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-i I MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1972
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
NO. 1
UNL campus
introduced
at orientation
Nearly 4,000 persons are expected to
attend the New Student Orientation
'Program at the University of
I Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) during first
I summer session, according to Peter Wirtz,
I student affairs coordinator.
1 At one-day sessions beginning
tomorrow, UNL student hosts, faculty
and staff members- will introduce the
University to prospective students and
their parents.
"We're not educating them about the
University," Wirtz said, "we're just
familiarizing them with it."
The orientation program is designed to
clarify and finalize each new student's
pre-registration and to help him become
familiar with academic opportunities at
UNL.
But Wirtz said the program has an
I equally important goal of showing
students and parents the diversity of
student needs, interests, attitudes and
activities" at UNL.
"From the very start, we, want to
make the participants feel comfortable
and show them there are people here who
care about them," Wirtz said.
The orientation activities will begin
with a presentation by University
students who will portray student life and
involvment on the campus through a
panel discussion, film or slide show.
Visiting students and parents then will
be separated. Small groups of students
accompanied by a student host will "do
whatever they want and need to do to get
a quick glimpse of the University," Wirtz
said.
For example the small groups may
wish to visit the Undergraduate Library,
the Recreation Department, Student
Health, the Union and residence halls, he
said.
"The kids will ask anything, from
'where do I do my laundry' to 'when can
I get my football tickets," Wirtz said.
"And that's just what we want them to
do. We hope we can tailor the day's
events so it meets the needs of each kid."
In the afternoon, the new students will
meet with a member of their college
faculty for individual academic advising.
"We'll actually be able to finalize each
student's schedule on the spot by feeding
it into a computer at the Engineering
Building," Wirtz said. "This way, we can
guarantee each student's schedule and he
can even visit his classrooms for fall if he
wants to."
While the visiting students are touring
with student hosts, and finalizing fall
schedules, parents will be divided by the
college to meet with deans and faculty
members.
After lunch, parents will attend a
Counseling Center presentation where
"topics parents need to know about" will
be discussed, Wirtz said.
Vocational choice, academic
achievement and the student's search for
independence are topics that typically
concern parents, he said.
A final feedback session will allow
students and parents to critique the day
for improvements in future orientation
programs.
Wirtz said that since the program was
originated 10 years ago, more than
40,000 new students and their parents
have participated.
Humanities combined in 2 workshops
Designing interdisciplinary humanities
courses is the goal of two secondary
education workshops being held during
first summer session according to Dr.
Vaughn Jaenike, workshop coordinator.
Secondary school teachers of English,
music, art, drama and social studies will
"share , humanities experiences so they
can learn to think in an interdisciplinary
fashion and design such experiences in
their schools," Jaenike said.
One of the workshops is a repeat of
last year's humanities workshop, which
featured a series of "humanities
happenings," workshop assistant Ardith
Robertson, Hastings College, said.
The "happenings" included: a tour of
Sheldon Art Gallery with an art specialist
as guide; a trip to Brownville for a
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PAY FEES .
I here :
Boats, bikes
Sailing lessons, bike tours, tennis
matches, horseshoe tournaments.
For people with time on their hands or
the urge to get away and relax, the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL)
Recreation Department offers dozens of
things to do, according to Dan Stellar,
recreation director.
And most of it already is paid for.
Summer session students pay $1 of
their student fees for recreational
programs and $1 for recreation, Stellar
said.
"Any additional charges made for
some of the activities just cover actual
costs, like paying instructors renting
equipment or transportation expense, in
some cases," he said.
During the summer, all of the
department's facilities and programs are
open to students, faculty, staff and their
children.
Reminder
Students planning to
graduate at the end of the first
summer session mutt file
applications for degrees at the
Registrar's Office by June 12.
The office it open from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. daily.
riverboat ride, an afternoon at Wesleyan
University s summer playhouse and a
general survey of the community;
attending summer opera and summer
theater performances, and "just getting
acquainted," she said.
About 30 secondary teachers will
participate in the workshop, and as last
year, each of them will design
interdisciplinary studies units for use in
their own schools, Jaenike said.
"The integrated approach is really one
of the oldest methods of education,"
Jaenike said. "It probably dates from
early Greek days.
"We just hope that by studying all of
man's means of self-expression-art,
music, literature, architecture, drama-we
can help broaden the perspective of what
they study instead of putting things into
narrow channels," he said.
what's
inside?
For this week's ETV dedication specials
and regular programming, see page 3.
June calendar, page 2.
Summer hours of museums, libraries, art
gallery listed on page 3.
SSsis
offered for
For summer leisure activities, two
outdoor recreation areas will be available
on the downtown campus.
