TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1969
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
NO. 6
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Indian dancer in regalia participated in the festivities at Spring
Creek, S.D., during July 4th weekend. A group of 25 from the
University made the 400-mile trip to the reservation.
Teachers of deaf learn
to use educational media
by Lois L. Berger
Silence. How wonderful it would be
at times.
Wonderful, that Is, If those decibels
of sound could be turned on or off
- at will. Frustrating, when a person
wants to hear and cannot.
Thirty-one teachers of the deaf are
on the University of Nebraska campus
for six weeks this summer learning
how to better communicate with and
instruct those who live in a
perpetually silent world.
Since 11 of the students are deaf
themselves, a sign language artist in
terprets the lectures. The workshop
seminar, which began June 30 and
continues through Aug. 8, Is being
conducted by the Midwest Regional
Center for the Deaf.
The center is headquartered at the
University under the direction of
Robert Stepp and is concerned with
Open
registration
Enrollment for the second session
classes which begin Thursday will
"exceed 4,200 students and may go as
high as 4,500", according to Frank E.
Sorenson, director of the summer
sessions.
Open registration Is Wednesday.
About 1,000 students are expected to
register on that day. Permit and fee
cards can be picked up at the in
formation window in the Administra
tion Rulldlng. The registering process
will be In the air-conditioned ballroom
of the Nebraska Union.
Deadline is July 21
Students who expect to graduate at
the end of the second summer session,
should make application on or before
July 21, Shirley Thomsen, assistant
registrar announced today.
All persons who will receive a
bachelor's, master's, doctorate or a
teachers certificate must report to
Window No. 3 In the Administration
Rulldlng.
A surprise
This unscheduled issue was even a surprise to The
Summer Nebraskan. A number of fortuitous circumstances
made the blue possible. However, no more unscheduled
papers are scheduled for the rest of the summer.
The two remaining issues will be distributed July 23
and Aug. 12.
On the inside pages
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developing materials to aid in the
teaching of the deaf and with showing
teachers how to use these materials.
George Propp, director of the
workshop and also an instructor, said
that the group Is learning to approach
a child through his strengths, which
is usually his sight.
"We try to achieve a visual literacy
that is better than normal to com
pensate for the loss of hearing," he
said. Tools used to achieve this
literacy include photography,
television, the overhead projector and
basic graphics.
"The media, the strategy and the
message should match," Propp said.
Though he answered questions
verbally during the Interview, a sign
language Interpreter was needed to
direct questions to him because Propp
is also deaf.
He feels that the workshop course
Is "one of the most effective and effi
cient courses on campus" because of
"the high level of Interaction, the ex
tensive resources, a systems ap
proach, a great deal of lab work
combined with practical experiences,
and especially, the highly motivated
persons attending."
In addition to regular staff members
from the center, there are a number
of visiting Instructors.
Dr. Don Perrln of the University
of Southern California and Robert
Lennan of the California School for
the Deaf in Riverside, Calif., have
given a three-screen presentation on
instructional technology and a two-day
seminar on programmed Instruction.
One of the teachers attending the
workshop, Eunice DeSoto from
Tacoma, Wash., is quite impressed
with the program, especially the in
teraction with other teachers of the
deaf.
She Is interested In the availability
of new materials such as video tape,
making it possible to take pictures
which are then on hand and ready
for use In the classroom as needed.
The making of action cartoons to
portray abstract Ideas Impressed her,
also.
The teachers are being Introduced
to commercially produced materials
as well as being Instructed In the
making of their own. The emphasis
it on the latter, however.
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About 25 University students, their
families and T. E. Beck, an assistant
professor of English, and his family,
made the 400-mile trip to Spring
Creek, S.D., to attend a Sioux powwow
over the July 4th weekend.
The trip was organized by Mark
Dupree, a graduate student in
English, who became interested in
reservation conditions after spending
a week in early June at the Pine
Ridge and Rosebud Indian Reserva
tions in South Dakota.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH the
powwow, a tourist boycott of the state
was kicked off by Robert Burnett,
former chief of the Rosebud Tribal
Council.
The boycott campaign Is an answer
to a statement made by the governor
of South Dakota that "there is no
discrimination against the American
Indian" in his state, according to
Dupree.
He added that the purpose of the
boycott is to call attention to the In
dian's plight and to give demonstra
tion of Indian power.
"Burnette has promised to bring the
campaign to Lincoln within the next
few weeks," Dupree said. He will be
accompanied by a group of Indian
dancers, If finances permit.
"We will certainly provide the op
Law students and athletes get
new perspective of police work
By Paula Seacrest
"You don't know what you'll find
when you answer a call."
