monday, january 15, 1978
daily nebraskan
page 13
DelayedVDTs worthwhile5
By Liz Austin
A delay ln acquiring Video Display
Terminals for UNL's School of Journal
ism will be worth the wait, according to
Neal Copple, the school's director.
VDTs are computer systems which are
growing in use in newsrooms across the
nation. Such a system does away with many
time-consuming steps in writing, editing,
and typesetting material used in news
papers. Copple said the school's original goal
was to raise $100,000, and have the term
inals by the middle of last semester. But
Copple said the committee formed to ad
vise the school on its purchase of VDTs
contended that $100,000 would not buy
the kind of system needed for a school of
its size.
The committee, consisting of Lincoln
Journal Editor Joe Seacrest, Grand Island
Independent Publisher Dave Belilis and Mc
Cook Daily Gazette Publisher Allen Strunk,
advised the school that a larger, more up
dated system was needed, Copple said. All
three newspapers use VDTs.
New Goal
The goal now is to raise $200,000 and
have the system by next fall, Copple said.
The school would like to get enough
terminals to supply two kinds of systems,
Copple said. One system would be what a
middle-sized daily newspaper would use
and the other what a smaller newspaper
would use.
"It is important the student have exper
ience with botn kinds of systems," Copple
said.
Copple said $85,000 in private monies
has been raised so far. The Gannett Found
ation contributed $40,000 and the Stauf
fer Foundation $10,000. The other
$35,000 came fro a source Copple pre
ferred to leave unnimed.
Copple also said he has an application
from a foundation, which he also preferred
not to name, to match the $85,000 already
raised.
A larger system will be useful in serving
more than just students interested in news
paper work, he said. The system will be
flexible enough to serve students in other
journalism sequences, such as broadcasting,
and will be helpful in graduate programs,
he explained.
No new courses
No new courses will be created to teach
students about VDTs, but instruction will
be integrated into existing courses.
One such course is typography, which is
being revised into a modular course next
semester, Copple said. When the VDTs ar
rive one of the mods will be learning to use
the terminals, he explained.
Copple said the goal is for students to
learn the system as early as possible.
"By the time students are taking advan
ced reporting and editing classes we want
them to be as comfortable with the term
inals as they are with a typewriter. But that
is pretty much of a dream considering the
amount of equipment they will be dealing
with."
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Committee considers final list
The committee charged to find a re
placement for former Vice Chancellor
for Business and Finance Miles
Tommeraasen is now considering a final
list of candidates, according to the com
mittee chairman.
Wilma Crumley said the committee
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deadline. She would not release the
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Tommeraasen resigned last semester.
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