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7"ufors gVe r?o7a7 children
study help, individual attention
By Charles Wieser
Every Tuesday night a volunteer program
for tutoring Indian children infuses the
basement of Andrews Hall with activity.
The program. Tutors of Nebraska Indian
Children (TONIC), is a student organization
initiated in 1969 to help increase
educational opportunities for Nebraska
Indian students.
TONIC provides a chance for Indian
children to meet with friends of their own
culture, according to Marilynn Weiland, a
UNL elementary education major working
with the program.
"We use educational games instead of
text books and a one to-one tutoring
method," she said.
Weiland explained that most Indian
students involved in TONIC need individual
attention and a person to depend on. There
are more than 75 children ranging from
kindergarten to the tenth grade now in
TONIC, she said.
There also are more than 75 UNL student
volunteers and several persons from
Cor.cordia Teachers College, Geward,
working on the program, she said. However,
TONIC receives no university funds and is
sponsored by charitable organizations.
"TONIC is not a threatening situation,
because we neither judge or grade persons
involved in it. I'd like to see the continuance
of our students until they enter high school
and then have them turn around and do
some tutoring themselves," she said.
Dixie DeCoteau, an original coordinator
of TONIC, said the program has helped
many of the students involved and is needed
by Lincoln's Indian community.
Lloyd Ware, parent involvement assistant
for Lincoln's Indian Education Unit, said
that TONIC could help Indian students get
on the right road in regards to their studies if
handled correctly.
"If teachers in the public school system
would become more involved, it could help
in better locating the educational handicaps
of the student," he said.
Weiland said a panel of teachers and
counselors from different Lincoln schools
has been scheduled to talk to the students in
TONIC.
"We want to open communication
between teachers and the students in our
program," she said.
Ware said there are nw 165 Indian
students in Lincoln public schools. "We've
also located 44 pre-kindergarten children,"
he said.
The Indian student, Wieland said, tends
to withdraw from school after reaching the
age of 16, the legal age to drop out of school
in Nebraska. However, the Lincoln Public
School system does not compute percentage
drop out rates for Indian students in relation
to the Indian population in Lincoln.
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ignore emergencies
Two Princeton University psychologists studying what they
termed "bystander behavior in emergencies," found that there
are few "Good Samaritans" among college students.
In an experiment conducted by Dr. John M. Darley and Dr.
C. Daniel Batson, 40 unknowing theological students were
asked to prepare a three to five minute impromptu talk on a
specific topic, either on vocations or on the parable of the
Good Samaritan.
Equipped with a map and instructions to go to another
laboratory to tape the speech, the subjects were told they were
either already late for the session (the doctors call it
"high-hurry condition"), were expected momentarily
("intermediate-hurry condition"), or that they could take
their time ("low-hurry condition").
Then, on their way across campus, the subjects encountered
a groaning, coughing "victim" slumped in a doorway.
Sixty per cent of the subjects kept right on walking.
Of the 16 students who did stop, mote than GO per cent
were low-hurry subjects. Only 10 per cent of the high-hurry
subjects stopped.
"A person not in a hurry may stop and offer help to a
person in distress," concluded Darley and Batson. "A person
in a hurry is likely to keep going. Ironically, he is likely to
keep going even if he is hurrying to speak on the parable of the
Good Samaritan, thus inadvertently confirming the point of
the parable."
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