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The following noncredit program will help you meet the
challenge! of col lege: .
Science of Efficient Study, Oct. 24, 7-9 p.m.
CoIIcqs Survival for Adults, Oct. 24, 7-9 p.m.
Reading Enhancement Workshop, Oct. 27, 7-9 p.m.
GRE Review, Oct. 29, 8:30-1 1 :30 a.m.
Math Anxiety Clinic, Nov. 3, 7-9 p.m.
Building Writing Skills, Nov. 14, 7-9 p.m.
All classes meet at the Nebraska Center, 33rd and Holdrege.
Call 4721332 for dates, fees, and additional information.
Sponsored by the UNL Division of Continuing Studies
Department of Evening Programs and Adult Learning Ser
vices. Academic advising and career counseling available.
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The AGNET system is a university-based informa
tion network that supplies rricultural data, by
computer, to subscribers serosa the United States.
. The new microcomputers were paid for with
money from a matching fund set up by the univer
sity, Emal said. The NU Foundation End the Insti
tute of Agriculture and Natural Resources contrib
uted money to the fund. County offices supplied 60
percent of the cost of the computers and the univer
sity fund matched those amounts, he said.
Leo Lucas, Dean and Director of the Nebraska
Extension Service, said communication, word pro
cessing, data storage, office management and deci
sion aiding for clientele are the five functions of the
computers in the extension oCces.
The AGNET system is 3 available as ever," Lucas
said. "This just makes it more usable."
"The new technology allows us to make decisions
closer to the point where the decisions should be
made . . . and at a lower cost," Lucas said.
" Nebraska's county extension offices recently have
made some mcjor changes in the structure of their
computer r;"t:r.3 to take advance of the new
computer technologies.
Since last summer, GS of the 85 county extension
offices in the state have purchased microcompu
ters, said Jim Emal, extension microcomputer spe
cialist for.the UNL Cooperative Extension Sen-ice.
Emal said the microcomputers allow each office
to compute budgets, manage inventories and do
word processing without tying up the computer
phone lines.
The microcomputers are replacing the "dumb"
terminal computers used in the offices since the
mid-19703, he said. These terminals had no comput
ing capabilities of their own and had to be hooked
up by telephone to the main frame computers and
the AGNET system in the State Capitol Building in
Lincoln.
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Students live, learn abroad
By Sara Thomssssn
Graduate work overseas is risky bus
iness, but a UNL professor and two
students who have done research in
other parts of the world said they
think the headaches were all worth
while. "You are taking a chance in doing
your graduate-student research over
seas " said Joanne Loan, who did
graduate research on grain sorghum
in the Dominican Republic. "No irriga
tion, insects and local animals can
severely damage a seed plot."
Logan explained that although
these mishaps aba occur in the United
States they are more apt to happen in
less-developed countries.
Logan spoke at a seminar Vednes
day titled "A Year Abroad for the
Graduate Student; A Living and Learn
ing Experience." UNL students and
professors offer a panel discussion t
presentation on overseas research
and study every few weeks in the East
Union. The meetings are open to the
public. Wednesday's seminar featured
graduate students Logan and Susan
Kaup, and Charles Francis, a UNL
agronomy professor.
Kaup studied protein quality in food
products in Tunisia. She said although
natives of the country were under
standing and cooperative toward the
research, they did not completely trust
students.
"In Tunisia, it's who you know " she
said. "Everytime I wanted to see some
one or something I had to go through
my Tunisian professor because he had
connections. He knew people."
Francis studied in Columbia and the
Philippines, with funding through the
Rockefeller and Ford foundations.
Francis cited several advantages to
doing research in a different country.
He said research is very relevant
because the work involves solutions to
real problems. The work is beneficial to
the individual and to the country
where the work is being done. Also,
personal benefits like travel opportun
ities and new cultural experiences
make overseas study worthwhile, he
However, there are disadvantages to
over-seas study, too. Francis said it
can cost between $15,000 and $20,000
to send a graduate student to study in
a foreign country for a year. To send a
staff member to another country, the
cost can run anywhere from $45,000 to
$G0,000 per year.
Francis said it may take longer to
make it through graduate school be
cause of the difficulties in relocating.
Sometimes the student misses intense
contact with the graduate committee
and peers. Depending on where the
work is being done, libraries and com
puting facilities also might be scarce.
"If you want to put those on a bal
ance " Francis said, "I think that the
positive side far outweighs the nega
tive side. I would not do it any other
way if I had to do it over egain."
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