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UN-L Chancellor James H.
Zumberge gazed across
Keystone lake from his
vantage point on the southern
shore.
"In five years,",, he said,
"people will be beating a path
here from throughout the
region. . .not only from
Nebraska."
Zumberge visited UN-L's
new Biological Field Station
about 10 miles northeast of
Ogallala in Western Nebraska.
He said he was impressed by
both the environment-sloping,
cedar-lined canyon walls,
rippling waters and miles of
sandhills on the far shore
rolling away toward . the
horizon-and by the
enthusiasm of faculty members
and the 28 students who are
pioneering the first five-week
session at the field station.
The University obtained a
lease on the 40-acre site last
spring, ending several years of
search for a suitable location in
Western Nebraska where
students would be able to
study plant and animal life in
their natural settings.
Ecological merits
Gary Hergenrader, interim
director of the School of Life
Sciences,'- explained the
scientific and ecological merits
of the site.
Pointing to the western
extremity of Keystone Lake,
Hergenrader said "It's just a
mile from here to Lake
McConaughy. Together with
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Musical program among
UN-L Bicentennial plans
Activities and projects to celebrate the United States
Bicentennial are being planned by several UN-L departments.
Honoring native Nebraska writer Willa Cather, the department
of music will present a musical theater based on one of her short
stories, "Eric Hermanson's Soul," music professor Robert Beadell
said.
Beadell will compose" the musical score and Virginia Faulkner,
University Press editor, will write the words. Consultant for the
musical theater will be English professor Bernice Slot.
Funds for the student-produced musical theater have been
granted by the University Foundation, Beadell said.
The originator of the musical theater was John Moran, Music
School Chairman.
New Course due
According to history professor James Rawley, the history
department is observing the Bicentennial by offering a new course
emphasizing the American Revolution. The course will be offered
for the first time next fall for two to three credit hours.
A Bicentennial issue of Rawley's books, "Turning Points of the
Civil War," will be published as another part of the history
department's contribution to the Bicentennial.
Another Bicentennial book to be published by the University
Press, said Dave Gilbert, pres manager, will be a new edition of "A
Pictorial History of Nebraska," by Bruce Nickoll, The revised issue,
edited by Gilbert Savery, will bring Nebraska history up-to-date.
Funding for the revision of the pictorial history has been
approved by the Bicentennial Committee. The book is scheduled
by the Bicentennial Committee. The book is scheduled to be
released September 1975 in both paper and cloth editions, said
Gilbert. "
Arboretum planned
A proposal to launch a statewide Nebraska arboretum has been
submitted to the Bicentennial Committee, according to Dr. Dermot
Coyne of the department of horticulture. The proposal indicates
plans to plant tress throughout parks in the state for recreational
beauty and research.
Media services at UN-L will also take part in the Bicentennial
celebration.
As its contribution to the Bicentennial activities, the Nebraska
Educational Television System (ETV) plans to release a series of
films depicting life in the Nebraska plains, said Ron Hull, ETVs
director.
Filming of ethnic festivals in Nebraska will be another
Bicentennial project. Hull said the first of the festivals, the Fiesta
DeVila in Scottsbluff is already completed.
' Although plans are still incomplete, te University libraries and
museums will set up special displays and exhibits of books and
artifacts relating to the early Independence era, according to the
assistant dean of libraries, Dean Waddel, and the director of
museum, James Guhnerson.
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Keystone Lake, and the nearby
Sandhills lakes we have a broad
array of aquatic environments
which in turn contain an
abundant variety of fish and
aquatic life, which limnologists
and biologists will find of great
interest.
"On the other side of the
lake," Hergenrader continued,
"there's a flood plain forest
typical of many such forests
found in Nebraska where many
kinds of ecological studies can
be conducted. And of course,
there are thousands of acres of
sandhills which can provide an
enormous outdoor laboratory
for the study of grassland
ecology."
The new Biological Field
Station was a former Girl
Scout Camp. Ten cabins, each
with room for four students,
stand among the cedars along
the canyon slopes. Nearer to
the lake, a two-level building of
wood and stone contains a
mess hall and laboratories. Two
larger, cabins and a trailor
provide housing for faculty
members and their familities.
Three courses are being
taught during the first
five-week session at the field
station. The first session
integrates studies in
icthyology, protozoology, and
helminthology. Teachers are
UN-L Professors Brent Nickol,
John Janovy Jr., and John
Lynch, (next session, starting
July 14, Professors Robert
Kaul, James Rosowski and
Pnaene Martin will provide
related course work in aquatic
plants, phycology and aquatic
microbiology.)
Begin at 7 a.m.
Students begin their day
with breatfast at 7 a.m. It's
prepared by a graduate student
in home economics who has
faced such challenges as
preparing turtle stews and soup
from a giant snapper brought
back from the wilds by some
of the students.
At 8 a.m., the "work-day"
at the field station begins, and
it usually lasts until 1 1 p.m. six
days a week. Normal routine
includes classroom lectures,
field trips, laboratory work, an
independent study project, and
an occasional seminar with a
guest lecturer.
Returning late in the
afternoon from a field trip
along a section of the South
Platte River, students Rick
Golbc, Mike McCarty and
George Acker dumped about
two dozen killifish (a small
colorful minnow), into a tray
in the laboratory on the lower
level of the mess hall.
"We're studying the
incidence of a protozoan
parasite found in killifish taken
from various points along the
South Platte, explained Gobel,
a senior zoology student from
Beatrice. "So far, we've found
a high incidence of the
parasite, but can't say at this
point why this should be so or
whether is poses any threat to
the killifish or other fish in the
river.
McCarty, a junior from
Hastings, and Acker, a UN-L
graduate who teaches at
Ogallala Junior High School,
agree with Coble that the field
station, is a bright new addition
to UN-L's program in the Life
Sciences.
"Beats formaldehyde"
"It beats the smell of
formaldehyde. Here we can
gather' our own biological
specimens for laboratory use,
instead of relying on preserved
specimens provided in the
laboratories on campus," said
one student. ,
Students noted the informal
atmosphere that prevails at the
camp. "We work closely with
the faculty and it's been a good
experience to get to know our
teachers and their families on a
personal basis," said a student.
So me students will be
enrolled in classes during the
second session at the field
station. Others indicated they
would come back next year if
new courses are offered. Next
year's program hasn't been
decided, according to
Hergenrader.
"I believe the field station is
an excellent addition to the
academic program of the
University of Nebraska. Its use
is bound to increase and the
diversity of its programs will
expand greatly as new
possibilities for special studies
are revealed," Hergenrader
said.
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"Not everything can be
done in schools but it is one
way of introducing people to
new things," Fox said.
"Better choices should be
made available to people
instead of expecting them to
make the best choice," she
said. '
Profit hampers change
However, she said, this will
be hard since business is built
on profit and industries must
change
be convinced that they can
may money before they will
make a change.
"Nothing will change unless
it can be translated into
profit," Fox said.
"People usually thing of
nutrition as dull and creativity
is hard in teaching nutrition,"
Gerner said. She stressed that
nutritionists need to work to
make nutrition education
exciting.
"Nutrition is boring
because of nutritionists," Fox
said, adding that people always
think of nutrition as boring
although everyone is interested
in food.
"We need to work on
gearing nutrition education to
peoples' interests," she said.
"Food is more than
nourishment-it means love,
affection and approval to
people and this must be
recognized if changes are to be
made."
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