Students
by Vicki Pulos
Students of John Brasch's
Marketing in Selected Foreign
Countries course this semester
will be doing more than hitting
the books. Over 15 such
students will be traveling to
Latin America over Christmas
break for a first hand view of
marketing procedures in
Mexico City, San Salvador and
San Jose, Costa Rica.
"This is not just a
three-week course," said
Brasch. The involved students
from the colleges of business
Learning Center examines
large lecture classes
The Teaching and Learning
Center's recent program aimed
at instuctors of large lecture
classes was received with
"enthusiasm" according to its
director Vernon Williams, a UNL
psychologist.
Certain innovations
discussed at the meeting are
already in effect. For example
the history department is
asking for student reactions to
courses now instead of at the
end of the semester.
The chemistry department
is encouraging lab assistants to
be more active with their
sections, asking questions and
so forth.
Certain quiz sections in
math have encouraged graduate
assistants to develop direct
individual contact with
students. These sections are
responding more actively and
enthusiastically, Williams
reported.
The Teaching and Learning
Center, organized this year to
help the faculty develop more
effective teaching skills, invited
45 instructors of large lecture
classes to discuss their
problems.
Forty of them and a small
group of students listened to
an initial address by Williams
and then split into smaller
discussion groups "appropriate
for a group dealing with large
lecture classes," said Williams.
The original presentation
dealt with different ways to get
feedback from tlu students.
They included such things as
simply watching a class to see
if students are attentive or
falling asleep, or designating
students to watch for class
reactions as well as standard
written and verbal course
evaluations.
"There was almost every
shade of opinion from one
extreme to the other," said
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The Nebraska Union Board
is holding interviews today to
fill two vancancies. Interested
students (freshmen welcome
too) are urged to apply. For
info and interview times, go to
Rm. 200, Nebraska Union.
Federal government
employment counselors will be
in the Nebraska Union to
advise '72 f. rHs on government
jobs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
today.
Student positions are open
on the College of Arts and
Sciences Curriculum and
(trading Appeals Committees
and associate positions on the
Arts and Science advisory
Board. Interviews for these
plan trip to Latin America
administration, agriculture and
architecture are already
attending introductory
seminars.
THE COURSE will be
conducted in English, and
students will visit with local
business firms, government and
financial institutions.
Although this semester's
course is full, it will be offered
again in the future. Interested
students are encouraged to
contact Brasch.
The course is among those
offered by the Institute of
Williams.. Some felt the faculty
should exert its power and
insist on smaller classes, while
others preferred to make the
best of it.
The Center is now
evaluating its program to see if
more instructors of large
classes should be contacted.
The small groups suggested
Cyclists organize
Freebee bike co-op
Bicyclists shouldn't have to go through the frustrations car
drivers experience trying to repair their machines, one Lincoln
bike-rider thinks.
So Roger Kaye is trying to organize a "Freebee Bike Co-op" to
alleviate bicyclists from the necessity to pay someone else to
perform minor repairs.
"A three day wait for repairs along with enormous labor costs
makes no sense," Kaye said. "Only in extreme cases should an
'expert' be required."
Kaye is trying to open the co-op in the rear of the Blue Sky
Books shop, on Q St. between I Oth and I 1th. Its purpose would
be to supply needed repair equipment which would be too costly
for an individual to purchase.
He said the co-op could only become a reality with the help of
bicyclists themselves.
Kaye is a member of the NFU-Bicycle group.
Students interested in the "freebee Bike Co-op" can contact
Kaye at the Blue Sky Books shop on Q St.
Ford Foundation funds programs
The Ford Foundation has
announced the continuation of
the following programs for the
1972-73 year:
-Doctoral fellowships for
American Indian Students
-Doctoral Fellowships for
Black Students
-Doctoral Fellowships for
Mexican American and Puerto
Rican Students.
The fellowship programs
are for students who have not
undertaken any graduate or
professional study and who
positions will be Tuesday Sept.
2S, 4:30 p.m. in Heppner
Lounge, Centennial College.
Sign up for an interview time
on third floor Nebraska Union
outside the ASUN office. Call
Tom Weist, 434-0288 if
interested but unable to attend
interviews.
The Department of
Architecture is offering a
course over Christmas break
this year in the nature of a
field trip which will study the
architecture of Mexico and
Yucatan. There will be a
meeting and slide show for
students interested in the trip
tonight at 8 p.m. in the small
auditorium, Nebraska union
basement.
Latin American and
International Studies. Brasch is
an Institue staff member.
Roberto Esquenazi-Mayo is
director.
Other activities of the
Institute include an exchange
program with El Colegio de
Mexico in Mexico City. The
University grants full credit for
courses completed in the one
year stay at El Colegio.
RECENTLY THE
scholarship program to Mexico
has been cut. According to
Esauenazi-Mayo the Institute
keeping in contact with each
other, visiting each others'
classes and dealing with the
problem of getting students to
respond for future programs.
Williams said students are
welcome at future meetings,
although no concrete plans
have been made yet.
wish to pursue the Ph.D. and
to enter careers in higher
education. Each program will
support full-time graduate
study for up to five years,
depending upon satisfactory
progress toward the Ph.D.
Instructions and application
forms may be obtained from
The Ford Foundation, 320
Fast 43rd St., New York. New
York 10017. Applications for
all three programs must be
completed by January 10.
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hopes to build up funds
through personal contributions
and foundations. So far about
20 NU students have gone to
El Colegio.
Additional exchange
programs are being planned.
The University of Oriente,
Venezuela, the Instituto
Hispanico of the University of
Sao Paulo and the Faculty of
Letters of the University of
Rio de Janeiro have been
contacted.
The NU institute, initiated
in 1967, primarily administers
majors and minors in the fields
of Latin America and Eastern
European studies.
A Latin American studies
major might choose from
among such courses as Colonial
Brazilian Literature,
Pre-Columbian Art, Social
Revolution in 20th Century
Latin America, Economic
Development of Latin
America, or Latin American
Education.
"WE HAVE AN excellent
corps working in the future of
Latin American culture, an
area important for its
contributions to science,
literature, art and vital in terms
of the United States," said
Esquenazi-Mayo. He said the
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The scholastic program cuts
across college and campus
lines. UNO is represented on
the administrative committee
of the Institute along with
seven colleges and seventeen
departments of UNL.
The institute also advises
canditates ot Fullbright
Fellowships (application
deadline Oct. 1).
This spring there are plans
for an Inter-American
conference on the scientific
and technological gap in
America aimed at the
development of Latin
American countries.
THROUGHOUT the year
the Institute provides speakers
on topics regarding Latin
America and Eastern Europe.
Recently the Secretary General
of the Organization of
American States spoke on
campus.
Cultural events in
collaboration with the School
of Music and Nebraska Art
Galleries are also presented
through the Institute.
"Student response has been
excellent, beyond our
expectations," Esquenazi-Mayo
said.
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