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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN Friday. April 9, 1948 School of journalism Offers 6 Institutes, Courses for Professionals This Spring Poge 4 Six institutes and short courses in Journalism, with special em phasis on small town and rural news writing, have been sched uled for this spring by the uni versity's School of Journalism, according to Dr. W. F. Swindler, director of the school. Discussion groups as planned will cover newspaper advertising, newspaper editing, local columns, farm and community journalism, news photography and education for journalism. Start April 16 The scheduled courses will last from April 16 to May 15. All newspaper workers and news writers in the area who are interested in one or more of the institutes are invited to attend. With the exception of the Insti tute on Education of Journalism, all persons registering for insti tues or short courses will pay a fee of $5 each. This fee will include one ticket to the dinner program. Costs of any materials used in the short courses will be extra. Details Announced Later Exact meeting place and meet ing hours for individual insti tutes and short courses are to be announced in separate programs for each institute or course. Moderators will be at each insti tute to initiate discussion and keep it on the subject. However, informality and individual parti cipation will be encouraged. Among the speakers or mod erators already scheduled are Richard W. Beckman, Iowa State, a pioneer in agricultural news writing; Chester A Bradley, rural news and feature columnist, Kan sas City Star; Hugh A. Fogarty, city editor, Omaha World-Herald; Louis E. Heindel, advertising manager, Madison (Wis.J State UDVEIE HAVE A COCA-COLA tel. - -r VC : BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COU COMPANY Y Lincoln Coca-Cola Bottling Company 1948, Tha Coca-Cola Company Journal; Dr. Frank L. Mott, Dean of the Missouri School of Jour nalism; William A. Sumner, Uni versity, another authority in the field of agricultural ournalism; H. Clay Tate, editor, Blooming ton (111.) Pantagraph; George Yatos, chief photographer, Des Moines Register and Tribune. Opens Program Opening the program will be the institute on newspaper adver tising. Especially designed for daily and weekly newspaper ad vertising executives in Nebraska and adjacent states, it will be held in Room 313, Student Union building on Friday and Saturday, April lb-17. It will be devoted to a discussion and clinical study of all phases of local and national display advertising, with particu lar attention given to advertising promotion. All persons attending are requested to bring a number of representative copies of their newspaper or particular adver tisements for illustration and dis cussion. The second institute will be that on newspaper editing, sched uled Friday and Saturday, April 23-24, in Room 313 of the Union. Studies Problems This institute is designed to study the current problems of small daily papers of the Middle West, and will include as subjects for discussion the problems of wrie and syndicate copy; the re sults of research into reader inter ests and readability of news stories; methods and problems of handling country correspondents; methods of checking the com pleteness of local news coverage; organization of staffs and the di vision of reporting and editing activities on a small daily; news paper morgues for smaller papers; special news or special news pages; and other subjects sug- FRESHED Ask for it either way . . . both trade-marks mean the same thing. gestted by those attending the in stitute. A short course on farm and community news is listed third on the program, from Thursday to Saturday, April 29-May 1. For county agricultural workers whose jobs include the preparing of stories for local newspapers and editors of weekly newspapers and of farm news pages of daily newspapers, it will be held in Room 00 of the Ag Union. Columnists to Meet The fourth course will be the institute for local columnists from April 30 to May 1 in Room 106, University Hall. It is held es pecially for writers of local col umns in daily and weekly news papers of Nebraska. Subjects for discussion at this institute will include the pur poses and techniques involved in conducting various types of col umns; appropriate writing styles; subject matter; use of local names; tie-ins between the column and the news stories of the paper; methods of obtaining variety; use of independent contributors from among the newspaper's readers; and other subjects as suggested. A short course in news photog raphy will be the fifth course, from May 6 to May 8, in Rooms 4 and 106, University Hall. Some field trips and outside exercises will be included. Offer Photography Course This short course will deal with three different phases of news photography