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Sunday, March19J950 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN PAGE 4 n i Know Your College . . . TC Eyes Future Building Plans A completely new high school building to enable student teach ers to instruct over three hun dred Lancaster county students. The building would include the most modern facilities both for teaching and learning. A new wing to the Teachers' college building proper which would include both bigger class rooms and more research svuee. Those are two of the "dreams" cf the Teachers college at the present time, according to F. E. Henzlik, dean. The new high school, which would take all practice high school teaching out of the present building, is the next building scheduled as a part of the Uni versity's ten-year building pro gram. The building would be constructed on lath and U Streets, east of Bancroft school. Adequate Spare It would include adequate class snace for all high school activ ities. Henzlik hopes that along with essential class room space, gymnasium and auditorium fa cilities will be available in the new building. One-way observation for se lected groups would be avail able, if present plans are com pleted, Henzlik said. This would allow the instructors and other of their classes to view Univer sity teachers as they instruct in classrooms without being visible to the teacher or his pupils. In structors would then be able to offer suggestions to the student teachers on teaching methods without interferring with the regular class under observation. Health, and guidance units, rot now available, would be in cluded in the new building. Ex panded music and shop facilities are also needed, Henzlik said. Model This school, Henzlik said 'should be a model for all high schools in the state to see. It should serve as a training labora tory for over 400 school teachers. It must have the facilities to en able young teachers to develop skills, attitudes and imagination for future work." The wing which is proposed for the Teachers college is not scheduled to be built for some time later. It would include ad ditional facilities for classroom and graduate research. It would, in addition, include the junior division offices. For the second semester, 1, 618 students are registered in teachers college courses. This is about 1,000 more than were en rolled in the same course five years ago, just after the war. Faculty instructors include 49 full-time and 22 part-time in structors. 13 Departments "Work toward high school teaching certificates can be taken in any of 12 departments: Commercial Arts, Educational Services, Educational Psychology and Measurements, Elementary Education, History and Principles of Education, Music Education, Physical Education for Men, Physical Education for Women, Practical Arts, School Admin istration, Secondary Education and Teachers College High School. One of the services offered by Teachers college is a freshmen counselling service. Trained sen iors and graduate students help incoming freshmen with an aim toward: 1. Helping the student adjust himself to Unniversity life and help him to realize his own po tentialities. 2. Helping the student adjust himself socially to campus life. 3. Helping the student realize the possibilities in himself to ward leadership both in campus and adult life. 4. Helping the student to be able to create things, whether the things be such as art or music, or merely a good conver sation. Junior students are trained during their junior year as to methods of counseling students. As they become seniors, they be gin counseling the freshmen stu dents, and in turn help train the incoming junior students. Two Fields Students in the college are re quired to prepare in at least two teachinc fields or subjects usu ally taught in high schools. They j b must be able to present a ma jor and a minor in other aca demic subjects. Darrel Meinke, a junior, is taking English as his major, with minors in history and social sci ence. He plans to teach m a high school after graduation. He has to have a minimum of 30 hours of English for his ma jor as well as two 15 hour se quences in history and social 11 i 1 9 ; r PRACTICAL ARTS LAB These students are working on a lathe in the practical arts lab. Students learn the use of all the shop tools. Most of the people registered in this course plan to teach manual arts after graduation. studies He will then be quali- braska's visual aid library. The itied to teach these subjects. library includes films. Mm In education classes, he learns strips, slides, recordings and the methods of teaching, as well plays. All types ot turns ana re- thp nsvrhn ncv o dealing corcungs arc