The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, June 21, 1956, Page Page 2, Image 2

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SUMMER NEBRASKAN
Tlnirsday, June 21, 1959
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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.
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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
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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.
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