The lighted area east of Cathcr-Pound
Hall between Vine and R Streets includes
eight tennis courts, five outdoor handball
or paddleball courts and a general playing
field. The lighted area adjacent to
Harper-Schramm-Smith dorm complex
includes 10 tennis courts, 3 artificial turf
putting greens, basketball backboards and
a general play area.
"Maybe by next year we'll have part
of our outdoor recreation area now
proposed for East Campus," Stellar said.
"It's going to include a golf driving range,
fields for flag football and a rchery,
tennis and handball courts and even an
outdoor ice skating rink."
For indoor recreation, the Coliseum
will be open from I -5 p.m. Monday
through Friday. The Men's Physical
Education Building will be open from 1-6
p.m. Monday through Friday.
The swimming pool and sunbathing
area at Abel-Sandpz Hall will be open
daily from noon to 10 p.m. The cost is
$.25 per swim or $1.50 for a summer
session ticket. A lifeguard is on duty at all
times.
By presenting a valid UNL
identification card, students, faculty and
staff may check out basketballs,
footballs, horseshoes, soccer balls and
equipment for archery, squash, volleyball,
paddleball, badminton and so It ball.
"Some things, of course, still need to
be studied in great depth," he said, "but
they'll all connect up later."
Jaenike said the ultimate goal of such
interdisciplinary approaches in the "hop,?
that students will be able to establii,n
some values and defensible ideas about
their own lives."
The second summer workshop will be
a more advanced version, primarily for
last year's participants.
The workshop will emphasize
problems of working as a member of an
integrated studies team which may or
may not be in the same building, school
system or community; developing
humanities studies outlines; finding and
organizing people, places and things as
community resources.
"This is not the kind of thing you can
write a textbook for," Jaenike
emphasized. "It has to be a grassroots
program."
The workshops are funded by the
National Endowment for the Arts
through the Nebraska Arts Council,
which also funded an
artist-in-brief-residence program used by
some of last year's workshop participants.
The program made it possible for
secondary school teachers across the state
to invite various artists into their
communities for several days to
demonstrate skills to school and
community groups.
Artists-in-brief-rcsidence during the
past school year included filmmakers, a
composer, a ballet dancer, a Western
stories writer, an architect and musicians
who demonstrated electronic music with
a Moog synthesizer.
"AU of these resources for humanities
experiences are just another way of
extending the classroom into the
community," Jaenike said.
State, national dignitaries
attend ETV dedication
Nebraska's new Education
Telecommunications Center was
dedicated Sunday at ceremonies which
. included state, city and University
officials and chief executives of three
major public broadcasting organizations.
Government officials participating in
the ceremonies included: U.S. Sen. Carl
T. Curtis, Gov. J. James Exon, State
' Senator Terry Carpenter, Lincoln Mayor
Sam Schwartzkopf and Education
Commissioner Cecil Sianley.
The University of Nebraska was
represented at the dedication by Edward
Schwartzkopf, president of the Board of
Regents, University President Durward
ETV tours set
Free public tours of the new Nebraska
Educational Telecommunications Center
have been scheduled this week.
Tours are set up for today through
Friday, 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday,
Children's Day, from 9 to 1 1 :30 a.m.
Parking is available south of the
building located at 1800 N. 33 St.,
directly north of the Nebraska Center for
Continuing Education.
The tours are coordinated and
conducted by volunteers from the
Lincoln Junior League and Nebraskans
for Public Television, Inc. (NPTV), a
non-profit organization for the support of
public and educational television.
leisure
Equipment requiring a rental fee
includes tandem bicycles, golf clubs,
canoes, camp stoves, pack frames and
packs, tents, sleeping bags and rods and
reels.
All equipment is available at the
Recreation Department office, 1740 Vine
St.
Special weekend recreational programs
planned for June include: sailing
instructions at Holmes Lake, June 9-I0;
sailing and water skiing, June 1 6-1 7; bike
tours, June 23-24.
In summer intramurals, a tennis singles
tournament for women will be held.
Entries are due June 15; play starts June
19.
Men's intramurals elude: three-man
basketball-entries due June 15, play
starts June 19; tennis singles-entries due
June 15, play starts June 19; paddleball
singles-entries due June 22, play starts
June 26; two-mile distance run-entries
due June 27, race June 29; horseshoe
singles-entries due June 15, play starts
June 26.
Children of students, faculty and staff
are eligible for instructions in tennis,
softball, hunting (archery), swimming and
volleyball. Classes tentatively are
scheduled for Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 10 to 1 1 a.m.
Instructions in tennis, rowing, sailing
and other activities on request also will he
offered for students, faculty and staff.
Interested persons should contact the
department, 472-3467, for more details,
Stellar said.
