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Modern Africa...
Africa Preview
Given by Scholar
, "Africa, Awakening Giant:
Challenge to the United Na
tions" will be presented by
Heinrich Albert Wieschhoff
as the second World Affairs
Previews program Monday
at 2 p.m. in Love' Library
Auditorium.
' Wieschhoff was named as
speaker for the "Spotlight on
Africa" program on the rec
ommendation of Nobel Peace
prize-winner Ralph J. Bunche
when John Furbay was un
able to speak.
Wieschhoff is director of the
Department of Political and
Security Council Affairs of
the United Nations. Until
recently he was director of
Trusteeship and Information
from Non-Self-Governing Ter
ritories for the United Na
tions. He taught African and Co
lonial Affairs at the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania for 11
years before becoming asso
ciated with the United Na
tions in 1946.
A naturalized citizen, , he
was born in Germany and
educated in Frankfurt a- , at
the University of Vienna.
During his last five years
at the University of Pennsyl
vania Wieschhoff was also
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curator of African affairs at
the University of Pennsyl
vania. He served as a consultant
In the United States Office
of Strategic Services from
1941 to 1946.
From 1946-51 Wieschhoff
was chief of a territorial re
search analysis section for
the United Nations.
During 1949 he conducted
field trips to South Africa
and to West Africa. '
He is a member of the
Council on Foreign Affairs.
The contributor to the En
cyclopedia Britannica is a
'distinguished international
scholar" and an "authority
on African affairs," accord
ing to Frank P. Sorenson.
He is tlx? author of the fol
lowing books on Africa: Afri
kanische Trommin, The Mon-ometapa-Zimbabwe
Culture in
South East Africa, Colonial
Policies in Africa, An An
thropological Bibliography of
Negro Africa, and seven Afri
can Handbooks.
Wieschhoff is the editor of
African Transcripts, which
was published in 1945.
Home
By Carol Steckling
Have you ever tasted soy
flour fried in peanut butter?
Most people haven't and
this is why an Indian girl in
the experimental kitchens at
the University of Nebraska
has asked another Indian girl
to come in and taste-test her
new candy.
The girl is developing a
new recipe for candy using
soy flour and peanut butter,
which are available in her
country. She began by frying
the soy flour in peanut butter
and butter. The next time she
used only peanut butter.
"The American girls in the
class have no idea what the
candy should taste like," she
said.
This was one of nine exper
iments being worked out by
home economics majors in the
experimental cookery class
taught by Dr. Josephine
Brooks at the College of Agri
culture. "We try to learn the whys
of successes and the whys of
failures, but sometimes we
don't find out," Dr. Brooks
said. ,
Learn by Trial
It is best to learn the ac
tion of the ingredients of a
recipe , by actually experi
menting with them, she said.
One of the girls is varying
the ingredients in a standard
growing giant
H. A. Wieschhoff
AEC Grant
To Pharmacy
A $12,807 grant from the
Atomic Energy Commission
will allow the University Col
lege of Pharmacy to intro
duce instruction in the uses
and applications of radioiso
topes in pharmacy, accor
to Dean Joseph B. Burt.
Dean Burt said the radio
isotope training will be intro
duced in basic professional
ogy, and graduate courses.
Among the major equip
ment sterns which will be pur
chased are: a Gamma scintil
lation detector, and an Alpha-Beta-Gamma
transistorized
survey meter.
Union Sponsors
Evening at SAC
SAC Night at the Lincoln
Air Force Base, sponsored by
the Nebraska Union, will
begin Friday, July 8, at 2:30
p.m.
The guided tour of the base
will be open to all University
students who have signed up
at the Union Activities office
by July 6. It will include an
inspection of the B-47 atom
bombers and will end with
smorgasbord in the Officers
Club.
A highlight of last year's
tour, according to Mrs. Sylvia
McNeil of the Activities Of
fice, was. the showing of the
German police dogs being
trained at the base.
Bus fare and $2 for the din
ner will be the only cost to
participating students 'and
faculty members.
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Economics Students
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Soy flour. . .for
cake recipe to study their ef
fects on the quality of the
cake.
She diminished the amount
of fat in two test cakes and
omitted fat entirely from a
third cake. "I had never
made a cake rithout fat be
fore," she said. She expected
it to be tough and smaller
than if she had, used fat.' She
also . thought' it would have
less flavor. Sight and taste
By Mary Louise Reese '
Is there a conflict between
the sciences and the humani
ties? Not according to M e r k
Hobson, dean of the College
of Engineering and Architec
ture. But Nicholas DeWitt, as
sociate of the Harvard Uni
versity' Russian Research
Center, says there is.
