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Page 2 The Nebraskan Monday, Jon. 9, 1961 1 I ) J i I ,1 . S ii ! f 1 s -1 'S. t- ) 'I r i Urge Added Emphasis On International Affair The following is an excerpt of a report prepared by the Committee on The University and WorldAffairs, con stituted by the Ford Foundation as an ad hoc, independ ent roup, in response to a request by the Secretary of State, to study the participation of American universities in international education, research and technical as sistance. Members of the committee are: J. L. Morrill, chairman; former President, Uni versity of Minnesota. Harold Boeschenstein, President, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. Harvie Branscomb, Chancellor, Vanderbilt Uni versity. Arthur S. Flemming, secretary of Health, Educa tion and Welfare. J- W. Fulbright, Arkansas senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. John W. Gardner, President, Carnegie Corporation of New York. Franklin D. Murphy, Chancellor, University of California at Los Angeles Philip D. Reed, formerly Chairman of the Board, General Electric Company. Dean Rusk, President, The Rockefeller Foundation and Secretary of State designate. The American university is caught in a rush of events that shakes its traditions of scholarship and tests its ability to adapt and grow. The United States is just awakening to the fact that world affairs are not the con cern of the diplomat and soldier alone. They involve the businessman, the fanner, the laborer, the economist, the lawyer indeed every citizen. And we are discovering that the world includes vast regions and peoples we have little known before. This American awakening has come along with the upsurge of demands for independence and economic ad vancement among hundreds of millions abroad who have known little of either. In their own awakening they see education as indispensable to their quest for growth and dignity. At the center of these new education demands, all the more pressing because they often coincide with the policy goals of our government, stands the American university. It is challenged to meet the needs of our own people for a far better knowledge and understanding of others. It is challenged at the same time to help meet the needs of emerging nations for the creation and rapid improvement of whole educational systems. Whether the rapid technological and social develop ment upon which nations insist will take place by totali tarian regimentation or in conditions of growing individ ual freedom ad responsibility is a crucial question of our times. It is an educational question as well as a social, economic and political question. The American university is a center both of learning and of service with a public purpose founded, upon the traditions of American society and the heritage of other universities in history. It serves the high needs of society, as no other institution ran, primarily through its teaching and research. Its scholarship is guided responsibly so as to encounter the great intellectual and educational issues that confront us. Traditionally, the university also en gages in other forms of direct service to society, such as extension work, consultation, and assistance to other edu cational institutions. The system of land grant colleges, established a cen tury ago in the United States, is one notable example -of adaptation of American institutions of higher learning to meet heavy new demands. At that time, the new task was to provide higher education to the workers and farmers on a developing frontier. la the postwar years American sniversHies. respond ing to the nation's new involvement in world affairs, have taken on many new and expanded activities. These in clude new courses on Asia, Africa and the Soviet Union, and United States relations with them; research on eco nomic, political and social development of the newly in dependent nations; foreign students in large number; and special overseas projects to help build and strengthen educational institutions in other countries. The universities' response so far, however, has been largely sporadic and unplanned. To meet the challenge of their potential role in world affairs adequately, they sow have an historic opportunity to undertake, individu ally and in cooperation, a major effort as institutions. They have the responsibility, in the best university tradi tion, to make a contribution which no other Institutions can: to enlarge our horizons as a free society, to help ed ucate the leaders and help build the educational founda tions of the sewer cations, and to cooperate with educa tional foundations of the newer nations, and to cooperate with educational institutions in other nations in order to help create a free international society These tasks re quire fiie sustained participation of the best American university competence