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Lecture on Space Today, 2 p.m. Magician for Fun Wednesday U3ARY Lincoln, Nebraska 20 1961 Summer Nebroskan Tuesday June 20, 1961 What Is the Midwest? Education Wise? MmmerSessions ItV Value to Nebraska Editor'! note: This Is the first article In a riet which wUl attempt to ex plore the Midwest, specifically Nebraakai Its opportunities. Its dlsadvantaies, Its problems. In this first story we will examine some edneatora rlews in an attempt to put the Summer Sessions Into perspective with the development of the state. , . By Gretchen Shellberg Is the academic quality of the Summer Sessions superior to that of the fall and spring semesters? Are Summer Ses sions more beneficial to the state of Nebraska? According to Dr. Frank E. Sorenson, director of the Sum mer Sessions, the answers to both these questions, are yes. "The summer student is more mature. He's here be cause he wants to be and the faculty are realizing that," Dr. Sorenson said. "And," he added, "the qual ity of the faculty is relative." Most of the summer staff are now of major rank (as sociate or full professors) with much experience, Sorenson said. This faculty, coupled with more mature students, results in a superior academ ic session, he said. As an example of the ma turity of students, Sorenson cited the fact that two out of three students in the Univer sity's Summer Sessions are teachers, school superintend ents and educational 1 e a d ers. Direct Help "The Summer Sessions bring direct help to the state," Sorenson continued. These educators usually stay in Ne braska and the result is di rect benefits not only to those educated here but to "those members of their community to whom they pass on their learning," he said. Therefore, "as we improve our Summer Sessions we im mediately improve Nebraska. In the fall and spring, stu dents leave the state and we need a longer look to see the benefit to the state," he said. These students who leave the state, he explained, pro duce materials and products elsewhere that we use here, however, so we can't actually consider them separated from Nebraska. "Nebraska is not 'apart' but 'a part' of the nation and the world," Dr. Sorenson said. "We can't be separate and independent. There's where we make our mistake." Adam Breckenridge, Dean of Faculties, also stressed Ne braska's being "a part" of the world. In discussing Uni versity graduates who leave the state, he said, "I'd be alarmed if people didn't go elsewhere. I'd think they weren't qualified to compete in the nation's market" Students Stay Breckenridge stressed the fact, however, that many students from the University, regardless of the sessions they attended, do stay in Ne braska. He cited the following examples: one-third of all the liv ing graduates of the College of Engineering live ia Ne braska. Half of the state's prac- World Affairs Previews Will Provide Adventures to Space, Southeast Asia ww . I T Dr. Everett T. Welmers, director of Satellite Systems of the Aerospace Corp. and one of the nation's leading space research executives, will speak at the University today at 2 p.m. in Love Library Auditorium. The lecture, "Adventures in Space," will be open to Summer Sessions partici pants and the public as part of the World Affairs Pre views. The second lecture in the series will be presented next ilonday at 2 p.m. ia Love Library also. It will feature Dr. Robert A. Scal apino, professor of political science at the University of Calif orinla, Berkley. His lec ture Is entitled "U.S. Re sponsibilities la Southeast Asia." Both speakers are author ities in their respective fields. N Dr. Welmers Dr. Welmers has recently been associated with the In stitute for Defense Analysis in Washington, D.C. In addi tion to many government and industrial assignments, be was a former assistant to the president of the Bell Aircraft Corporation for long-range planning. r- N DAK I J ( f s. drk. 1 Wis' n C C. KRN. J MO. jLT f ( ticing dentists, doctors and lawyers are NU graduates. Of approximately 80,000 living alumni of the Univer sity, one half live in the state. Dean Breckenridge d i s agreed with Dr. Sorenson on other points concerning the Summer Sessions, however., According , to Dean Breck enridge, the student in Sep tember is equally as mature as the summer student. "The September student's here be cause he wants to be, too," he said. "During the summer," Breckenridge added, "the ma jority are enrolled in colleges other than Teachers. There is a heavy distribution in the undergraduate colleges." Enrollment College 1960 Agriculture 118 Arts and Sciences 341 Bii Ad 198 Dentistry 84 Engineering and Architecture 215 Graduate 781 Law .... 