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The Nebraskan
Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1961
Audiometer Produces Sounds
To Help Detect Hearing Loss
A little machine called an
audiometer used by the uni
versity speech and hearing
laboratories "manufactures"
sounds to detect hearing
losses.
Dr. Lucile Cypreansen, a
speech and hearing therapist
and supervisor of the labora
tories, explained its use.
Andiometric tests are given
on the second floor of Temple
Building and are run on all
age groups. Referrals are
made by doctors, teachers,
psychologists and parents.
Most subjects tested are uni
versity students, veterans, and
children.
And audiogram, or chart of
such a test, k helpful in de
termining what kind of loss
a iperson may have, Dr. Cy
preansen explained. In a d d i
tion to the audiogram, a doc
tor's report and a history of
hearing loss of the individual
and that of his family are
used.
Nerve Involvement
H Jimmy undergoes testing
at Qi8 laboratories, he can
find out whether he has only
one damaged ear, whether
there is a nerve involvement,
a conduction loss or a com
bination of these kinds of
losses
' Since remedial treatment is
influenced by the findings, it
Is important to recognize the
type of searing loss, Dr. Cy
preansen pointed out.
An audiometer has a head
set or pair of ear phones to
transmit sounds to the person
being tested. . These are at
tached to the machine, which
may resemble a closed type
Writer. Faces Examiner
" The subject is seated fac
ing the examiner so that he
cannot see the control panel
of the audiometer. The sub
ject indicates whether or not
he can hear sound at each
frequency by speaking or rais
ing his hand, Dr. Cypreansen
said.
The machine measures
bearing losses in pure tones,
and is regulated to produce a
series of tones over a number
of frequencies.
Frequency is the fewness or
highness of a sound what
the ear hears. The higher the
frequency, the higher the pitch
mat is Heard by the ear.
The examiner starts with a
given frequency, usually 1000
cycles, at a given intensity.
usually 20 decibels, Dr. Cy
preansen continued. The ex
aminer then takes the fre
quency down in loudness un-
tu Jimmy no longer hearg it
Threshold
The last sound Jimmy hears
t each frequency establishes
his "threshold.'' Jimmy's
inresnoxa lor each ear is
checked tor each frequency
up and down the scale.
A zero decibel of intensity
May Queen Deadline
Asy senior woman with a
5.S overall average or above
may pick up an application
far May Queen, in 207 Ad
ministration. Mortar Board members
are not eligible.
Coeds must include three
pictures with the application
for publicity purposes. The
final data of application is
Thursday at S p.m. All jun
ior and senior women may
vote for May Queen. The
rnnnerup will be her maid
of honor. The primary elec
tion is March 8 and the fin
al election is March 15.
Church Essay
Competition
Ii campus religion vital?
"Together, a Methodist
magazine is seeking to an
ewer this Question through
an assay competition on
Rules for the collegiate con
test include:
L Students mist he be
tween the age of 17 and 25
and enrolled full time in any
recognized junior college, col
lege or university. Pastors
are not eligible.
2. Articles should be typed
double-spaced in manuscript
term on svt by u inch
sheets, should bebetween
2,009 and 2,300 words in
length and must be accom
panied by the official entry
form found in the magazine.
3. The deadline is May 1,
1L The first award-winning
article will appear in the Sep
tember issue of "Together"
and all award articles will be
come the property of the
magazine.
Certificates of $250, $150 and
875 and five honorable men
tion awards will be presented.
Decisions of judges to be se
lected) will be finaL
5. Articles will be judged
on the basis of thought con
tent, human interest and lit
erary expression.
has been scientifically deter
mined. It is the sound which
can "just be heard" on that
frequency by a representative
sample of persons with nor
mal hearing. This is the
measure with which the sub
ject's hearing or loss of hear
ing is compared, Dr. Cyprean
sen said.
At the end of Jimmy's ex
amination, results of the test
are codified on an audiogram.
A blue "X" is used for the
left ear and a red circle for
the right ear.
If the results of an audio
metric test indicate nerve
Lions Clubs Will Aid
University Vision Clinic
The Lions Clubs of Nebraska
have announced support of a
low-vision clinic at the Uni
versity's Medical College eye
department as a part of the
"sight conservation" program
of the Lions Clubs.
Campus Donors
Last September 64 members
of Sigma Phi Epsilon donated
their eyes to the Lions eye
bank, a 100 cooperation
which marked the start of
Lions Club efforts to secure
donors on campus.
