The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, May 01, 1961, Page Page 2, Image 2
The Nebraskan Monday, May 1, 1961 Pqge 2 ..'I i V;5 .t 1 A Just A Thought By Dare Calhoun The Peace Corps is picking up steam in two opposite j directions, according to Washington headquarters. I University and college campuses throughout the na- ; tion continue to show a great deal of interest. Every day j the Peace Corps center is flooded with letters and appli- j cations. This, the Peace Corps likes It's the other problem that worries them. A few misconceptions about the Peace Corps have sprung up, according to a headquarters release.' Here are a few of the problems they are facing. College graduates will NOT dig ditches in the Peace Corps. Nor will they explain Locke to the Bantus. The volun teers will not try to "Americanize" the world, nor will they be selected from the ranks of the "draft dodgers." These are just a few of the misconceptions. First, the Peace Corps volunteers will go only where he Is asked. He will be asked only where there is a speci fic Job to do. The Job ill be one the host nation can't do itself, headquarters says. Presently, the first vol'-ateers are scheduled to go to Tanganyika. There, roads must be built to get the farmer's produce to market centers. Volunteers with these skills have applied and interviews have been set for late May. In June a task force will be selected and intensive training started. At a university the volunteer will learn about Tan ganyika, about its culture, tradition and history. He will also study the heritage and history of the United States. H will begin a physical conditioning program and brush up on his skills in terrain similar to Tanganyika's. Physical and mental conditioning for the xigors of Africa will be stepped up at a camp site in a mountain rain forest abroad. Lectures on tropical living conditions win be given. In most projects, according to Peace Corps, head quarters, the local language will be taught in a stateside university. For the Tanganyikan project, however, the Tanganvikan government has asked that it be permitted to use its techniques to teach the volunteers Swahili. The rest of the release points out the work, the vol unteers will do. It also points out another misconception that of fi nances. The volunteer will receive enough money to live a "simple" existence, but not exactly at the level of the local populace, according to the release. Misconceptions has found its way to the University campus also. Many of the people around here are under the impression that they, as Peace Corps members, will be the knight in shining armor who win ride into some underdeveloped country and personally save it Right now the youth, generally, is under the impres sion that the Peace Corps is the greatest thing in the world. Let's face reality, it isn't. The Peace Corps will mean a lot of hard work, and will certainly call for cour age and endurance. This doesnl include the fact that this will be about the loneliest job imaginable. As soon as the luster wears off of the Peace Corps, the real merits win stand out If any of you are interested in finding out more about the Peace Corps, a recently published "Fact Book" may satisfy your curiosity. If you want to obtain a copy of this publication, write to Peace Corps, Washington 25, D.C. The Bite's Worse By Barbara Barker Another exciting weekend is completed and yet an other is in bountiful store for the forward-looking U of Nebraska campus. The Phi Delt turtle race went off with smashing success, Eber manning the mike in a typical, always-hilarious, frequently - quite - smutty manner and Stan popping the cap pistol like a celeb rity. Adding the hare, speed demoniacal as he may have been, to the fes tivities was great sport; I'm glad the little furry ani mal had an excuse for not movingthe hare always loses, naturally. Only one problem has arisen with the two-month old lovable litte creature how to get rid of him? Would some animal lover like a cheap, slow, sharp-clawed, little white Easter bunny named Hogo boom (with a tin can full of oat-and-pellet rabbit food thrown in) to train for next year's turtle marathon???? My heartiest congratula tions to the young coed who was indeed fortunate to be paired off with the recently departing Fiji Field Secre tary. Yon realixed, of course, the privilege which befell yon in dealing with thig young gentleman, and yon have my very best wishes in ever trying to get back on the good side of your housemother. The up-and-coming week end holds high promises of being stupendously exciting and thrilling and an the usual high-sounding termi nology connected with such festivities. I have just been told I should say something very mystic at this point in order to confuse aU you readers (if any of you are still there) and make like I really know an the deep dark secrets, etc., etc. To ten you the truth, I have Dailv Nebraskan Member Associated Collegiate Press, International Press Representative: National Advertiolnr Service, Incorporated Published at: Soom SI, Student Union, Lincoln, Nebraska. 14th & K Telephone HE 8-7631. ext. 4225, 4226. 