Tuesday, March 17, 1987
Daily Nebraskan
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"Courses have to be planned out
better with advisers," Johnson said.
"This puts a little pressure on advisers
particularly in the education depart
ment." Craig said that the college was 11th
largest in enrollment in the nation two
years ago, according to the Association
of Advisers for Home Economics, and as
far as she knows that hasn't changed.
Associate Dean Lois Schwab said
current, enrollment is 1,033 at first
semester, with 793 students at the Lin--coin
campus and 240 students at UNO.
Craig said that although faculty
members of the college are very com
mitted and one of the strongest aspects
of the college, they have difficulty
recruiting replacements for retiring
staff and have had to work with fewer
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By Jane Hirt
Staff Reporter
To acknowledge women's diversity
of experiences and contributions to
the Great Plains culture, the 1 1th
annual Great Plains conference will be
March 18 to 20 at UNL
The conference, sponsored by the
UNL Center for Great Plains Studies,
will consist of a series of presentations
dealing with subjects ranging from
"Prairie Schoolwomen, Mid-1 800s to
1920s" to "Maternity Dress on the
Great Plains."
The topics include women's art,
literature and the history of women's
roles, Conference Chairwoman Helen
A. Moore said.
The keynote speaker will be Beatrice
Medicine, an anthropologist at the
Native Centre, University of Calgary,
Alberta. She will speak on "Indian
Women's Culture in Contemporary Plains
Society" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at
Love Library 104. This session is free.
Medicine also works with the de
partment of anthropology at California
State University, Northridge, and has
published many articles and books
including "The Hidden Half," about
Indian women of the Northern Plains.
UNL students and faculty may attend
free of charge. A $27 registration fee is
required and includes meals, confer
ence materials and 32 presentations
throughout the three-day period. Most
of the conference will be at the Nebraska
Union. If students and faculty wish to
receive meals, they must also pay the
registration fee.
Moore said that besides Medicine's
presentation, three other presentations
are free to the public.
people.
Schwab said there were 52.27 full
time teaching equivalents in 1980-81
and the college now has 55.27 full-time
equivalents but a larger program.
Nancy Belts, a Faculty Senate mem
ber and an assistant professor in human
nutrition and food service management,
said it is harder to provide teacher
student interaction with a decrease in
staff.
"We are teaching more with less
help and have to be more creative,"
Betts said. "We used to be able to do
more for the students." Betts also said
faculty members are busy with research,
making it difficult to give students the
attention they deserve.
Hazel Fox, chairwoman of the de
partment of human nutrition and food
service management, said the depart
ment is now working under the biggest
program ever with fewer resources.
Fox said the department is building
the restaurant-management program,
but because of the budget cuts is
unable to move as fast as it wo.uld like.
Craig said the growth and realloca
tion of the college is projected at about
10 to 14 percent for the restaurant
management program and the interior
design department.
The interior-design program has a
rigorous accredidation requirement and
may not be reaccredited next year
because of areas that had to be cut
back, Craig said.
Rob Hillestad, a textiles, clothing
and design professor, said the chance
the department won't be reaccredited
is a real threat. When an accrediting
agency sees that professors are dealing
with too many students and not enough
equipment, Hillestad said, they tend to
think the college won't be able to pro
vide the experiences the students need.
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Scott McNall, professor of sociology
at the University of Kansas, will speak
at the Wick Alumni Center at 1 p.m.
Thursday, on "Women and the Politics
of Culture."
Cornelia Butler Flora, a sociology
professor at Kansas State University,
will lecture on "The Changing Struc
ture of Agriculture and Its Implica
tions for Women's Culture in the Great
Plains" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the
Nebraska Union Ballroom.
Sandra Myres, professor of history at
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Adirondack Mountains
of New York . . .
is looking for Summer Staff!
Come learn about us and
see a slide show. We will
answer all your questions.
Thursday, March 13th
Sign up in Room 22
Administration Bldg.
For more information :
Sherie Alden, Head Counselor
RR2, Box 2C04
Lake George, NY 12845
(518)663-9271
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the University of Texas at Arlington,
will give a lecture titled, "I Have Delib
erately Chosen Hard Work and Plenty
of It: Women Homesteaders on the
Canadian Plains," ai 1:15 p.m. Friday in
the union.
The presentations will not only deal
with American Indian and black women,
but also with European immigrants,
Hispanic and Canadian women, Moore
said.
Moore said she expects 200 to 250
people to attend.
ST. PADDY'S DAY AT CHESTERFIELD'S
"IRISH IMItt HIGHLIGHTS"
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Irish Folk Balladeer
Jim Cunningham
Live Rock 'N' Roll with "Those Guys"
from 9:30 -Close
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