International Fair will offer
cultural, travel information
The first annual
International Fair this week
will serve as a cultural bazaar
offering information and
opportunities in foreign study
and travel for students.
It will attempt to encourage
American students especially
to take a step out of their own
culture and to experience
another, according to Zoya
Zeman, assistant coordinator
of student activities who is in
charge of the fair.
The fair will run Feb. 16
and 17 in the Nebraska Union's
Centennial room. Booths will
be open from 1 1 a.m. - 5 p.m.
and discussions and films will
be from 7-9 p.m.
Booths will offer
information on study
programs, family l;ving
arrangements, job
opportunities, independent
travel, planned tours and
work-campus and service
projects.
There will also be a booth
for foreign students traveling in
the United States, Zeman said.
The Peace Corps will present
films. Students, both foreign
and American, will show slides
of their own travels.
Discussions will focus on
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Tuesday February 16
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how to have an international
experience on this campus,
"traveling on a shoestring" and
University credit for foreign
study.'
There is a great variety of
experiences and opportunities
available, Zeman said.
Among the offers will be a
charter flight for University of
Nebraska students, faculty and
staff from Omaha to
Amsterdam and back for $240.
Registration for other activities
and further information will
also be made during the Fair.
According to Zeman, the
Fair idea came from one of the
Peace Corps representatives
who was here in November; he
said the Peace Corps has
participated in similar programs
at Kansas University and the
University of Minnesota.
The Fair here will stress
"those programs which will
involve more learning than
planned and guided tours
usually can."
Students
will face
Tribunal
Nine University students
placed on temporary
suspension or temporary
probation last Wednesday will
plead their cases before the
Student Tribunal Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Seven of the students
refused to leave Chancellor D.
B. Varner's office after being
told to do so The other two
refused to leave Love Memorial
library.
The Tribunal hearings will
be open to the public only if
this request is made in writing
by the accused student, said
Ron D. Gierhan, assistant in
the office of Student Affairs.
Mike Richardson, whose case is
scheduled for 4 p.m. Tuesday,
Bill Behmer and Nola
Kinnaman have already made
such requests.
Gierhan said that the similar
cases of five students may be
considered collectively. Varner
placed the five on temporary
probation at the same time.
The five are Behmer,
Kinnaman, Jacki Barret,
Stephanie Thomsen and Ed
Anson.
Gary Schleiger, who was
placed on temporary probation
twice during Wednesday
protests and Carl Circo, who
was placed on temporary
probation at the library, will
appear separately before the
Tribunal.
The two students placed on
temporary suspension are
Richardson and Ron
Kurtenbach.
Mike Barret and Dave
Ratliff, who were arrested in
the chancellor's office, were
students in past semesters but
are not registered for the spring
term, Gierhan said. They will
not appear before the Tribunal
at this time.
After the hearings, the
Student Tribunal will
deliberate and recommend to
the Office of Student Affairs
what action, if any, should be
taken against the students.
The Office of Student
Affairs has accepted the
Tribunal's recommendations in
90 per cent of the cases,
Gierhan said. He added that in
another 7-8 per cent only
slight modifications were
made. In the remaining 2-3
per cent, the recommendations
were changed.
"Reach down into the basement,"...says dental college junior Lonnie Kennel.
"Where's the basement?" asks third grader Alan Lancaster.
NU students fight tooth decay
by CHARLIE HARPSTER
Staff Writer
Fighting cavities is the
whole idea behind a class
project in preventive dentistry
and public health.
Sophomores and juniors
from the NU Dental School
spent much of the last week
fighting the "most prevalent
chronic disease."
Tooth decay is more
widespread than commonly
believed, a survey done
recently by the Lincoln
District Dental Association,
showed.
The average child has seven
decayed tooth surfaces, 11
filled surfaces, one tooth
needing extraction and one
tooth already pulled, according
to the survey.
In response to this problem,
a program was presented for
third grade classes in the
Lincoln Public Schools, Carl J.