the introduction to rudimentary photographic tech niques for the benefit of news papers ust beginning to make use of staff pictures; the problems of picture editing and most effective use of pictorial reporting in week ly and daily newspapers; and finally the consideration of special problems of newspaper pictures facing the editor and publisher. The last institute will be one of education for journalism. May 14 15. It will be held in University Hall, Love Memorial library and or the Union. The purpose of this institute is to offer a regional educator's con vention within a geographic area sufficinently compact to permit the faculties of the institutions represented as far as possible to attend in a body and meet with all other faculty members of neighboring institutions con cerned with similar teaching problems. miLLER HonJrry Srrtton First Floor Little Jean is short and sweet win I S. ' J f IJIfli ft f I-! And every single heart she meets she cant help but demolish! The only cure the other gab can see is to abolish HOSIERY -LI"- Wf l FUll-FASHION Yoube Stlmideirati Uimnoim The Book Nook By Frank Jacobs All the comforts of home. This brief but concise statement pre sents a near-perfect description of the Student Union reading room, the Book Nook. For the unfamiliar, the Book Nook is located to the left of the Corncrib doors. An electric S'in will soon be erected as a vbibb aid to the reading room. The homey, den atmosphere of the Book Nook is accentuated through the colorful knotty-pine walls, the comfortable furniture, and its air of friendliness. The "No Smoking" rule recently has been repealed and tobaco is now allowed. Books Lost This article about the Book Nook, begun as mere description, can very easily turn into a thought-provoking editorial. This is due to numerous abuses of the room's many privileges. Perhaps the most poignant example of this is shown by the fact that the number of "lost" book cards (ac cidentally and otherwise) nearly equals the number of cards of present literature in the Book Nook. Thus the reason for these three new regulations being passed re garding the Book Nook. 1. The Book Nook is a recrea tional reading room not a study room. 2. Books and magazines are not to be taken out of the room. 3. Clothing, books, and note books are to be checked at the Checkstand before entering the Book Nook. It is obvious and "logical that a Book Nook must contain books. When the Union, with the Book Nook, opened in 1938, books were purchased through an Endow ment Fund set up by J. C. Sea crest. Lately, purchases have been made through the Union budget. At present, a survey :s being made of students using the reading room to discover new trends and choices in literature. C PAfflE ED Variety Found A wide variety of books and magazines are found on the shelves of the Book Nook. These books arc arranged in convenient alphabetical order and students are as'.ed to remember this in re placing them. Modern fiction seems to be the nwt tvriilAr with Nebraska stu dents as this category heads the trtlMi list. Other favorites are biography, plays, short stories, and poetry. An up-to-date magazine section is another feature of the room's many diversions. Time, Esquire, Look, National Geographic, Pop ular Sience, Fortune, The New Yorker, Billboard. Atlantic Monthly, and The Saturday Eve ning Post are but a few on the list of periodicals offered. Whether .your taste runs from Shakespeare to Steinbeck, you will enjoy that leisure hour in the Student Union Book Nook. Final Olympic Trials Slated For Iowa State The time schedule for the final Olympic wrestling trials to be held at Iowa State college April 29-30-May 1 were announced this week by Hugo Otopalik, meet manager. All three evening sessions will start at 7 p.m., Otopalik said. The April 29 afternoon session will begin at 2 p.m. and the other two faternoon sessions will start at 1 p.m. Prices are $5.00 for a season ticket, $1.50 for a single session reserved seat, and $1.00 for a single session general admission ticket. Louis Menze, Iowa State ath letic director, in discussing the final trials pointed out: "All pro ceeds from the meet above actual cost of the tournament will be given to the Olympic Games fund." Otopalik pointed out that be cause of the nature of the meet any round would be likely to bring together the outstanding men in any weight class. Oto palik explained that since "black marks" eliminated and the Olym pic committee would make pair ings anew after each round, it would be possible for the best men in any class to meet as early as the first or second rounds. This means, Otopalik pointed out, that the final session might not necessarily provide the fans with a chance to see the best matches. lFOURE RECEIVING VETERANS BENEFITS, REPORT ANY CHANGE OF ADDRESS IMMEDIATELY 70 "ME VA REGIONAL OFFICE HANDLING YOUR CASE - j " " 1 "" " " 1 V