"What we must ask our
selves is the basic question
commitment to what kind of
education?" ' DeWitt said
Tuesday, June 14, at the Uni
versity of Nebraska's first
World Affairs Preview pre
sentation for 1960.
Education For What?
Hitting at the heart of what
ever conflict there is, DeWitt
described the- Russian sys
tem of education. There the
question "what kind of edu
cation?" is answered by the
needs of the state, not the
individual.
"The Russians orient
their educational efforts so
as to maximize the returns
from it for the advancement"
of their political, military
and economic objectives.
The communists do not be
lieve in education for edu
cation's sake," he said.
DeWitt continued. "They do
not believe in education for
the individual's sake. The
Russians do not want any
Dart of liberal or general hu
manistic education. They
don t want any generahsts at
all they want only special
ists.". Without contending that the
University produces what
Karl Shapiro, associate pro
fessor of English, calls "Ger-
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FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING In its at its business of building a better under
second year on the University of Nebraska standing. See ...
, campus, the Far Eastern Institute is busy
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PHYSICS IN THE HOME LITERALLY to help heat and cool his house. For how
In building his home a University of Ne- he did it see ., . .
braska physics instructor put nature to work
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ART, ELEPHANTS, AND THE STARS. . past when fossils were formed, and guide
The University of Nebraska's Morrill Hall you on a tour of the stars. See . . .
can show you art, take you into the distant
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A BLENDING OF LISTENER AND ALL- the next Student Union presentation.
STATE Leon Lishner and the 160-voice See . . .
All-State Chorus will blend their music in
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Indian candy
facts after baking proved she
was correct in her assump
tions. Standard Recipe
Many women remember
that their grandmothers had
one recipe forall cakes and
merely added ingredients for
variety. This prompted one of
the class members to take a
standard cake recipe and ex
periment with chocolate, ba
nana, spice and gold varia-
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Nicholas DeWitt
man scientists," men who
carry on scientific research
without any feeling of moral
obligation because their work
has no ethical connotation for
them, other faculty members
expressed concern about the
production of specialists.
Neither Shapiro nor Alan
P. Bates, chairman of the
Department of Sociology,
disputed the need for spe
cialists. Hobson did not dis
pute the need for education
in the humanities.
The conflict appears to cen
ter around "how much" and
"when", not "what" or "if."
It is not the clear-cut sort of
conflict which can be dis
cussed briefly, resolved and
dismissed.
The conflict is that basic
question of DeWitt's: "com
mitment to what kind of edu
cation?" i - i
Pream... better caramels?
tions. She made three varia
tions of chocolate, using choc
olate and cocoa.
"I looked at other recipes
and compared them to the
basic recipe to m3ke i" he
measurement of the choco
late," she said.
"I increased the liquid and
decreased the flour because
chocolate thickens the bat
ter," sho explained. She noted
that chocolate cake recipes
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Alan P.
Bates
Both Shapiro and Bates
emphasized the need to give
a man a broad education in
the humanities. Hobson
marked a need for study in
the humanities, but felt that
with the present offerings of
the College of Engineering
and Architecture "our boys"
can go ahead with later study
on their own.
Engineering students are
now required to take 18
hours of electives in non
technical and non-scientific
fields, Hobson said.
But the question of "how
many hours in the humani
ties" may not be one which
can be answered on the basis
of so many, hours of this sub
ject and so many of that for
each student, Bates ex
plained. The need for a broad back
ground in the humanities can
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seem to have a higher suijar
content than other cake reci
pes. Record All Changes
She must keep track of all
variations, such as letting one
cake stand while the others
are baking if there is not
room in the oven for all at
the same time. This may
bring about some differentia
tion in the quality of the cake,
Dr. Brooks said.
Karl Shapiro ,
only.be met by giving each'
student a background in those
arts with which he is not al
ready familiar, he said. An
avid reader should study the
visual arts and music, tor
example, more than litera
ture. Shapiro agreed that all
students should be ac
quainted with all the arts,
but recommended the Eng
lish system of liberal arts
education.
There, he said, students are
not taught to write, but to
read'. When they do write,
they are often better than our
students who are taught to
write, he commented.
Fine Arts For All
Shapiro feels that all peo
ple have some ability in all
of the arts, even though some
may develop their abilities
more highly than others.
Talented Pupils Subject
Of Regional Convention
Enrollment
Up Slightly
More than 5,200 students of
all ages are engaged in sum
mer studies under the direc
tion of the University of Ne
braska, according to Dr.
Frank E. Sorenson, director
of Summer Sessions.