Peter, instructor in preventive
dentistry and community
Faculty takes steps toward union
by MIKE WILKINS
Staff Writer
"United we would have power and could
resolve issues through collective bargaining,
finally ending our position as second class
professionals."
George E. Rejda, professor of economics,
is one of the foremost proponents of a
teachers union for faculty members on the
University of Nebraska at Lincoln campus.
He and an interested group of teachers
have already held one organizational
meeting; another is planned for Wednesday
in the Nebraska Union.
The union would be formed under
auspices of the American Federation of
Teachers (AFL-CIO), according to Craig R.
MacPhee, assistant professor of economics
and co-sponsor of the plan. The union would
force the Board of Regents to recognize the
faculty, he asserted.
Initial action has already begun with the
gathering of enough faculty signatures to
petition the national union for a charter.
After a charter is obtained, support
would have to be solicited from other NU
teachers. In order for the union to represent
the entire faculty body, a general election to
demonstrate support would be needed.
If the election showed that a majority of
teachers favored the union, the Regents,
under state law, would then be bound to
negotiate with the AFT, Rejda said. The
union would then be legally recognized as an
agent for teachers at NU.
"This union would provide the channels
for individual faculty members to be
represented in a meaningful way," Rejda
said.
The purposes of the union are three-fold,
stated MacPhee. Improving academic
standing at this University, primarily
through the budget, is an initial goal.
Through union political and bargaining
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
health, said.
Juniors volunteered their
help; for the sophomores in
preventive dentistry and public
health, it was a class project.
The pupils were shown a
slide show called "Secrets of
the Little World," showing the
advantages of dental care,
followed by a question period.
Each child was given a
toothbrush and toothpaste and
shown the proper way to
brush.
"There's a difference
between brushing and
cleaning," student Jim Kontras
told a classroom full of st udents
at Ruth Pyrtle School.
"Usually people over-brush and
under-clean."
To help show this, each
child took home a "disclosing
table," a wafer which, when
chewed causes poorly brushed
areas to turn red.
In conjunction with
national Children's Dental
Health Week, the program
action,
emphasizes the benefits of
brushing after every meal,
seeing a dentist regularly,
drinking fluoridated water and
limiting intake of sweets, Peter
said.
In addition, the program
was presented in Lincoln
parochial schools by the dtntal
assistants school of Lincoln
Technical College. On Friday,
dental hygiene students from
the dental college presented
demonstrations and skits in the
Otoe County Public Schools,
based on the theme "What
Have You Done for Your Smile
Lately"?
Teacher and pupil response
was enjoyable and favorable,
Peter said.
As a result of the dental
students' presentation and the
schools' education program,
Ruth Pyrtle School teacher
Lela Steinkrueger said her
students have now become
"very cavity-conscious."
improved clerical help, smaller
classrooms, and sabattical programs could be
brought into effect, he said.
A second area of concern is academic
freedom. AFT policy includes freedom of
speech guaranteed all citizens by the First
Amendment, right of free inquiry and
discourse, abscence of restrictions upon the
classroom teacher's method, and finally a
sound grievance procedure under collective
bargaining.
The national union would provide legal
assistance to its members, while the state
AFL-CIO could supply lobbyists to work in
the Unicameral.
Financial security is another area of
concern brought out by proponents of the
union.
Concerning strikes, Rejda commented:
"Striking will not be the objective of this
union. Public law in Nebraska forbids
teachers to strike. We will be able to
negotiate our demands and use the Court of
Industrial Relations as an impartial judge."
MacPhee said 75 signatures of faculty
members on the chartering petition have
been secured in the last week. He thinks that
elections for faculty approval could be held
in several months and that chances for
acceptance of the union as the representative
of the faculty are excellent.
Signatures have been obtained from ten
different departments ranging from English
to agriculture economics. Support has also
been obtained from thirty per cent of the
College of Business.
AFT currently has chartered 200 locals
on college campuses across the country.
Thirty five of these now have collective
bargaining contracts with their governing
boards.
The University of Nebraska at Omaha has
received a charter and presently has the
support of about twenty per cent of the
faculty.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1971
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