Monday, November 25.
f Dark Regions Under The Crib:
iV Cornhusker Has 'Mystic Process' Of Publication Rev
By BOBBIE HOLT
Special Writer
Has the NU student ever won
dered what went on in the Corn
husker office? He hears "Corn
husker" several times during the
year. "Cornhuskers are now on
iale!" "Cornhusker sales will end
next week. Get yours now!" "Have
your picture taken for the Corn
husker." Perhaps he goes to a meeting
one night and the president an
nounces that a photographer will
take the organization s group tic
ture for its page in the Corn
husker,
Perhaps he is the president of
an organization or an organized
house. He is called by someone
who says he is a "section editor"
on the Cornhusker. He wants to
make arrangements to have some
"informals" taken of your house
or organization.
Then for a few months the word,
"Cornhusker," lies dormant in
campus vocabulary. Suddenly the
announcement that Cornhuskers
will be distributed May 16-20 ap
pears in the Daily Nebraskan. ,
What has gone on in the mystic
process between the taking of a
picture and the distributing of the
heavy, inky-smelling book that por
trays a year in a college career?
Most of this process goes on in
the Cornhusker office which lies
somewhere in the dark, unknown
regions of the Union basement.
The office is located directly
under "The Crib." During a rare
moment of silence in the office,
snatches of conversation, the lat
est record and the clink of coffee
cups reach the ears of a per
plexed section editor as he sits
absorbed in a maze of words.
When a student calls the Corn
husker office, the jumbled sounds
of a blaring radio, the staccato of
many typewriters and a voice call
ing above the din, "Hey, what's an
other word for 'exciting'?' flood
over the wire.
It is in this office that 32 stu
dents work an average of 15 to
35 hours a week putting together
the pictures and words that form
the Cornhusker, a 440-page record
of the events of the year. Here
spiring journalists, future teach
French, Spanish
Language Courses Popular
By DIANA MAXWELL
Special Writer
A beginning Spanish student try
ing to stay awake when cramming
for a final might well envy a
group of six to ten-year-old lan
guage students who attend half
hour classes two days a week.
Instead of a grammar book,
these French and Spanish pupils
have an instructor who teaches
them songs, encourages them to
draw pictures and plays games
with them as she teaches them
the language.
Mrs. Denise Nordon, "Madame
Denise" to her 12 charges, has
taught French to elementary pu-1
pils at the University for six years.
As the students enter her class,
Madame Denise greets them with
"Bon Jour." From then on mast
of her instructions are in French.
Vocabulary is taught with visual
aids, such as silverware, plates,
pictures of objects and charts.
Miss Maria Morena is Mrs. Nor-
Student Blasts Selfish
Attitude In Activities
"I believe that most students are
in activities for purely selfish rea
sons and that they only work on
them in order to get ahead,"
charged Maury Niebaum, junior in
arts and sciences, on the weekly
Student Forum, broadcast by
KN'US at 9 p.m. Tuesday. The pro
gram is sponsored by the city
YM-YW groups.
Bobbie Holt, associate editor of jj
the Cornhusker, the featured guest,
claimed that these selfish reasons
should correctly be attributed to a
student's desire to learn mo r e
about the profession he would be
in after school.
"For example, a student works
on the Cornhusker or the Daily Ne
braskan in order to gain knowledge
about whatever phase of the jour
nalism field he wishes to enter,"
Miss Hoit explained.
"In other activities, such as Un
ion or Builders, a person can learn
tc work with people, develop re
sponsibility and other qualities that
will benefit him whatever his pro
fession might be."
The members of the panel in
cluded Joanie Weerts, senior in
arts and sciences, Emmie Limpo,
sophomore in arts and sciences,
Ken Saunders, graduate student in
mathematics, and Pete Laughlin,
program director of KNUS, who
served as moderator.
Niebaum also brought out the
fact that out of 8000 students on I j
this campus, only 200 or 300 were
carrying the load of all the activi
ties. This started a discussion of the
reasons why all students did not
participate, especially since there
are so many activities that at least
one should interest any student.
Niebaum placed part of the
1957
ers, students with' writing, busi
ness and executive interests re
ceive valuable practice.