4227 SEVENTY -ONE TEARS OLD n Dally ffeftiMkM t Booth! Monday, Tw-wtey, Wnaama'an aa Frt my aurtaf Mm rhnl jimr, eM taring 'wtlin and nam prWK. by to6ifit f the Cnrmmlty f Netoraoka 9tr6r mntnarltation af th CammKtm a BtiKlat affairs an aa ,prr imi af atadrttt Ttnia. Pahlleatfea anaer ttw JahMltrtta at the Bahiwimnlttea aa Hlnfm Pabllratlnaa akall fee free tram sitanal eemarshlp " the nart af the Pnbeammlttee er aa the part af aay verma aaMn tbe rnreeratty. The mem hem at the Dally Kehraakaa atsff are y rinaally vmponsaat tac what they aar, ar aa, ar earn to fee artnM. raoraarr a. ISS. ffnbarrlpttea ratea are S per emeter ar SS fnr the aeaemle jm. Katerxa aa aeeena ehtn matter at tae aaat afflea ta Uneata, WeknMka, ajaaiar Ow act ar aafaat 4, kVITOKIAL OTA FT F4ttat Dave Calhena IMaaaclnc Baltar Oretehen flh-llber,- Hdltnr Mora) Keatty A tftrnt Ktfftar - !" Pnrreei ftmtrta a:tltir HaJ Bmwa Cx Wttaea .Tmt Dean, Iante Helhert, errj lmhereea dtaff Wrllera .....Ana Morer. IMra smekey, Haaey Whltfeei Jaaiar SMrff WrHaaj Inna Wealfartfc. fm Baek. loya Clarfe Kleannr Bllllere TiteM rwi Wilar tmj Lamhrnwa BCSDJICSS STAFF Una tore Maaarer .... tan Ralmao Aashitaat Baxaieas Maaafeja ..Dam FemaMa, BUI CanUekt, Ma Muveaer Calhoun been very lackadaisical j about the whole affair this j year, merely hoping that it j win not rain and that I win j he physically fit to attend so ! that I may see one really j nice - type - let's - get - a-j sun - tan Ivy Day before I j depart from this institution, j I have thought of adding j my personal participation j to the goings-on by setting up a mask stand for dis- j appointed potentials or sing- j ing flatter than usual on our Ivy Day Sing song. Person- j aUy, I think Ivy Day festiv- j ities should be held in the same area as always the j basement watt's of Mr. Shel- don's Gothic temple would j provide excellent acoustical I conditions for the yearly rendition of "W h o ShaU i Bear the Ivy?" May the Spring Day j games be springy, with a j personal hope that the moo- 1 ing from the cow barns wiU j not out-do the screaming, teeming masses in competi- I tion; may the Delts continue to add their only real con- j tribution to the campus the j nicely-blossoming pink trees gracing their contemporary dwelling; may the May! Queen fail to trip on her I train; and long live District I Conventions. Right? Right. I Ostdiek to Preside At 4-H Conference University freshman, Dolor-I es Ostdiek, one of Nebraska's! 4-H club members, has been selected for a Vey presiding; role during the 31st National! 4-H Conference now under way in Washington, D. C. I Miss Ostdiek wffl preside! during one of the delegate as- sembly sessions. Other Nebraska 4-H'ers at-! tending the conference include! Joyce B a y m a n n, Ronald! Wright and Fred Marx. f W - : r? mh SI tZ ."3. TediT'i arUrlr arah arHa the I'at ; rmiiy E-vtenstea IK'islaa vairh eana : erates wttfe the eellfHreli. aivtwiea. ar : Mrtmejita and arrnlttia It tar J't : TersiK at brk la extradlnt tartr I airihet te thr aeeale af the war. ia : arder areemnltch thh avraear. there : are a treat variety a( eervtm ara : Tidrd. 'The University was a ; pioneer in the field of high ; school correspondence ! study," says Dr. G. W. ; Childs, diret-tor of the Class and Correspondence In struction. "It has the most extensive program of any college or university in the United States. In the fan of 1929, Dr. K. i O. Broady, present direo i tor of the Extension Divi- sion. Ear Piatt and Dr. A. A. Reed of Teacher's Col : lege began aa experiment i in Nebraska using corres pondence courses in two subjects at the Crookston, Nebraska high school. For , this project a grant of $10. 00 was received from the Carnegie Foundation. Eight pupils studied second year ! Latin and six were en : rolled in History of Eng lish Literature. This start ed the great adventure in high school correspondence work in Nebraska and lat er, throughout the United States. In 1930, forty-six pupils in eight schools be came correspondence stu dents and by 1934. 41 courses had been prepared and were being used by high school students. Omaha began using the correspondence courses for the hpmebound student, and for those with sched ule conflicts. The program is also used for adults, who i have never completed their ; high school education, and for isolated pupils who are i unable to attend a second : dary school. Sometimes a j school enrolls an entire class in the program, with i an Extension Division : teacher actually teaching i the course by correspon : dence. The most recent use of i this service is by American i students living abroad who i want to obtain an Ameri ! can education. Students in seventy -seven foreign coun ; tries are presently enrolled. The high school corres pondence program, under the direction of Lester Har vey, is serving approxi mately 13,000 students as compared with only 4,200 in 1950. . E. W. Ellingson super 1 vises college correspon I dence, which offers oppor 1 tunities to students who i wish to earn college credit. 