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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1958)
JULY 17, 7958 SUMMER NEBRASKAN PAGE 3 W Or ISo? High Schoolers Keep Registrar's Office Hopping One of the busiest campus offices during the summer is that of the Registrar, where applications for the fall term are being processed. Many man-hours are spent on each application, but office personnel have no way of knowing how many of the peo ple who apply will actually enroll this fall. More than 1,900 prospective students have made applica tion so far this summer, but F. L. Nicolai, deputy regis trar, will not even venture what he calls a "guestimate" of the percentage of applicants that will actually become N.U. students. Nicolai says 1,900 is slightly higher than the average mid July figure, but it does not mean that there will be more new students this fall. Accord ing to Nicolai it may mean only that people are register ing earlier. Some applicants decide for themselves not to attend the University after they have ap plied, but the University de cides for some. No one is rejected because he comes from a non-accredited or non-approved high school, Nicolai said. These students merely have more deficiencies to make up. Individuals are rejected, however, if they go to another college, flunk out, and then try to enroll at the university. "We require our own stu dents to maintain u '4' aver age and we expect transfer students to have done the same thing," Nicolai says. Nicolai gives several rea sons why applicants don't en roll. Some students apply to the university as a second or third choice, and come here only if rejected somewhere else. Some are from farm fam ilies and apply early in the summer when crop prospects look good. If a dry summer follows, they can't afford col lege that year, Some, enthusiastic about college right after their high school graduation, make ap plication and then lose their interest during the summer. In spite of the fact that hundreds make application ana never show up, Nicolai says he receives "very few" letters advising him that a student has changed his plans Clinic Probes Teaching Of Retarded, Superior Child LUNCHES . K &f SNACKS "WHERE CAMPUS FRIENDS MEET" 1131 R STREET NEXT TO NEBR, BOOK STORE A teacher training program is delving into the problem of mentally retarded and su perior children this summer. Dr. Marshall S. Hiskey, di rector of the program, ob served the need for special training. He said: "In the schools in Nebras ka, in spite of increasing ex pansion of facilities, only 10 per cent of the retarded chil dren receive special services and it is likely that even less than this number of gifted children receive special edu cation." The training program is in tended to help teachers un derstand, through experience, the needs of these groups. Educable mentally handi capped children in the classes are capable of learning the rudiments of basic skills. Academic subjects are taught through practical application. For instance, principles of safety are demonstrated by using model traffic lights sup plemented with field trips to Lincoln's business district. The teaching approach to the superior child is primar ily one of stimulating creativ ity and abstract thinking. Contrary to the retarded child who is shown many concrete examples for each principle he is taught, the superior child is urged to apply by himself the principles learned in class. CHRISTIAN'S PIZZARIA 8 varieties of PIZZA 3 Size $2.00, 1.50, 75c Dining Room Service 5 P.M Now-2 Stores Store J 4811 Holdrere -- Ph. 8-2304 rere Open every day except fuet. 889 No. 27 Ph. 2-4859 RUSS' SNACK BAR Welcomes You! Homemade Rolls, Pies Soups Sandwiches 1227 R St. This distinction may be seen in the way muFic is used in each group. The retarded child hears and enjoys music. Often it is the basis for re laxation or class activity. The gifted child, on the contary, is urged to express himself freely through composing mu sic, writing or painting while listening to music in the class room. The basic educational ol jective for both groups is similar to realize the poten tials of the child and to set up a program permitting each child to learn up to his capacity. Losses And, Cains With the end of the six-week session, summer school will lose 90 students but will pick up 80 others. The new students will be superintendents, ad ministrators and state offi cials enrolled for a two week session sponsored by Teachers College. This session begins Saturday. Union Goes Western Strains of country music will echo from the Union Ball room tonight when Univer sity students promenade at the Summer Sessions Square Dance. LaVern Rockenbach's band will provide the music for the dance which will last from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. . Professional callers, who are members of Rocken bach's band, will call the dances. They will also give instructions to beginning dancers. Bob Handy, Union activities director, urged all students planning to attend to dress in formally and bring their families. Admission is free and re freshments will be served. This is the first square dance sponsored by the Union. Formerly, the Depart ment of Women's Physical Education sponsored these dances. Radio-TV Frat Dissolved Here In lieu of setting up a new association, Mu chapter of Al pha Epsilon Rho, honorary ra dio and television fraternity, has been dissolved at the Uni versity, according to Pete Laughlin, new general mana ger of KNUS. The new organization will be known as the Nebraska Col legiate Broadcasters Associa tion, Laughlin stated. Officers of the NCBA will be Phyl Bonner, president, Dixie Helms, vice-president; and Roberta Rock, secretary-treasurer. The fraternity was abolished at Nebraska because nothing beneficial was being gained from it, Laughlin said. 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