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Centennial gains perspectives through team-teaching
friday, february 2, 1979
By Liz Austin
New projects offered through Centen
nial Education Program this semester are
crossing boundaries never crossed in other
campus classes, the program's senior fellow
said.
Jerry Petr said two of the four new
courses offered this semester will he taught
by two instructors from separate fields of
study to give students more than one perspective.
But, he said, this is nothing new to the
Centennial Program which has switched its
emphasis to team-teaching rather than in
dividually taught classes. It is one of the
ways Centennial Education offers a unique
way of learning, Petr said.
The Centennial program also empha
sizes an integration of learning and living
by having students live in Love Hall where
the program is housed, Petr said. But the
program does not exclude those living out
side Love Hall, he said.
Prof chosen to committee
Roberto Esquenazi-Mayo, director of
the UNL Institute for International Stud
ies, has been selected as a member of an
Organization of American States (OAS)
committee to establish a center of hemis
pheric studies.
The center will be much like a regular
campus with study and research in all
fields, according to Esquenazi-Mayo.
The six-member committee will meet at
OAS headquarters in Washington, D.C., or
have telelphone conferences soon to organ
ize the center's academic programs, choose
its location and set up entrance regulations.
"Because this will be the first center of
its kind anywhere, we'll have to start from
scratch," he said. The committee's recom
mendations must be approved by the OAS
General Council.
Equal chance
Esquenazi-Mayo said the United States
has the same chance of having the center
located within its boundaries as any other
nation in the hemisphere.
"It's wide open," he said. "I think there
are various reasons why the center is need
ed. Latin America needs to know more
about the United States and its history,
arts and economics, and vice versa.
"In the United States there are now
many excellent Latin American study pro
grams. And that's not to say that Latin
America does not have good programs.
Mexico and Venezuela have excellent per
sons teaching American literature. How
ever, the center would coordinate study
and give all a closer and better knowledge."
Esquenazi-Mayo estimated the center
would begin its work in late 1980 if all
goes well. The idea for the center has been
discussed for some years, he said .
Possible teacher
If there were a position available, and
Esquenazi-Mayo were qualified according
to guidelines the committee has yet to es
tablish, he said he would hope to teach at
the center.
The committee of educators also will e
valuate programs sponsored by the OAS in
the last ten years.
"The OAS has had programs ranging
from elementary education to research and
scholarships," he explained. We will assess
the accomplishments and make recom
mendations for future action."
Esquenazi-Mayo, who teaches a class on
the world press in the School of Journa
lism, has a long record of hemisphere work.
He has lectured and set up educational pro
grams in Latin America, and has received
decorations from various Latin American
governments.
Originally from Cuba, Esquenazi-Mayo
made his home in the United States after
serving as a paratrooper in the U.S. Army
during World War II. He won the Cuban
National Prize for Literature, for a work
used in the United States as a textbook in
the study of Spanish.
Barrymore's closes due to fire
Barrymore's lounge, 13th and P Streets,
will be closed until next week after it was
damaged by smoke in a fire early Thursday
morning.
According to Gary Mosier, Barrymore's
manager, the fire apparently started about
12:45 a.m. in an electrical generator locat
ed under a large light panel just off the en
trance to the lounge.
The fire worked it's way into the light
panel, filling the lounge with smoke. Mo
sier said there were 12 to 15 patrons in the
bar at the time who were ushered safely to
the alley beside Barrymore's.
Mosier could not provide a damage es
timate, but said most of the food and li
quor that was open had to be thrown
away. In addition, $2,000 worth of plants
were killed by cold air when the doors
were opened to air out the lounge.
The fire itself was confined to the light
panel, and there was no structural damage
to the building.
"It's going to be a hell of a cleanup
job," Mosier said, adding that the lounge
would not open before early next week,
ind possibly later, depending on the extent
f damage.
Power to the Stuart theatre was cutoff
n the fire and Lincoln Electric System
employees worked yesterday to restore it.
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"But we like them to live in this dorm
because we feel it helps to create a better
community," Petr said.
New courses
The new courses offered this semes
ter are the Quality of Life on the Great
Plains, Alternative Views of Economic
Reality, the Campus Experience: 1945
1979, and Contemporary International
Issues.
According to sociology professor J. Al
len Williams, who is teaching the Quality
of Life on the Great Plains class with Eng
lish professor Frances Kaye, the class will
look at life on the Great Plains through hu
manities and social science.
Students will study tire history and so
ciology of the area through field trips,
speakers and discussions, Williams said.
Field trips might include touring area mu
seums and visiting ranches and farms. He
said there will also be speakers on the eth
nic history of the plains and the plains'
Indians, he said.
Readings by Willa Cather and other
plains' writers also will be studied, he
added.
Campus Experience
The Campus Experience, the second
new team-taught class this semester, is
being conducted by Teacher College in
structor Erwin Goldenstein, whose special
ity is history and philosophy of educa
tion, and Shirley Seevers from the Home
Ec College. Her focus is in human develop
ment and the family.
Seevers said the class will attempt to
look at what has happened in higher
education since World War II by studying
the changes in college student characteris
tics and student populations and changes in
the university administration.
"This class is taking more of a colleague
approach," Seevers said. "We want the stu
dent to view us as students also."
T1 e students share their experiences in
class so that both instructors also can learn,
Seevers explained.
International issues
The coordinator of International Educa
tional Services, Peter Levitov, is teaching
Contemporary International Issues. He said
the class is studying several critical inter
national issues such as the Palestine-Israel
conflict, the troubles in Iran, U.S. invest
ments in South Africa and conflicts in
Nicaragua.
Students are also required to attend
speeches given by the International
Forum's guest speakers when they talk at
the Nebraska Union, Levitov said. Stu
dents will critique the speakers afterwards.
Alternative Views of Economic Real
ity, taught by Petr, will look at diverse
economic thinkers from Milton Friedman
on the conservative end to liberal Karl
Marx, Petr saud.
Resident artist
Continuing from last semester is the
artist in residence program. The present
artist in residence is Carolyn Bilderback, a
dancer and teacher from New York City
who will be here until March 8, Petr said.
Bilderback is teaching Introduction to
Body Movement and Dance and the Arts.
Later in the semester the Kite Tail Mime
duo from Boulder, Colo, will instruct
classes in mime and pantomime, he said.
Also continuing from other semesters
is an internship program, Petr said. Some
of this semester's interns are with the Ne
braska Unicameral.
Starting next fall, Centennial Education
will add classes that study the conflict be
tween myth and the finite future, Petr said.
Americans seem to think the future is
limitless, he explained, adding the class will
contrast this idea with the actual limita
tions on space, energy and the
environment.
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