1 Many students utilize this service to earn extra cred 1 it, either to correct class I conflicts during the day or perhaps just to improve their general educational background with the idea 1 of credit not being of prime 1 importance. I Students who have been 1 put on scholastic probation, by taking and completing successfully six to nine hours of correspondence, I are eligible to be consid f ered for re-entrance into 1 the University. I The courses offered are approved by the various FIRST STEP Around Our Campus department heads, as are the persons who read and grade the lessons. This department is cur rently making surveys of teaching machines, and their possible utilization in the future. Another branch of the Usivefsity Extension Divi sion is that of Community Resources, headed by Dr. Otto Hofberg and super vised by Emiel Chris tens on. it had its origin in 1918 when Dr. Hoiberg felt that the University could be d i g more to help small communities to take advantage of their re sources, relating these t their problems. The depart ment organized to give con sultative assistance to afl Nebraska communities and community groups in the follow ing areas: Communi . ty Research, in which the department cooperates with other departments of the University such as archi tecture in making advisory assistance available free of charge, relative to the de velopment and implemen tation of community self study projects; Community Organization where guid ance is provided is relation to the development of or ganizational structures and operational programs for planning youth centers, community counens and the like; and Community City Planning where assis tance is given to appro priate groups in connec tion with the development of phvsical plans for parks and recreation, industrial development etc. In an possible instances. University students are availed the opportunity to assist in the services ren dered and receive valua ble on-the-job training in their fields. The department of Con ferences and Institutes is another service provided through the Extension Di vision and is headed by Dr. Arthur Ward. The new Ne braska Center for Continu ing Education wffl now pro vide a means for the peo ple of Nebraska and the midwest to utilize facilities in ways not possible be fore. Conferences to be held will range from agriculture to law. This is a place where education can be continued, regardless of tbe level of previous schooling. Dr. Ward is responsible for the directing and plan ning, and specially trained coordinators provide expert professional aid in planning conferences. Dr. Ward said, "The services which can be made available are only as limited as the imagination of the people." Tbe Bureau of Audio Visual Instruction is under the direction of Dr. Robert Steppe and, in general, serves the state in provid ing audio visual materials such as filmf. film strips and tapes. As a service to the Uni versity, the Audio Visual Service division provides, 4 schedules and delivers equipment for classes. Just call Larry Kunkle, who su pervises this section, and a projector, recorder and film or tape, whatever a professor has requested, is delivered, set up for use in his classroom and a pro jectionist is provided if needed. Audio Visual Service also records all major ad dresses, concerts and the like here at the University and these tapes are made available to those who want to use them. Now under progress are plans for the installation of new and improved laboratory facilities for the Romance Language department Under the supervision of Miss Ruth Moline is the Audio Visual Library. Films may be ordered from this library for use in all Nebraska schools. If a school desires a film not contained in the library. Miss Moline endeavors to rent it from another film library to send to the school. Presently the library contains some 5,500 films including those produced by Coronet and the Ency clopedia Britannic. There are many film '"greats" available such as the Hu manitarian Series which is based on great dramatic "Oedipus the King" and others. Available also are complete high school courses ia chemistry aid physict, an undergraduate coDge course in genetics, films of Ton Are There" and '"Omnibus," a series for high schools tn Hori zons of Science" and count less other films which pro vide invaluable information and learning for aH age levels. The Bureau of Audio Vis ual Instruction makes films in accordance with the need for certain information within the state. Working in conjunction with the Bu reau of Reclamation and the U.S. Department of In terior, the most recent fflm produced is "Irrigation Practices." A request was made to have this film nar rated in Spanish and the department is now in the process of doing this. Tbe Audubon Screen Tours pre sented each year is co sponored by the Bureau, and an eminent naturalist presents the narrative with each film. Skoda to Head Ac Exec Board Karen Skoda, a junior in the College of Agriculture, has been named president of the Ag Exec Board. Other students named to po sitions on the Board include Wes Grady, vice-president and Floyd M. Keasling, who was retained from the pre vious Board as a member. The Board, which is the Ag College student governing body, will select a secretary treasurer at its next meeting. May 10. Barnstorming The understatement this week was uttered out on the CoUege of Agriculture cam pus by Dr. Franklin El dridge when he said in con- nection with the 4th annual Science in A g r icul ture Confer ence Thurs day: "We may bulge the walls a bit. but that is what we , Forrest are looking for.' This statement of enthusi asm and delight was made after Dr. Eldridge, who