avanauie as to either with children. Principles ana stunenis or leacners in m. ... subject matter content, including thruout the state. The plays are possible situations arising in sent to high schools in the state class are presented to students, lor reading. The' schools may Teaching, a far as Meinke is read the plays and decide which concerned is a family tradition, they would like to order. Both hi grandfather and father Films and recordings are also i are teachers. "ea as a Pa" 01 l"e -"" ' "". l "Teaching is a good profes- training program. A special class ivion" Meninke said. "If offers in the use and techniques of opportunities for service. It will audio-visual aids is oliered at probably never make lots of thepresent time. Two preview i mv hut teachinc offers a rooms are available for use of comfortable and respectable any student who wishes to use place in any community. Visual Aid Meinke believe. that one of the greatest aias 10 siuuenis i ic- the films in his interest field. Student Teachers A student teaching program as a part of University training is Faculty Replies To "Rating" Poll included in the college curricu lum. For grade school tteaching, cadets must be at least sopho mores in school. They do prac tice teaching in Bancroft school, as well as other Lincoln schools. Student teachers in teachers College High School must be seniors in the college. Each stu dent teaches a class in his ma jor or minor field. The student teacher has full responsibility for the conduction of class. Students receive criticisms from faculty instructor, as to how they could improve certain phases of their teaching. In some cases, students are sent to Lincoln high schools. Graduates have said that this student teaching program bene fitted them more than any other part of their University training. Example One such student, Pat Wied man, is a sophomore, majoring in physical education and French. Her minors are natural sciences and English. She hopes to teach phys ed after she graduates. She plans to enter the Navy after graduation. She has gone to officers candidate school for several summers. In the navy she will aid with the cadet training program. She has aided with or taught swimming, in high school, col lege and in Y.W.cA. during the summer. In general education classes, she receives instruction on the teachers code of ethics, as well as the history and methods of edu ficldsavailable to graduating teachers is also available. Miss Wiedman listed three rea sons why she plans to teach: 1. The best way to learn is to teach. 2. Teaching is a good way to meet and get along with people. 3. Teaching is a way to serve the community. Kd Psychology The department of Educational Psychology offers student train 1 ing in tearing general character i istics of pupil behavior in meet i ing and talking with the chil ' dien's parents and in working w 4 y ; V and Jo Jen . moiiv ccDi irir Rill nrr rraduntc student, Loder counseling trainee, demonstrate the' use of the counseling roVm Such methods are used in the freshmen counseling ! service. The service offers help to incoming freshmen on problems or campus life. kindergaiden teachers to JJJftU for college instructors. Ilonoraries. I Phi Delta Kappa and Pi Lambda Theta are the profes ! sional societies for upper class 1 and graduate men and women, with other teachers in improv ing the adjustment of their pu pils. Demand for teachers still far exceeds the supply. During the past year. 3.5U8 requests, for teachers were received by the De partment of Education Services. L . l ... ,1 MiirlnnlL' ill t I n fl I tl I positions in their interest field. I respectively. The department was able to fill Alpha Lambda Delta is an onlv approximately one-fourth of j honorary society for freshmen these requests women who have a 90 average. Many of these requests were i Sigma Xi is composed of grad for teachers who could offer in- j uate students who have com struction in at least two subjects, ! pleted three and a half years of besides their major subject. Star- work and have shown superior salaries offered the teachers ran- i ity in two or more department! ged from a median of $2300 for I of applied sciences. English Professor Endorses Morrill Hall Art Exhibition The questions asked Univcr i sitv trai-hers in The Daily Ne Energetic 1871 Students Began NIPs First Paper University Publications have seen many changes since their tirst founding in 1871. According to information in Love Library's Acquisitions, Se rials and Catalog Department, "The Hesperian Student" was the U.N.'s first regular publica tion managed entirely by stu dents. Editors and reporters would find a marked contrast if they were to view the office of