NU law student Gary Giese Is not
talking about answering the telephone.
He's referring to his summer work as
a member of the criminal division of
Lincoln's Police Department
"You never know . . . " NU athlete
Don McGhee another trainee, echos
with slightly different words the
statement which summer trainees
repeat in conversation citing the hid
den challenge of their work . . . "You
never know."
"OVER THE FOURTH of July,
calls were most often about Illegal
fireworks, but the next one might be a
prowler or domestic fight . . . You
never know," McGhee says it again.
"Being a summer trainee with the
Police Department has opened my
eyes to the way other people live, act,
react," Giese explains.
"At the University you live In an
Ivory tower. You don't see, for exam
ple, youngsters only 12-years-old In
trouble or the never-ending cycle of
the drunk living a life of drinking,
being tossed in the Jug, getting out
only to find a way to get drunk
again."
Last summer McGhee served as a
cadet In the program begun by NU's
athletic department and the Lincoln
police more than 20 years ago. As a
cadet his primary responsibilities,
were marking cars and issuing park-'
Ing tickets.
McGhee and Giese although both at
the disposal of their professional
companion and traveling in a police
car, represent different aspects of the
program. Enrolled through NU's
Athletic Department, McGhee
participates in a phase claiming a
heritage 10 times older that that to
which Giese belongs.
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trip to reservation
portunity for a speech or discussion
by Burnette for all of those interested
in the Rosebud reservation."
DURING THE THREE days that
the group from Lincoln spent at the
reservation, there was an opportunity
to talk with Burnette and ask him
questions about reservation life, the
federal government's role in it and
reservation politics. Burnette is a
candidate in the upcoming election
for tribal chief on Aug. 28.
"A relaxing, free atmosphere caus
ed everyone to thoroughly enjoy
themselves with touring, climbing or
horseback riding," Dupree said. "We
just fell in with the Indian people."
Individually, group members talked
with the Sioux people "in an attempt
to gather sentiment," he said.
Talking about the unsolved Indian
murders which occur occasionally,
one elderly man told Dupree,' "Sure
these murders happen. But God, our
Great Spirit, will take care of us."
The man had gone on to say that
he "would rather starve on the
reservation than live in Alameda,
Calif." He had found his former job
in California, which paid one dollar
an hour plus room and board, con
fining. "I SEE HOUSES the same and
Philippinos, Germans, Japanese, but
Initiated last summer, law student
Gary's section of the summer pro
gram has him working out of the
criminal division of Lincoln's Police
'Department, wearing plain clothes
and traveling in an unmarked cruiser
while athlete Don wearing a uniform
patrols Lincoln in a regular police
cruiser.
"Assignment to other Police
divisions Foot Patrol, Traffic,
Motorcycle would deny the op
portunity to shadow a professional of
ficer because men in these divisions
work alone," explains Training Sgt.
Gene Armstead. a 6-year veteran on
the Lincoln force.
Training Capt. Dale Adams adds
that "over the summer each trainee
experiences duty on all three of the
shifts that divide a 24-hour period for
the department. This way they're
subjected to different kinds of people
and human activity varying through
the day."
Training for the NU students con
sists of an orientation session in which
the new policemen learn how to be
have In certain situations they may
encounter, when they can and cannot
arrest, and fundamental work with
firearms.
"WE SPEND more time telling
them when they can and can't use
their guns than how to use them,"
Adams says. "While they are with the
department, the student-officers
perform the same duties as regular
police. They are armed and have the
same authority and responsibility."
.
HE NOTES that participants In the
trainee program usually finish the
summer with a much better opinion of
the police force than when they start.
The student police find that 90 per
cent of police work is public service.
Law student Giese notes, "My
respect has grown; the police do a
tremendous job. I have a new opinion
of law enforcement.
"Students often think the policeman
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none of my people. So I come back,"
he told Dupree. This statement
represents the close attachment to the
land and the tribal unit which is com
mon among the Sioux people.
Indian singing and dancing in full
costumed regalia were part, of the
festivities lasting all night Friday,
July 4th and continuing Saturday.
Each day began with the Sundance
a ceremonious ritual of praise. The
sounding of the eagle pinion whistle,
the dancer with a sage laurel on his
head, the four-fold unity marked by
stakes of colored flags and an altar
consisting of a sage bed, a buffalo
head and a peace pipe were
memorable characteristics of the
morning dance.
A highlight of the trip was th
traditional piercing ceremony
performed during the Sundance on
Sunday morning, Pete Catches, a
medicine man, made the religious
self-sacrifice.
