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daily nebraskan
Wednesday, august 23, 1978
Whelan bike caravan emphasizes energy conservation
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By L. Kent Wolgamott
Having fun as well as making a point about energy con
servation was the intent last Saturday when gubernatorial
candidate Lt. Gov. Gerald Whelan led a caravan of bikers
around Lincoln.
Whelan said the ride did not have the same purpose as
the long distance travels of two other Nebraska candi
dates. "This isn't like Don Shasteen or Hess Dyas' walk, its a
little Lincoln promotion" he said.
"We had a lot of fun and we had a lot of visitors, it
was really a social event."
Whelan said he also made the ride to emphasize the
need to conserve gasoline and other petroleum products.
"We have to reduce consumption of petroleum pro
ducts. We talk a lot about changing lifestyles but one
has."
Whelan said he would provide incentives for bicyclists
by providing free locker service for them at the State
Office Building while charging other locker users who do
not bicycle to work.
"Lincoln is a relatively level city and there is no reason
we can't have a good percentage of state and university
staff and students riding bicycles," he said.
He said this concept could be expanded and used by
private industry and could help ease the parking problem
in downtown Lincoln and at UNL.
"You never have enough parking and the more you
build the more you need, its like a drug addiction. What
you have to do is stop expanding parking."
French in minutes
The UNL Department of Modern Languages has been
selected for funding by the Exxon Foundation of a special
program for teaching French using the Dartmouth Inten
sive Language Model.
The program will be under the direction of Nicole
Smith, professor of modern languages, who last spring
participated in a workshop at Dartmouth University under
a fellowship awarded by the Exxon Foundation.
The Dartmouth Model for teaching languages is a com
bination of "total immersion" techniques used in language
schools such as Berlitz together with solid training in the
structural underpinnings of the language taught.
Generally, students start talking in the language within
minutes after the first class beings.
She said the program will be limited to 30 students
willing to participate in what will actually cover two
semesters of French in one semester. The program
will include a daily master class taught by Smith, followed
by one hour of small group training under the direction of
undergraduate students proficient in the French language.
The undergraduates will be chosen this fall and will re
ceive special training in the Dartmouth Model. The pro
gram will be offered second semester.
Smith said that the Dartmouth Model will be adapted
to other languages taught at UNL, and it is hoped that
similar programs in German and Spanish will be offered to
at least one section of beginning students in each language
starting in the fall of 1979-80.
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