Summer Nebraskan
Tuesday, July 17, 1962
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Scene Changes Greatly Through Ears
Of Seven Volunteers at Rumor Clinic
White Man's Razor Becomes Knife in Negro's Hand
A streetcar scene was pro
jected on the screen and de
scribed. Standing up on the
streetcar were a well-dressed
Negro man and an overall
clad white man, who was
holding a straight-edged razor
at his side and pressing a
pointed finger against the
Negro's shoulder.
The streetcar became a bus,
its men and women passen
gers became all men, the
razor in the white man's hand
became a knife in the Ne
gro's and the Negro was at
tacking the white man.
How? Through rumor.
Seven members of the au
dience at a rumor clinic, held
in the Union last week, vol
unteered to help in a demon
stration to show what proc
ess a rumor might take as a
story is passed from one per
son to another.
The picture on the screen
was seen only by the audi
ence. One member of the au
dience described the scene
to the first volunteer "report
er" who was instructed to lis
ten carefully so that
she could repeat what she
heard to a friend.
The second reporter entered
Prehistoric Animal Exhibits
Attract Slimmer Visitors
When the University Museum was founded ninety-one
years ago, the most popular displays were the prehistoric
animals. What displays attract the greatest number of
visitors today? The prehistoric animals.
In spite of many recent additions to the Morrill Hall
museum, such as the planetarium, Nebraska wild life dis
plays, and the health science exhibits, most of the 78,000
summer visitors to the museum were attracted by the
prehistoric animal displays, according to museum officials,
officials said. Last August, for example, the museum
Visitors came to the museum from every state in the
Union but one, and fifty-five foreign countries were rep
resented last summer.
The museum attracts more visitors during the sum
mer months than it does any other time during the year,
Dr. Schnltz said. Last August, for example, the museum
had 30,000 visitors, while the month of September saw only
11,600 visitors.
Summer Calendar
TODAY
4 P.M. Bridge Lessons, Union Indian Suite.
4 P.M. South American Forum, Delmer Holbrook, speak
er, Union Indian Suite.
Wednesday, July 18
12 Noon Phi Delta Kappa Luncheon, Pi Lambda Theta
Luncheon; Nebraska Union.
1-4 p.m. Tour, Hallam Plant. ., , .... .
8 p.m. N.U. Artists Series, Summer Symphony, Arnold
Schatz, director. Union ballroom.
Thursday, July IS
12 Noon Administrators Luncheon, Nebraska Union.
2 p.n-, World Affairs Preview, U.S. Role in the UN,
Jonathan Bingham, Union ballroom.
7 p.m. NU Film Classic, Nebraska Union auditorium.
Saturday, July 23
4 p.m. Bridge Tournament, Union Indian Suite.
and S p.ni. Cinema 62, Union Auditorium.
Phi Delta Kappa Picnic.
PTA Clinic.
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the room, heard about the
"incident," and reported it to
a third party.
After the last report by the
sixth volunteer, the original
eighteen details of the scene
had dwindled to two or three,
and the remaining facts had
deviated considerably from
the original.
The rumor demonstration
pointed out that as stories are
passed along from person to
person, many details are
omitted, prejudices tend to
come out, and certain details
are emphasized and become
much greater in importance.
When Rumors Arise
Rumors are more ant to
arise when a person's emo
tions are involved in the situ
ation or when a story does
not seem to appeal to the
listener, so the teller adds
something to embellish it, ac
cording to Thomas Glass, dis
cussion leader for the clinic.
Glass is a graduate student
in clinical psychology.
Several kinds of rumors
were cited at the clinic:
1. Rumors started purpose
ly by an individual to give
him personal gratification or
to give him an advantage
over an opponent.
2. Rumors based on preju-
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dices of the individual relat
ing the story.
3. Rumors based on wish
ful thinking. An example of
a rumor of this type is one
that occurred during World
War II that the Japanese
didn't have enough oil to stay
in the war another month.
Americans wished the story
were true, and the rumor
spread, Glass said.
4. Rumors based on fear.
People often fear the worst
and spread rumors to this ef
fect, Glass said. He cited as
an example another rumor
which spread during World
War II that the entire U.S.
fleet had been sunk at Pearl
Harbor and that the United
States had no more ships in
the area.
