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OUTSTANDING NEBRASKAN:
It's Our Honor
This year tha Outstanding Nebraskan Awards are be
ing presented only once, rather than each semester as be
fore. This was done to lend prestige to the Award. How
ever, nothing could lend more prestige to the Award than
this year's Outstanding Nebraskans themselves Profes
sor Linus Burr Smith and Richard L. Weill.
Professor Smith is ending his last year as head of the
Department of Architecture. He is the only head the De
partment has ever had as he has served the University
for 30 years. He has served on no less than 30 commit
tees, local and national, in his tenure here.
Dick Weill has exemplified the academic student, the
recipient of numerous scholarships and honors. He is the
recipient of the Root-Tilden Scholarship for study next
year at the New York University College of Law, which
recognizes him as one of the top twenty pre-law seniors
in the nation in that respect. He will graduate here as the
leading senior in accounting.
But, not to be forgotten are the other nominees who
along with Professor Smith and Dick Weill not only make
this year's Outstanding Nebraskan Award an outstanding
one, but who also provide for other examples by which
to learn and benefit. Consider this list:
Faculty: Dr. Lawrence K. Crowe, Dr. Donald M.
Pace, Dr. Donald A. Keys, Dr. Roberto Esquenazi-Mayo,
Dr. Robert N. Manley and Dr. Sue Arbuthnot.
Students: Dennis Christie, Maureen Frolik, Sue Hovik,
Diane Armour, Gary Radii, Bill Buckley, Dave Smith, Bob
Seidell, Mike White, Lyman Lacy and Gary Pokorny.
The nature of the award was enhanced by the nature
of the nominees and the final selections. All these people,
especially Professor Smith and Dick Weill, have left their
mark imprinted on the University's history in service.
It is with not only pleasure, but honor, that the
DAILY NEBRASKAN honors today Professor Linus Burr
Smith and Richard L. Weill as OUTSTANDING NEBRASKANS.
NO DEADLINE:
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Yesterday the DAILY NEBRASKAN met Its last dead
line of this semester, its 58th.
Each deadline marks an attempt to do an outstanding
job of informing and educating you, the public, just as in
the professional field a weekly tries to do so once a week,
a small jwn daily nce a day, and a metropolitan as
many as eight or nine times a day.
The journalist feels each time he meets a deadline
not only a sense of pride and accomplishment, but a sense
that he could have done a better job and always a long
ing for more time in which to do it.
On any journalistic publication, though, the deadline
does not mean the end of the work. Almost immediately
plans and work, footwork, phone calls, interviews, re
search, begins for the next edition. It is not a job that one
can leave at the office at night. It is a job which truly
challenges and, thus, proves a person.
It has been a good semester. Exciting things have
happened. The DAILY NEBRASKAN has proven itself a
good college newspaper, better than any other operating
on a similar budget and under similar circumstances.
The most important factors making possible the qual
ity of any newspaper, though, s the quality of its audience,
its sources and its critics. In those respects, the DAILY
NEBRASKAN has indeed been fortunate.
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Friday, May 29" 1964
Fofc Music: The lighter Scfe
You, Your Guitar, And
Your Note Can Sing, Folk
EDITOR'S NOTE: In just
three years, The Smothers
Brothers have become pop
ular folk singers in Amer
icaappearing on college
campuses from coast to
coast, in demand for guest
appearances on TV, and re
cording five top-selling al
bums. They have generous
ly agreed to share their ex
periences and vast know
ledge of folk singing with
our readers.
By Tom and Dick Smothers
You, too, can be a folk
singer.
Although folk singing is
difficult, super-natural and
pure, you can become pro
ficient simply by following
a few short cuts.
After all, folk singers
have traditionally been peo
ple with untrained voices
who sang for the enjoyment
of their friends and families.
The tremendous surge of
popularity of folk singing in
recent years had unfortu
nately led many folk singers
to become commercial. We
utter loud sighs of disillu
sionment about this every
time we count our money.
