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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1976)
tfiurrdsy, cctcbcr 7, 1970 dcl!y r no Aa Interdiiplinary program of courses from a variety of humanities and social sciences rare been combined into a irinor . ja reBonJ studies thii year. The aim of the program is to give the student a knowledge of religion as a phe nomenon of heman life, said John Turner, Cbtner prefesr of religion and aa stoci ate professor of history. "Yon can't ignore the fact that Nebras ka is in the Cl!s Celt," said Turner, "and that a lot of stedena ass interested fei sssne kbd of relica cccrse. I Jowerer, some stu dents become cnccn-rorUlIe trfA a cri tical stndy cfreLgina. His a net a rday school, we hope to cahe the students faith richer thrcri a bread enderrnds At The reruns studies program - is financed thrcc a 5350.CCO endowment by the Nebraska CcSege of ReEgfca (Cot cer College) to the MU Foundation. - Ccsrscs ended The Cctner College discontinued its courses ia religion at the end of the 1975 76 academic year. The money has been desiuted for a rtlfons studies profes sorship and a tilled studies course to be taught every two years. Transferring religion courses to UNL wi3 overcome many technical obstacles, Turner said. Crediting and scheduling w3 become more flexible thaa was posaile at Corner College. To offer a major ia the program, two or three more professors are needed, Turner said. Three professors, Turner, History Prof, Nels Forde, and Jcha Yost, chairmaa of the rcTgious studies committee, now teach the courses. Some new courses, including Eweal Studs, Tcrid ReLs, IfeZenistic Reli poa, ISys&sra, The Occult, Religions Theory and courses ia the Eastern and Trstera tradition w3 be added eyentoaHy, Turner said. Interests cid One of the major interests of the pro gram is reading and understanding religious literature. Turner said. "For example, the Eible is rery difB cclt to read because everybody knows, what it means already, Turner said. They inject their own ideas. Vie must be aware of car assumptions and how we new the world, he said. Students from many different fields Turner does not anticipate a major ia have shown interest ia the program, Turner the program because of the Emited job said. -"?.- . market. 1 u 'ML ir : 0 serchF8 puffin. 1!any people hare become interested ia popular rellbns basically because man feels alienated by technology. A religion gives them aa identity, makes them elite and spedal, he added. ; .. v :. '. . - Te hope the religious programs win allow ttodsnts to grar? a better under standing of themselves and their traditions," he said. P C3i rn reduced with inenssssd patrolling Vandalism ia Lincoln's parks has been reduced because of a Lincoln Felice Dept.'" (LTD) system of park patrolling, according to a police oflkuL . ' Lt. Jcha Hewitt, social operations officer, said the Lincoln Parks and Re creation Dept. employes patrolled the parks until July. The Parks Dept. force was consolidated with LTD by Mayor Helen Boosalis to re duce expenses and increase crime preven tion,hesaid. ' - Three policemen now are assigned to certain areas of the city, Hewitt said, and wmi It m SiiV F M iidJ M m w it is their responsibility to patrol the parks. Vlith this system, he added, the parks are patrolled more often. lie said Hdmes Park employes see policemen at least 10 times a day, but before the chanwver they only saw a patrol once or twice a day. Vandalism is the most common crime committed in parks, he added, but small crimes, such as teenage drinking, also are Parks sti3 are common sights for moles tations and indecent exposure, Hewitt said... M UNL researchers say fruit flies have a communication system that differs between species and is used during mating. Zoology Prof. Dwight MiSer "and graduate student Ho-Chi Chang record the mating sounds of Drospmlia as the flies stand on a microphone membrane. Miller said the sounds range in tone from a musical quality resembling horn blasts to a noise like croaking frog. He added that five years ago the tiny flies were noiseless to human ears. The recordings are used to make sonograms, or line pictures, of the sound and are fed through an oscilloscope, which shows how the noises differ between species. Miller said fruit flies distinguish between the sounds made during the mating dance. Each species makes a distinct noise and mating is more frequent between two' specks more similar in sound than it is between species making different sounds, said Miller. . Miller said the sounds are geneticaIIydetermiEed and appear to be inborn rather than learned during the organ ism's life. He said that although the research results are not of im mediate importance; the findings may suggest what to look for in other research such as control of agricultural pests. - "What is learned regarding these harmless flies may be capable of guiding research in other areas," Miller said. Miller said recognizing the complexity of an organism is important in knowing how to deal with the organism. He said that by recognizing different species the research er might realize why control treatment that works for one species does not work for another. Research using Drosphilia has been going on in the basement of Bessey Hall for more than 30 years, accord ing to Miller, who said the flies are used by both graduate and undergraduate students. He added that only graduate students study the sound traits of the flies. "Others have influenced us and bur work will influ ence others," Miller said of the sound research conducted elsewhere in the United States and also overseas. z Miller said sound research began in Nebraska about six years ago with the work of psychology graduate student Rosemarie Patty, now of North Carolina, and was con tinued by another former graduate student, Reiman Gold- man, now of pmaha. Ho-Chi Chang is now studying it. Change, a graduate student, said the genetic charac teristics of the fruit fly are more complex than she had thought. She said she wants to discover which genes control other genes and is also interested in studying ' sperm development. ' Miller gave a demonstration and played the sounds of the flies at the annual meeting of the Genetics Society of America at the University of Utah in August. Miller, Goldstein and Patty published an article in the 1975 issue of Evolution. Miller said the research is receiving no funds outside the Life Science Dept.'s budget. 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