3 Pharmacy 3 Teachers (under graduate) 829 Teachers (advanced professional) 688 Junior Division 13 Students at Large 95 Breckenridge also believes that the person who goes to DR. EVERETT WELMERS During World War II, Dr. Welmers was responsible for the navigation programs taught to Air Force and Navy persoH&eL As i re search specialist he has been a member of several special study groups for the Department of Defense and has lectured on dynamics, computers, applied mathe matics, operations analysis, reliability and aerospace problems. If Tr j i L.aiiii-imMW.timwmw UJHRT IS THS MIDWEST? college doesn't have an im mediate distribution of ef fects on those around him when he returns to his com munity. "He doesn't 'tuck this fact away and use it on Sep tember 31. You don't depart mentalize your knowledge," Breckenridge said. Opportunity Both men seemed to agree that "opportunity" was the magic force in encouraging or discouraging migration to and from the state. "Here is an agricultural state," Sorenson said in dis cussing Nebraska. "Our basic industry, farming, used to em ploy lots of people and keep the children at home." "Employment opportunities are not here at the present time, however," he added. 'The basic reasons why peo ple come to a state don't shine out." These, he said, include em ployment, touring and vaca tion spots, and taking advan tage of educational opportu nities, particularly in higher education. Sorenson said that univer sities such as Colorado have recreational facilities Nebras ka can't offer. Over a period of time they have publicized their university" (Colorado) and people have gotten in the habit of going there, he said Life on Plains "We must sell the idea across the U.S. of what life DR. ROBERT SCALAPINO His early experiences have included testing of jet aircraft and as early as 1949 serving as chief of mis sile dynamics for the Bell corporation. Dr. Sca'aplno The second guest lecturer, Dr. Robert Scalapino, holds an equally impressive rec ord. An authority on the Far East, he holds a B.A. degree from Santa Barbara College and an M.A. and is like in the Great Plains," he said. "We need to develop our areas and we need to publicize more." "It takes time to build a tradition of a fine Summer Session. We must advance the quality of teaching," he said. "More will come as we make our environment more com plete and comfortable andas we publicize," Sorenson said. He added that already much of the "publicity" is being done by word of mouth and through the constantly chang ing bulletin revisions. The World Affairs Previews and the Fine Arts programs also help to "sell the session," he said, "and the Union does a tremendous job in food and recreation areas. The dorms Sky Shoic Depicts What did the night sky look like to early Indians, settlers and cowboys? How did it appear to Custer and his men just before dawn of their last day fighting the Indians? These scenes are part of the University's Mueller Plane tarium summer sky show, "A Night Sky on the Prairie," being presented now through July 31 at the planetarium in Morrill Hall. The programs may be seen Monday-Friday at 2:45 p.m.; Monday, Wednesday and Fri day at 8 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays at 2:30 and 3:45 Ph.D. from Harvard Uni versity. Scalapino, who will pre sent the second lecture in, the World Affairs series next Monday, also held a Carnegie Fonndatioa Grant, a Rockefeller Fonndatioa Grant, a Ford Foundation Grant and was a Social - Science Researh Council Fellow. He is currently a professor and vice chairman of the department of polit ical science at the Univer sity of California, Berkeley. In addition Scalapino has served as a consultant to the Governmental Affairs Institute, a University of California extension repre sentative in the Far East for the Armed Forces program, vice chairman of the In stitute of International Stu dies for the University of California, a research con sultant for the American As sembly at Columbia Univer sity and a consultant to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (on Asia). He lists many publications to his credit, including ar ticles for the Far eastern Survey, Foreign Policy Re ports and the American Pol itical Science Eaview. M are better too. We are ac-l quiring some maturity." Dean Breckenridge, on the other hand, said, "the contri bution of the summer pro gram is just another period of education. You do most of the same things you do any other time of the school year." He emphasized the fact that Summer Sessions are a main part of the University pro gram and not a special program. Special lectures and recre ational facilities are also available the year 'round and in greater number, he said. He cited the Montgomery lec tures and convocations such as the one last spring fea turing U.S. Supreme Court Night on Prairie p.m. They include both sight and sound impressions of lightning, thunder, pounding of cattle's hooves during a stampede and even the lone some wail of a coyote. August Degree Applications Due All students who expect to receive bachelors or ad vanced degrees or teaching certificates in August should apply for them by June 27 in the Registrar's office, 208 Ad ministration Building. erf IW' ih J f S3 J -:,' -- if Justice William O. Douglas as examples. 