Nelson
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If I had a minority teaching
me history or English, not
Just P.E., I would have been.
more well-rounded.
—Gaither
sophomore elementary education
major at NWU
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Mike Gaither, a NWU sophomore elemen
tary education major, said his biggest com
plaint with secondary education was the lack of
minority instructors.
“If I had a minority teaching me history or
English, not just P.E., I would have been more
well-rounded,” he said.
Gaither said many African Americans
thought they couldn’t teach because they didn’t
see any role models when they were in school.
“The education system needs minorities
pretty badly,” he said. “This world was not built
on one perspective. When I leach history, I
might see it from a different perspective.”
Another improvement to education would
be getting more parental involvement, Trent
Steele, a UNL junior secondary education ma
jor, said.
“There’s no substitute for parental involve
ment,” he said.
Rasco said parents do need to become in
volved. College students should remember that
before they become parents, she said.
Nebraska Gov. Ben Nelson discusses educational goals Tuesday with university and high school students as part of
the Lincoln Conference on National Education Goals. Colorado Gov. Roy Romer is to the right.
Dewey
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Dewey, a 20-year veteran at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln, brings proof of his ex
ploits back to the classroom to share with his
students in the form of photographs and slides.
“I am literally living my field of study," he
said.
The purpose of his storm chasing and his
travels, Dewey said, was to educate people
about watching out for dangerous weather and
to provide information on how to prepare for it
“It’s a really exciting experience.” he said.
But there’s also a downside to storm chas
ing, Dewey said. Often he will see suffering
victims of violent weather, like he did after the
1980 tornado barrage that rocked Grand I stand.
Dewey was a rescue volunteer and documented
much of the damage with his camera.
“I can take my camera and take pictures of
hurricanes and tornadoes because I’m there
helping people,’’ he said. “There’s knowledge
that can come of those situations that I can take
out and give to other people. If taking pictures
of tornadoes and tornado damage makes people
become more cautious, then I’m saving lives.”
He hustles to the scene of nasty storms to
help inform the general public — and his
students, he said.
“I do it as education — I bring it back to my
students. (Storm chasing) docs excite me, but
I’m not unlike a surgeon — it’s exciting what
he or she is doing, but they’re learning from it,”
Dewey said. “A surgeon’s not happy that they ’re
bringing more and more bodies into the operat
ing room. But they’re happy that they’re help
ing people — that’s my position with storm
chasing.”
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Instead of relying on books, Dewey is out to
experience weather phenomena firsthand—to
bring his classes alive with explosive visuals
and imagery. -
The photos Dewey shows in class always
weed out the weather weenie wannabes, he
said.
“We have a group of students every semester
who absolutely plea to be a part of our chase
group ” Dewey said.
Though he’s never been injured by severe
weather, he said one of his students’ cars was
struck by lightning, frying his hand that was
holding a ham radio microphone.
Storm chasing is best used as an educational
tool, he said.
From a simple photograph of a thunderstorm
cloud, Dewey said, he can inform students
about thunderstorm structure and the actual
progression and development of a tornado,
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... That’s the whole point of leaching,” he said.
Dewey said he would like to implement a
course dedicated solely to storm chasing — a
Weather Weenie 101, so to gpeak. He said a
similar class was offered at Arizona State Uni
versity and was worth one credit.
“Someday we hope to have a class, but I
don’t know if the university will think this is a
good idea,” he said.
Dewey said UNL’sso-called ‘storm chasing
club’ was unsanctioned and unendorsed by the I
university, and was merely a loose association
of students, with Dewey acting as a mentor.
“It’s totally unofficial,” he said. “All I’m
doing is providing a group of students who want
to stormchase and giving them the guidance
and information on how to safely go out and
stormchase.
“Then they’re on their own.”
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r- Police Report
Beginning midnight Friday
1:98 a.m. — Accident, parking
lot at 17th street between R and
Vine streets, $650.
1:18 a.m. — False Tire alarm,
Love Library.
1:32 a.m. — Compact disc
player stolen, parking lot at
Harper-Schramm-Smilh, $280
loss, $500 damage.
2:53 a.m. — Disturbance,
Selleck Hall.
1:24 p.m. — Checks stolen.
Agriculture Hall, $1.
8:58 p.m.—Baseball broke car
window, Beltzer Baseball Field,
$25.
10:55 p.m.—Parking gale arm
stolen. University Health Cen
ter, $25.
Beginning midnight Saturday
12:55 a.m. — Glass broken on
fire box, Abel Hall, $10.
2:47ajn.—Bike stolen, Selleck
Hall, $400.
9:35 a.m. — Fire doors unse
cured, Love Library.
3:47 p.m. — Disturbance, Ne
braska Union.
4:36 p.m. -r Fire alarm mal
function, Hcnzlik Hall.
Beginning midnight Sunday
11:47 a.m. — Entrance door
damaged, Tau Kappa Epsilon
Fraternity, 420 University Ter
race, $200.
12:22 p.m. — Car damaged.
Kappa S igma Fraternity, 519 N.
16th St, $100.
3:27 p.m. — Trash-can fire,
Schramm Hall.