and the pioneering of new aca demic traditions. To help American universities and colleges achieve their unique purposes our educational resources must be strengthened. In a pluralistic society like ours this ef fort requires a new set of cooperative relationships be tween universities and colleges end the institutions that ca3 upon and support them the federal government, the states, the foundations, and private enterprise. This is possible in turn only if sew organizations are formed in the private sector and within the government in order to achieve more effective educational leadership in world affairs. To achieve these ends, the Committee believes that their seeds to be: 1. A lifting of sights that win transcend the tradition ally domestic and Western orientation of scholar ship and training, in universities and colleges, and the limited aims of "technical assistance and "national defense, in government. 2. Higher priority for world affairs in education, and for education in the government's international programs. X Planning for longer term programs to support uni versities and colleges at home and to promote ed ucational development abroad. 4. More effective use of scarce educational resources through improved organization a ad cooperation among American institutions and in relation to their counterparts abroad. 3. A higher quality of educational performance through the systematic development of American competence for the new, varied, and difficult tasks confronting American institutions of higher learn ing. f. More adequate resources for these tasks. Daily Nebraskan ' Member Amcistel CUtfaJe Fms, Iier2.tiil Tnm T.rprntnUQrr. K&UmuI kirtrtitiat fierriae. racwriMral4 rub'isSied fc f 1, Stent re. Lfocela. Xebrk. EEVEXTT-CWE TEAM OLD It A B Te!ekMM EX t-TSSL est ?. 411, 4227 Not Guilty By Myron Papadakis and Bob Nye "Did I tell you about . . ." These words echo throughout the cam pus rebounding off the walls and reverberating through the halls. Coupled with the cry, "I can't wait to tell Pat, Jean, Marybell . . .," the rumors spread cover ing the campus. The hypocritical, egotis tical rumor spreaders de rive their pleasure from maligning others. Since they know almost nothing about their subiects they can speak with' unchal lenged authority. A rumor may be vicious to start with, and with the distortion it receives every time it is passed on, it may completely run away with itself. Envision this example and imagine the possibility of distortions. If one person passes a rumor to two friends, and they spread this to four others at the rate of one gossip per minute. It would take thirteen minutes for the whole campus to hear it. A fight turns into a near riot, a beer into a six-pack and a "No Doz" into a Benny. Enough said, phonies carry on under the white banner of "The Cleansing Truth." Now for the main reason for this article, which is naturally the col lection, evaluation and dis semination of questionable information. Our agents have discov ered that six sorority stand ards chairmen has pur chased stock in Haig & Haig . . . fella's, have you heard that the stand ards chairmen have final ly adopted the 33rd date rule . . . three out of four professors smoke ... with in two months the Rag will have a good article or it will feel like a fugitive from the law of averages . . . we just heard that the rea son for the unpainted chim ney on campus is the di version of funds fo r the purchase of bulk quantities of hydrogen peroxide . . . a certain well to do soror ity has decided to help ease the gold flow by restrict ing their summer rush to the continental limits!!! Now that the few of you that followed the article to its conclusion are confused, disgusted and sure you've wasted your time and ours, we suggest you clip this article out, wad it to a small mass and discard it. PUY BMW Nebraskan Letterip Staff View BOVINE VIEWS I The current legislative session will have at least one item regarding agri cultural research at the University, that of vegeta ble research. It will be up to the legis lative group to determine whether funds wiS be made available to carry the pres ent vegetable research in central Nebraska into its second phase. Such a pro gram calls for $67,000. Prior to this, funds were contributed by affected communities so that the projects could be carried on. But recently the com munities refused to finance such research and w ere seeking dollar help from the University. To keep the program alive until July 1, the University has provided funds from as unfilled fa culty position. Several questions vifl be facing the legislature as they study the need or such appropiation. One of these is that Nebraska is not considered a vegetable growing state and most of the industry is related to farm products such as com wheal, beef and dairy. Much of the major vegeta ble growing regions are in areas sear the coast so funds to keep such a re search project alive may be doubtful to some of the state senators. The sum of $67,000 would seem too high for the re search of vegetables. Con sidering that vegetable growing has My a limited acreage as compared with other crops ia the state, it might seeza improbable that such a project could afford that amount if oth er crop experts would be seeking much larger amounts for research in their fields. The continuation of such a project might help the vegetable industry to be come one the the larger industries in the state and tmr mm mt aaawa) 4. 