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Poge 2 SUMMER NEBRASKAN Tlnirsday, June 21, 1959 rcew re Summer Ncbraskan Editorials: The Hag's English Tuesday, a large Omaha daily concluded its series on the state's and particularly the University's teachers - colleges and teacher certification requirements. The Summer Nebraskan only hopes that the facts and figures revealed in the series will not be shrugged off by Nebraskans. The amount of . University students enrolled in remedial courses learning in University what they should have learned in high school and even grade school, should serve as conclusive proof that a change is needed. To meet a pressing space-shortage, and raise stand ards the University of Illinois has given the state's high schools a four year warning concerning the instruction of remedial English courses. By I960, no such course will be taught by the University of Illinois and all freshmen students will be required to take college-level English. Those who flunk the course will be asked to leave the school. This "get-tough" policy seems to be the only alterna tive. The University wastes the time of numerous instruc tors teaching remedial courses when they are qualified and want to teach college level courses. In the day of space shortages, instructor shortages and rising en rollment, the waste is magnified. The University needs all its facilities to teach the student who is capable of college work; students who are not capable of such work as is entailed in Freshman English are a drag on the brighter students and the University. The above mentioned instance is one of many. The same thing as observed in English can be seen in many other fields. The root of the trouble lies with the Uni versity. It is the responsibility of the Teachers College to require its students to know what they will teach. According to the paper which carried .'the critical series, most of the state's English teachers are University of Nebraska graduates. From the number of students in remedial courses, they are not doing their jobs adequately or today's teenagers are much less perceptive than their parents. Perhaps this is because teachers cannot teach what they have not sufficiently learned. -J.B. The FlGine Flickers In Tuesday's edition of the local evening paper, two or.tne lead stones dealt with a destructive force: the atomic bomb. American citizens were horrified a few weeks ago when one of the nation's leading television variety shows featured a British-made short concerning ue possiDiuues 01 destruction now Known to man. Both of . these instances should serve to -alert the typical American citizen to the possibilities of total de struction in our time. Although Cikini will never again be inhabitable and the animated cartoon left no in habitants whatsoever, the bulk of the nation's citizenry are apathetic, oblivious or blindly fearful regarding the destructive potential of nuclear weapons. It is not wise or expedient for citizens to become panic-stricken and construct vast underground hide-outs and live in constant fear. It is, however, wise to be cognizant of the changes wrought by the discovery that the atom can be split and the possible consequences. It is also wise to encourage scientists' efforts to harnass atomic energy and to work for intelligent control of atomic resources. The British short feature ended with the sentence: "The flame flickered and then, that, too, was gone." It is frightening to think that the flame of human intelligence should cause its own destruction. Perhaps the atomic bomb is to this generation what the Phoenix was to a much earlier one, but neither is a fitting end to civilization. The atomic bomb and the Phoenix have, each in their own time, have unleashed great fear among peoples of the world. Only when that fear becomes irrational and makes intelligence its slave, can the flame flicker and die. -j.b! The Summer Nebraskan Member: Associated Collegiate Press Intercollegiate Press Representative: National Advertising Service, Incorporated Hie Nebraskan is published by students of the University of Ne braska under the authorization of the Committee on Student Affairs as an expression of student opinion. Publication under the jurisdic tion of the Subcommittee on Student Publications shall be free from editorial censorship cm the part of the Subcommittee, or on the part of any member of the facuKy of the University, or on the part of any person outside the University. The members of the Nebras kan staff are personally responsible for -what they say, or do or cause to be printed. " Editorial Staff Editor Judy Bost . Business Staff Business Manager Jerry Nissen For information concerning advertising or editorial matter in The Summer Nebraskan call 2-7631, University extension 4225, 4226, 4227. usf AAcosV AA nhcn By JEAN DIBBLE New Faces of 1956 will open on Broadway this week. Like the fa miliar New Faces of 1952 its head liners will be singers, dancers, and comedians never before fea tured in a Broadway show. Per haps some of you saw a sample of its talent on a recent Ed Sulli-' van show. , . It was interesting to note in a recent magazine that at least one reason that Rocky Marciano re-1 tired was that he had nothing fi nancially to gain from enlarging his income. Federal income taxes would hae taken 90 per cent of additional earnings in his high in come bracket. The aim of the man who directs Marlon Brando in "The Teahouse of the August Moon" is to have Marlon fool even the people he is imitating. Marlon portrays an Okinawan interpreter. He must learn to talk Japanese like an Ok inawan and to speak broken Eng lish like a Ja pa n e s e. Besides learning the speech and manner isms of an Okinawan, he must have an hour and one-half daily make-up job. He has- dieted so that his cheekbones are accentu ated and his tear ducts are filled in by pasting rubberlids around his eyes. It was impossible for MGM to duplicate the ragged sets of clothes to be worn in the, picture and the Okinawan farmers are still wondering why the property man paid a good price to take the old rags off their back. If you're in the mood for some fascinating and sometimes bizarre reading be sure and check Chris tine Arnothy's "I Am Fifteen and I Don't Want to Die." It was writ ten from notes scribbled by a fif teen year old girl in her under ground coal cellar home during the Russian "liberation" of Buda pest .... Also among the new books is a rather unusual one is "The Sweet Flypaper of Life." An intensely warm and human book about family life in Harlam, it contains more photographs than text. Of particular interest to the American women should be the fact that the G.I.'s in Japan are marrying Japanese girls at the rate of 100 per week. One of the main reasons seems to be that the Jap anese girl "puts the American i man on the pedestal" which the i service men like. Could be that a few of our independent American women should take note. For all wearers of contact lenses, tiny contact lens sunglasses have now been developed. They come lu::::::s SNACXS "WHERE CAMPUS FRIENDS MEET" 1131 It STREET NEXT TO NEBR. BOOK STORE in blue, black, green and many other shades. Steve Allen will begin his Sunday night TV career this week. His program will be along the comedy variety line. The initial show will feature Kim Novak and the second show will have Elvis Presley as guest. Come Again? Recently in the "Harvard Alumni Bulletin, there appeared the fol lowing correction: "The Editors of the Bulletin apologize for an ex traordinary error in the issue of April 7, when it was reported that Lyman Beecher Stowe had mar. ried his daughter-in-law. The lady in question, Louise Bootwright Mi- ley, is the wife of Stowe's son, Robinson Beecher Stowe. The Bul letin also gave Lyman Beecher Stowe a step-daughter, who, be longs, of course, to his son. That certainly clears the whole thing up. II NOW VlCTDf JAWFT MMUUE LEIGH QmzalScoP I) 11 TECHNICOLOR A jf fH w ( J?f!ri...-,.Z T Hi Lincoln's Department Ster Plan now to see Ax r- ; .dT" Tin n mil IT THE AMERICAN DREAM PAGEANT . . Monday . . . Tuesday . . . Wednesday June 25-26-27 Auditorium . . . 4th Floor at GOLD'S . includes over 1,000 historical exhibits Shown here ml GOLD'S, THE AMERICAN DREAM PAGEANT in cludes over 1,000 exhibits. It it touring the country, stopping at 49 cities from coast to coast. Yoall want to tee the collection . . . documents, weapons dating from pre-revolutionary days to the present You'll see models of famotos inventions . . . THE SPACE SATELLITE and the ATOMIC SUB "NAUTILUS." See America's past, her present, and take a look into her future with the AMER ICAN DREAM PAGEANT. IT'S FREE, OF COURSE! COLD'S Auditorium ... Fourth Floor
