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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1961)
'Page 2 Bi.iif r nwiiiMwrrfi'mf iittk i iiiiiiiiiiin nHrti r-mmf f iiiiniiiwtiiwiriiiwiTBriiiiii"iiwM(iMiwni rw mm rrr 1 1 irirn :wwv?-.y.. LATIN AMERICAN ART University art students Bette Fraser (left) and Diane McKin son view the lacquered plywood artwork of Alejandro Otero now on display at the Uni versity Art Galleries in Morrill Hall. Union, Galleries Feature Latin America Art Exhibit The average visitor to the University's Latin American art exhibit on a single day last week spent approximate Iy three minutes and forty' two seconds viewing the eft tire collection, although the visits ranged from ten min utes to a mere glance involv ing only a few seconds. On the whole, however, the visitor spent just a little over eight seconds on each paint ing. According to Morrill Hall Art Gallery assistants, who are artists themselves, the problem seems to be this: The American public has been so steeped in Western commer cial art, which is done spe cifically to appeal to the gen eral public to "sell" them an idea or a product that for the most part its mind is closed to abstract or "modern" art feeling rather than a specific which is painted to convey a message. ;i Modem art may appeal to the untrained eye because of the colors, the subject, or even the texture of the paint on the canvas. But frequently it is appealing because it makes . the viewer "feel" something when he sees it. Artists term this feeling an "aesthetic response," and even though the viewer may not understand what causes it this response is what makes him like one painting while another leaves him cold. The Latin American exhibit of contemporary or "modern" art is currently on display every day on the second floor of Morrill Hall until July 29. It is composed of 35 paint ings of eleven artists who MASTERPIECE OF STYLING! luxurious, with baguette diamonds Daring originality, in a new design of everlasting beauty. The Urge center diamond is ' glorified by three baguettes and five round diamond. An imprtuivt pair. Rare valuel I.,, $35000 fee. f4. To CONVENIENT TERMS Sartor Jewelery 1200 "0" Street CERTIFIED GEMOLOGSST AMERICAN GEM SOCIETY WW were chosen as being repre sentative of the latest genera tion to achieve maturity in Latin America, rather than those who have already estab lished an international repu tation or who are considered "promising new talent." The works of such outsatnd ing contemporary South American artists as Alejandro Otero and Fernando de Szys zlo highlight the display. The featured group of paint ings at the galleries is called "Latin America; New Depart ures," and was prepared by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston in collaboration with Time, Inc. Included is the highly interesting and dif ferent wroks of Alejandro Otero, who uses a medium of lacquer on plyboard. The work of de Szyszlo, a Western Nebraska Attracts Fossil, Geology Expedition Western Nebraska will be come the center of attention beginning Monday, July 31, for an assembly of some of the best known authorities on fossil mammals in the United States. An expedition of more than 90 persons, many of whom are distinguished members of the national Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, will rendezvous at Fort Robinson for a five day tour. Dr. C. Bertrant Schultz, di rector of the University of Ne braska State Museum and Prof. T. M. Stout of the de partment of geology, are lead ers of the scientists' field con ference and will head the caravan to 40 important fossil and geologic sites in the state. Dr. Schultz, explaining the importance of the expedition to the scientists and the state, pointed out that the most com plete and dated sequence of medial and late Tertiary mammal fossils on the con tinent, if not in the world, is to be found in Nebraska. Many of the scientific (geol- Summer Nebraskan Ttao Rummer Ntbraikaa li lb offlcfal publican of the Urtlrtriltr of Nebraa ka Simmer Heiilona an it atiallihrd under the apoataritilp af the School af Joar-alltm The aowapaper la pabllahed every Taeadar aarlnf the Sammer Sea alalia except M holiday! and eiam pe riod!. Staff Gretehen Shellberf Editor fam Uollowaf Baalaeat Maaafcr Information far publlcatlaa may be turned In at 111 Bnrnett or called aa nteaalm SIS or 3157. Need Extra Money? Nebraskan Want Ads 5 cents s word: $1.00 mini mum. Ads to be printed in the classified section of th Summer Nebraskan must be accompanied by the name of the person placinr said ad and brought to room tlU Burnett. 