Modem Language Fair
draws mucho students
By Amy Edwards
Senior Reporter
More than 1.400 students from
50 high schools across Nebraska
gathered Thursday at the Univer
sity of Ncbraska-Lincoln to sing,
dance and read poetry in their favor
ite language.
The 12th annual Modem Lan
guage Fair, sponsored by UNL’s
department of modem languages
and literatures, gives students the
opportunity to use their language
skills outside the classroom, said
loan Buhlmann, vice chairperson
of the modem languages depart
ment.
Buhlmann said students com
pete in poetry, drama, music, folk
dancing, and poster and name-tag
design in Spanish, French and Ger
man.
Students arc awarded ribbons for
their performance, she said. Each
year, Buhlmann said, students must
focus their projects on a theme.
The theme for this year was
“Summit of Understanding.”
Buhlmann said students compose
their presentations themselves and
present them to UNL professors.
Non-competitive events include
foreign films, international travel
information and mini-lessons
taught by UNL language profes
sors.
Buhlmann said the mini-lessons
in Chinese, Czech, French, Japa
nese, Portuguese and Russian work
as a recruitment program to interest
high school students in studying
foreign languages at UNL.
Kurt Rump, a senior from
Wayne High School, attended a
Russian lesson taught by William
Gibbon, UNL modern languages
professor.
Rump said attending courses that
are taught less frequently are inter
esting.
“I’ve always been interested in
learning Russian,” Rump said.
The program also included a tour
of the modem languages floor in
Neihardt Residence Center, giving
students an idea of residence hall
life at the university.
Denita Steinbach, director of the
modem language floor, said several
students who live on the floor took
the tour as high school students.
.Steinbach said the tour exposes
students to the typical lifestyle of a
college freshman while showing
them the advantages of living with
students who speak and study the
same languages.
Roger Hulen and Jeni Palmer of Boys Town perform the
Mexican Hat Dance Thursday afternoon at Mabel Lee Hall.
Hulen and Palmer were two of many high school students
who participated in the Language Fair.
• A University of Ncbraska-Lincoln
professor has been named the winner
of the 1988 Braddock Award for
writing the best article on the teach
ing of writing to appear within the
past year in the professional journal
College Com position and Communi
cation.
The award to Robert Brooke, UNL.
assistant professor of English, was
presented today at the opening ses
sion of the Conference of College
Composition and Communication in
St. L.ouis.
Brooke’s article, titled "Undcrlifc
and Writing Instruction,” was
printed in the May 1987 issue of the
journal.
Brooke, who is from Denver, has
been a faculty member at UNL since
1984. He joined the UNL faculty after
getting his doctorate from the Univer
sity of Minnesota.
College Composition and Corn
munication is the official journal of
the Conference of College Composi
tion and Communications constitu
ent group for college teachers ol
writing within the National Council
of Teachers of English.
• A Pre-Law Workshop on Law
Schools and the Legal Profession
will take place March 31 from 1 to 3
p.m. in the Nebraska Union. For
more information,contact the dean’s
office in the College of Arts and
Sciences, Oldfather Hall 1223.
Hall presidents,
senators chosen
in RHA elections
From Staff Reports
New hall presidents and senators
were elected Tuesday in the Resi
dence Hall Association elections:
Abel — Bart Vitek, president;
William Vobejda, Douglas Breuer,
Patrick Menard and Marlin
Bergmann, senators.
Cather-Pound — Virgil Blum,
president; Michael Frecl, senator
from Cathcr; Kristina Pletka and
Susan Simon, senators.
Harper — Steve Yandell, presi
dent; Tom Searson and Paul Pou
losky, senators.
Neihardt — Michael Hagge,
president; Russ Johnson, senator.
Sandoz — Cynthia Kirstinc,
president; Ellen Foley and Anne
Robertson, senators.
Schramm — Josef Nesvara, presi
dent; senators have not yet been de
termined.
Sellcck — Mary Patricia Dolata,
president; Travis Parker, senator.
Smith—Devi Bohling, president;
Peggy Lange and Julie Ortmcicr,
senators.
Senior gift
call-a-thon
behind goal
From Staff Reports
As of Thursday morning, the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Stu
dent Foundation’s senior gift call-a
thon hadn’t met last year’s total,
foundation secretary Connie Sulli
van said.
By Thursday morning the call-a
thon had raised $43,500 from 511
pledges, she said.
But she said there was a good
possibility the foundation would
meet last year’s total Thursday night.
“We have llie capability of mak
ing $8,000 tonight (Thursday),” she
said.
Last year’s call-a-thon raised
$51,348, Sullivan said. Mail-in
pledges increased the total to
$53,000, she said.
The Class of 1988 is pledging the
money to Love Memorial Library for
an automated card catalog and a
computer that will enable the library
to communicate with other libraries
in the United Stales. A portion of the
money will be paid to the operator
who inserts the information.
The project will cost more than $ 1
million. _
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