Functions of Rumors
Glass said that rumors
serve to take the individual's
mind off the realities of life,
Tomorroic Night on 'Campus
Symphony Concert Fpatures
Faculty Conductor, Soloist
A University of Nebraska professor, Leon Lishner, who
has appeared on Broadway and on television, will be the
featured soloist for the annual Summer Symphony Concert
tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Nebraska Union ballroom.
Arnold Schatz, assistant professor of violin and viola,
will conduct the symphony. Admission is free.
Lishner has starred in three
world premiers of the works
of Gian-Carlo Menotti. "The
Consul" was performed on
Broadway and on two Euro
pean tours. He also appeared
in all NBC television perform
ances of "Amafal and the
Night Visitors" and on Broad
way and television in "The
Saint of Bleecker Street."
He portrayed Napoleon in
NBC's production of Proko
fiev's opera, War and Peace.
Lishner recently sang the
lead with the New York City
Opera Company in Richard
Strauss' "The Silent Woman,"
a work never performed be
fore in the United States.
He has recorded for RCA
Victor, Columbia, Decca, Van
guard and Young People's re
cording companies, ana nas
appeared on The Ed bullivan
Show, Omnibus and The Hall
mark Playhouse.
Schatz has Teen conductor
of the Summer Symphony for
the past three years. He is
concertmaster of the Lincoln
Symphony and appears fre
quently in solo recitals, cham
ber music urograms, and is
a member of the KUON-TV
Faculty Ensemble.
Schatz has done profession
al work with the Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra, the
Santa Fe Opera Association
and the Peninsula Festival
Orchestra.
The Summer Symphony pro
gram includes works of Verdi,
Schubert, Brahms, Mozart,
Rossini and Wagner.
Lishner will sing "Ella Gi-
ammai M'Amo" from "Don!
Carlos," by Verdi, and "Ma-!
damina" from "Don Giovan
ni," by Mozart.
CWA Internal!
President Spoke
The international president
of the Communications Work
ers of America was the fea
tured speaker at the 2nd an
nual Institute of Labor Union
Leaders, which began Friday
at the Nebraska Center for
Continuing Education.
Joseph A. Bierne of Wash-!
ington, D.C., a member of the
national executive council of
the AFL-CIO and head of the
CWA Union with 260,000 mem
bers, spoke at the Saturday
banquet.
Hs topic was "Automation,
Industrial Effects and Its De
mands on Education."
Designed to educate Ne
braska's union leaders on cur
rent local, state, national, and
international problems, the
Institute was sponsored by the
Nebraska State AFL-CIO and
the department of business
organization and management
at the University of Nebraska.
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to liven up a boring situation,
or to relieve the emotional
tension of uncertainty about
a situation.
He summarized that distor
tions can be great even in a
small group, and that pro
found changes occur even
when a person . is not con
scious of distorting a story.
Glass stressed that rumors
should never be taken as true
until they are checked with
the original source or with
reliable mediums of commu
nications such as television
and newspapers.
Photographic slides of pic
ture situations, along with
complete directions for pro
cedure, are available for ru
mor demonstrations from Ted
B. Sennett at B'Nai Brith,
527 Securities Building, Oma
ha, Neb. or from the Anti
Defmation League, 515 Madi
son Ave., New York 22, N.Y.
Migration
From Neb.
Is Problem
Emiel J. Christensen, co
ordinator of community serv
ices at the University of Ne
braska, outlined last week
what he believes Nebraska's
three greatest developmental
problems to be:
The out-migration of 1,166
persons per month for 30
years :
The further development
of our water and land re
sources; The problem of equality
of citizen responsibility and
representation.
Christensen, speaking at the
two-day conference on "A
Portrait of Nebraska and Its
Promise" at the University,
said the biggest problem of all
was the out-migration of Ne
braskans. "If we had expanded our
economy in the past 30 years
as rapidly as we had repro
duced ourselves we would
have added cities equal to
Omaha, Grand Island. Has
tings, Fremont, North Platte,
Kearney, Norfolk and York
with a surplus of 235 left
over," he said.
"Looking at it another way,
if we had expanded our 420
villages of less than 1,000 per
sons, witn tne out-migrants,
we could have made every
one of these second class
cities, he aaoea.
