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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
