren't qualified to present all the information the student should be subjected to," she said. According to Miss Moline, some teachers feel the respon sibilities have been shifted unfairly, and they will resent this. This is one of the prob lems that will have to be worked out. Each classroom at McPher son High will contain the lat est equipment. They will have folding space dividers, acoustical operable walls (folding door type), teacher center, fiber glass table, arm chair-desks and chairs, gen eral storage cabinets and book shelves, and vinyl as bestos tile flooring. There will be entrances to the Instruc tional materials center and to the corridor from each class room. Irregular shaping of class rooms and other spaces Is better acoustically than the regular box sha,je according to a study made by th Ed-J Tuesday, July 3, 1962 ML parking arrangements for the students. Neither the total cost of the housing unit nor the length of time it will be in use is known exactly. The project is experi mental, and if all goes well, it could be used for two to six years, Harper said. 1 4 -mitnlir MMiMtaff ' ? Ht' -;v',, TTTT exagona Circular ucational Facilities Labora tories. Also, breaking away from the traditional rectangle rooms provides for variable group arrangements. Classrooms for 25-35 stu dents are included in the new school in which teachers will instruct the class with conventional teaching tech niques. These rooms can be arranged by means of mov able partitioning devices so as to facilitate groups of stu dents from 75 to 150 in num ber. These large group ar rangements will allow for lec ture - type instruction, tele vised instruction with sever al screens and other team teaching techniques. Teaching aids are extreme ly important for both audio and visual demonstration or amplification in large group delivery. Teaching teams con sisting of a lead teacher, sup port teachers and-or clerical aids will be used in teaching such groups. In addition to group study, Individual study spaces for one or two students, with or Americans To Honor You will have the opportu nity to look in on the "Fourth of July in Denmark" as Danes and Americans join to pay tribute to tie friendship between the two countries on Wednesday, July 4. "Fourth of July in Den mark," a film of last year's Rebild celebration with Walt Disney as the featured speak er, will be seen on Channel 12, KUON-TV, at 5:30 and again at 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday, the fourth of Ju ly. The celebration, which takes place over heather-clad hills near the village of Re bild, in the northern part of the peninsula of Jutland, Den mark, is characterized by mu sic, dancing, entertainment, food, conversation, fireworks, and speeches by dignitaries representing both countries. In the hills adjoining the Rold Forest, a Danish-American celebration has attracted tens of thousands of Danes, Americans, and Americans of Danish birth, each year for the past 50 years, except dur ing the war years. 1909 The idea of the yearly meetings was first proposed in 1909 as an act of gratitude and appreciation toward the U.S. on the part of a group of Americans of Danish birf Lead by Dr. Max Henius, a Chicago scientist, the group bought a 300-acre tract of land near Rebild. The land was deeded to the Danish government in 1912 with the stipulation that each year on the anniversary of the Ameri can Declaration of Independ ence, a celebration of tribute would be observed there. Today, the Rebild site is a national park, preserved in its natural state with heather, Ross Joins Med Staff Edwin F. Ross has been ap--pointed Administrator of Uni versity Hospital and Clinics in Omaha. Since 1953, Ross has been Assistant Director of Univer sity Hospitals of Cleveland. He is a graduate of Mount Union College of Alliance, Ohio and holds the Masters Degree in Hospital Adminis tration from Washington Uni versity in St. Louiss. Ross is the author of a num ber of articles in the field of hospital administration, is a member of the American Hospital Association, and a fellow of the American Col lege of Hospital Administra tors. Dr. J. Perry Tollman, Dean of the College of Medicine and Superintendent of University Hospital, stated that "We are most fortunate to be able to bring an administrator of Mr. Ross' experience and back ground to our campus. His special experience in dealing with problems of university teaching hospitals will be in valuable to us in our present program and in planning for the future." Ross, 45, is a World War II veteran and the father of two boys. He is expected to take over his duties at the University Hospital within the next 90 days. Fie without the presence of a teacher, will be almost any where the library, a spec ial area set apart in a larg er classroom, a sound-protected booth, a laboratory or shop or teacher's office. Tools for self-instruction would be accessible, such as books, lab equipment, sound recorders, television, drawing materials, projectors, etc. The teachers' center will be more than a dek and a chair. It will be a work center for the teacher, with reference material, files and supplies close at hand. It will serve as a suitable area for counseling and possibly for small group activity which the teacher can lead. It will be a control center for electronic equip ment in the learning area lighting, partitioning devices, intercom and public address syslem. The center will be so designed and placed that the teacher can observe all class room activity. Useless? However this new building will be useless unless each W m WW la m Join Danes Friendship cowberries, aspen, jupiter, and oak. Dr. Henius is also credited with the foundation of t h e Log Cabin Museum in the Re bild Park. He procured the money and many of the mu seum pieces for this unique museum which is built with materials from every state, to house objects that had be longed to American settlers from Denmark. The cabin was dedicated in 1934, and was named the Lincoln Log Cabin Museum after Abra ham Lincoln. Speakers Speakers for the 1962 cele bration will include V i g g o Kampmann, prime minister of Denmark; William Mccor mick Blair, Jr., U.S. ambas sador to Denmark; Richard Nixon, former vice president of the United States; ana His Majesty King Fredenk IX of Denmark. Master of Ceremonies for the evening celebration will be Victor Borge, Danish-born humorist. val Peterson, former Ne braska governor, represented the United States at the 1958, 1959 and 1960 celebrations as U.S. ambassador to Denmark. Professors Harald Hoick, and Otto Hoiberg of the Uni versity of Nebraska, and Dr. C. C. Madsen, president oi Dana College in Blair, Neb., are members of the American Rebild Committee, which maintains American interest in the annual event. Union Plans All-Campus Square Dance People attending the All campus square dance will see a demonstration and receive instruction from members of the Lincoln Square Dance Council. The dance will be held from 8 to 11 p.m. Friday, July 6th at the S St. entrance of the Nebraska Union. It is free and open to the public. Gayle Sherman, program manager of the Nebraska Union, said, "We hope this square dance will give the summer students an oppor tunity to meet and become better acquainted." Willard Noxon, a member of the Boots and Slipper Square Dance Club and the Lincoln Square Dance Coun cil, will do the calling. Bill Speidell and Ken McCartney, both of Lincoln will do a pan tomime of the Grand Old Opery characters, Homer and Jethro. Mrs. Sherman said there will be bales of straw to sit on and two chuck wagons will sell refreshments. The east patio of the union has been renamed the Eastern Patio Stage and will have chairt and tables for the spectators. ouse teacher knows how to use its new facilities. At McPherson High work shops are being held through out this year to help teach ers learn new techniaues.. Small group teaching is be ing tried; an audio-visual director is working with teach ers showing them how to use the equipment properly; ev ery teacher who wants to is getting a chance to tryout new tools. Teachers are familiarizing themselves with equipment that will be available next year. Much of the training has been done by demonstra tion. Yet despite all the plann ing and experimentation Mc Pherson teachers will not be able to make fuD use of their new school when they enter it. Some teachers will utilize the building to its fullest. Others may never realize its full potential. This factor will determine the effectiveness of the new school, for' the school is only as good as the teacher who uses it. 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