Two barbs were inserted into
Catches' chest. Pulling back on ropes
attached to the barbs and to a cen
tralized pole cau.-ed the barbs to be
torturously pulled from his flesh. The
ceremony has much religious meaning
to the Indians, according to Dupree.
After the sacrifice, an Indian prayer
asked for the safe return of Cathces'
grandson, who is serving in Vietnam.
is a 'dirty so-and-so' when they get a
parking ticket or a party is raided.
But there's no ticket quota system and
the policemen's job is protecting
citizens sometimes at the expense
of others. You can't make everyone
happy."
McGhee finds his uniform attracts
youngsters.
"Children in my neighborhood seem
to be even more friendly. My uniform
is a stepping stone to conversation,"
he says.
However, "out of uniform," he notes
that campus friends "don't tell me
what they used to. They sort of 'clam
up.1 Maybe they fear there's some
thing about them to expose."
.
VACATION RELIEF provided by
the student policemen gives tangible
service to the force. Most members of
the regular force are married and like
to take vacations in the summer.
The student replacements allow the
regular force to take their vacations
without lowering force strength.
In return, the department invests
In Its new policemen. What does it
amount to beyond training?
"Approximately $(500 in salary, mine
and theirs, for the two-day training
time." Armstead estimates, "plus
about $150 for each man's clothing and
equipment not including vehicles.
"However, the equipment is on
hand, standard force supply, and the
uniforms have been turned back in by
men who've left the force."
Adams recalls how a law student
trainee had through effort succeeded
In apprehending a felon only to have
the man released by his attorney's
work on an evidence technicality.
"The law students learn that things
on the street aren't the same as they
sound when a client comes Into the
office, Armstead said.
"An attorney tries for the best thing
Computer
registers
students
A No. 2 lead pencil and the com
puter have updated the process of
registering for courses at the
University as far as the ad
ministrative end of the process goes.
Studentsstill have to decipher the
class schedule book before penciling
in the appropriate spaces on the mark
sense sheets, which are then run
through the computer.
COMPUTERIZED registering has
"worked real well," according to
Gerald Bowker, director of registra
tion and records. Students who pre
registered last April for either the
summer sessions or the fall semester
were the first to use the new pro
cess. "Of the students whose worksheets
were processed by the computer, we
were able to schedule 70 per cent,"
Bowker said. '
The national average for a mass
process such as this where each in
dividual fills out his own mark sense
sheet is about 50 per cent on the first
try, he added.
Registering proceeded at the rate of
600 students an hour with the com
puter. This fall's registration was
completed in one week, he said.
Before, it had taken three or four
weeks to pull cards by hand.
THE MAIN ADVANTAGE of the
computer is that more information
about the courses students want and
the times that students want to take
them is available to the
departments.
"This has been the first time that
we have been able to tell the
departments exactly what courses the
students wanted and when they want
ed them."
This enables the departments to
cancel unwanted sections of a
a particular course snd to add other
sections at more favorable times.
For example, the English Depart
ment was able to add additional sec
tions of certain courses to the second
summer session's schedule because
information about the courses that
students wanted was available far
enough ahead of time, Bowker said.
Students should find their fall class
schedules more to their liking.
BOWKER'S STAFF ran an analysis
of the courses wanted, disregarding
'class limits and alternative courses.
Each department received this
analysis and was able to make ad
justments, if needed in some cases.
Besides the Increased speed and ef
ficiency, computerized registering is
less expensive in the long run, he
said.
for his client, but most attorneys are
realistic," trainee Giese points out.
"They'll work for a reduced sentence
or lesser charge 'disturbing the
peace' rather than 'assault' instead of
trying to get a guy off completely
unless the evidence is air-tight.
"BUT AS FOR TRADING oa
loopholes, some do, most don't. If
there's been a foul-up from the police,
the attorney should find it and use it.
They try to take care of their client's
rights."
In addition to Giese, two other NU
senior law students participating la
the summer program are: Jim Liv
ingston and Mark Sibele.
Student trainees supplementing
McGhee from the athletic department
Include: Carl Ashman, Dan llartman,
Joe Buda, Ron Drakulich, and Ken
neth Cauble.
Summer
commencement
is tonight
More than 400 degrees and
certificates and six honorary degrees
will be conferred at the University
of Nebraska Summer Commencement
Exercises at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in
Pershing Auditorium.
Summer commencement exerciscj
conclude activities for the first 5-and
a-half week session. No commence
ment exercises will bo held at tha
close of the second session Aug. 22.
Those who complete degree re
quirements at that time wiU receive
their diplomas at tha registrar 'a of
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