The regular summer-school
enrollment is 3,425, an in
crease of 51 over a year ago,
he said.
In addition, more than 1,400
Nebraska high school students
are on the University's Lin
coln campuses. Five hundred
sixty students are enrolled in
University High School, a
gain of 130; 250 in All-State
Fine Arts Course; 300 in
Girls' State, and 325 in Boys'
State. t
Also, Dr. Sorenson re
ported, 200 elementary pu
pils are attending Bancroft
School and another 200 are at
Pershing Grade School, both
operated by the University
this summer.
Mixing fruit juices with
plain gelatin may not sound
as appetizing, but it demon
strates the effect of the juices
on the jelling ability of the
gelatin, a girl said while
measuring the consistency of
gelatin and vegetable juice.
"I once used pineapple
juice .with getetin and never
did get it to harden," she
explained as her reason for
choosing this experiment.
Carol Steckling is a junior
home economics-journalism
mainr nt the University of
Nebraska. She is employed
by the Nebraska Farmer.
Each student selects her own
problem and works it out
alone. ,
Helps Make Salad
She said the knowledge
gained from her work on this
would be useful in mixing
fruits and vegetables with
gelatin for salads.
The effect of liquid oil,
lard, margarine, C r i s c o,
Swift'ning and Fluffo on drop
cookies is also being studied.
The cookies will be tested for
spreadability Of batter, vol
ume after baking and flavor.
Artificial flavorings, such
as vanilla, have been omit
ed in all recipes used in the
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Merk Hobson
Everyone should write and
play and paint, he feels.'
He especially emphasized
the i n s i g h t and perman
ence of literature, but added
that the modern world
makes it important for
students to have an ade
quate background of s c i
entific study as well as in
the humanities.
It was not the scientist he
deplored, but the undergrad
uate specialist in any field,
engineering, science or jour
nalism, who neglects a lib
eral education for a specialty.
When To Specialize
. Shapiro did not argue with
specialization, but with the
time for specialization, as did
Bates.
"The top engineers I hav
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A conference lor leacners
and administrators of schools
providing special training for
superior and talented students
will begin Thursday in the
Nebraska Union.
Known as Project STS, the
two-day conference will pro
vide sessions on teaching,
counseling, providing for and
evaluating "advanced" stu
dents, according to an agenda
prepared by John Cronland,
program coordinator.
"Representatives from
'project schools,' that is,
schools in which the talented
student is specially provided
for, will attend from Nebras
ka and surrounding states,"
Cronland said.
In curricula for superior
and talented students, more
advanced courses are offered
and "the student is encour
aged and left to do more on
his own, similar to the at
mosphere of college work,"
he said.
An additional 38 people
from high schools in the same
area will attend the two-day
meet "because they are in
terested in the system and
apparently want to get it es
tablished in their schools," he
added.
"Pretty soon this won't be
a project," remarked Cron
land "because it will be out
and, it is hoped, put into
force in many high schools."
Omaha Westside and Belle
vue are "project high
schools" in Nebraska.
The University of Nebraska
meeting is only one of several
in the north-central area al
though it is the first such
program on this campus.
Bus Ad Awards
Of $4,000 Told
Nearly $4,000 in scholar
ships and fellowships to busi
ness administration students
at the University of Nebras-
kahave been awarded for use
during the next school year.
according to Dean Charles S.
Miller of the College of Busi
ness Administration.
The awards andthe recip
ients are:
John E. MUler GraduaU Fellowship
In Businets Administration, $1,000 plus
tuition to Paul M. Rooney of Lincoln.
J. Kenneth Cozier scholarships, $240
each to Francis R. Freimuth, Lincoln,
and Raymond R. Buin. MiUigan.
Lincoln Association of Fire and Cas
ualty Agents scholarships, $125 each
to Gene A. Ktra3heim, Kimball, and
Ronald G. Sutter. Lincoln.
Magee Memorial scholarship; $100 to
Pciy Merica, Omaha.
Maytag scholarship, $200 to Ernest J.
Carlson, Lincoln.
Nebraska Association of Insurance
Agents scholarship. $250 to Robert
Chambers, Lincoln.
T. B. Strain Memorial scholarships,
$250 each to Kenneth D. Babka and
John Hoerner, both of Lincoln, Jamco
L. Dean, Arcadia, and Donald R. Fit
tarn. Kimball. . , .
W. G. Langworthy Taylor scholarship.
$250 to Mary Jo Eager, Wtnnett, Mont.
Rdward R Wells scholarship. $200 to
William G. Gregory, Tabor, la.
