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monday, September 10, 1979
Sea semester offers students chance to study coastal ecology
By Lynn Mongar
A MseamesterM-a semester at sea study
ing coastal ecology, maritime history and
other subjects-is being offered to any stu
dent who has completed at least one year
of undergraduate education.
The fall "seamester" will begin when
the schooner Harvey Gamage leaves Sept.
17 from Rockland, Maine for eight weeks.
The schooner will make several stops in
Massachusetts, Connecticut and Delaware
before the "seamester" ends in Nassau,
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Bahamas. The "seamester" offers AiU col
lege credit courses and Is being supervised
by Southampton College of Long Island
University, New York.
Randy Schulte, a Lincoln marine biolo
gist, said he would advise any student in
terested in the subject to take sea trips.
"Anything that can get you near the sea
is great. It's hard to learn it in a book,
said Schulte, who is a UNL food science
and technology graduate student.
A UNL life sciences professor said UNL
students interested in marine biology
should plan graduate work in a coastal
state.
Prof. Carl Gugler said it would be un
realistic for a person to look for a job in
marine biology without actual exposure to
the ocean.
Gugler said that employers would ask,
"Hey, what? In Nebraska?"
No program for marine biologists exists
at UNL, according to Gugler.
However, he said that a marine biology
student needs a solid background in biol
ogy, math and physics.
"Chemistry, math, physics and biology
are more important than seeing the animals
if you want to do anything (in marine bi-
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Eben Whitcomb, designer of the "sea
mester" program said he has never had a
student from Nebraska.
"The overwhelming majority of stu
dents are from the East coast states. Al
though, we do have a student from Iowa
this fall, he said. Whitcomb said the cruise
is not specifically for biology majors.
"We're not a research vessel? he said.
Other courses offered are: literature of
the sea and sailing and icthyology (the
study of fish). Hie only required course is
in navigation and seamanship.
"The students actually run the ship
about mid-term,M Whitcomb said.
The voyage costs $3,200, which in
cludes tuition, lab fees and accommoda
tions. Whitcomb also said that state and feder
al grants or scholarships may be applied to
the "seamester."
Spanish novelist to lecture at UNL
A Spanish author will visit the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln campus this fall
to discuss his works with students.
Luis Romero, a novelist, short story
writer, essayist, poet, historian, newspaper
columnist and art critic is expected Oct. 5.
Romero will attend a class studying his
works, which will begin before his arrival
and continue until mid-semester.
Romero has been awarded two major
literary prizes and is both a corresponding
member of the Hispanic Society of Amer
ica and an honorary fellow of the society
of Spanish and Spanish-American studies.
That society, along with the Mid -American
State Universities Association and the UNL
Department of Modern Languages and lit
erature, is sponsoring his visit.
During his UNL visit, Romero, a
participant and historian of the Spanish
Civil War, will visit classes and deliver
public lectures. His first is scheduled for
Oct. 18, when he will speak about the cur
rent cultural and political situation in
Spain, and its effect on writers. He will
speak at 8 pjm. in the English Department
Library, second floor of Andrews Hall.
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