"We're here to serve the students,"
Ste'lar said. "If they have ideas of
programs they want, all they have to do is
let us know and we'll try to do whatever
we can to start it."
Fulbright finalists
include 3 from UNL
Three University of Nebraska-Lincoln
(UNL) students have been selected by
National Fulbright Screening Coinmillee
as finalists to study abroad in 1972-73
under the Fulbright -Hayes fellowship
program.
Final decisions on selection rest with
the U.S. Board of Foreign Scholarships
and the Bi-Nalional Com mil lee,
according to Dr. Robert I squcna.i-Mayo,
UNL Fulbright adviser.
The candidates are:
-Peter V.N. Henderson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Flyot Henderson of Cape
Neddick, Maine', a history graduate
student, who plans to continue histtudics
of the Mexican Revolution in Mexico.
-Grelchen Iniler, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John G. Imler of Nelson and a May
graduate from the College of Arts and
Sciences, who plans to study industrial
dcKign in Mexico.
-Virginia Stucky, daughter of
Dorothy B. Stucky of Lincoln and a May
graduate from the College of Arts and
Sciences, who has applied for a leaching
assistantship in t rance.
July I is the application deadline for
Fulbright-Hayes awards for university
lecturing and advanced research during
1973-74. Fsuuenazi Mayo said.
Additional information and
Jpplication forms are available from
;squcnazi-Mayo. Oldfalher Hall 1934,
UNL, phone 472-3076.
Varner and University of
Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Chancellor
James Zumberge.
Presidents of three public broadcasting
organizations taking part in the
dedication ceremonies were: John Macy,
Corporation for Public Broadcasting;
Hartford N. Gunn Jr., Public
Broadcasting Service; and William Hancy,
National Association of Educational
Broadcasters. Macy was the featured
speaker.
The color telecast of the dedication
was the first locally originated color
program for the Nebraska ETV Network
and marked the beginning of regular color
production of local programs.
Educational television in Nebraska
began in 1954, with the activation of the
University's KUON-TV, Channel 12.
Since that time, educational television
facilities evolved from a basement room
on the UNL campus to nine separate
locations throughout the city.
The new Telecommunications Center,
1800 N. 33 St., will be the headquarters
for nine educational television or public
television organizations:
-The Nebraska Educational Television
Commission is responsible for all aspects
of network operation. The commission
was established by the Unicameral in
1963 to develop and administer the
state's noncommercial ETV network.
-University of Nebraska Television
(KUON-TV, Channel 12) produces the
network's continuing education and
public television programs. The operation
also encompasses the campus
closed-circuit television system.
The Nebraska Council for
Educational Television, (NCET) is
responsible for elementary and secondary
school programming. NCET Pioneered in
developing instructional resources for
distribution to voluntary member school
districts in Nebraska, Colorado and
Wyoming. Beginning in September, the
State Department of Education will
administer instructional television, and all
Nebraska schools will be able to use
television in the classroom without
charge.
-The Nebraska Education Television
Council for Higher Education is the
program agency serving sixteen member
colleges (public and private) in Nebraska
and eight associate members in six
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decrease
reported
surrounding states.
-The Nebraska Television Council for
Nursing Education offers instructional
units for 12 schools of nursing in
Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa.
-The Great Plains National
Instructional Television Library leases
videotaped instructional television
courses. Considered the largest such
facility in the world, it offers more than
100 courses for use at all levels,
kindergarten through college.
Instructional materials are distributed
throughout the United States and in
several foreign countrries.
-Nebraskans for Public Television is a
public support organization.
The State University of Nebraska
project will offer first and second year
college courses for credit -via educational
television, audio and video cassettes,
films, tests and other means. Nebraskans
will be able to take college courses at
home and visit regional resource centers
for assistance.
Summer
Nebraskan
This is the Summer Nebraskan, a
campus newspaper published for
summer school students.
It will appear five more times
during first session -June 12, 19, 26
and July 5 and 12-and three times
during second session-July 17, 24
and 31.
Supervised by the School of
Journalism, the Summer Nebraskan
is independent of the Daily
Nebraskan, the campus newspaper
during the fall and spring semesters.
If you'd like to add something
to the Summer Nebraskan -letters
to the editor, poetry, photographs,
artwork, articles, advertising,
information about your group's
upcoming events-we'll welcome
your contributions. Just send your
material to 319 Nebraska Hall or
call 472-3377.
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About 7,000 students are expected to
register for first summer session classes at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
(UNL), some 500 less than last year's first
session enrolment, Lee W. Chatfield, dean
of student academic services, reported.
About 1 ,600 signed up lor classes
during last week's general registration,
but several hundred arc expected to
register yet this week.
Chat Held blamed "economic
uncertainty" as a possible reason for
fewer summer session students this year.