is dean of resident instruction for Ag campus, made a call to the Department of Con ferences and Institutes and found out that some 3S2 top high school scholars had registered for the Con ference as of Tuesday. His statement became an understatement at t h Thursday morning registra tion for the day-long Con ference. A total 442 state high schoolers were pres ent This is even more re markable when it is consid ered that the designers of this Conference set a limit of 400 as the top number of students that could attend before restrictions would have to be enacted. Dr. Eldridge said after the Conference that they will have to keep the at tendance at the Conference siinc where aronnd this vears figure. However, he did sav that if more stu dents wanted to come, the Conference might be "ex panded to a two-day affair." The largest number of high schoolers attending any previous Ag science conference was only 240. Several opinions have been expressed since the Conference on why the at tendance took such an "un expected" jump this year. Victor MeCture, Thayer Countv Extension Agent said students who have at tended in previous years told other students about the program. "There seems to be an awakening in the minds of everyone regarding the in creasing importance of sci ence in our everyday life," commented Dr. Eldridge. "There is an increasing in terest in science throughout the secondary schools and this conference is one that has educational value to students interested in sci ence." Students in srbau areas are becoming tncreasmgly aware of the opportunities for scientific careers in ag riculture as wen as other subject matter areas, con tinued the dean. A farm background is not neces sarily needed for a career in some areas of scientific activity in agriculture at borne economics, be said. Agriculture is presently being faced with the same booming increase of inter est that faced the field of engineering a couple of years ago," Dr. Eldridge stated. Dr Eldridge also gave credit for the attendance Arch Students Travel to Chicago Twenty-nine University ar chitectural students will tour the Chicago area May S-8 on an annual Senior Class Inspec tion Trip of the department of architecture. The cities they will visit in clude Chicago, K., and Ra cine, Spring Green and Madi son, Wis., where they will study outstanding pieces of American architecture, in cluding the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan and Mies Vanderrohe. The trip is sponsored by the student chapter of the Amer ican Institute of Architecture at the University. Faculty members who are making the trip are: Dale Gibbs, associate professor of architecture; Keith Sawyers, assistant professor of archi tecture; and Patrick Hors burgh, associate professor of architecture. FT 1 , - m '"MM- i i Mil Ha llWli I Illalll MBIIiaSSWMlMsMII By JtM Furred mark to the derrtnerit of Conferences anrl 'oattutcs who, for the first tiv.8, han dled the pro- c-vt'ntx t and corresponde -3 Tor tie Conference and to t'ls pa ple of the stsls wlio are coming "to recojr.ize that the College of A-vruliivsis tied up closely to science.'' Dr. Donald Uv.nva.v, de partment or agronomy chairman, said, "Tiiere is a revolution taVn? place in agriculture and the map of the 'battleground is lettered with the word SCIENCE. There are more than twice as many agricultural work ers in the nation employed off the farm dian on the farm. There are at least 15.00O positions open each year for college graduates in agri culture and the colleges across the nation are grad uating only about 7,000 young men annually. Need we say more about the tre mendous opportunities in agriculture?" Dr. Hanway questioned. Dr. Eldridge's reactions to the large attendance was, "This may relax a greater interest in agricul that next year the College will have a larger fresh man class." Some of the high school students who attended the conference expressed varied opinions about the day-long activities that ranged from banquets to demonstrations to speeches. George Libal of Lexington was among the boys who got a different view of home economics: "I didnt expect that home economics could be so interesting," he ex plained. "There is quite a bit more chemistry and physics connected with home economics than I ex pected." Another participant Judy Nelson of Stromsburg, said "1 didnt kiow research had gone so deep into hu man nutrition" after wit nessing the "Proteins for People" demonstrations. She added that tbe ento mology demonstration on insects" looked like fan, but 1 couldn't handle insects. Several of the students tried their hand at operat ing a radio controlled farm tractor that operated like clock-work at the flick of button on the remote con trol panol. They also saw a complicated gadget de signed to measure the shocks sustained by a trac tor driver. Stanley Borcber of Lew iston, was among those who got a chance to iaject plants with India Ink and see the movement of liq uids through the veins of the leaf. Congratulations to the College of Agriculture for a job well done. t (TH(S4lAY,aiA3L THESE ACE VOK BITTER CAf. THESE ARE Vat? DWS OF HARDSHIP AND S1Z)G6LE BJT IF VOJUJOST HOLD VO)R HAD 0? HeHANO KHPON fr6HTlNG.SWSW YOU'LL Tmvsvhi! UJY REALLY THINK X lEV "GOlJDG ! jrOUK SHARE IN AMERICA j