RHA plans price hike
for residents in August
New students will
be affected most,
director says
By Matthew Grant
Staff Reporter
Students who move into UNL resi
dence halls in August may have to pay
$80 more in fees than students this
year. A 2.7 percent increase in the
cost of living in residence halls will
|bc necessary to
Imcet expenses
'next year, Doug
itechka, director
>f housing at the
^University of Nc»
Ibraska-Lincoln,
said ata Residence
Hall Association meeting Sunday.
The increase in fees is0.75 percent
below inflation, Zatcchka said.
Students returning to^ residence
halls would not have to pay the in
crease under the plan. Those who
have lived in residence halls for a full
year would have the S80 increase
i
reoatea trom their tinal bill, Zatechka
said.
“Here’s a discount for a good cus
tomer, that’s basically what we’re
saying,” he said, adding that the hous
ing board had discussed the issue at
length.
The rebate for returning students
would continue in future years. A
student who lives in the halls for four
years could save up to $400, Zatechka
said.
In other business, a proposal was
introduced to ban smoking in all resi
dence hall cafeterias. A vote will be
taken on the proposal at the RHA
meeting Feb. 21.
Zatechka also spoke of proposals
to form an uppcrclass community in
Cathcr Hall. All students except fresh
men will be eligible to move into the
uppcrclass hall, he said.
The uppcrclass hall would be all
single rooms with a computer room
on each floor, 24-hour visitation and
a vacation-housing option.
The move to form i ng an upperc lass
hall is a result of student demands for
increased privacy, Zatechka said.
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Stephen Buhler, assistant English professor, uses his musical abilities and puts Shakespeare’s
words to music. Buhler said ne taught with a lighthearted approach to show students the fun
side of Shakespeare.
Modern methods
Professor gives Shakespeare a ’90s twist
By Kara Morrison
Senior Editor
The first day of English 230 with
Stephen Buhler will tell you it’s not
your average Shakespeare class.
In fact, nothing about Buhlcr’s
teaching is average.
Buhler, who was bom in Brook
lyn and grew up in Southern
California, says his most infamous
teaching method is his popular
music renditions of the
Shakespearean sonnets.
After unpacking a well-worn
guitar, he performs for his students
a country version of Sonnet 18,
‘Shall I Compare Thee to a
Summer’s Day.” He follows this
with blues and rock renditions of
other sonnets; then, pulling out his
electric guitar, he ends the perfor
mance with a Nirvana-type version
ol Sonnet 129, “The Expense of
Spirit.”
“It gives my students a sense that
Shakespeare’s material is not a
ehina figure,” Buhler said of his
musical interpretations. “It won’t
break if you play with it.”
Friday, Buhler look his musical
talents outside the classroom for a
performance with UCLA colleague
Christopher Gross, a harmonica
player and leading Milton scholar.
Dubbing themselves Sweet Will
and the Miltoncs, the two English
scholars performed blues versions
af Shakespearean and Miltonian
works.
Playing with Shakespeare is
Buhlcr’s way of making an often
r" 1
intimidating subject conquerable.
He often begins the class by
asking students to discuss the
prologue from Henry V, which
entreats the audience to be an active
and attentive part of the play.
“This passage lets students know
Shakespeare needs them,” he said,
j “It’s saying, ‘It won’t work unless
I you join in.’”
He also lets his students know
the secret about Shakespeare that
drew him to the subject in college:
“You don’t have to get it all at
once,” he explained. “Shakespeare
is a lifelong conversation.”
Buhlcr says he still discovers
something new in Shakespeare
every time he leaches it.
“So much is going on....
Philosophical, intellectual, ideologi
cal and religious principles arc all
there,” he said. “Shakespeare is
incredibly intellectual and incred
ibly emotional — a wonderful
balance.”
Once a sense of community is
established in the class and students
pul their intimidations aside, Buhlcr
says his students can look at the
intellectual side of Shakespeare
“without forgetting the fun.”
Buhlcr, who has been teaching at
UNL since 1989, was recently
selected as one of 17 professors
across the nation to participate in
the Folgcr’s Institute Shakespeare
Library project. He now spends one
weekend a month in Washington,
D.C. discussing different leaching
methods and other aspects of
Shakespeare.
Last month, Buhlcr and his
colleagues studied the Royal
Shakespeare Company’s original
directors’ notebooks and prompt
books for the play “Measure for
Measure,’’ and restaged the produc
tion.
Acting is another teaching
method that distinguishes Buhlcr’s
classes. Students are required load
out various scenes in the plays.
Staging the plays gives students
a “much better visual and emotional
sense” of what’s going on in
Shakespeare, he said, because it
was written to be performed.
“Through characterization we
discover things we might not have
discovered otherwise,” he said.
Buhlcr said the English depart
ment has been very supportive of
methods that he describes as “off
the beaterf track in leaching.” He
said he has never been discouraged
by trying new and different ap
proaches to the subject.
Buhlcr also has done several
research projects and scholarly
journals on topics involving Milton,
Spencer and Shakespeare. He
expects the first draft of a book on
Spencer and Epicurean philosophy
to be completed this summer, he
said.
Originally hired for teaching and
research focused on Spencer and
Milton, Buhlcr said his interest in
teaching Shakespeare came as
somewhat of a pleasant surprise.
“Shakespeare just isn’t going to
let me get away,” he said. “And I’m
delighted about that.”
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