Heading this staff of 32 people
is editor Bev Buck, general execu
tive officer of the yearbook. Look
ing dimunitive in the large, swivel-
back editor's chair, she spends
long hours determining the general
planning of the book. She holds
final authority within the staff for
making decisions and for assign
ing worn.
ri'nder the editor, sharing the
utive office as well as posi
tions of senior staff members with
her, are two associate editors,
The senior staff supervises the
entire taff and the production of
the book.
Each associate editor hat a spe
cific job. Marilyn Heck is the as
sociate editor in charge of copy,
all written material that goes into
the book. Bobbie Holt is the as
sociate editor in charge of lay
outs (the arrangement of pictures
and copy on each page) and pho
tography. The unique fact that this year
the top executive positions on the
Cornhusker staff are held by wom
en holds true on the junior staff.
Perhaps that abundant female
population is the reason the staff
has affectionately nicknamed the
Cornhusker the "Ladies Home
Journal."
The junior staff is composed of
four managing editors: Fran Gour
lay, Sharon McDonald, Nat John
son and Anne Pickett. It is re
sponsible for preparing all the pic
tures and written copy in the book.
Each "m.e.," as they are called,
is in charge of four to eight sec
tions, depending on the size of
the section, and supervises four
or five section editors.
The backbone of the yearbook
is the 20 section editors who are
selected by the executive staff.
These section editors are the men
and women who call presidents
to arrange pictures and gather in
formation about houses or organi
zations. They are responsible for plan
ning, arranging and going with
the photographer to take all pic
tures in their section. The section
den's counterpart in Spanish. Her
elementary Spanish students are
taught by the same methods
words are pronounced for the stu
dents, who repeat them several
times. Then the object is demon
strated, or perhaps used in asong.
The walls of the classrooms are
decorated with pictures, depicting
both the customs ofthe country
and the vocabulary.
The University e xperiment in
teaching foreign languages to ele
mentary pupils was born in 1951
when the department of romance
languages was asked if someone
would teach French to a small
group of first and second graders.
One of the leaders in initiating
the program was Dr. Charles Col
man, associate professor of ro
mance languages. By the fall of
1951 four French classes and two
Spanish classes had begun andap
plicants outnumbered places in
classes.
The next logical step was to in-
blame on a nation-wide apathy
which seems to be seen on every
college campus not only regarding
activities but other forms of col
lege participation, such as school
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Charlene Anthony, sophomore in Teachers College, and her
Instructor, Keith Roumpf, junior in engineering, are shown
taking advantage of Astalre'g annual Military Ball "brush
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editors also gather copy informa
tion through interviews and write
this information in yearbook copy
style.
Each section editor is assigned
from one to three sections, de
pending on the size of the section.
A section is a division of the book
such . as the various colleges,
houses and halls, varsity sports,
sororities and fraternities.
Aiding the section editors are
the workers, the volunteer recruits
of the Cornhusker staff. These
workers receive general training
by going with the section editors
on photography assignments, typ
ing copy in rough and final forms,
writing copy, checking spelling and
putting their heads together with
the section editors when they are
stuck for a word.
Perhaps the mo9t unusual func
tion of the workers is running to
"The Crib" for the innumerable
trays of "goodies" these 32 staffers
consume daily. A recent "goodies"
survey in the Cornhusker office
revealed 43 cokes, 21 cups of cof
fee, seven packages of cigarettes
and five candy bars consumed in
one day.
"Mickey Mouse" is the most
popular member of the staff. A
recent addition, he is also a souven
ir of the editor and copy editor's ;
Ears, Key Factor
To Warming Body?
Colorado Cross Country Coach
Frank Potts had to dip into his
budget this week for additional
equipment as his Buff harriers
prepared for next Monday's NCAA
meet at Michigan State in the cold
and snow at Boulder.
Potts has equipped each of his
runners with ear muffs.
"That's the only thing that gets
cold when they're running," grins
the veteran Buff coach. "If we
can keep their ears warm they
should be able to keep everything
else warm. If they can't then
they're not working very hard."
But Potts figures the weather in
Boulder can't be too inclement for
his team's benefit.