today's "Daily Rag." The first newsroom on the campus occupied an attic floor, and it remained one of the jobs of staff to keep the fire going to heat the building. Original serial stories and items on cam pus activities made up the bulk itl the paper. The careless makeup and ' proofreading errors gave more amusement to the student read ers than did the papers sub stance. Under the new manage ment of editor-in-chief Willa Cather. hicher standards were maintained and made the paper tops. "The Nebraskan" or "Riley's Rag" as it was nicknamed be cause of its first editor was founded in 1894 as a rival to "The Hesperian." Two Merte In 1901 the two papers were merged into what we now know as "The Daily Nebraskan." Un der its new setup, greater finan cial support was received from the University and the editor was selected from the student body until selection by the pub lication board proved wiser. Today's news oflice occupies large room in the basement of the Union, "The Daily Nebras- ous publication issued by the Paladians. Camnus artists and cartoonists pot a chance to reveal their tal ents with the founding of "The Awgwan" in 1912. It died out in 1948 at the age of 35 when the Cornshucks now edited by Frank Jacobs took over. "The Sombrero" "The Sombrero," the first an nual appeared in 1884. In 1894 it featured a picture of a don key as an honorary staff mem ber, the little animal that the French teacher rode to school had finally become "Big time." In 1907, a combination of the Junior annual and senior class books formed the first "Corn husker." The literary stories and jokes that it once possessed have been replaced by pictures and activity stories. Little resem blance will be seen between the 1950 "Cornhusker" edited by John Connely and the first pub lication 68 years ago. braskan poll last week were not ! answered by the instructors as merely "yes" or "no." Nearly all the profesors had something to sav on the matter. ! These comments, in their raw 1 form are perhaps more valuable than the bundle of statistics which usually comes out of a nnll of this kind. The result. percent on the poll are as lows: When asked whether they felt that a teacher rating system could help improve teaching methods, 86 percent oi the teachers answered yes. When . asked whether they thought that the students could rate their instructors objectively. 89 percent answered yes. When asked if they thought that the results of the ratings should be available to the admin istration. 61 percent answered yes. dditlon, 46 percent lavorea in fol- best. While in school you are in- fluenced by other student's opin ions, by the teacher's personal ity and by the grades he gives and the j kes he tells." Eye for Eye "When an instructor is rated by his students, the good pupils will say that he is a good teacher and the prmr ones will call him a poor teacher. The instructor al ready knows more or less what the two classes of students think of him. Therefore a rating sys tem wouldn't do him any good," said a profe.-sor in the enguieer- l ing college. "Students idolize their instruc tors. Thcv might try to rate them objectively, but would not be as critical as they should be. I know in my own case that I am not as good as the students be lieve me to be." stated another engineering faculty number. On the question of whether 1 the results of a teacher rating of my class I lay them on the table in front of me." Another instructor told of stu dents who criticized him for swearing in class. He added, however, that he had not stopped using such words in his lecture vocabulary, and felt that the ma jority of his students did not object to it. The man refused to give his identity, having been interviewed in another profes sor's office One teacher in the Teachers college was informed through student criticism that she was By Herb Armbrust Orin Stepanck, assistant pro fessor of English, said recently during one of his literature classes that "the art exhibit in Morrill hall should be a part of our academic adventure. Art is like good music or good litera ture. We can only come to ap preciate it by coming into con tact with it again and again. The Nebraska Art association's 60th annual exhibition of con temporary tirt is wide enough in scope that there are representa tions of types of paintings and sculpture to satisfy the tastes of almost anyone. Even the scolfers, who laugh at examples of mo dernistic art, tell their friends how they could do better with their fingers, arid whistle as they read the pri tags: seem to go town folk eyeing a newcomer from across the walk. Another showing the Brooklyn bridge against a background of a dark skv. was done by Sol Wilson. The exhibit will last through April 2 and is free to student with identification cards. Z71Z ! 