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"Now we have five boards," Blackford said, "and
people often wait in line to use them. If we had 20 boards
we could check them all out on some weekend nights."
Mark Sannord, a bartender at Chesterfields, Bottoms
ley and Potts, said that more and more people have been
playing backgammon since the bar purchased its first
board in November.
There seems to be several reasons that backgammon
has caught on so quickly.
"The basics of the game are easy to learn, but the
strategy is always fascinating," Sannord said.
The game does not take long to play, about 15 min
utes. It doesn't take a genius to learn and a beginner
stands a good chance of beating an old pro, said Black-'
ford.
Backgammon offers a cheap and relaxing form of
entertainment.
It costs $2.50 to entertain yourself with a movie, but
it costs nothing to play a game of backgammon, Blue said.
The game offers a fascinating mixture of skill and luck
in which genius does not necessarily prevail over chancy.
Chance controls the roll of the dice, said Tim Benson,
bartender at Godfather's. But skill is needed to use the
roll to your best advantage, he said.
Techniques used to control the roll of the dice are
called cheating, Benson said.
Although backgammon is one of man's oldest and most
enduring games, few of its. new enthusiasts know much
about the game's history.
The oldest known backgammon boards have been
traced back to the Ur Valley of the Chaldees-home of
the biblical figure Abraham-in 3000 B.C. Abraham may
have calmed his nerves over a game of backgammon after
learning that he did not have to sacrifice his son.
Anthony and Cleopatra reportedly enjoyed the game
along the shores of the Nile. Nero is said to have played
backgammon for the equivalent of $15,000 a point and
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his Roman contemporaries devised a form of strip back
gammon. , ,
Backgammon became a game of royalty and the
aristocracies of 1 7th century France and England.
The American innovation to backgammon ,was a
standardized method of gambling on the game. The
introduction of the doubling cube made backgammon
a gambler's delight and is largely responsible for bringing
the game to the American upper classes in the 1920's.
Although backgammon hardly could be called an elite
ist game it retains an air of prestige and elegance. Back
gammon players spend enough money on plush 'back
gammon boards to make most checker players choke on
their kings.
In Lincoln, backgammon sets, looking like under-sized
brief cases, range in price from about $10 to $150.
Latsch's offers a Pierre Cardin board for $50 and an
Airies of Beverly Hills board for $80. The store has sold
two top-grain cowhide and 24-carat gold sets for $150
each.
"I think people buy backgammon sets for the pres
tige of having a good set. The expensive sets sell as well
as the cheaper sets," Hetrick said. i
The popularity of backgammon will pass eventually
according to Hetrick.
"These things usually pass in about 2 years. Last year
it was chess, this year it is backgammon,' she said.
But if the backgammon craze does pass it will have
left a very old game with new popularity.
UNL professor creates
self-motivated learning' ;
By Randy Essex
The students hardly looked, tip, as physics professor!
Robert Fuller walked Into his classroom: TheV vfare tciti:
busy. Soon a student approached Fuller and asked him to
grade a test.
Fuller has been teaching physics with the Personalized r 1
System of Instruction (PSI) at UNL since 197 L Change, a
magazine circulated to professors, recently honored Fuller r .
in an article detailing his contributions to PSI's develop
ment. ., r .;
"We incorporate a personal dimension in teaching tra ?
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ates, allows us to work with the student on a one-to-one,
basis quite often ," Fuller said. A V;,J
UNL senior Dick Slater, who has completed the course,
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ana is a iiuor. saiu siuaenis must learn me material- ne .
added that he found the self-motivated learning
"fascinating."
Students in PSI courses must score 100 percent on ,
each exam before moving to the next unit, Fuller said. j
Tests show students using PSI retain material better than;
do students in traditional courses, he said. ' 's-
Fuller admitted procrastination presents a problem in
- any individualized course. . )
He said the course is designed so the first part is easy
and then grows harder.
Describing his classroom as "a bit chaotic," Fuller
noted, "one of the most interesting things is what
students say they've learned when they evaluate the
course. They say, 4I learned to work responsibly ,' instead
of reciting.Newton's second law," Fuller said.
Fuller and his associates have distributed 800 PSI
course outlines and examinations.
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