The NCAA meet has been run
I in the snow for the past two years.
Af Early Age
terest Lincoln grade schools in in
corporating language classes in
their regular curriculum. Hunting
ton Grade School was the first to
add a language, Spanish, to its
curriculum.
Interest grew so quickly and
spread so rapidly to other schools,,
that within two years, more than
500 children in Linocln were learn
ing French, Spanish or German
in grade school. The University
example has been followed by both
Nebraska Wesleyan and Union Col
lege. This new type of student re
quired a new type of textbook.
"French for Children" was pre
pared by Dr. Colman, Dr. Boyd
partment of romance languages,
and Mrs. Nordon.
"Spanish for Children" was
compiled by Dr. Carter, Lloyd
mance languages andMrs. Mar
garet Robinette, Spanish teacher
in Huntington Grade school. A
German text was prepared later.
University classes, which are
still experimental in nature, meet
twice a week, in Burnette for half
hour sessions. The maximum time
that an elementary student can
now take a language under this
program is two years.
However, according toMrs. Nor
den, there is hope that the pro
gram can be extended to cover
more of the years before students
take foreign languages in high
school.
The Daily Nebroskan
trip to the Associated Collegiate
Press Convention in New York
"Mickey" grins impishly from the
desk of a different managing ed
itor each day. At his feet is the
warning, "None of me!"
Friday is "deadline day." Pic
tures and copy completed during
the week are taken to the printer
and engraver. On many a Thurs
day night the faint glow of lights
from the Cornhusker office can
be seen in the Union parking lot
Staff members hurry back after
dinner, dressed comfortably in
levis and sweatshirts. Armed with
coffee pots and boxes of cookies
from home they make the most of
those last fleeting minutes.
Dates wander aimlessly around
tne ottice examining 'copy pen
cils" and "link rules," tools of
the trade, while they wait patient
ly or impatiently for their "editor-dates"
to finish that last cap
tion or crop that last picture.
"Cornhusker labs" at eight on
Saturday mornings are not unus
ual. Vacations usually start 24
hours late for the members of
the staff. But the printer's ink in
the blood of every staff member
surges with renewed vigor when
the editor cries, "We saved $30
by making that deadline, you
guys!"
Sigma Delta
Accepts Eight
NU Students
Eight University undergraduate
students and three professional
journalists have been initiated into
Sigma Delta Chi, professional jour
nalism fraternity.
Undergraduate members initiat
e dwere: Lyman Cass, Walt Swit
zer, Walt Patterson, Dick Shugrue,
Bob Martel, Dick Ramage, Jerry
Petsche and Larry Brown.
New professional members are:
Bill Dobler, editorial editor of the
Lincoln Star; Lester A. Walker,
publisher of the Fremont Guide
and Tribune, and Gilbert Savery,
news editor of the Lincoln Journal.
Dobler was elected president of
the professional members of Sig
ma Delta Chi. Other officers are
Henry Mead, publisher of the Sew
ard County Independent, vice pres
ident, and Neale Copple, city edi
tor of the Lincoln Journal, secretary-treasurer.
State Senator Harry Pizer of
North Platte was guest speaker.
He predicted that the Nebraska
tax base would be broadened by
acceptance of a combination sales
tax-income tax at the next meeting
of the legislature.
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College Profs
To Boost Pay
Raise Drive
American college professors plan
to use the familiar "A" to "F"
grading system in a drive for a
100 percent boost in College and
University faculty salaries.
Colleges and universities with
the highest pay scales would get
an "A", while those with the
lowest would be graded "F".
The project is planned as part
of a full-scale effort by the Amer
ican Association of University Pro
fessors to publicize and improve
low faculty pay scales.
An association spokesman said
it is difficult to state an "average"
college professor's salary. A few,
he said, receive a salary equaling
the $24,000-a-year niche usually re
served for football coaches and
these throw off averages.
But he said probably a fair
medium salary estimate would be
in the neighborhood of about $6,000
a year. That compares with a
recommended minimum for a full
professor of $12,000.
Colorado
Ski Jaunt
Still Open
Forty-four University students
have signed up for the Union ski
trip to Aspen, Colorado, over the
holidays, according to Bob Handy,
Union activities director.