The answer to the problem,
he said, is to develop the
capabilities of our citizens to
create jobs. "Look at Colum
bus and learn from her," he
said. 'They have a lot of peo
ple there doing a lot of things
to create home grown indus
tries and it has paid off well
for Columbus.''
Speaking of the problem of
the better use of natural re
sources, Christensen said Ne
braska has more miles of
stream beds in ratio to square
miles of drainage area than
any other state in the Union.
'Must one example is the
bluffs adjacent to most of
those stream beds," he said.
"We have to look and study
and find "out uses for them
other than grazing. The poten
tial is there but it's going to
take research and study and
a lot of it."
The third great problem, he
said, is that condition which
can be seen in 71 to 93 coun
ties in Nebraska.
"As population densities go
up in these counties, per cap
ita value for tax purposes
goes down," he explained.
"This offers a good base for
study of equality of citizen
responsibility and representa
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KUON-TV
The good and bad of sub
urbia in England, France,:
Holland, Sweden, Canada and!
the United States are ex
plored in an hour-long docu
mentary tomorrow at 7:30
p.m. on Channel 12. Included !
in the film is a tour of dis-j
tinctive suburban housing de-;
signed by the world-famous
architect, Le Corbusier.
Woman, Wife or What?
problems women face will be
discussed on Your Marriage
next Mondav at 7:30 p.m.
This program is one of a se
ries on how a successful mar
riage operates. The host is
Dr. J. Joel Moss, former
chairman of the Division of
Family Relations and Child
Development at the Universi
ty of Nebraska.
The complete listing of
Channel 12 programming for
the week follows:
TnrsdKT Jul? 1?
S:38 Errntnc Prelude
1:30 Art an Artists: "Henry Moore"
Subtitled, A Sculptors Landscape.
this program presents a aeries of
intensive visual studies of Moore's
abstract sculpture, and relates that
work to humanity and the everyday
world- Electronic instruments and
special sound effects create the un
usual background music itx this pro
gram. 7:06 Introductory Mathematics
7:M Meant Far Readme "Nature 1"
Toiueht. Dr. John W. Dodos reads
poenis that illustrate a variety ot
' approaches Id nature, in the first tf
two programs on this theme. Poems
read by Dr. Dodds include ttose oi
Shapespeare, Keats. Shelley. Arnold.
Coleridge. Browning, and Masefjeld.
t;W Balance Ot Fear: "New Means of
War"
What are the latest -weapons which
nations boast ior their deiense? And
how are these weapons utilized? To
night's program offers a discussion
ot the new kinds of strategy evolv
ing out oi modern weaponry,
f :W Survival la The Sea: "Problem Solv
ing" In this final program, three colorful
locations Biscavne Bay. Everglades
National Park and Boca Grande
Pass are toe locations oi three re
search vessels which viewer board
with Or. John F. Store, a -an at
tempt to explain the goals of aua.
rine investigations.
S.WI This Is Ojera: "Staging As Opera"
(See KUON-TV, Monday. July 16,
C:3t for details)
:M Writers Of Today: "leak Dinesen"
Isak Dinesen is the "nom de plume"
oi Karen Dinesen, Baronesae Blinen,
born near Denmark in Wii. Tonight,
this acclaimed authoress talks about
poetry and storytelling and points
out their similarities and differ
ences. With interviewer Robert Kich
man, the discussion centers around
ber exceptional ability to paint word
pictures, the effects she attempts to
achieve in her writing, and the meth
ods she uses to achieve them.
Wednesday, July U
E-SO Evening Prelude
t .Hl Japanese Brush raintlng; "Birds"
Using the sparrow as the main sub
ject. T. Mikami stresses the Japan
ese technique of painting birds . . .
on a rambling branch then on the
ground feeding. He aim paints cam
ples of a lew birds common in
Japan.
T:M Introductory Mathematics
.m Suburban Living Sir Solutions
(See Monday. July lfi, t:U) for de
tails 1:30 The Written Ward: ' "Between t
Rivers"
Clay not stone were used as tablets
for ennieform writing in the ancient
land between the Tigris and Eu
phrates for many thousands of years.
