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E-mail becomes a teaching tool Professors using Internet to help inform students By Erin Schulte Staff Reporter If one of George Tuck’s typogra phy students wakes up at 3 a.m. with a pressing question on typeface size, they can contact their professor that very moment. That is, if he’s awake and check ing his e-mail account. It is one of the many advantages of having mandatory class e-mail ac counts, Tuck said. Students don’t always have a ques tion during class time, he said, and some feel uncomfortable asking ques tions in front of a lecture hall full of students. More classes at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are requiring stu dents to have class e-mail accounts. A class e-mail account allows profes sors and students to post e-mail to one person or the whole class. Dave Spanel, systems coordinator for the Computing Resource Center, said there had been class account requests for more than 80 classes this semester, and requests were still com ing in. Most classes have about 25 to 50 students who need e-mail accounts, and the University Foundations class “The students are the beneficiaries.” QEOME TUCK journalism professor has requested 870 accounts. One professor, David Hibler, is teaching two English 254 classes entirely through e-mail. The class will have its own web site. Hibler is a graduate of a faculty workshop put on by Charles Ansorge, a professor of health and human per formance. Ansorge conducts work shops for instructors interested in in corporating e-mail into their classes. Ansorge said he thought classes taught through e-mail eventually would replace some traditional classes. Ansorge uses e-mail in his beginning statistics class to commu nicate with his students, including posting exam results within an hour and setting up smaller learning com munities within his class. Students get to know each other better talking through e-mail, Ansorge said. At the beginning of the semes ter, students were asked to send out class greetings, telling the class about themselves. Tuck also requires students to write paragraphs about themselves and post them on e-mail to him and the class. Tuck said his main use of e-mail was Absence of greenhouse is hot topic on campus By Kelly Hansen Staff Reporter Students may have noticed some thing missing as they walked across campus to class this fall. Larry Blake, UNL projects man ager, said many students have been boggled by the disappearance of the greenhouse, east of Oldfather Hall. Blake said the chancellor’s office had been receiving e-mail messages and many phone calls since classes began asking what had become of the greenhouse. The space, once home to glass walls and green, leafy plants, has been razed and covered with asphalt. A sign posted nearby assures pass ersby that the flat, black surface is only temporary. Blake said the greenhouse was vacated because the biological sci ences department no longer had use for it. Early this summer, the depart ment moved into four new, larger greenhouses south of the Beadle Cen ter. Blake said the new greenhouses would continue to be used for re search and laboratory use, just like the old ones. The advantage of the new green houses, he said, was that students would have better equipment and more space available for classroom and research purposes. Blake said there was no plan to rebuild at the site of the old green house. But plans to renovate Burnett Hall call for the space to be used as a parking and storage lot for the con struction company. Blake said that after the Burnett renovation was completed, the as phalt would be landscaped in some way. Possible additions to Burnett or Bessey halls could include expan sion into the renovated space, he said. Research gave American Heart (fk i • g* rf Association-^^ him a future PRECISION International Scholarship Information Graduates and Undergraduates Wed. and Thurs. August 30th, 31 st, 5:OOpm International Affaire 1 337 R St. to pull items of interest to journalism students off the internet and copy them to students’ accounts. For Janet Wright, a geology pro fessor, e-mail serves a different pur pose. Wright is on a list at the United States Geological Survey that con stantly e-mails information on earth quakes around the world that are above five on the Richter Scale. Dur ing class, images from her computer are shown on a large screen to the students, who can track earthquake movements together. But there are some setbacks to widespread use of e-mail for classes, Wright said. “There’s a large gap between the haves and the have-nots,” Wright said. “You have to be able to afford all the new technology and have the training to feel comfortable using it. That’s two big barriers.” Ansorge said a drawback for him was the amount of time he spent writing responses to questions from his class and sorting and pulling in formation off the Internet. All the professors using e-mail seem to agree on one thing. Wide spread use of the Internet is inevi table, and everyone will have to learn how to use it. “The students are the beneficia ries,” Tuck said. “It gets them famil iar with the technology that drives today’s industry.” UNL won’t investigate summertime ‘sluts’ list By Julie Sobczyk Senior Editor 1 The university has decided not to investigate a list of “UNL Sum mertime Sluts” that was distrib uted this summer, said James Griesen, vice chancellor for stu dent affairs. Griesen said the university had no way of finding out who was responsible for the list’s distribu tion. “We really had no way to inves tigate,” Griesen Said. “We had no idea who sent it.” The list contained names of 19 women and the names of their so rorities. The students’ names were blacked out, on the list shown to Griesen, but sorority names were left visible. Griesen said he learned of the list after a copy was sent to Jayne Wade Anderson, director of Greek Affairs. Griesen also received a phone call from an angry mother of a student on the list. A copy of the list also was sent to the Omaha World-Herald. Griesen said he told the student and her mother that there wasn’t much he could do as far as investi gating the source of the list. “Frankly, I told the student we were best to ignore the dam thing and it would go away. ” JAMES GRIESEN Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs “Frankly, I told the student we were best to ignore the dam thing and it would go away,” Griesen said. “My hopes were realized.” Griesen said he heard no more complaints about the list, and noth ing else was heard about the mat ter. “If you give this kind of non sense much attention, it will just breed more attention,” he said. 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