Friday, September 5, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
Page 7
Computers ease writing, strain
By Dotti Krist
Staff Reporter
In Andrews 17, amidst cool air, green
carpeting and freshly painted white
walls, is WiLLA.
WiLLA, the Writing Laboratory for
Liberal Arts, is the new microcomputer
lab available for classes, students,
teachers and faculty. It houses 24
Macintosh computers with word pro
cessing capabilities. WiLLA was created
by the Computing Resource Center in
cooperation with the English depart
ment. Anyone with a UNL ID card may
use the lab by checking with the Com
puter Resource Center for general use
time. Some English classes require lab
time for students.
Although WiLLA was created to meet
rising demand for computers by stu
dents from all subject areas, the Com
puting Resource Center has humani
ties students especially in mind.
"Everyone can take advantage of
this lab. The liberal arts and humani
ties majors are extra welcome because
there has not been a whole lot of com
puter education for them in the past,"
said Kathryn Alderman, education
coordinator for the Computing Resource
Center.
Les Whipp, English professor, is
requiring all of his students to use
computers in submitting papers and is
teaching students how to use WiLLA.
He does this, he said, because compu
ters "eliminate artificial barriers" so
that students can "do the best they can
as writers." Instead of the time spent
in writing and rewriting and in correct
ing mechanical mistakes, a student
can "work with ideas," Whipp said.
To those who might object that com
puters demean the art of writing, Whipp
said, "I can remember people objecting
to the ball-point pen." he said,
"even persons who are machine phobic
can love" the computer.
It doesn't take students long to
learn how to use the Macintosh compu
ter, said Bruce Kube, a computer sci
ence senior who is a consultant staff
member at WiLLA.
"Students like using them," he said.
And according to Roger Holmstedt,
facilities manager, there have been a
lot of new users at WiLLA since it
opened this fall. One of the reasons
WiLLA was created was to meet the
overflow of students that were using
the microcomputers at Selleck Hall
last semester.
According to Holmstedt, at the end
of last semester people were waiting in
line to use the computers at Selleck.
"I suspect that will happen here as
well," he said.
However, these two facilities will
have to do for a while, said Douglas
Gale, director of the Computing Re
source Center. Because of the high cost
of operation maintenance and unex
pected costs in creating WiLLA, it
might be a couple of years before the
center can afford another facility, he
said. Gale said it is worth the cost
because students both in the humani-
ties and scifcncies need to be exposed
to computers.
"Students need that exposure to be
competent in today's job market," he
said.
For people interested in learning
how to use the facilities at Selleck and
Andrews, the Computing Resource
Center is giving free classes Monday
and Tuesday in the basement of the
Selleck Quadrangle. The instruction
runs from noon to 5 p.m., 7 to 9 p.m. on
Monday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tues
day. People can stop in at any time.
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This is the first dive for fossils in any
state besides Florida, he said.
"As far as we know," Voorhies said,
"this is brand new for the Great Plains."
A sort of "underwater vacuum clean
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hours each day diving to fossil beds in
depths of 15 feet.
Brown said he and the other divers
hope to return to the site next summer.
Later this fall, they plan to do more
excavating when the lake's water level
drops. The fossil bed should be exposed
then, he said.
The fossils will be on display at a
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weekend. Voorhies said the display
should return to the museum within
the month.
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