1 t Mif JtamnMhaa Pawrtaa. IWaAnpaAay 9ntf taiiiun e taMnl mt KoanMka mmrntr mvrmtm mt Dm (toanattm mm IMn tkmmUm mm ! mt wtrntmrnt MM. aluma mmmrr mm imHumtrttmm mt t tMfcranwmM mm Wtwt-n fiUKMat aMrtl mm mr treat am imnawnna mm mmrt mt tmt 1Mhrammtt auk. au -r mm. piilhbm mm 'Hi em imp, aaaity apMliaa war mwm wry a. lata. IMTM1U. 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Coordiaatioa I How can the state coordi nate the activities of the in Istitutions of the state on a continuing basis. What spe icial efforts should be made to coordinate budgets, pro I grams, services and plans of the teachers colleges and the University of Nebraska. How can this be accomplished? by Jerry Lamber$on may help to cut the price levels of some of the vege tables in out state. Prev iously other crops have gotten started by such a method and have become a major industry in the state. Nebraska has an ideal climate that has been con sidered good by many for the vegetable industry. Such an asset might de mand a larger appropia--tion to develop the indus try and to supplement many farm programs. With acreage controls of. major crops, some farmers might find it feasible to fill idle acres, in vegetables. Such an industry might open canning and freezing industries which will help to eliminate some of the unemployment problems is Nebraska. Professors (Continued from Page 1) enlist and teacher in the field of corn breeding and genet ics. Various hybrid cora, com panies have made grants in aid to the University to pro mote his research programs. Nebraska hybrid seed cera ' producers have given pro perty to the University and voted personal assessments based on seedstock purchases to fiance a cora assistant. Recently, Dr. Lonn qnist was given a grant by the State Department of Ag riculture to support aa ia teasive breeding and research program to increase amylose content of cora to levels suit able for industrial use. Interested in his college's teaching program, he has helped develop the basic cur ricula for the Master's and Doctorate degrees in the Agronomy department. He has taught Advanced Plant Breed ing for several years and is an active participant in grad uate and staff seminars. Ashamed of ,17 At BB Came To the students: Saturday I saw my first and last N.U. basketball game. I witnessed the most shameful display of sports manship and conduct that I have ever seen. Never in my life have I been so ashamed to be of any group. We, the students of today, have many times been called the leaders of tomor row. If this kind of attitude typifies the leaders of to morrow, then may God have mercy on us. Basketball and other sports are supposed to be games of competition de signed to promote friend ship, fun, physical fitness, and sportsmanship. What I witnessed tonight was none of these. It was nothing but a barbaric display! Time after time the Uni versity proudly points to it self and proclaims its stand ards, its goals and its ac hievements. Yet tonight I saw members of the student body, coaches, and faculty members t screaming for blood, booing refs. and threatening them with bodi ly harm. And yet we call ourselves "civilized''! Has winning become so important that we must lose all our human dignity and act like wild animals? Are you proud of acting like a pack of wolves closing in for the kill? is this what we come t o college for? To mass together and yell and scream for blood? - We look at history and exclaim in horror at the Romans and their sports. We point proudly at our selves and say, "We are civilized. We have sports which take skill and physi cal stamina, but we do not -fight like animals for amusement." Yet as soon as we are thrcujh patting ourselves on the back we turn around ai:d begin act ing like animals. For my part I am thoroughly ashamed of this incident and I think we all owe Missouri an apology. Perhaps even more we ou e ourselves an apology and a promise to put an end to such actions in the future. I wonder if we are civil ized enough to realize our mistakes and try again to act as young ladies and gentlemen should act, or are we so barbaric and are sports so important that we must continue to act like animals and bar barians. Disgusted and ashamed, R. E. 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