Veritas, Vol. 13, No. 14, March 26, 1973

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volume 13, number 14	March 26,1973	University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
Richard Bader Named Director Of Sea Grant Program at UM
Using audio-visuals within the tape itself, Chemistry Professors Curtis Hare and Henry Hubinger stress that two things make tapes interesting—good material and good presentation. The tapes are used to supplement regular classroom instruction.
Video-Tape System Installed in Library
A new dimension has been added to undergraduate education at UM-a video-tape cassette system, which students can use to supplement their classroom work.
The chemistry department has inaugurated the program by making a series of tapes on an experimental basis. They have been so well received that John Fiske, director of instructional resources, is eager to expand the program, initiated by Dr. Carl McKenry, to include the other departments at UM.
The success of the color tapes is due to their non-similarity to conventional classroom presentations. First, they’re tailored for specific needs. For example, the tape “How to Use the Slide Rule” is designed to help those students unfamiliar with this basic tool. “And the test review tapes aren’t designed for the straight A students—they don’t need them,” added Professor Henry Hubinger, who along with Dr. Curtis Hare, has been the chemistry department’s talent for the tapes.
Second, the tapes present things that can’t be done in a conventional classroom.
The tape on gas laws, for example, begins with Dr. Hare talking to the pilot of the Goodyear Blimp, and goes on to explain how the blimp uses the gas principles to be discussed. The tape “Solutions and All That” takes the viewer to the largest “beaker” available in Miami—the Seaquarium, where the director explains how and why the different chemicals are put into the tank.
“A scientist’s work is more interesting and meaningful,” Dr. Hare explained,
“when we see him in action.”
Taking the tapes out of the realm of the lecturer-reading-from-his-notes category and adding fades, dissolves, split-screen imagery-the pizzaz—is director Jim Neill. “You can’t just walk into a studio and make a tape.
For it to be interesting to the student, both the content and the production aspects must be carefully planned,” said Dr. Hare.
SIGN OUT TAPES
The video-tape carrels are installed in Otto G. Richter Library. Students can sign out the cassettes and earphones just as they sign out a book, and operate the foolproof playback system without assistance. “The key is that this kind of hardware puts it in the hands of the students,” Mr. Fiske noted. Often three or four students will all plug into the same tape; the carrels are built at 120-degree angles to accommodate just that, he explained.
The chemistry series, 40 tapes in all, is divided into three categories—those illustrating how to use resource material, the slide rule, or “How to Use Beilstein,” for example; those offering supplements to classroom study, such as “Stoichiometry (problems 5.16, 5.21 and 5.34 from your text worked out),” or “The Bohr Atom” and “The Post-Bohr Atom”; and test reviews, where Professors Hubinger and Hare alternate answering the questions on the test. “These test reviews, to be used only after the tests, are the most popular of the tapes,” Professor Hubinger said.
“We use two instructors to keep the tapes warmer and more interesting.
“The Instructional Resources Center has also helped us add interest to the tapes by building in ‘practical jokes.’ For example, the cassette tape on solutions was introduced with Handel’s ‘Water Music,’ and the Goodyear Blimp sequence was scored with ‘Up, Up and Away.’ ”
Professor Hubinger has suggested ways other departments can use the video-tape system. “Mass communications, for example, could film 20 minutes or so of Ralph Renick talking about the techniques of news interviewing, or the law school could do a presentation of how a lawyer delivers a summation to a jury. The guidance center could produce tapes to counsel students in study habits, for example. The possibilities are endless.”
For further information or ideas of how your department can make use of this new instructional medium, call John Fiske at 284-5379.
Wilson Hicks Conference Scheduled for April
Among the highlights of the 17th Annual Wilson Hicks International Conference on Visual Communication, being held on the UM campus April 11 - 13, will be the presentation of the University of Miami Award for Distinguished Contribution to Communication Arts to Dr. Edwin Land, president, Polaroid, and the Morris Gordon Award for Excellence in Visual Communication to Mike Wallace of CBS-TV for the program, “60 Minutes.”
