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U/UII J I U-JI'WI l Language lab to do it visually and in stereo By Brenda Cheng Staff Reporter Foreign language students will accent their learning with state-of the-art equipment when the Burnett Hall language lab is renovated in a few weeks, a professor said. “It will be an ideal place for ideal learning,” said Hans Gilde, an asso ciate professor of modem languages and literatures. Frederick Link, interim chair for modem languages and literatures, said the size of the lab is small compared to labs at other colleges in the nation, but the new equipment will help. “In terms of equipment, the lab will be as good, if not better, than any in the country,” Link said. The department is renovating because much of the equipment is old and many students use the lab. The renovation will include new furniture, equipment, curtains and new paint, he said. The 60 booths will be replaced with 64 new booths, each of which will have a new audio cassette re cording machine and headphones, Gilde said. The new machines will have clearer sound and stereo capa bilities. New cassette recorders, used to make student copies, also will have those features and will record on both sides of a tape instead of just one, he said. In addition, 30 of the booths will have Macintosh SE/30 computers with color monitors. Programs will be accessed through a network in the lab. Gilde said. The only software the lab has now is a Japanese language program, he said. Gildc said he hopes to have soft ware for all eight languages offered within the year. Video monitors will be placed in w 32 other booths. These “video sta tions” will allow students to watch language videotapes outside of class, Gilde said. The video stations will allow stu dents to record their responses on a tape if the video is designed to work with an audio cassette recorder, Gildc said. The layout of the lab also will be changed. A new console and platform will be in the center of the room instead of against the cast wall, said NU facilities Manager Dennis Mc Caughcrty. The booths will be on both sides of the console. One group will have Macintoshes while theother will have video monitors. Gildc said the renovations will start in about three weeks and take about two weeks to complete. The language lab will be closed, but tapes still will be copied for stu dent use, he said. Link said the renovation will cost between S1 00,(XX) and S150,000. The NU Foundation provided most of the money. The rest came from the uni versity and from lab fees, Link sa»d. i-— In terms of equipment, the lab will be as good, if not better, than any in the country. Link interim chairman for modern language and literature -------• • — IF YOU’VE GOT MONEY TO BURN, DON’T BOTHER TO READ THIS But If You Need Extra Money! Donate For Dollars! 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I ||M I Ains inference to address religion, minorities and children The Nebraska AIDS conference will meet Saturday and Sunday at College View Seventh-Day Advent ist Church, 4015 S. 49th St. Joel Gajardo, chairman of the Minority AIDS Taskforce, will give the keynote address, “AIDS and the Religious Communities,” at 11:30 a.m. At 2:00 p.m., five Nebraskans with AIDS will share their stories, and at 4:00 p.m., Eunice Diaz, a member of the National Commission on AIDS, will speak on AIDS and minority communi ties in the United Stales. Ronald Bayer, associate professor of the School of Public Health at Colum bia University in New York, will speak at 7:00 p.m. on AIDS, eco nomics and social policy. On Sunday beginning at 9:00 a.m., there will be seminars on: microbiological overview of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS; Ne braska AIDS clinical trials; pediat ric AIDS; AIDS inhibitors; sexual transmission of HIV; and AIDS interfaith training. At 1:30 p.m., Susan Hassig,an epidemiologist with special inter est in evaluation and operations research, will speak on AIDS and the developing world. At 3:00 p.m., Edwina Popek, chairwoman of the Department of Pediatric Pathology at the Armed Forces, will speak on transmission of HIV from mother to infant. AIDS and children will be the topic of a 3:30 p.m. speech by Virginia Anderson, a pediatrician and patholog ist w ith the New York City Department of Health. A pres entation of AIDS in Uganda will be given at 6:30 p.m., and the confer ence w'ill close at 7:30 p.m. with a round-table discussion with con ference speakers. Recycling conference to discuss, give update of bill The Nebraska State Recycling Conference, ‘‘NSRA the Second Decade -- Recycling for the ’90s,” will meet today through Saturday at the Hilton Hotel at 141 N. Ninth St. Today, Gov. Kay Orr will ad dress the conference at 8:30 a.m„ and Lewis Crampton, administra tor for communications at the Environmental Protection Agency, will speak at 9 a.m.Saturday's schedule opens with an 8:30 a.m. discussion of the recycling bill, LB 163, passed last year by the Nebraska Legislature. State Sens. Rod Johnson of Sutton, Spencer Morrissey of Tccumsch and Di anna Schimck of Lincoln will dis cuss the bill and Dennis Grams, director of the Nebraska Depart ment of Environmental Control, will give an update on how its provisions are being implemented. Egypt Continued from Page 1 construction techniques waste efficiency and are dangerous to farmers, he said. “The engineers need to be able to see that something is not right and say, ‘That is wrong, don’t do dial,’’’ he said. Other problems choking the manufacturing industry include the standardization of testing, research methods and machinery develop ment, he said. Equipment designed, manufactured and tested in one area may not operate efficiently or may fail altogether in other regions because of envi ronmental factors such as soil composition and irrigation, Leviticus said. In the case of machinery development, tech nological advances in equipment used for spe cific crops in one region often arc not shared with other areas of the country, he said. ‘ ‘They arc doing a lot of things, but it’s done in little bits here and there. There’s no correla tion,” he said. ‘‘It’s really a developing country, you have to take that into account. They haven’t gone that far yet in developing the methodology for building, revising and testing equipment," he said. Other UNL specialists already have visited Egypt under other programs and more will be needed to build an environmentally safe and cost-efficient system of acquiring agriculture equipment, he said. ‘‘They know it needs a lot of upgrading... .Their system didn’t do the job well enough for them,” Leviticus said. The proposal to fine tunc the program still must be approved by the Egyptians, UNL and the U.S. agencies. He said he expects the proposal to be passed by Jan. 1,1991, and the faculty to exchange in the spring. Studies Continued from Page 1 The inclusion of women in medical research is “a process lhafs going to take time to develop,” Prenliee said. But he said he thought the University of Nebraska was at least equal to other universities in working to solve the prob lem. “I’m sure the research (here) reflects the condition nationally,” he said. Fuentes Continued from Page 1 “They can be persuaded to be good Catho lics in other areas and still use birth control,” he said. 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