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The Nebraskan Tuesday, July 23, 1985 Page 2 Computer course enlists practicality By Deb Pederson Senior Reporter Four Nebraska college educators, in cluding UNL professor Robert Fuller, will present a new introductory compu ter course curriculum at the 1985 World Conference on Computers in Education scheduled for July 26 through Aug. 2ih'Norfofk,'Var The new college-level curriculum emphasizes learning to use software to resolve situations encountered in every day life as opposed to textbook story problems, project director Mindy Brooks of Union College said. This emphasis gives the course practicality and bene fits the student directly, she said. Before this new curriculum was developed, introductory computer classes centered on how to program computers, she said. "All over the country people are being taught programming right away and most people don't want to write programs," Brooks said. The new program has two elements, she said. First, the student takes a series of diagnostic tests so the in structor can tailor the class to the indi vidual student. Second, the student chooses the subject matter and the study approach. The Instructor is responsible for making sure the student learns the computer skills, but the student gen erates the content of the course, Brooks said. The curriculum will be discussed in an all-day pre-conference workshop en titled, "Computers; Tools for Problem Solvers, an Innovative Approach to Introductory Level Computer Educa tion." Fuller, Brooks, Dale Behrens of Hast ings College and Arlie Fandrich of Union College will present the workshop. I,,i:.i,r,t-t-, t- - 1 .fiHrtW,..-' v Reu lei Report Police Report The following incidents were reported to UNL police between 6:46 p.m. Thurs day and 3:12 p.m. Sunday. Thursday 6:46 p.m. Intoxicated person reported at 16th and R streets. Person was taken to a detoxification center. Friday 11:50 a.m. Vandalism reported .o a vehicle in the metered parking lot east of Selleck Quadrangle. , recovered. 5:06 p.m. Wallet reported stolen 4:12 p.m. Fire alarm reported from the Coliseum. sounding at the Nebraska Educational Saturday Telecommunications Center on East 8:04 a.m. Bicycle reported stolen Campus. Alarm was set off by pipe from 1235 N. 16th St. Bicycle was later smoke. Shorts . it ii :WJ Y;V! i i. t V: VAUIDTY IN FOOD Plllilf M-f 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. TODAY ONLY 72385 CHEESEBURGER AND CURLY Q FRIES 51 WITH COUPON i HSR flfiHI BBH BSSl BSB IPH? HISS BSHJ (EHSS (51 V.TST ICS. KOOSTOl - Two International Camps will be held in Nebraska July 25-27. The camps are sponsored by the Nebraska Cooper ative Extension Service to provide Ne braskans and citizens of other coun tries an opportunity to study other cultures. The International Camps are open to the public. One camp will be held in Alma, the other at Gretna. The camps mark the first day of a six-week visit to Nebraska by 64 Japa nese youths as part ofthe Nebraska 4-H Japan LABO Exchange Program. Registration at the Alma Camp will begin at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, July 25. The program includes folk music, a his tory of the development of life in the United States, a hike to study land and plant forms, and an evening of crafts, food and dance by the Japanese students. Participants at the Gretna camp may register at 11 a.m. Thursday. This program includes a study of Nebraska fish, a discussion of "Who Lived Here Before Us?" and entertainment by Jap anese visitors. Questions about the Alma camp should be directed to the South Cen tral research and Extension Center at Clay Center, (402) 762-3535. Informa tion on the Gretna camp can be obtained from the Northeast Research and Ex tension Center at Concord, (402) 584-2261. .0 mr . rr..jr j. 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Chinese president arrives for first visit to U.S. WASHINGTON Chinese President Li Kiannian arrived here Monday on his first visit to the United States as efforts to get a nuclear cooperation agreement ready for signing appeared to make progress. State Department spokesman Charles Redman told reporters the pact had been sent to the White House, but declined to say how long an "inter-agency review" taking place there could last. The review by the National Security council has to be completed before it can make a recommendation to President Reagan on whether he should S1Li meets Reagan today, who returned home from the hospital Saturday, a week after undergoing cancer surgery. The State Department had pushed hard for a signature during Li's 10-day visit as a major symbol of steadily improving relations between the two countries, particularly at a time when there are signs of a rapproche ment between China and the Soviet Union. Three die in riots, detentions soar JOHANNESBURG, South Africa South African police said that three more people had been killed in unrest Monday and police, armed with guns and near absolute arrest powers, seized more than 200 churchmen and community leaders in a series of raids against foes of South Africa's apartheid system. Monday's deaths bring to nine the official total since a state of emergency came into force in the eastern Cape and Johannesburg areas over the weekend. The arrest figures bringing to nearly 350 those reported seized in two days were compiled by civil rights groups and residents of strife-torn black townships which have been under a state of emergency since Saturday. At least six people have died in rioting since President P. W. Botha imposed the clampdown in the eatern Cape and Johannesburg areas. It is the first time a state of emergency has been imposed in South Africa since 1960. It follows about 500 deaths in a year and a half of unrest. World opinion Monday broadly condemned South Africa's imposition of a state of emergency in reaction to continuing violence in black townships and blamed Pretoria's system of apartheid for the unrest. In one of the strongest denunciations, Commonwealth Secretary General Shridath Ramphal called the South African government a terror ist organization and urged the world to use sanctions to force an end to its policy of racial segregation. "It is apartheid that is producing a state of emergency, not the resistance to it. Resistance to it is an honorable human reaction," he said. U.S. lifts warning on Athens airport WASHINGTON The State Department Monday canceled a warning against travel through Athens airport, issued one month ago after a Trans World Airlines (TWA) jet was hyacked following take-off from Athens. The hijacking was the first step in the hostage crisis in which 39 Americans from TWA flight 847 were held in Beirut for 17 days. State Department spokesman Charles Redman said the action on the travel advisory was taken after a U.S. government team that inspected the airport last week found it now met international security requirements. By lifting the advisory to U.S. citizens, the State Department removed an irritant in U.S.-Greek relations. Athens had protested against the advisory. Spanish diplomat lulled in Zimbabwe HARARE, Zimbabwe Spain's Ambassador to Zimbabwe was "barbar ically" beaten to death and dumped nearly naked on a farm road outside Harare, authorities and diplomats said Monday. Zimbabwe's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the circumstances ofthe killing of Jose Luis Blanco Briones were unclear but pledged to bring the killers to justice. "The government of Zimbabwe will not rest until the full facts ofthe ambassador's death have been established and until the perpetrators of this heinous crime have been apprehended and brought to justice," the ministry said. In Madrid, a Spanish Foreign Ministry spokesman said: "There seems to be no political mentions connected to the killing. We do not yet know what he was doing n the incident took place." Defense chiefs discuss 'Star Wars' WASHINGTON British Defense Minister Michael Heseltine met Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger Monday to discuss plans for joint research on a "Star Wars" anti-missile defense. Reagan administration sources said. The sources, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters Washington was ready to give secret research data to British scientists to spur Britain s defense industry contributions to the controversial U.S. program. Any formal agreement to turn over data on President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), commonly called Star Wars, would be a major step toward drawing at least some Atlantic allies into the futuristic plan to develop lasers and other weapons to destroy attacking nuclear war heads in flight. Other allied leaders have been less enthusiastic about voicing public support for the initiative. Many feel it would be destabilizing for the United States and-or the Soviet Union to develop such defenses.