The pledge was to result in
donation upon death, and may
be broken any time during
the donor's lifetime. No mon
ey is involved for any dona
tion. LITTLE MAN
NIA Meeting Features
Foreign Culture Festival
"Nahia" from India, dances
from Panama and American
folk songs will be combined
Sunday evening in the first
official meeting of the Ne
braska International Associa
tion. The University and commu
nity are invited to come to
this NIA inauguration pro-
Lusk Presents
Piano Concert
Larry H. Lusk, piano in
structor at the University,
will present a concert at the
Union ballroom at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday.
The program includes "Pre
lude and Fugue in G Major,"
by Bach; "Nun Komm' der
Keiden Heiland," by Bach
Busoni; "Sonatine," by Ra
vel; "Variations on a Theme
be Paganini," by Brahms
and "Barcarolle, Opus 60,"
by Chopin.
Professors Display
Art 31asterpieces
Art work recently complet
ed by members of the Univer
sity art department will be on
display in Gallery A of the
UniversityArt Galleries
through March 12.
Jeanne Richards, Richard
Trickey, Jeanne Fosnot,
David Seyler, Tom Sheffield,
Robert Almquist, all mem
bers of the art department
and Tom Scbmitt, assistant to
the director of the University
Art Galleries will exhibit their
work.
Study in
Guadalajara, Mexico
The Guodalojoro Summer School,
o f-ulfy occredited University of
Arizona program, conducted in co
operation with professors from
Stanford University, University of
Colifornio, ond Guodalajoro, will
offer July 3 to August 1 1, ort,
folklore, fleogrophy, history, ton
gue ge ond literoture courses. Tui
tion, board ond room it $245.
Write Prof. Juan B Roel, P.O. Box
7227, Stanford, Calif.
deafness or perception deaf
ness, something is wrong with
the inner ear or the auditory
nerve, Dr. Cypreansen pointed
out.
A conduction loss involves
damage to the conduction sys
tem of the ear, such as dam
age to the ear canal or mid
dle ear. The middle ear is
that part of the ear which
conducts sound to nerves, she
explained. - -
"By testing thousands, we
have found that people with
nerve involvement have more
high frequency than, low fre
quency loss, she said.
Support from the Nebraska
Lions' Sight Conservation
Foundation, Inc., will enable
the medical college to carry
out a one-year pilot study to
determine the value of the
project as a permanent in
clusion in the Eye Departt
ment.
Designed ' to help people
with sub-normal vision to use
what sight they do have to
better advantage, the rehabil
itation program stresses the
importance of realizing that
these individuals are not
blind, but partially sighted.
In support of the project,
the Lions pledged more than
$2,000 for installation of the
clinic.
ON CAMPUS
gram which will begin at 8
p.m. in the Student Union
ballroom. A business meeting
for members of the organi
zation will be held at 7:30
p.m.
The infant organization will
present a program of songs
and dances by students from
different countries represent
ed here at the University
Chancellor Clifford Hardin
will begin the program.
Judy Smith and Surjit Bas
si will sing "Nahia," or "Lov
ers' Song" from India. Ad
ditional Indian folk songs
will be played on an instru
ment called the dholak.
A typical Panamanian
dance called the "Tanberito"
will be done by Hildegart
Ibarra and Edith Valdeze,
American field sen ice stu
dents.
Calypso from the West In
dies will be done by Anthony
Brian. Elaine How will dem
onstrate action songs from
Formosa.
American Indian dances
will be done by Rudi Mitchel
of the Omaha tribe and by
Geanie Little Beaver of the
Winnebago tribe.
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ERIC SEVAREID
The phrase, "political
honeymoon" is being used
every day.' but it does not.
fit the case. What President
Kennedy is enjoying is not
the usual period of good hu
mored tolerance automatic
ally accorded a new leader
by the fair minded Ameri
can people.
He already possesses, be
cause he has boldly reached
out for it, something far
more important than pa
tient toleration from those
who were against him and
those who were skeptical.
What struck me at once
upon returning for a visit
to this country , was not so
much the happy sense of
confirmed judgment among
those who had always be
lieved in him, as the frank
ly volunteered admission by
many of his natural politi
cal enemies that he has
caught their fancy in spite
of themselves.
How long this simple, vis
ceral response to Kennedy's
strong lead will last no one
can guess. So far, it af
firms once more the obser
vation of Woodrow Wilson,
who said that if a Presi
dent "rightly interpret the
national thought and boldly
insist upon it, he is irre
sistible." The deepest in
stinct of America, Wilson
wrote, "is for unified ac
tion and it craves a single
leader."