Details of the Conference may be obtained from Joan Sawyers, public relations, 284-2575.
by Jane Rieker News Bureau
The UM Sea Grant Program of sea-related research, education and advisory services has a new base, on the main campus, and a new director, Dr. Richard G. Bader.
Dr. Bader is on leave from the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, where he is professor of geochemistry and has been associate dean since 1969.
To meet the program’s goal of putting information into the community for practical application, Dr. Bader is working with a community advisory committee to help determine the immediate environmental problems and enlist community participation in solving them.
Serving on the Sea Grant Community Advisory Committee are Richard Brusuelas (chairman), who heads the environmental action committee of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce; Stewart Allen, Miami attorney; Jeanne Bellamy, The Miami Herald; Thomas Bilhorn, senior scientist, Gulf Universities Research Corporation, Miami; Otho Bruce, chairman, Southeast Bank of Da deland; Robert Gardner, vice president for environmental affairs, Florida Power and Light Company; Bruce Gilman, president, Underseas Engineering, Inc., Riviera Beach,
Fla.; William Neblett, National Shrimp Congress, Inc., Key West;
Also, John Pennekamp, The Miami Herald; Albert Pflueger, Jr., Pflueger Marine Taxidermy Division, Hallandale; RADM 0. R. Smeder, Commandant, 7th Coast Guard District, Miami; Harlan Snodgrass, Belcher Oil Co., Miami; Dr. Harris Stewart, Jr., National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); and Capt. Robert Waldron, Port Director, Miami.
By seminars for business, government and community leaders, as well as lectures and wider use of the Sea Grant Information Bulletins for the general public, Dr. Bader and his committee intend to help the people of South Florida solve the problems of living near the sea as well as using its resources.
Because Florida’s narrow peninsula has the sea on three coasts, most of its population lives in a marine environment, noted Dr. Bader. The problems of the coastal zones affect inland and urban residents who in turn affect the coastal zones, he said.
On the southeast Florida coast, two of the many problems already at hand are energy crises and pollution. “Sea Grant should find new sources of energy, possibly establishing offshore power plants. That’s an engineering problem for our program.
Work is continuing at Turkey Point, where Sea Grant, the Atomic Energy Commission and Florida Power and Light are attempting to formulate a model of the effect of thermal effluent on the Bay ecosystem.
“Sea Grant must put its research and the community together to investigate how to better use the environment, from the offshore and the beaches to the blight of urban problems,” its director said.
Dr. Bader is no newcomer to the Sea Grant Program, having prepared the proposal that brought in 1969 the first Sea Grant Institutional Award. He served as the program’s first director for two years.
With his base on main campus rather than in its previous location at the marine school on Virginia Key, Dr. Bader plans to utilize faculty and resources from the UM School of Medicine, School of Engineering and En-
vironmental Design, School of Law, School of Business Administration, College of Arts and Sciences, Center for Urban and Regional Studies, and Division of Continuing Education as well as the Rosenstiel School.
Edward Coll Appointed V. P. for Development
Edward G. Coll has been named vice president for development affairs. In announcing the appointment, President Henry King Stanford said Mr. Coll will continue to serve as secretary of the University Corporation, a post he has held since February 1, 1972.
He has been serving as interim vice president since January 1,1973, when Charles R.
Estill resigned the position.
“I am delighted Ed Coll has accepted the vice presidential appointment recommended by me and approved by the Board of Trustees,” Dr. Stanford said. “His experienced leadership in our development programs for close to a decade will stand the University in good stead as we move toward our development goals.”
Mr. Coll joined UM February 1, 1963, as assistant to the president for development and was director of development when he was named secretary of the University by the Board of Trustees.
A native of Pittsburgh, he received his B.A. degree from Duquesne University.