HOW TO START
First you should learn to
sing. This is an important
part of being a folk singer.
It is better if you don't
know how to read music.
Meter violations and illegit
imate rhythmic patterns are
essential to good folk sing
ing, and besides, you'll be
making up most of your
own music.
Start off by discovering
your voice range. Lock
yourself away in private in
your own room, or in the
shower. Do not turn the
water on.
Open your mouth, take a
deep breath, and sing the
lowest note you can. Then,
sing up the scale to the
highest note you can reach.
This is your range. It may
be an octave or even two,
or it may be just three
notes. If the latter, don't
despair: it makes you even
better qualified to be a folk
singer.
Now find the center note
of your range. This is done
by counting backwards
from the top note, or for
ward from the bottom note,
to the center note. IMPOR
TANT: The center note is
YOUR NOTE. Start all your
songs on this note, for you
can thus sing up and down
and around it and still stay
within your range (and you
will have to learn to sing in
only one key).
Soon you will become
famous for YOUR NOTE.
It will become your own
identifying symbol. WARN
ING: People will undoubted
ly try to steal your note
from you. Protect it with
your life.
HOW TO PRACTICE
Now that you have your
range, you can settle down
to serious practice. Set
aside a special period each
day to devote to practicing.
Don't hestitate to practice
singing while engaged in
any daily activity, such as
walking across campus, in
a movie, or during class.
This Will give you an op
portunity to become accus
tomed to an audience, and
establish your reputation as
a bit of an eccentric . . .
very helpful to a folk sing
er. Select one simple song,
and practice it daily until
you have completely mas
tered it. The proper mood
and atmosphere are essen
tial to the successful folk
singer.
Some find it helpful to
use props to establish this
your practice piece, u s e a
noose. Jumping rope vigor
ously while singing "Skip
To My Lou" give a cer
tain authenticity, and is
healthful as well.
YOU AND THE GUITAR
A guitar is virtually the
symbol of the folk singer,
and you will, of course, need
one. Preferably it should be
in playing condition, but
even a broken one makes a
nice prop.
It is also helpful if y o u
can learn to play your gui
tar. More important than play
ing ability, however, is the
way you handle your guitar.
When in public, fondle it
lovingly, treating it as
though it were an integral
part of you.
Hold the guitar casually,
yet with authority, in either
of two approved ways :
(1) Right Hip Sling
Grasp the key end of the
guitar firmly in your left
hand, fingers in playing po
sition. Sling guitar across
body, with tail piece resting
comfortably on your right
hip.
(2) Abdomen Carry Hold
key end as directed above.
Arrange fuitar horizontally
across abdomen. This may
make it difficult to use your
right arm unless you have
very short arms but It
creates a good visual im
pression. Another ad
vantage of this hold is that
If you sing from the abdo
men, the guitar's sounding
board will give your voice
additional resonance. Avoid
this hold if you are given to
having hiccoughs.
DRESS THE PART
You will, of course, want
to wear the proper clothes
for folk singing. Male folk
singers have the choice of
a wide variety of clothing,
anything from a suit and
tie all the way to bermuda
shorts and sweat shirts are
acceptable ... IF! And the
"if" is: if you wear some
piece of old, torn clothing.
Your outfit is not accept
able unless this old, torn
thing shows.
This may be an old sweat
shirt, or perhaps a moth
eaten scarf or dish towel.
The scarf is nice for those
who like to act out some of
the roles in their songs, as
it can be used as a head
covering (old woman),
sash (dashing young hero)
or modestly draped over the
shoulders (ingenue).
You will definitely be far
ahead of your friends in be
coming a folk singer if you
are right now four weeks
behind In getting your hair
cut. This advantage cannot
be stressed to much. The
shaggy look i the look of
success.
If you decide to effect the
casual, bermudas - sweat
shirt attire, you may wish
to grow a beard to provide
a fashionable and authentic
accent. This may create a
small problem for female
folk singers, but a -little in
genuity should solve it.
