Natural resource, ag exhibits iX IANR open house
By Brandon Loomis
Staff Reporter
Students who want to touch fly
maggots, learn about gene splicing
and sample Husker cheese will have
their chance at the Institute of Agri
culture and Natural Resources open
house Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8
p.m.
The IANR includes the colleges of
Agriculture and Home Economics,
the Agricultural Research Division,
the Cooperative Extension Service,
the Conservation and Survey Divi
sion, and International Programs.
Representatives will put their re
search, facilities and interesting tid
bits on display.
Twenty-one of the displays will be
in the East Union. Thirteen units of
the institute will have displays in their
buildings, and many will offer tours.
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Richard Fleming, chairman of the
open house,said theevent will inform
the public of the institute’s activities
and show how those activities are
changing to meet society’s needs.
Although most people see agricul
ture and home economics as simple
necessities, a great deal of technology
is associated with both, Fleming said.
The displays wili show how that tech
nology is used, he said.
One display will feature insects
and pests found in Nebraska. James
Kalisch, extension technologist in
entomology, said black widows,
scorpions and live fly maggots may
be viewed. It will be an “impressive,
ooh-ah display,” he said.
Information also will be available
about the Russian wheataphid, which
sucks the juices out of wheat, killing
it. Kalisch said this information
should be of particular interest to
farmers.
“We wouldn ’ t be surprised to see it
(the aphid) in central Nebraska this
fall,” he said.
The department of veterinary sci
ence will give a tour of its exhibit
area, starting with a slide show, said
Denis Erickson, professor of veteri
nary science. The tour will explain
the diagnostic services offered by the
department, the research done on
animals and livestock, and the exten
sion program for veterinarians
throughout Nebraska, Erickson said.
The animal and food science de
partments will show the progress they
are making in areas such as nutrition
and markets for new crops in Ne
braska, Fleming said. Free samples of
cheese and icecream will begiven, he
said.
The department of horticulture is
working on a strain of grass that re
quires less water, Fleming said. This
technology may also be useful in
developing drought-resistant crops,
he said.
Fleming said the College of Home
Economics will display ethnic cos
tumes and artifacts from Africa and
student clothing designs. There also
will be demonstrations of how to
remove harmful pesticides and
chemicals from clothes, he said.
The department of human devel
opment will show how to rearrange
the homes of disabled persons and let
them make the most of their abilities,
he said.
Gene splicing techniques will be
explained at the biotechnology dis
play, said John Mark well, associate
professor of biochemistry. Although
gene splicing will be explained in
layman’s terms, he said, visitors
won’t be allowed to see the actual
process.
“Its not dangerous,” he said, “but
regulations arc that there has to be
some type of containment.
Markwell said biotechnology’s
importance in beer, wine and food
production also wi 11 be demonstrated.
The IANR will have drawings in
the East Union at 4 p.m. for prizes
including Nebraska football tickets.
Admission to the open house is free,
and anyone with a ticket stub is eli
gible for all drawings.
“We hope what we’re doing is
important,” Fleming said, “and that
people realize they are getting bene
fits from what we are trying to do.
“We have a mission to teach stu
dents both in and out of school,” he
said.
Truman scholarship available to sophomores
By Randy Lyons
Staff Reporter
College sophomores interested
in careers in government or public
service can submit applications for
the Harry S. Truman Scholarship to
the University Honors Program
before Oct. 23.
The Truman Scholarship, pro
vided by the Harry S. Truman
Scholarship Program, is given to
102 sophomores in the United
States each year. Scholarships arc
awarded during the sophomore
year for use during the junior and
sen ior year in college plus up to two
years of graduate study.
The program was established by
Congress as a memorial to Presi
dent Truman to honor his political
talents, broad knowledge of politi
cal systems and desire to enhance
educational opportunities for
young people.
Students must be nominated by
their university or college and are
eligible to receive up to $7,500
annually for four years.
The award covers tuition, fees,
books, and room and board.
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln is allowed to nominate
three students to the national com
petition.
Patrice Berger, director of Uni
versity Honors Programs at UNL,
said only 10 sophomores applied
for the Truman scholarships here
last year.
“The competition is demand
ing, but the experience is well
worth the trouble,” Berger said.
“Last year there were many more
qualified students than applied.”
Scholarships are awarded to one
applicant in each of the 50 states
and 52 scholars-at-large.
Applications are reviewed by a
committee. The best candidates’
applications are forwarded to the
national Scholarship Review
Committee.
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Reform leader says teaching teachers top priority
By Janies M. Lillis
Senior Reporter
While criticisms of U.S. education
systems have not changed in the last
century, the way society views teach
ers and teacher-training programs has,
said John Goodlad, an educational
reform movement leader.
Goodlad, author of “A Place
Called School,” a book based on his
visits to more than 1 ,(XX) classrooms
in the United Slates, spoke to about
500 people at the fifth annual meeting
of the Nebraska Consortium for the
Improvement of Teacher Education at
the East Union Thursday.
Goodlad, former dean of the g rad u
ate school of education at the Univer
sity of California, Los Angeles, is a
professor of education at the Uniw -
sity of Washington in Seattle.
Goodlad said the present cd .ca
lional reform movemeni has used the
same "depressing rhetoric” that all
previous efforts dating back to 1892
have used.
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He said he reads criticisms of
schools from the 1960s to startle his
\udiences. “They sound like they
were written today,” Goodlad said.
Those reformers, like today’s,
called for better training and better
pay for teachers, tougher require
ments for students, and more empha
sis on math and science, Goodlad said.
Goodlad is engaged in a compre
hensive study of 14 teacher-training
programs in the United States. These
institutions have been criticized dur
ing the last century for emphasizing
“Mickey Mouse education courses”
over solid subject preparation for
teachers, he said.
But teachers colleges and the
schools that hire teachers haven’t
changed much since the beginning of
the 20lh century.
“If we were to create a system
brilliantly designed to retain the status
quo, we couldn’t create a better one
than the one we have,” Goodlad said.
The way society views teachers
and the way universities and colleges
view their teacher-training programs
has changed, however.
In the past, teachers were respected
and the education of teachers was
considered a central mission of most
colleges, especially early liberal arts
colleges, he said. Now it’s considered
a peripheral subject and barely hang
ing on in many institutions.
“We do not any longer as a society
regard teaching or the preparation of
teachers as important,” GoKxJIad said.
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