Anyone who would like to go but
has not found time to sign up
may do so this week, Handy said.
"We could handle ten more pretty
easily," Handy said.
One instructor has been chosen
for the trip and another one will
be chosen this week. Carol Graves
is the instructor chosen. She has
had three years of experience as
a ski instructor previously.
Kansas University will also be
taking their annual ski trip to As
pen at the same time so the junket
will be a combined one with the
Kansans.
The party will leave Lincoln at
1:14 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29 and
will arrive in Glen wood Springs,
Colorado at 2 p.m. the same day!
Skiing will be on Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday and the 'party
will return to Lincoln Sunday,
Feb. 2. Classes start Monday, Feb'
3 so the party will be back in
Plenty of time for eight o'clocks.
Red Cross Show
Red Cross college unit members
will present a television show Dec.
2 over Channel 12 from 8:30 to 9
p.m.
Red Cross board members will
be interviewed and a skit will be
given, according to Sondra Whal
en, Red Cross publicity chairman.
in tune with America's taste
Campus
To Host
Program
The University has been selected
to be a host institution during the
second semester for one of four
foreign lecturers being supported
this year by the Whitney Founda
tion and Fulbright program.
Mrs. Surama Dasgupta of Luck
now University, India, was ap
pointed visiting professor of phil
osophy Saturday morning by the
University's Board of Regents.
She will teach two courses in
the general area of Indian Ethics
and Aesthetics. During the current
semester, she is teaching at the
University of New Mexico. Her
salary is being paid by the Whit
ney Foundation.
The purpose of the program is
two-fold: to give teaching oppor
tunities for visiting professors who
otherwise would not have the
chance to visit the U. S. and to en
able American students and faculty
to profit from association with
them.
She is well-known in India as the
editor of the fifth volume of In
dian Philosophy by her husband,
the late Prof S. N. Dasgupta of
Lucknow.
She obtained Doctor of Philos
ophy degrees at Calcutta Uni
versity in 1941 and at Cambridge
University in 1948.
Vienna Offers
Summer Study
Opportunity
An opportunity for summer study
combined with outdoor vacation
life at a mountain lake, is being
offered by the University of Vien
na. A summer school will be con
ducted from' July 13th to Aug.
23rd at its St. Wolfgang Campus
at Strobl near Salzburg, Austria.
A few scholarships for tuition
and maintenance are available to
well-qualified students who could
not go without such aid. Appli
cants must have completed two
years of college by June, 1958 and
must not be over 40 years of age.
The seminar is designed for stu
dents particularly interested in an
intensive study of the German lan
guage. Other courses offered are
survey and special courses in Aus
trian art and European music.
Lectures and classroom instruction
are given in English.
Inclusive price for the full six
week program including tuition,
maintenance, conducted tours, ex
cursions, field trips and attendance
at the Salzburg Festival is $210.
Applications for scholarships
must be filed at the Institute of
International Education, 1 East
67th Street, New York 21, New
York, by April 15th, 1958.
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Banking Exec
Named Head
Of Foundation
C. Wheaton Battey, Lincoln
banking executive, has been named
a member of the executive com
mittee of the University of Ne
braska Foundation, according to
W. W. Putney, Foundation presi
dent. His appointment is to fill the
unexpired term of the late T. B.
Strain.
President of the Continental Na
tional Bank, Battey has served as
trustee of the Foundation since
1956. His term as member of the
Foundation's executive committee
will expire next year.
Active in business and civic
affairs, he joined the Continental
Bank as assistant cashier in 1920
and was elected president in 1951.
He is past member of the Ne
braska Bankers Association's exec
utive council, installment credit
commission of the American Bank
ers Association, and director of the
Omaha Branch of the Federal Re
serve Bank.
Battey is past president of Lin
coln Chamber of Commerce and
has served on the board of direc
tors for seven years. Other activi
ties include: director and treasurer
of Community Chest; director of
Family Service Organization;
treasurer in 1955-56 of Nebraska
Citizens Council; past president of
Lincoln Retail Credit Association;
and trustee of Cooper Foundation.
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