Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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omputer Science ' 5. . if ,N 2, 2 K -In .Ani Kevin Gross explains the ins and outs of word processing in a seminar for Ex- pository Writing students. One of the hundreds of students using the Schertz Computer Center, LaDonna Red- dick interfaces with the concluding paragraph of her paper.

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fn-5, al' William F risbie Daniel Hess Mark Kelley Keith Graber Miller Not pictured: J. Ron Byler joseph Palmieri cific? -::3'r,v- - -f- 'A-A' - t-:Ljgl Zn- , ' . -ggvv -' , 45: . -L+!! . :VN '- , , . . .V I E .xl-E QW -Y -4.z : .. ' f -:K ' -.3 ' . jx'-s - 4,2 . 3 ff R , , lv l A- t I 'A of-.5 g r , 4, -gs I if 1 4-3 T. -E' Q1 Paul Mark follows Cheryl Nafziger's lead in warm up for improvisation in Acting class. JK, Maple Leaf: Name one event that sticks with you from this year. Cheryl Nafziger: My experience of direct- ing The Barbarian.: Are Coming, one of the peace plays, was really significant for me because it was then that I found the necessary distance between myself and the art of theater. ML: What is that distance? CN: It's stepping away. Only when an ar- tist steps out of the way of creatiilg can creating take place. And I felt that during Barbarians, At first it felt as if I wasn't really there malcing an influence and I was worried. But in the end there was a direct connection between what I wanted to achieve and the end result of the play. Cheryl was out of the way and that allowed the creative freedom necessary for the play to develop. ML: What is communication about? CN: Within the theater realm, the biggest thing is for students to explore all areas of theater. Then they are encouraged to develop their abilities and interests in those areas. The way of learning is a way of ex- perience. I appreciate that we aren't told to do theater in any certain way that is the right way. It's more what feels right to you, and then synthesizing that with what you've learned to bring out your own style. ML: What do you think you will remem- ber in 10 years? CN: I never wanted to come here in the first place, but through the professors and students in the department it seemed like the best place to learn. I started out just wanting to act, but through my experience I discovered that my abilities are stronger in directing because I had the opportunity to develop other parts of theater. That will stick with me. Chewy! Nyziger is a senior communication major with a theater emphasis. I 27

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Maple Leaf: What is your department about? Floyd Saner: We are interested in pro- viding a good education in computer systems in the liberal arts context. It means not only that we train someone in the technical aspects of a machine or the pro- gramming aspects, but that we're in- terested that they also get a good education in the liberal arts. The old stereotype that has been with computer science is of a 'Lhacker or a L'nerd who is totally withdrawn into the realm of their machine. Much of the programming now is not just communication between the programmer and the machine as much as it is between the programmer, the person who's going to use the machine and the machine itself. ML: What is one idea that sticks with you or that you wrestle with as a teacher? FS: What I wrestle with is trying to get across good problem solving techniques and good skills in developing solutions. So often the approach to a problem that is pre- sented is to sit down at a computer and begin typing in code. That's the last thing you should do. What needs to be done is to sit back and look at general principles and abstractions. That's probably the most dif- ficult thing to get across. ML: Is there one class that was especially meaningful this year? FS: I had a special topics course in microprocessor interfacing. We looked at microprocessors and electronics. The last class period we had demonstrations of stu- dent projects which they had designed and built. That was really neat because I saw students get excited about what they had done. Fleyld Sauer is chair tj the computer science department. Assistant systems operator Bryan Leaman keys in Assembler language code for the VAX system. Monitoring the administration VAX com- puter, Mark Krisetya and Vishal Varma train for the monthly backup of files.