Professor paiiitsmontage of trest9 friendly cburise.
By Joe Starita
His accent shifts gears like a Ferrari
on LSD. One minute it is Ivy League
poshness, the next hillbilly slang. One
inflection strikes a British polish, another
slings Midwest slang.
Paintings of Greta Garbo, Elvis, a pair
of Egyptian ibises, a tribe of Plains Indians
and a hound dog hang from his office
walls.
And if every picture tells a story,Keith
Prichard has some explaining to do.
Prichard, a UNL professor of educa-'
tion, has good reason to mix accents with
explanations.
Born and raised in Indiana, educated
at Columbia, Harvard and Oxford uni
versities, Prichard landed his first college
job at Wake Forest University in North
Carolina. ,
It was at Wake Forest, Prichard said,
that he first was able to put his Harvard
learned theories of teaching into practice'.
"I had this wonderful woman for a
professor at Harvard," he recalled, "who
taught me that you must develop all of a
student's ability, not just the academic
side."
-: To accomplish thisr, Prichard explained,
she did things most professors do not do;
things that help students relax and help
them to get to . know a professor as a
friend. . y I
"For instance," Prichard said, "she gave
great dramatic performances in the class
room. She had a beautiful mink coat that
she Used to nonchalantly fling over a chair
before starting the lecture.
"Everyone thoroughly relaxed and got
to know her as a friend first and as a pro
fessor second which makes the job of
teaching so much easier, and a helluva'
lot more fun "he said.
Prichard said he had fun at Wake Forest
because "the pressure was not on research :
but to be a ; great , classroom professor.
"I started a men's resource center there
to give men a total collegiate experience -
like they do in the Ivy League schools."
- -maae $4,00ar6n a .thiUZiy zit '
sale to help get it started. That was in 1966;
and the resource ' center still is . going"
today." . tV . C J f . .
Prichard said I:a was elected Professor -of
the Year at Wake Forest in 1966 but s
decided after six years there it was time to i
move on. ' v
"If you want to , be . a top-flight ,'
professor, and I do, you have to publish.;
Wake Forest didn't really have the best ',
library in the world and I needed one for
research.". KS--
His first choice of where to research,;
he said, was the University of Virginia.
UNL was his second choice. -:
Since coming to UNL in the fall of ' .
1967, Prichard has published three text- .
books and "tried my damnedest to help
students here develop all of their talents."
One technique Prichard uses to help him
in the classroom is taking his,students on -in
a "friendly game of 'racquetball. , i
"That helps me to strengthen the bond
between me and my students," he ex
plained. . p f v .. X
They trust me more because they can '
let their defenses down and relax. That
way kids will take my advice and w
counseling as a tnencL :
One student might have had some pro-,
blems passing the class had Prichard
enforced the rules of the game on the
racquetball court. ' ' - ! ': :.. '
"Mike Shea, a former student and foot
ball player, decided one day he would play v
me for his class grade. Every time I beat
hi
f 1
him, I was supposed to drop his grade one
. letter.
"Well, Mike was O-for-14 that day. I
think that would have given him an- "N"
for the class, but we were able to work it
out." -
When not working out on the courts,
Prichard finds time to getome work done
in his garden and art studio
"I'm a fine, gardener because I had to
put myself through school in Indiana by
working in a greenhouse. I guess I've had
a green thumb ever since. ......
Hie green thumb occasionally . gets
splattered with golds, browns, red and yel
lows. v , , .
Tve had no formal training, I just
started dabbling with paint while at Har
vard," Prichard said. "I take my problems
to the canvas and walk away an hour later
feeling much better."
Although he has no illusions of giving
Picasso a run for his peso, Prichard said he
still tries to improve with each Garbo,
Elvis, ibis or Indian. 1
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friday, february 17, 1978 vol. 101 : no. 72 lincoinnebraska A
Camp
us snow
removal
progress
slow
but sure
The' antics of UNL's celebrated "snow The grounds - department is respon- ; week, but' the department is working on
-day are lover, and many students still are . ' sible for clearing all walks, driveways and . compiling the figures, -
t7r i t - ..faiBMi& voiuju, m auuiuuu iu poi- , . oiiuw crews nave iiau prouiems remov-
- Nevertheless; snow removal -is -pro- :tions of-U S, W and a 4th streets, Thody ing snow from some parking lots because
gressmg slowly but surely on the UNL said. The city is responsible, for clearing " cars are parked there, he said. '
iJSS"1 -fii" -""V ' J " ; " e try tolear the aisles (in - the
XLwS , : ndS Said h? dld not, how much PAing" ts) first," he said. 'Teople will
SS5222L. -JlULJ P. v' )ve tQ.shpygL behind their cars, but they
We probably will never get the lots
completely clean," Thody said.
. v. The grounds department's snow removal
equipment is adequate, for removing snow
after a normal snowfall, he said, but the
department had to rent equipment from a
'private company to clear the nine inches
dropped on Lincoln Sunday and Monday.
Students with cars pay for snow re
moval through their parking permit fees,
' $35 each year, according to UNL parking
coordinator John Duve.
In a normal year, $1 or $2 out of the
335 will go far snow removal, he said. But
in a year with heavy snowfall, students .
with cars on campus may pay $5 or mors
each for snow removal, Duve said.
Students were allowed to park in f?cisl
ty and staff lots Tuesday and Wednesday '
while lots were being cleaned, he said, but
drivers now must park in the proper lots.
Dave said he has no figures fcr how
many cars were towed away or how rr.:ny
, tickets were issued for illegally parked cars.
"Dosiczuly we have not hsd a feit
of tickets," Duve sr!i. "
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UNL students tie spron strings:
Too "many cooks can't spoil the
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. . Anxiety is low comedy for movie
reviewer J. Marc Mushkin . ,p2se 7
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