QUAKE from Page 1
Mrs. Jaecks said she wasn’t very
worried about the group because she
didn’t hear about the earthquake until
10 p.m. and her husband called
shortly after that. She said her hus
band told her Burrow had to hold up a
candle so he could see to dial the
number.
Mrs. Jaecks, who has been in an
earthquake before, said it’s a “very
eerie feeling when the earth starts
moving underneath your feet.”
Burrow said people grow up think
ing that “good old mother earth”
will always be there to stand on, and
it’s really disorienting when it starts
moving.
The Nebraska group will arrive
home Sunday night after the confer
ence ends.
“We’ll be glad to worry only
about tornadoes,’ ’ he said. “I’d much
rather deal with them than earth
quakes.”
PARROT from Page 1
utes that they hated cigarette smok
ing.
Then Parrot, asked the crowd to
imagine she was holding up a pack of
cigarettes and asked for slang words
to describe them.
Responses ranged from grits to
cancer sticks.
When Parrot asked the audience to
imagine she was holding a penis,
laughter followed, but no one could
offer a slang word.
Unfortunately, Parrot said, society
permits conversations about ciga
rettes but not sex. Thus, most people
are not “clear” and “consistent”
about what they want and think about
sex, she said.
“We don’t wear a sign on our
neck” saying what is allowed and
what isn’t, she said.
1 eacher training addressed
From Staff Reports
Scholars from across the country
will address the topic: “Are Our
School Teachers Adequately Trained
in Measurement and Assessment
Skills?” during the UNL Buros Insti
tute of Mental Measurements’ annual
meeting Nov. 2 and 3 at the Wick
Alumni Center.
The Buros Institute, a division of
the Department of Educational Psy
chology at UNL’s Teachers College,
publishes the Mental Measurements
Yearbook, a standard evaluation
guidebook of psychological and edu
cational tests.
The keynote address, focusing on
the consequences of inadequate
measurement of knowledge in
schools, will be given by H.D.
Hoover of the University of Iowa at
7:15 p.m., Nov. 2. Other speakers
include: Arlen Gullikson, University
of South Dakota; Steven Wise, UNL;
Leslie Lukin, University of Missouri
Columbia; Richard Stiggins, North
west Regional Educational Labora
tory; and Donna Campbell, Arizona
Education Association.
VALENTINA from Page 1
tries to suppress her laughter as stu
dents joke back.
She says one reason she and her
students have so much fun in class is
because of her young attitude.
She says it doesn’t matter how old
she is because age is a state of mind.
“What is age? If you consider
silting in a rocking chair old, then I
am young.’’
Her vitality is evident in the class
room.
It’s not uncommon for Ziverts to
break out into song in the middle of a
lecture or share an old Russian prov
erb when she gets the urge.
Her mode of teaching often is
unpredictable. If, while explaining
the definition of a word, $hc is re
minded of -her homeland, she will
switch at a moment’s notice to a les
son on Russian culture.
She says she doesn’t mean to
A A A A
PATROL from Page 1
the ASUN Parking Task Force to
ensure the safety of students and
property.
Vitek said he hopes two or three
police officers or some paid stu
dent security officers can be hired
to patrol the lots.
Although many of UNL’s lots
are lighted, Vitek said, some stu
dents don’t feel safe walking
through them after dark.
Additional security officers in
the lots would help eliminate van
dalism and assaults in the lots, he
said.
Vitek said he has no estimates
on the cost to hire additional secu
rity, but said he will work with
UNL police and Goebel if ASUN
advances the bill.
“Basically what this is doing is
just trying to get the ball rolling be
tween the task force, the vice chan
cellor and UNL police,” Vitek
said.
Lt. Ken Cauble of the UNL
police said he thinks it is a ‘ 'work
able” idea, but the additional se
curity officers would have to be
paid. *
Volunteer patrols of the lots in
past years have not worked, he
said.
“Unless you’re getting paid for
it,” Cauble said, “you’re not
going to show up every time.”
Cauble said the additional secu
rity could come from police offi
cers or students who work as build
ing patrol officers.
If student building patrol offi
cers are selected to patrol the lots,
Cauble said, he would be willing to
provide about four days of park
ing-lot patrol training to them.
Building patroi officfers already
are given on-the-job training in
security matters, fire prevention,
radio use and other matters, he
said.
Cauble said he is willing to
work with the parking task force to
determine which lots need secu
rity, how they can best be covered
and if one patrol can handle one or
two lots.
But, Cauble said, another
monetary source is needed for the
project. The police department
does not have any funds for the
patrols in its budget, he said.
Goebel said he hasn’tbeen con
tacted formally about hiring addi
tional security for the parking lots,
but he is open to suggestions on
how to make the campus more
secure.
Although Goebel said he agrees
more officers would make the
parking lots safer, finding addi
tional money to hire more officers
is difficult
“That’s the principal issue and
it always is in the expansion of
services,” he said.
Goebel said he thinks the UNL
police provide the maximum
amount of security possible from
their existing budget
change the subject, . . it just
comes.”
“How can you learn the language
and not care about Russia, Russian
culture and history?” she says.
While some students say they
sometimes have a hard time follow
ing her train of thought, Gibbon says
Ziverts’ “perceptions of reality offer
a good dimension to one’s under
standing of the culture.”
“Successful language teaching
depends on an individual teacher
employing their own approach,” he
says.
Christine Taube, a senior Russian
major and Ziverts’ granddaughter,
says she has no idea why her grand
mother’s approach works so well
with students.
‘‘Beats me,” Taube says half-se
riously. ‘‘Maybe they wish their own
grandmother or mother was like
that.”
Ziverts says she treats her students
the way!the docs not because they are
in her class, but because she cares
about them.
“1 correct their English, 1 correct
their manners. I make them greet me
when they come to class. Maybe 1 am
too much of a mother or a grand
mother. Maybe sometimes 1 am too
abrupt -- but they take it because they
know I love them.”
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