Until a century ago, these inscrip
tions could not be translated. To
night's program explains some of
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the technkrue of writing; on day.
t .06 Mrrt The Ore an: "Orpan Jazz"
Jackie Davis interprets jazz litera
ture, "with Porter Heaps as modera
tor, in an intellectual as well as in
teresting presentation of this increas
iriBly popular form of ore an music.
f:3B Poet At Wrk: "Poet as Critic"
Program Host James E. Miller and
the three poets discuss criticism
from everal anples considering ques
tions soch as: Is poetry a criticism
of life? Can only a creative writer
or poet criticize poetry?
Ttaarsdav. July 19
5:3(1 Evening Prrhidr
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:45 Grrman Fair Tales
7: OP IntriMtoclorr Ma thematic
7:30 Dr. Posia's Giants: "J, J. Thomp
son In tins final program of the series.
Dr. Posin turns to the rabfect of
"bijs bombs. nuclear weapons that
may destroy humanity, and explains
their development. Discussion also
centers around men who have con
tributed to their development.
f.W HMnry With Herb Bake: "British
Keystone"
A visit to the Old Fort Mackinac,
on Mackinac Island, Michigan, is in
tore totuftft The capture cf this
fort by the British in leads to
the establishment of an unfortified
border between Canada and the Unit
ed States,
f :t Kostoa Symphony
The program lor tonight's concert
consists if Beethoven's Twelve Con-tra-dances
and his Sixth Symphony
hi F Maior the Pastoral Symphony,
and Braham's Svinphoay Number 2
in D Major. The mtermispton inter
view is with euest conductor Loria
Mazel.
Friday. July 181
5:30 Frening Prelude
:30 rntrersity ms
:45 Canada Outdoors
7:M Introductory Mathematics
7 30 Prts At Work: "Poet as Critic"
(See KUON-TV. Wednesday, July IB,
?:3n for details)
1:00 B slant Of Fear: "New Means of
War"
f :30 BostoB Symphony
Tonight's conductor is Richard Bur
gin, concertmaster and associate con
ductor -of the Boston Symphony Or
chestra. The prorrara consists of
four selections inc!udin, Smetaiis's
Symphonic poem, "The Moldau;"
Beethoven's Symphony Number One
in OMa.ior; A. N. Tcherepnin's Sym
phonic Prayer for Orchestra, Opus
93; and Sergei Prokofiev's Concerto
for Piano and Orchestra. Number
Three in C Major. Concerto soloist
is. Alexander Uninky,
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5: Evrninr Prelude
:3S A Problem Of Parks
Students in the Cni versify of Ne
braska Speech department produced
this program at a student project..
The topic is parks in the Lincoln
land area.
7:W Introductory Mathematics
7:3 lour Marriage; "Woman, Wife or
What?"
A typical, womanly "gab session"
is analyzed tonight by host Dr. Joel
Mohs in an attempt to show the
problems women face as each
searches for an identity as a person
oi significance in the modern world,
f :30V Backyard Farmer 0
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:M Cntversity Artist Series: "Recital
With Ravnao" .
A piano recital, especially for the
Channel 12 audience is performt-d
by Audan Ravasn of the University
of Nebraska Department of Musk-.
Tonight, Professor Ravnan performs
works by Beethoven, Grieg, Cari
Nielsen, and Chopin.
Union Will Show
French Classic
The French film, Gervaise
winner of ten international
awards for excellence, will be
shown Thursday at 7 and 9
p. m. in the Nebraska Union
Auditorium.
Based on Emit Zola's novel,
L'Assommoir, the film classic
is the story of a young
mother, Gervaise, and her
three children, who are over
whelmed by the bitter en
virenment in which they live
in 19th Century Paris.
Admission charge is 50
cents and a University I.D.
ALr Chemistry Dept.
To Get Instrument
For Cancer Research
The University of Nebraska
Department of Chemistry will
soon receive a new instru
ment which can hs used for
the study of anti-cancer com
pounds. Dr. Norman Cromwell, Re
gents Professor of Chemistry
who has been active for sev
eral years in the search for
anti-cancer compounds, said
a $25,800 grant has been
made available by the De
partment of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare.
The instrument, the first of
its kind in the area, is a nuclear-magnetic
resonance
spectrometer.
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