On the whole, female
folk singers should try to
achieve the somber, suffer
ing look. Try to dress all
in black, and avid high
heels. Your legs must not
look attractive. Your hair
should be quite, long and
unstyled let it just hang
there, preferably unwashed.
Do not wear any make-up.
PERFORMING IN PUBLIC
You will gain poise and
a reputation by performing
before a public audience as
much as possible. -
Take advantage of every
opportunity to sing for your
friends. You Will probably
lose all your friends, but
only in this way will you
establish a name for your
self. Make it known that you
are available for cornerstone-layings,
weddings, fu
nerals, bar mltzvahs, and
Kiwanls meetings. Never go
to any function without your
guitar. Obviously anyone
carrying a guitar will b
asked if he can play it, and
you can take it from there.
Firetruck:
Unanswered Queries, Latent Ideas,
Partial Response Shade
By ARNIE GARSON
Why is a columnist?
After one semester and
28 Firetrucks I'm still not
sure. After every one of
those trucks students came
to me and complained bit
terly. At the same time
others simply said. "S a y,
good column today." Yet
the complaints still get to
you.
And as you ponder your
real motives for writing this
slam or that attack it be
comes clear that the com
plaints are justified. For no
matter what my opinions
are or were on an i s s u e,
someone else has contrary
beliefs which are just as
valid and equally idealistic
in his mind.
So, FIRETRUCK has
been a medium of personal
expression of opinion. And
the expression that opinion,
whether popular or not,
has served its purpose if
students at any level be
c o m e enraged or agree
thoroughly.
Anytime someone became
stimulated enough to sit
down and write a letter to
the editor or to even come
down to the NEBRASKAN
office and talk about some
thing that had been writ-
ten, my purpose had been
served. It didn't matter
whether that person agreed
with what I wrote 'or hated
me for what I wrote. What
does matter is that people
were thinking and talking
about the problems which
confront our little Universi
ty world. And it is only
through this type of re
sponse that solutions to our
problems will be realized.
So there are only two
things that bother me as
this last issue of the semes
ter goes to press. One is the
fact that more people
weren't either interested or
enraged enough to present
their own dissenting or sup
porting views. The other is
that there were so many
more thingsto write about
than time or space to do it.
Some ideas for columns
never got out of the folder
labeled "ideas:"
What will the Constitu
tional Convention decide on
the controversial subject 6f-.
organizational . representa
tives on Student Council.
Will they be disbanned or
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expanded. And what
compromises will the con
vention have to make to ap
pease the bipolar factiens?
Sliruid students have a
voice in establishing the
various college curricula?
There are many faculty
members who say "no."
There arc students who
claim a just as vehement
"yes."
Does Jake Geier have a
justifiable right to nearly ,
dictate who will be the
cheerleaders: he claims
that he does and presents a
logical argument. Many
students feel that the selec
tions should bear the mark
of a student committee.
Is there justification for
letting the CORNHUSKER
bid to an cit of state firm.
Experience has proved this
situation to be unsatisfac
tory in several ways. The
Committee on Student Pub
lications argues that the
financial savings are im
mense. What will be the fate of
the DAILY NEBRASKAN
next year: Its financial
problems arc multitudiness.
Yet administration has con
sistently rejected pleas for
additional funds. And Pub
Board has decided that the
paper will operate within Its
budget next year even if it
papers will be distributed
only three times a week.
So, there is much to be
done and much to be said.
And if answers to these and
other problems are to be
reached, students must
talk, write, think and act.
Writing about these prob
lems involves all of the
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above phenomena talking,
thinking and acting.
So, it is in dejection that
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FIRFJTRUCK. Hopefully,
aside the power of a f r e
press. If that is to nc the
case, then the proWems
which we face will eventual
ly be solved. And those
solutions will be in g r e a t
part to the credit or dis
credit of the free University
press.
And I still don't know,
"Why is a columnist."
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