'nevS ! away feeling that their time has students in her classes to recite School Initialed For "Housemoms" In addition, id pertem '" should go to the administration, a detinite scale system, per- s(ime w(m(jt.r,.d wh!lt the adinin- cent wanted criticisms m ine nu- j jstlilll,iri would ri Wltn ti,c rat dents' own words, and 34 percent j mfis ..Jf tnt,v were fiolllg i use of the teachers had at some time , (h(jm Uj ()f t.,., ,.,. taught in a srnooi which teacher rating system. Faculty t'ommrnU Knowing these results, here are some of. the comments given bv facultv members: '"I wiil heartily endorse a teacher rating system. How else can 1 know whether I am a good teacher or rot? N't once since 1913, when I slatted teaching, have I had any indication of ML-h.ihir or not I am actually do ing a good job. However, student teachers, it would not be desir able," s;dd one instructor. Others felt that this would be the only way in v.hr h the administration could justly rate its teachers and advance them. Faculty Know Results fxcent these certain students. The teacher herself, when questioned about the situation, had this attitude. She was im pressed by the interest which these "pets" showed in her couise. She grew into the habit of letting them do all the reciting because it was much easier and because they were so vivacious. She didn't realize that she was showing "favoritism." This W'as remedied by having a system of rating. TC System The system used by the Teachers college is different from other systems, however. It is strictly a rating of the teacher couise. and not his per sonal traits. Teachers college in structors lelt that rating the (Ntusc won Id le the only method of obtaining results, and that the j artists meeting in -turients should only have the ; missing each other. not been wasted. liusker Artists Eighteen Nebraska artists have works on exhibit at the show. Each of them has had work in vited or selected by jury for at least two art shows of more than local scope in other galleries since March, 1949. One of them, Terrance Duren, some of whose paintings were reproduced on covers of the World Herald mag azine section in past years, has a picture exhibit which is quite un-Nebraska-like. It is presuma bly a southern scene, showing an old negro, an upturned boat, and some old houses against a back ground of a river and a dark tky. A painting by Yasuo Kuniyoshi called "Disturbing Dream" has as its subject the same one which is often depicted in humorous cartoons that of two trapeze midair and Even the housemothers at Colorado Women's College go to school. . I ... th,,iH not be the only Dorm tory directors are so in-i '""" . kueecs- terested ,nhe,r students that sour ce of - - -fh1. they spend tneir " d", .I1Kn of the teacher noons meeting nn mc r,,, .... -- . h counseling m "i""M : Kan nas gameu piumim-mc o.- one of the best university dailies. "The Button Muster." a fore runner of our present day Corn Phuck made its appearance in the early BO's. It was a humor- a training course in and guidance. The course is designed to carry not the nhilosophy of under- i standing the students a an in ; dividual. Problems that originate I in the dormitory demand that the student be given help when she needs it most. The directors realize that campus and dormi tory life affects classroom work and try to seek new ways to help integrate these two phases of college life. Tibet Lecture to Describe Life in Remote Civilization r F "I see no reason why the ad- ministiation should not be sup plied with the results of a rating system." .'aid one instructor in Arts and Science. "After all. ' ery thing the jidmini'.ti.ition knows about the v.oit)i ol an m j Mructor'p teaching comes in ' directly from the students The j administration may hear that a. would come cei tain pioicssor nas a u ium. from men who and ull1;i, ;Ki on tins u.ms ,. good I education ' ; dh' lun.onscionsly 1 Mo the 1ei.ch.Tf I no ?he P es o, s be-I in that depart m.,-. Infonnat , A yu L students especially j of this kind should imt be second heved that ',ls' l; w(.,'e hand. It should te oht; in-d , freshmen and sop! om " ; I d ,y ltu,i(.:1s , .; not o d enough as tt t ' UM. fa r:)t),ie ...