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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Friday. October 2, 1970
Planetarium Offers Educati
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Hi
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by Evans Witt
Staff Writer
A marvelous educational experience
awaits the UNC student who wanders
through the darkened, labyrinthine halls
and rooms of the Morehead Planetarium.
The mystery and beauty of the planets
and the stars unfold for even a novice
backyard astronomer through numerous
visual exhibits and aids through the Zeiss
Planetarium projector, the most modern
such instrument in the world.
More than 125,000 people take
advantage of the planetarium's facilities
each year, according to planetarium
director A. F. Jenzano. Included in this
figure are more ' than 65,000 school
SLDC Sets
Interviews
For Retreats
Interviews will be held next week for
three Student Leadership Development
Commission weekend retreats to be held
during October and November.
The retreats, involving sensitivity and
leadership training, are open to any
graduate or undergraduate student. Half
of the participants in the program will be
sponsored by organizations, but places
will be open for about seventeen people
who come without organizational
sponsorship.
Cost of the program will be fifteen
dollars per person for the three-weekend
session. The initial cost of the program is
ninety dollars per person, but a grant
from Sears, Roebuck and Company of
Atlanta has made the low cost possible.
The retreats are sponsored by the
student government and the School of
Education and are being coordinated by
Dr. Eugene Watson of the School of
Education.
Interested students have been asked to
apply only if they are willing to make the
full commitment of three weekends, as
the program requires a large investment
of time and energy.
The retreats will be held on the
weekends of October 16-18, October
23-25 and November 6-8. The first of the
series will be held at The Terraces in
Southern Pines, and the remaining two
will be held at Camp Caraway in
Asheboro. Each retreat will begin with
dinner on Friday and will end after lunch
on Sunday.
Interviews are required of all
participants, both organizational and
independent. They will be held October
5-9 in room 205 of the Student Union.
Applications for interviews are available
at the Union Information Desk.
children who come from a three-state
area.
The Zeiss ("Zice") projector at the
Planetarium is the ultramodern Model
Six, installed here in 1969. It was the first
first such advanced instrument in the
world.
The instrument can project a view of
the heavens from any spot on or near the
earth as it would have appeared anytime
from 26,000 years in the past to 26,000
years in the future.
The versatility of the projector is one
reason the planetarium was chosen as the
center for the training of America's
astronauts in celestial navigation for the
Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space
missions.
Since 1960, the planetarium has been
used by all of the astronauts for training
in recognizing and navigating by star
formations.
The Planetarium is open every day for
shows for the general public on a
schedule which is available at the center.
The laboratories of the general
astronomy classes of the University are
held in the planetarium chamber.
The planetarium staff of 13 full-time
and 25 part-time employes also designs
and executes programs for special groups,
including private corporations, doing
research for the space program and
teachers and other educational personnel.
The optical system used aboard the
Apollo spacecraft which landed
successfully on the moon was first tested
at the planetarium.
Though the center is located in the
Morehead Building, it is financially
self-supporting through ticket sales for
the shows. The planetarium has operated
a this manner for its 21 -year history,
serving over two million people.
The major capital expenditures
necessary for the planetarium -such as
the 5250,000 expense of the Model Six
Zeiss projector "are, however,
generously made possible through the
assistance of the Morehead Foundation,"
commented Jenzano.
"The planetarium is an educational
vehicle to convey to the lay public what
is learned in the research laboratories and
observatories," Jenzano continued.
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who are working in the elections to get
organized and find a voice."
The committee was formed during last
semester's strike and is funded by student
donations solicited then.
"We will exist as long as our goal of
involving students is still there," Berger
said. "However, if student government
should form a more permanent
committee, we would be happy to join it
instead."
One of Election '70's original goals
was to get the University to grant an
interruption of classes this fall so students
could work in political campaigns.
The University has announced a
no-quiz policy for the two weeks before
the elections. In addition, students who
participate in campaigns and miss work
will be allowed to make it up.
"I think this is significant," Berger
said. "We are pleased with the
administration's stand."
Berger sees the growing political
activity among students as a significant
trend. "A new culture has been
established. Students are realizing that
they can change social and political
systems."
Election '70 doesn't set any specific
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number of students absent from classes a
their goal. They will be pleased if thr-;
"greater student interest" in
November elections.
"A movement such as we are tryi-'.r t:
start just doesn't happen overnight,"
Berger.
A playground has a lot of ups and down, and every once
in a while, one of the little girls will want to get from one
of the up parts to one of the down parts. And every now
and then there will be a little boy like this one to help her
get from the up to the down. (Staff photo by Cliff
Kolovson)
Bello Invites Nominations
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The present system of educating
teachers, which includes a semester of
student teacher in a classroom, is not
really the best way of producing
teachers," said the president of the UNC
Student National Education Association
(SNEA) Thursday.
The UNC chapter of SNEA,
organization for students who plan
enter the teaching profession, will hold a
meeting for all interested students at 7:30
p.m. Monday in 08 Peabody Hall.
Andy Phillips, President of the local
chapter of SNEA, said there isn't enough
involvement in the present curriculum
between the aspiring teacher and the
classroom.
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"This year's plans are almost a
complete change from what has gone on
in the past," said Phillips, who is also
co-president of the Student North
Carolina Association of Educators.
"Instead of the usual meetings every
month or so with speakers, we are going
into area schools and do something," he
said. "And the members, who will be
organized into task forces, will decide
what they wish to do."
Phillips said activities of the task
forces might include evaluating
classrooms, visiting juvenile courts,
serving as teacher aides and working with
elementary and secondary school
students in other ways.
"This means that freshmen and other
lower classmen can go into classrooms
and find out now if they would like to
teach," he said.
"Our new program in SNEA could
have the potential for a complete change
in teacher education-a change which
would bring about more involvement
between students and the students they
will teach."
Phillips said his groups will meet with
local school officials in the next few
weeks to obtain approval for planned
programs. "We are assuming everything
will go through," he said.
Officials will ' outline the group's
planned activities for this year at the
Monday meeting and form special task
forces which will be part of the new
program of activities, said Phillips.
Continued from page one
Bello, a voting member of the
committee, stressed the importance of all
students in exercising the right and
privilege of submitting names.
"The changing face of the University
of the Seventies calls for a leadership
sensitive and responsive to the student
community," he said. "We, as students,
have the responsibility to nominate such
a person."
Bello said the committee also will
undertake to formulate a statement for
criteria for evaluation of nominees. It will
treat all information received
confidentially including the identity of
the person making the nomination.
According to Bello, the committee will
treat all nominations by members of the
University community equally.
"Please take advantage of this rare
opportunity," Bello 's letter concluded.
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