The President is obvious
ly aware of this; he knew
by instinct that the equally
divided November vote did
not mean one half the peo
ple preferred to cling to the
status quo, the other half
desiring action. It seemed
to me at election time, and
I so wrote, that the coun
try did want to move, but'
was uncertain of the ad
dress it had in mind. It is
always for the national
leader to identify the ad
dress, and this Kennedy is
doing every day. In the do
ing of it he has created a
"honeymoon" spirit in the
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'Political Honeymoon' Era
Different for Kennedy
country quite different from
that enjoyed by Mr. Tru
,man, out of sympathy, in
1945, or that enjoyed by
Mr. Eisenhower, out of af
fection, in 1953.
Kennedy and his unortho
dox colleagues have created
a true momentum, and it
would be hard to exagger
ate the importance of pro
longing it. In at least two,
and possibly three fields of
policy the government is in
the critical position of a
band of men trying to push
a h e a f y, stalled vehicle
over a rise in the road. If
they get it to the top, it
will coast in the clear and
Its engines will pick up
again. If their strength,
their levers and pulleys fail,
the vehicle will not remain
where it is, but will roll
back upon them, careening
and wrecking with increas
ing speed and damage.
One such vehicle is the
domestic economy. As em
ployment creates more em
"ployment, so does unem
ployment create more un
employment; and one has
the feeling that this reces
sion is very near the criti
cal point after which it will
rapidly feed and grow, if
it is not checked now, on
its own poisonous, self -generated
fuels.
The second such vehicle
is the Atlantic alliance. It
is not merely spinning its
wheels in stationary posi
tionit is definitely slipping
downhill under the gravita
tional pull of disintegrative
forces, too complex and
numerous for explanation
here, but which include the
spreading psychology of Eu
ropean neutralism, the im
passe over nuclear strat
egy, and de Gaulle's resist
ance to further unification
until France is in a position
to lead the new Europe, an
outcome still years away at
best.
A third such precariously
situated vehicle may well
be, not U.S.-Russian rela
tions in general, for which
no smooth highway is even
in sight, but the mutual
U.S.-Russian need and de
sire to begin to begin on
controlled disarma
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ment. Success in this must'
be desirable in a n d of it
self, illusory as it is to as
sume that a success here
must lead to further suc
cesses in liquidating the
worldwide cold war.
In the first two of these
efforts it seems certain,
and in the third it seems
unlikely, that u n 1 e s s the
Kennedy momentum is
, maintained and for months
ahead the relative decline
of Western power and in
fluence will not only be ar
rested but will precipitous
ly increase. We will all
have to remind ourselves
from time to time as he
makes mistakes in his
haste as he "surely will
. the- haste is by no means
.imposed upon the govern
ment solely by the Presi
dent's nature but by the
disintegrative nature of the
West's present condition.
Morrison To Give
Banquet Address
Governor Frank Morrison
will deliver a banquet mes
sage at the annual University
Community Beautific a t i o n
Conference, Monday at 6:30
p.m. in the Student Union.
Major speakers for the two
day conference include J. P.
Plain, an executive for the
Sears Roebuck Foundation;
Robert Rucker of the Univer
sity of Oklahoma, and a repre
sentative of the Nebraska
State Engineers office.
Registration for the confer
ence begins at 9 a.m. Monday.
The activities will begin with
a welcome by Dr. A. C. Breck
enridge, dean of faculties,
and Dr. J. O. Young, chair
man of the department or hor
ticulture and forestry at the
University.
Honorary Hosts
Top Ag Scholars
Gamma Sigma Delta, hon
orary agriculture fraternity,
will hold an awards banquet
to honor the top Ag College
sophomores and juniors to
night at 6:30 in the Pan
American room of the Student
Union.
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University Press
Prints Winner
The University Press has
published the best western
non-fiction book in the U.S. in
1950 "South Pass, 1868."
The book, edited by Lola
M. Homsher, director of the
Wyoming State Historical So
ciety, is James Chisholm's
"J o u r n a 1 of the Wyoming
Gold Rush."
Chisholm, a flute playing
Scot, spent eight months
in "end of track towns,"
mining camps and remote
settlers' cabins. He was a cor
respondent for the Chicago
Tribune and covered the gold
rush of 1867.
Chisholm's journal is one
of the few authentic docu
ments relating to the S o u t h
Pass gold rush and "S o u t h
Pass, 1868" is the first time
it has been published.
The best western award
was presented by the West
ern Writers of America.
Judges for this year's com
petition were Irving Stone,
author of "Men to Match My
Mountains"; Robert L. Per
kin, literary editor of the
Rocky Mountain News, and
Alan Swallow, a publisher in
Denver.
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