-. Only then ' S iidT professor In Arts and can the mlo, i:,tion be absolutely ' Science "It is only after you accural.," he adoed have left the Univeisity and got, "Instruct,, ,s have f very' Inn? out into hie that you realize : Ut gain by having th. ir students which of jour leachc-is were the j,;,t(. them, and nothing to lv." I said one pi of. "If we don't learn ih-i iodn ally what our students think ol us. we ;.rc liable to grow dull and get in a rut," said another. MannrrUmi "Until one student pointed out one of my mannerisms. I didn't even know that I had Jt." s;od a faculty member of Teacheis col lege. "11 wems th:jt when I lec tured I took off my glasses and swung them enouc.h to bother students who were taking notes" Now every tune I appear in fiont 'tf - i r 1'4 t : i 1 LOST HORIZONS" Lowell Thomai, Jr. Is shown wearing the raddres of Tibet, the land mde famouii by Jamci Hilton's noveL Thomas will present a motion picture lecture on th forbidden Iwd t 8:15 In St. Paul Methodist church, March 22. Tickets may b obtained from Tassels for $1.23 each. The story of one of the most remote countries in the woild, Tibet, will be shown through films and words when the Ne braska Mortar Hoard chapter presents Lowell Thomas. Jr., Wednesday, March 22 at 8:15 p. m. Thomas is on a nation wide lecture tour telling about the trip he and his radio commentator father, Lowell Thomas, Sr. took Delai Lama. Before the Thomases expedi tion, only six Americans had ever obtained permission tc visit the Tibet. The movie lecture will describe the difficult trip to Lhasa, over the highest moun tain ranee in the world, the Himalayas. The last part of the movie shows life inside the forbidden country. Described as one of the great adventure stories of our Umn. Thomas will tell the story of the land which may soon be overrun by the communists In their attempt to gain access to India. Tickets are being sold by Tas sel, and are available for $ 1 .20 each. opportunity to no tins. "The students will always be demanding impossible things. Thev ask to be told a week in advance when tests are corning up so thev can cram. They are not asking to take the six weeks exams w hich they failed over again. If we drive them hard, thev trv to get even. I'm not bit ter 'against students, but they came to the Univeisity to fludy. and no c-oui -e is too hard for a student who wants to woik," felt a chemistry pi-.iles.sor. l.ntinrt rs S,od an engineering prof: "Kiankly, inteiest on the part of student.,' would impiove my tea. hing the most. I have come to tie place wheie whet ' sec t,.,t,.,.ts who air iu.-t taKi.et my course to get th' b"ur. who show little real er'hMs.- t:. who don't think enuu.:'. cf rr y .uurse to icfiaiii fiom --urn; -iass all ! the lime, that 1 get discouraged I invselt. I'll show enthusiasm if '. they'll show a little interest." "The man who slicks to the textbook and never ciacks a joke inav be the best teacher." be lieves an Ar'.h and Science in structor "The te.i'her who g-i v. av off the tia. k in lectui.-s. and entei tains students with stones and discussions of "sex" will never be lated down," he added. "On a teacher sating Foale the students usually sale teacher as being two extieni.-B. Either they are good tea'hers or are unsat- Strikint Sculpture Two pieces of sculpture which seem to catch the eyes of the viewers are "The Piper," a wood figure by Irving I-e-hman, and "Tow Saints," a figure made of colored glass and metal by Em manuel Viviano. A painting by Richard Haines, called "The Return of the Prodi gal," depic ts a group of small isfactory teaches . The average ones don't really know exactly what is wrong, because the scale is riot a constructive scale. "Sat isfactory" teachers are simply rated hallway between, and don't know exactly where they stand," stated a professor in Law college. RCCU Starts Hospital Unit The Red Cross college unit ha opened a new unit of service at the State hospital. Open to par ticipation for all interested stu dents, the first program will b held tonight at 7:30 p. m. Entertainment will be in a St. Patrick theme, featuring hit songs from 1850 to 1950. University tal ent will be used. Interested students who would like to participate in future pro grams should contact Sharon Fritzler or Miriam WUley. Ihis is a opportunity for students who would like to work in a service activity. A comprehensive plan is now being set up at the State hos pital, by the Red Cross, which will begin with recreation and entertainment and will gradually include trained workers in hand icraft, arts, and other fields of personal work with patients. Any student with particular talent in the field of handicrafts ran be guaranteed work on this Red Cross project. PullfifUan Fledges Earn Initiation Have you noticed a "blind" student with a cup running around campus collecting money? Or someone playing his violin on a street corner? That was the Literary Society of Palladian pledges going through initiation week. All the initiation c eremonies were ended at the formal initiation Saturday night, March 18. 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