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j..., j . l il... 1 1 u .I.U1.HP in m, ... . . ''' )MfTn tum:n -umm mi r i i" " '" J " . I v n rv TV NUMBER THREE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN TUESDAY, JULY 1,1975 0VE3 By Lynn Roberts Na start, vnimanie, marsh. Get ready, get set, go. The words have the same meaning in Russian and English, but both languages will be used in announcing results at the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) international track meet to be held in Lincoln July 4 and 5. Athletes from the Soviet Union and the United States will be competing in the meet which has been in the works since last summer. Although the meet 'is usually held every year, this is Nebraska's first time for hosting the event. Frank Sevigne, University of Nebraska-Lincoln track coach, said talk of having the meet in Lincoln began last summer and . that reactions to having the meet here have been good. "Plans really got rolling for the meet in the fall," Sevigne said. Pledges of $1 ,000 from 50 Lincolnites were obtained as "guarantee" money for the AAU, he said. Education By Vince Boucher One of education's movers and shaken is coming to the University of Nebraska system. "My specialty is educational trends," said K. Patricia Cross. Crqs? has been appointed to be assistant vice president for one year. "Change" magazine last February named Cross one of the 44 leaders of higher education in the country,' calling her "a leading spokeswoman for shaping educational programs for the nontraditional learner." "I am most concerned with the egalitarian thrust of education; involving larger segments of the population," she said. At Nebraska last year Cross is currently a research psychologist at Educational Testing Service at Berkeley, Calif. She was a consultant last year at Nebraska, where she helped update the five-ycaf academic plan "Toward Excellence." ' "One Of the. advantages is Nebraska's more representative student cross section of the general American population-that is of interest to me," she said. 'The undergraduate program (at Nebraska) is really open admissions because it includes students from the lower half of high school classes and from different economic levels," she said, contrasting it to the undergraduate population of a school such as Berkeley, where to fc U.S, eontesterits Since then volunteers have been arranging the details of the meet, Sevigne said. Interpreter, who will be available at all activities were lined up by Dr.: Richard Hammer, meet coordinator. ' The teams of 40 men and 40 women each have stayed at UN-L dorms since their arrival Monday. ' -' Included in entertainment planned for both teams are tours of the UN-L campus arid Lincoln, dances and a country barbecue. Meet director Sevigne, said the track has been marked in metric distances and that results will be given in yards and meters. , American participants qualified for the meet in two separate meets this spring, The men who are 19 or under qualified in Knoxville, Tenn. and the women who are 18 or under qualified at White Plains, N.Y. ; - One Nebraskan," Nancy Kindig of Hastings, will be among the U.S. women innovator the admissions are selective. The study tf open admissions procedures and, more recently, the jmove to w h a t C r oss calli "nontraditional education" or no educational discrimination - f Y '...V on the basis of age have been her past subjects of study. "" Last five years . "In the last five years my work has been research descriptions of open adnttssions and nontraditional students," she said. Research descriptions include the academic background and experience, social characteristics and statements of what the students want and what educators believe the students need, she said". "In short, these are a description of the total characteristics as they might be of interest to us as educators," ' she said. "We are no longer serving a competitiors. Governor Exon and the UN-L band will participate in opening ceremonies the 4th. A briefer ceremony with an Air Force band will begin 1 Saturday's mest. The meets which begin at 3 p.m. both days will be held at the coliseum. Sevigne said ticket sales have been good and although they don't expect to make money, they hope to break even. ' Campus By Sigrid Pelto If you want to find out where the hot spots on campus are, check the thermogram pictures at Cengas offices, 12th and N Streets. The thermograms, similar to aerial photographs, show Lincoln buildings appearing in various' shades of grey, from near black to near white. Buildings appearing black are well insulated but those group of 18-22 year olds who are white, from the upper economic strata and who had always done fairly well academically", she said. Cross said her research is directed toward developing programs to improve the quality of teaching and to modify existing curriculums for the broader, student populations. SUN cited She said the State University of Nebraska (SUN) and University of Mid-America (UMA) programs at Nebraska are examples of new approaches. SUN and UMA both involve study at the University of Nebraska away from the campus through the increased use of the television and print media. 1 "Those programs are. Very forward-looking programs for the country," she said. Cross said her work at Nebraska will include discussing educational changes with administrators and faculty members. In July she will meet with university officials to discuss appropriate research methods to evaluate the programs at Nebraska before she begins her appointment in the fall. Cross is the , author or coauthor of six books on higher education, including "Beyond the Open Door", a national study of open admissions students. Her annual salary at Nebraska will be S37.50O. hired Btion showing up white have a high heat loss. The campus hot spots are what Tom Trumble, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UN-L) . construction engineer, checked ' out. " -. He said UN-L buildings are favorable in restructing heat loss when compared with other " buildings of the same' construction. ' Confirmed need Though the photographs gave no new information, he said, they did confirm that the buildings scheduled for insulation improvement need it. , v Behlen Physics Lab and the Administration building were recently roofed, he said, and they look dark in the pictures, or cool, but Agricultural and Keim Halls on East Campus show up hot. Fiberglass insulation was already scheduled for them before he saw the photos, he said. Trumble said other hot spots are the Foods and Nutrition Building on East Campus and the Power Plant and Engineering Center on City Campus. Not all of thses buildings need more insulation, he said, some only need roof vents to allow moisture, which cuts insulating ability to escape. If the program is repeated in want insui Dorm occupancy up for fall . . . pg 4 A real chance or a troubled effort? AAU THAC2C MEET studied a few years, he said, it would be a help in evaluating the university's progress in conserving energy. Infared film The thermograms were taken by the Remote Sensing Institute of South Dakota State University and changed to the equivalent of aerial photographs by the UN-L Remote Sensing Center. Other cities photographed last winter by the plane equipped with infared film were Columbus, Beatrice, Norfolk and Sioux Falls, S.D. Clancy Woolman, marketing manager for Cengas, a division of Central Telephone and Utilities, said that the program has attracted the Federal Energy Administration, UJS. Commerce Department and state energy officials. Besides conserving energy by insulation which the Cengas program concentrates on, ; Trumble said, windows at UN-L are being replaced to prevent energy loss there. Buildings in which windows have been or will be replaced are Andrews, Burnett, Teachers College , Business Administration College and Bancroft Hall, he said. Improved windows should cut heat loss 35 per cent, he said. In five years the windows should be paid through energy savings, he said. 3C 3 m m m