NU offers environmental course
A new Interdisciplinary
course highlighting the pro
blems resulting from misuse of
land, air and water will be of
fered to NU students during the
spring semester, according to
Prof. Mark Hammer.
Hammer, professor of civil
engineering, explained the
main purpose of the course is
to present the technical aspects
of ecosystems, pollution control
and environmental planning.
Attention will also be given to
possible solutions for the cur
rent pollution problems.
Although technical in its
outlook, Hammer stressed that
the course is designed for all
students.
"It's intended to be a survey
course for all college students
interested in this area," he
said. "We don't just want
engineers, zoologists and plan
ners. The course, entitled
"Environmental Quality and
Control Land, Air, and
Water was offered on an ex
perimental basis during the
1970 second summer session
with good results, Hammer
said.
Gary Hergenrader, assistant
professor of zoology, and
George Peng, professor of
architecture, joined him in
teaching the course. Each of
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the three will teach in his own
discipline; Hammer in pollu
tion, Hergenrader in ecology,
and Peng in planning.
"We were worried that . with
three very different disciplines
the course would become dis
jointed," Hammer explained.
"But the students had no trou
ble seeing the relationships."
This spring's course will be
limited to 100 students, with a
prerequisite of senior or
graduate standing, Hammer
said. It will be a lecture class
with visual aids such as films
and film strips used extensive
UWAG explores women s role
The University Women's Ac
tion Group (UWAG) this year
will be taking aim at culturally
imposed sexual definitions, ac
cording, to Patti Kaminski, a
UWAG organizer.
The group will attempt to hit
two goals for women
awareness and commitment.
The battle will begin with a
strategy session Wednesday, 8
p.m., in the Nebraska Union.
"The first level (awareness)
will be a consciousness-raising
effort in which many aspects of
women's roles will be express
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ly. Field trips may be includ
ed. One key criticism made by
summer students was that the
course didn't concentrate
heavily enough on supplying
answers for today's pollution
problems, Hammer said. This
area will be covered more
thoroughly in the future.
Hammer maintains there is a
significant need for education
in the area of man's environ
ment and that political scien
tists and sociologists in
particular could benefit from
the course.
"The decision makers
ed and explored," Miss
Kaminski said.
Talk groups and sensitivity
sessions will offer students a
chance to increase their un
derstanding of societal roles,
which are deeply ingrained in
everyone," she continued.
UWAG also plans to secure a
national speaker and to hold a
workshop during ASUN's Time
Out program in October.
Foremost among the action-
oriented projects, is the hopefu
initiation of a Women's Studies
Union
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(political representatives) are
rarely ecologists. Therefore,
the businessman, the teacher,
the journalist, the lawyer, the
politician and others, including
any responsible citizen, should
have some notion of the
physical environment with
respect to land, air and
water."
Some specific topics covered
are ecosystems, urbanization,
water and sewage, land en
vironment including the
ecological implications of land
misuse, air environment and
water environment.
Program in the 1971 University
curriculum.
"Obviously, much commit
ment will be needed here in
recruiting interested faculty
members, drawing up a
suitable course syllabus and
working out procedural mat
ters," Miss Kaminski said.
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honorable discharges most of
whom fought in Vietnam," he
safd. "Our leaflet is going to
say in part, 'Wouldn't it be
beautiful if people stopped
killing other people' "
Chief of Compus Security
Gail Gade aid that "the usual
precautions" will be taken at
the football game Saturday.
The entire Campus Security
Police force will be on duty at
the game, as they always are.
Gade said he "had no idea" if
demonstrations or protests
would occur.
Westmoreland, former com
mander of American military
forces in Vietnam, will arrive
in the Capitol city Friday.
Scheduled for Saturday night
is a reunion with the men who
served on his staff 25 years ago
during World War II.
And, of course, he will view
the football game: the first half
with the Board of Regents in
the press box, the second half
with Gov. and Mrs. Norbert T.
Tiemann.
Saturday, according to Leroy
Shusier, a law student.
"We are all veterans with
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