'No Difference' "Things during the summer are no different," Brecken ridge said. "The regular year is flooded with these things and this (summer) is a con tinuation of this kind of pro gram." - Breckenridge did not give recreational and environmen tal factors as reasons for drawing students to summer school. He said the program expands gradually as stu dent interest expands," and he expressed no desire to attract more outstate students to the sessions. According to the dean, 14 15 of the University enroll ment is outstate students. When asked if a wider rep resentation might not be more beneficial to Nebraska's de velopment as "a part" of the rest of the nation, Dean Breckenridge said "Nebras kans are not as provincial as or less provincial than those who've never been west of the Hudson." "There's no magic in per centage figures of mixed population (representing dif ferent geographic areas)," he said. "There is no way to de termine what makes a good mix. I know of no level to set that would be better than it is." Breckenridge added that there is no open recruiting Index to Inside Pages MATH LOSES ITS APPLES Seventh graders at Univer sity High School are not learning mathematics by count ing apples bought at the grocery store any more. To learn how these students were taught to think out patterns in math for themselves see Page 2 AREA WDLY SCTD MDT TO STG-It's not gibberish, at least not to trained meteorologists who interpret phrases like this into everyday weather predictions. For an ex planation of the causes of our present June thunderstorms see Page 2 HAIL TO THE TEAM During the past 60 years, 15 ath letic directors have coached Nebraska's football teams, developed the Athletic Department and watched NU stu dents accumulate records in both major and minor sports. For a background on these 15 men and their teams see.. Page 3 SUMMER TELEVIEWING Campus Educational Channel 12, KUON-TV, presents "The Quiet War," an inside view at South Vietnam, its cold war and its living conditions, actually filmed in Vietnam by Intertel cameramen. For a complete KUON-TV listing see Page 4 "COMIC MAGICIAN The Student Union presents C. Shaw Smith as the second performer in its artist series Wed nesday. To learn more about this comedian see Page 4 program at the University be cause mere wouia oe a tnam reaction of more students, re quiring more facilities, requir ing more money, resulting in more students, requiring mora facilities, etc. War Babies He did anticipate, however, that in about 5 years there wil be a surge of more out state students he war bab ies in all University s e s sions because other Univer sities are fining up and Ne braska's enrollment is still low and entrance require ments are not as strict. Breckenridge also listed lack of opportunity as a fac tor in student migration, how ever he felt it causes UnS versity graduates to leave the; state rather than failing to ' draw outsiders to the states "Students leave because the? go where the opportunities are,' he said, "Architects go where there's lots of construction. Teachers want adventure, tO get away from Jlie home re gion and more attractive sain aries, perhaps in a large community," he said. When asked why he thought students come to the Univer sity, specifically the Summer Sessions, Breckenridge felt many people enter teaching to do work related to educa tion outside of the classroom. "Teachers don't have the magic means to gain or dis cover new knowledge, put un der the broad umbrella of re search, so they must attend Summer Sessions to gain that knowledge," he said. "Many faculty don't want to engage in the teaching function the year round. They need time without interrup tions to do research and ad ditional study," he said. Summer Sessions also pro vide opportunity for the high school graduate to begin col lege, Breckenridge added. "We've always had this pro gram ... but this year there's a new idea." The emphasis is on a special program for students not" academically well prepared for college work judging from their high school record. We have sug gested two courses instead of three for these students, Breckenridge said. Trimester Plan Breckenridge listed a third reason why he thought the Summer Sessions were popu lar. "Some people favor the trimester plan," he said. This would envolve creating three semesters instead of two' which would run year around instead of nine months long. The dean said he felt there was no difference between this plan and the present system of two semesters with a sum mer school "Students can go year 'round now if they want to," -he said. "The trimester doesn't help since you've still got to have a Summer Ses sion begining in June for the school teachers who aren't free when the third semester begins in April."
