tfiurtday, September 21, 1978
daily nebraskan
page 7
Regents Hall renovations to result in conference room
By Brenda Moskovits
A new conference room in the basement
of Regents llaU should be finished before
the NU Board of Regents' December
meeting, according to Robert Pazderka,
capital construction coordinator.
The room replaces one on the first
floor which seats about 40 to 50 specta
tors, Pazderka said.
The new room normally will accommo
date 94 spectators, but chairs can be
brought in to seat a total of 223 people
(including the board members, press and
Speech program revamped
"Less talk, more action''
could characterize the re
structuring of UNL's ntro
ductory speech course this
fall.
Associate Professor
William Seiler and Gustav
Friedrich, speech communi
cation department chair
man, are developing eight
separate units in place of
the standard Speech 109.
Currently, more than 700
students in 30 sections are
enrolled in the class. The
professors say they hope to
have pilot courses in several
of the study units availa
ble to some students during
the second semester.
Based on the Mastery
Approach of educational
theorist Benjamin Bloom
and Personalized System of
Instruction models pioneer
ed by Fred Keller, the new
speech program will empha
size development of specific
speech skills rather than
learning the generalized con
tent of the present intro
ductory course.
Among the study units
are those dealing with
communication theory,
public speaking, non-verbal
communication, inter-personal
communication and
small group discussion.
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Instead of 45 formally
structured lecture -discussion
sessions, students enrolled
in the units will use a
resource center where a
limited number of lectures
will be combined with the
use of written and audio
visual materials. Graduate
students and upperclass
men in speech communica
tion will help students in
the unit exercises and pro
jects. Friedrich said the Speech
Communication Depart
ment plans to establish a
complete teaching-learning
center on the third floor
of Burnett Hall. He said
using upperclassmen as in
structors will reduce the
teaching loads of graduate
assistants, and give under
graduate students a valuable
educational experience.
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he said.
The room will be large enough to house
various business and academic meetings
which formerly were held in the Neb
raska Center for Continuing Education.
When Regents flail was built, the space
was intended for a conference room, but
the regents waited until last May to appro
priate no more than $95,000 to renovate
the emply space, Pazderka said.
Divided space
The area, a total of 3,000 square feet
also will be divided into a smaller confer
ence area for private meetings and a storage
area.
Tables for the press and staff will be
provided on both sides of the board table.
The present conference area will be
made into a smaller conference room and
office space, Pazderka said.
The major cost in addition to heating,
cooling and furnishings will be the lighting
system, Pazderka said. At the request of
Nebraska Educational Television, special
lights will be installed in a raised ceiling
over the board table for NETV and other
television media, he said.
The renovation costs are:
General contracting (wall and ceiling
construction, floor and wall covering):
$38,865, electrical contracting (wiring,
lighting and light fixtures): $21,791, and
mechancial contracting (heating and cool
ing), to total $80,484.
Closed circuit television
Architect fees are $2,500 and $21,477
is being allocated to buy an undetermined
amount of furnishings, according to statis
tics provided by Pazderka.
He said a total of $20,000 has been
donated towards renovations.
Pazderka said he is suggesting to NU
President Ronald Roskens that addition
al equipment would permit meetings to
be broadcast across the NETV network,
he said. Broadcast equipment would permit
two-way communication between people
in two different parts of the state, he said.
Receiving equipment would total
around $3,773 and broadcasting equip
ment would be an additional $17,486,
according to Pazderka.
Roskens will decide whether to bring
the matter to the board, Pazderka said.
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