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Wednesday, august 201975
daily nebraskan
UNL summer headlines include 'death ASUN cleaning
Editor's note: During the more than
three months since the last Daily
Nebraskan May 2, UNL has not been
without newsmakers, nor has it been
without a newspaper.
The Summer Nebraskan, published by
the School of Journalism for the first eight
weeks of the summer session, provided
summer session students a look at what
was happening on campus. A brief look at
some of its headlines may help fill in those
who, like the Dairy Nebraskan, were not
around this summer.
Death: subject for study
Bob Guthmann, professor of Public
Health, finished teaching the first death
and dying course offered at UNL.
Guthmann said he was encouraged by
the response to the two-week workshop
and would like to see course offerings on
the subject expanded, lie is exploring:
-a one-credit-hour workshop during the
first five-week session next summer.
-a three-credit-hour course during the
regular semester, which he hopes to offer
on a trial run during the evening.
-an intensive one-credit-hour
mini-course to'b part of a five-credit-hour
Eackage of courses for majors in public
ealth.
Sorel piano recital featured in series
Claudette Sorel, the only woman to
hold the position of distinguished
university professor in the State University
of New York System, presented a program
of Rachman music to climax a scries of
piano recitals at UNL.
Summer film festival echos American
Bicentennial theme
The stories of people who contributed
in large and small measures to the
American past were featured in the
Bicentennial Film Festival sponsored by
the UNL Instructional Media Center
through the University Extension Division.
The nine-part festival, recognized by the
American Revolution Bicentennial
Commission of Nebraska, featured the 13
chapters of the Alistiir Cook film protrait,
America: A Personal History of the United
States, co-produced by the British
Broadcasting Corporation and Time-Life
Films. It also included short feature films
dealing with bits of America and a look at
the film achievements of American movie
pioneers.
ASUN faces housecleaning
ASUN President Jim Say said he would
be spending most of his summer doing
"some housekeeping."
Say said he is looking into restructuring
the ASUN book exchange so that it does
not lose money as it has in the past mostly
from ' books we can t account ior.
He said he also is considering an
on-campus bike registration and a student
workshop for off-campus students to deal
with landlord-tenant relations and other
apartment problems. ;
"We're going to try and work on finding
what sorts of problems we want to
consider for the fall, he said.
Grim summer employment picture
for UNL students
The lack of summer jobs for students
hit not only Lincoln, but the Scholarships
and Financial Aids OfficeEmployment
Coordinator Doug Severs said his office,
which lists jobs on and off campus,
received an average of 10 to 15 job
openings a week, compared with 26 jobs
per week last summer.
A spokesman for a firm providing
temporary help for businesses said they
increased the number of college students
they employ by 10 per cent.
Students not finding full-time jobs may
have turned to this work, she said, becaur?
they decided temporary jobs were better
than none.
Insulation study shows campus hot
spots .
Agricultural and Keim Halls and the
Foods and Nutrition Building on East
Campus, and the Power Plant and
Engineering Center on City Campus are the
hot spots at UNL.
At least that's what the thermograms
said. "
Similar to aerial photographs,
thermograms show Lincoln buildings
appearing in various shades of gray, from
near black to near white. Buildings
appearing black are well-insulated; those
appearing white have a high heat loss.
The photographs gave no new
information, but they did confirm that the
UNL buildings scheduled for insulation
need it, said Tom Trumble, physical plant
construction engineer.
The thermograms also showed that
Behlen Physics Lab and the Administration
Building on City Campus were the cooler
f UNL buildings.
New students join faculty for
introductory retreat
Taxable responses from participants
of a May retreat for faculty and students
have led to the planning of two more
retreats.
Gene Harding, director of the Teaching
and Learning Center and coordinator of
the retreats, said dates have not been set,
but that he hopes they will be before the
middle of September.
The overnight retreat, which was at a
camp near Milford, brought together 36
students and faculty members, in an
informal setting, he said.
The retreat was funded by private
foundations.
Biological station opens for study
UNL's new Biological Field Station
about 10 miles northeast of Ogallala in
western Nebraska, was occupied by faculty
members and 28 students who pioneered
there during the first five-week summer
session.
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.
. Students agreed that the new field,
station was a bright addition to UNL's
program in the life sciences.
"It beats the smell of formaldehyde,"
said one student. "Here we can gather our
own biological specimens for laboratory
use, instead of relying on preserved
specimens provided in the laboratories on
campus."
Summer enrollment sets record
Enrollment at UNL for this year's
summer sessions was the highest ever,
according to F. William Sesow, associate
director of summer sessions.
The 14,472 students enrolled for the
presession, eight-week session and the two
five-week sessions, was an 11 per cent
increase over last year's total of 1 3,022, he
said.
Sesow said he is not sure what caused
the increase, but that in talking to
colleagues around the country he learned
that they "experienced similar phenomen".
Satisfied
Data collected from summer students
"indicated students were quite satisfied"
with the course offerings, he said.
"We felt we offered a fine schedule of
courses," he said, "but, of course that's not
a reason for the increase nationally."
Sesow said he could be pessimistic and
say that more students took summer
classes becuase they could not find jobs.
He understands, he said, that during the
Depression college enrollments also
'increased.
However, he added, he hoped this was
not the reason.
Take longer
Another reason for the increase, he said,
could be the increase in the number of
"drop-in students" who have jobs and take
longer to earn a degree. Summer sessions
are "beautifully designed for that," he said.
The 1,763 students enrolled in this
year's presession was an increase of 427
students over last summer, and the 471
students enrolled in the eight-week session
was 196 more than last year.
The 6,934 enrolled for the first
five-week session, and the 5,304 for -the
second five-week session, exceeded last
year's enrollment by 468 students and 259
students, respectively.
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