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Paae 7 The Summer Nebraskon Thursday, June 20, T957 Possible Solution Earlier in this session of the state legislature, one of the more vocal members of the unicameral called upon the Chancellor of the University to justify this school's program of remedial work for stu dents who enter college deficient in English and mathematical skills. He had a point, in. that it is unfortunate that any high school graduate should begin his undergraduate studies with a deficiency v" basic scholastic tools. But if the program is justifiable, it must be justified by those on whom the blame for such deficiencies rests. And the Chancellor is obviously not to blame. The fault must lie in the individual student and. unfortunately, in the high school he attends. Most of the teachers attending summer session will probably argue that the burgeoning number of secondary pupils makes increasingly difficult the ta.-k of teaching these basic skill3. And they are right. We are all familiar with the harried teacher in the over-stuffed class room. But thanks to a grrnt recently offered the University television station by the Fund for the Advancement of Education, this problem may be relieved somewhat. KUOX-TV has plans to use its $115,500 grant to broadcast correspondence courses in several new subjects which include senior English and plane geometry; these will supple ment the course in begin, ing algelra which the station broadcast last year. 1 Probably no one envisions a day in which secondary education will be entirely under the ever wstrh.'jl 9ingle eye of an electronic instruc tor. But one can see that specially prepared TV teachers may be able to stimulate interest and to teach the elements of many important subjects. The program of which the proffered grant is a part has as one cf its prime purposes that promomn of greaier efficiency in the use of teachers and school plants and equipment. This will be appreciated by the harried teacher mentioned a fe-c paragraphs back, and an "in the flesh" instructor should be able to utilize the time saved for more advanced work. This could bring all incoming freshmen up to par and might put some of them ahead of the game. -A- gaily slave GAU.EY dkk shugrue - sip --A, f -5 ' While sitting around listening to Enoch Light's Charleston City All Stars and their three albums of the 'Roaring Twenties" music I be gan to wonder how people 30 years from now would remember the present day and age. On the back of the second vol ume of the raz-ma-tazx music there's a little questionaire. And Of a casual observer can identify the items on the list he should not hesitate to buy the albums of that early jazz. Some of the items? Well there are Goldfish Eating Con tests," 'Man Jong," "'The Long Count," "? 1 a ppers," "Zev." "The Heo Speed Wa gon, "F1US Four," etc. Now for thoe rf us who all together missed the roaring twenties and nearly missed the broke thirties, most of this j passes right over our heads. Apparently, however, devotees of those golden days can identify many of those items without even batting a false eyelash. We mod erns might jog down a list of '50s lore and pull it out of moth balls in 1980. Those in the know tell me we'd just have to include the Kaiser Traveler, Three-D, television-that-had-to-slay-put, and a wealth of other "things." But I Lope we could include on that list itt goue and almost for gotten the big bombs I can faint ly recall the day when manufac turers were all agog over new creations of the anti-oil industries which would allow cars to run for close to nothing, YouTl remember talk of the "gasoline substitutes." I don't doubt that they existed. But big oil firms were able to suppress them to save a vital in dustry, so they argued. The same is true if you're willing to stretch an analogy, at any rate witii the big bombs. Prophets of soora like Paul Harvey warn as each day of the dangers of fall out. The AAAS claims that the chances of getting leukemia are up sixfold since the H Bomb tests started. Great statesmen and fine citi zens of the world such as Albert Schweitzer, Pope Pius, Adlai Stev enson are making a concerted ef fort to halt the big blasts. Ste venson, writing to Reporter Maga zine from his office in Chicago had this to say, I have proposed a halt to the tet-eplesiti ef large nuclear weapons arrange the snrvfva! of mar kind may well depend noon -it, because it woild increase our -national security, and beraose it weald strenfrfrihen oar post- . titm in die cold war . . . The great moral inflacee cf Pope Pius, the eloquent plea of Dr. AJbc-rt Schweitzer, and the warn--uigs of oar scientists are begin--ning to affect oar official poll--cies . . . We are fast approach ing a sbowdwa ia the baUie of world public opinion. We will not win this battle ssle we take the moral leadership toward con trolling the thermonuclear mew ace." Not more than a week later the headlines of e'en conservative newspapers blasted out the news that 2,000 scientists had voiced strong protests at the firing of the big bombs. Included in the list were some of the prominent scientists of our University faculty. To add to the confusion another report which stated that Britain's latest big bomb had "controlled" fallout addedthat it would not be dispersed for "at least two years." The catch, of course, is the inter esting piece of information from Paul Harvey which claimed that falkwt "likes" the north temperate zones. Those are the areas in which most of the world's population Eves. And it is particularly the area right over mid-America. Now I don't mind if future gener ations would call us the Booming Fifties. Td just like to be around whea they start calling us names. Letterip It is noted with disgust that again the University library closes its doors every Sunday. This works a definite hardship on those students who work at night and on Saturdays, for Sunday is the only time when they can use the li brary. Every student pays part of the cost of the library and it would seem fair that every student be given a change to use it. But at present a large number of students are excluded from its use Those of us who have to work our way through school should have equal opportunity with other students. The closing of the li brary on Sunday makes this im possible. We hope that the library officials will recognize this fact and extend the hours of the li brary to Sunday afternoon as is done during the fall and spring semesters. Disgusted Stjdents Summer Staff Any student who wishes U be come a member of the Summer Nebraskan staff may apply to Sara Jones, editor, at Room 20B of the Unioft. 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