11 Peruvian, is also on display in the lobby of the Nebraska Union. In addition to the paintings, an exhibition of Pre-Columbl an ceramics will also be on display at the Nebraska Un ion. The items were selected by Allen Wardwell, curator of the department of primitive art at the Art Institute of CM cago. Mr. Wardwell is a guest lecturer at the University. The University art gallery hours are from 8 a.m. to S p.m. daily and from 2 to S p.m. on Sundays. The paintings and pottery at the Nebraska Union may be seen between the hours of 6:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday (and Sun day) and on Friday and Sat urday from 6:30 until mid' night. gic) names used by authori ties throughout the world are based on Nebraska outcrop sites," he said. "Just a few of those include Chadron, Brule and Arikaree (after the Nebraska Indians), White Riv er, Gering, Ogallala and Val entine." Dr. Schultz also pointed out that in Nebraska the scientists can study one of the most complete stratigra p h i c sequences of ice age fossil mammal material anywhere. Among the many outstand ing American scientists who will take part in the field con ference are Dr. John A. Wil son of the University of Texas, Dr. G. Edward Lewis of the U.S. Geological Survey and Dr. W. D. Turnbull of the Chi cago Natural History Muse um. The expedition will start Monday morning (July 31) at Fort Robinson, in the heart of the rich and famous fossil bearing deposits of the Cen tral Great Plains. Overnight stops will be made at Scotts bluff and Ogallala. After the tour, conference members win visit the Uni versity of Nebraska State Mu seum and the department of geology. Professors Schultz and Stout, the conference leaders, will be assisted by Charles H. Falkenbach and Morris Skin ner of the New York Frick Laboratory; Lloyd G. Tanner, associate curator of verte brate paleontology at the Uni versity of Nebraska; Dr. Har old Cook, director of the muse um of Natural History at Agate and Dr. A. L. Lugn professor of geology at t h e University of Nebraska. A GOOD TEACHIRI AGENCY DAVIS School Servica IN ROLL NOW Established 1918 Serving the Mic ouri Valley to the Wett. Coast. 529 Stuart Bldg. Lincoln 8. Nebr. Have Your TYPEWRITERS Cleaned and Repaired Bloom Typewriter Exchange 323 No. 13 HE 2-5258 Summer Nebraskan Union Tour Visits Journal-Star Co, The Student Union will sponsor a tour of the Lincoln Journal-Star Printing Com pany Thursday afternoon. The tour, which Is free, will leave the S Street entrance of the Union at 3 p.m. It will visit the editorial department of the paper and follow copy through to the photographic laboratory, composing room and press room. All interested students, fac ulty or staff of the University may sign up in the Student Union program office, room 136 by Wednesday. Far East Films Two films will be presented in Love Library auditorium tomorrow at 1 p.m. by the Far Eastern Institute. "Three Brothers" traces the progress being made in Indo nesia today. The second film, "The Sword and the Flute," explains the difference be tween Moslem and Hindu con cepts of art. Four Lands That Will Host Peace Corps The following are outlines of the four areas where Peace Corps volunteers, many trained in the Midwest, will serve in the near future: Tanganyika As a result of a request from the government of Tan ganyika, the Peace Corps has assigned 20 surveyors, four geologists and four engi neers to that territory. The project is composed of three parts: ... feeder road surveys. . . . engineering on main territorial roads. , . . geological survey map ping. In the Tanganyikan three year development plan, a pro gram has been drawn up for the construction of feeder roads to enable the small farmer to bring his produce to the main market centers. Construction cannot go for ward until critical surveys and alignments have been made. The Peace Corps sur veyors will carry out this work in district areas aesig nated by the office of the Dis trict Engineer and at the same time train two or three young Tanganyikans per party. Supervisors The chief assignment of the civil engineers is to supervise the maintenance, grading and surfacing of main terri torial arteries. They will also oversee the construction of bridges, the installation of culverts and the design of drifts. The four geologists will be responsible for geological sur vey in selected areas of Tan ganyika. . The volunteers will be as signed to the Government oi Tanganyika for a two year period. They will come under the direct administration of the Ministries of Communlca tions and Commerce and In dustry and will receive tech nical direction from the pro vincial engineering headquar ters where they are assigned. Tanganyika is about the size of Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas combined. It lies between the great lakes of Central Africa and the Indian Ocean, just south of the Equa tor. Its total area is 362,688 square miles including some 20,000 square miles of inland water. At present, the nation's economy is based largely on agriculture, but only nine per cent of its land area is cul tivated. Lack of adequate roads to permit rapid move ment of crops and produce to market and the absence of year-round water supply limit cultivation. The main crops are sisal, cotton and coffee. A Peace Corps group to be sent to Tanganyika is now training at El Paso, Texas at Texas Western University. Colombia The first Peace Corps pro gram in Latin America will be the assignment of 64 vol unteers to community de velopment projects in Columbia. ,ff"1T,-Tlr,1,"lflfT"TTfTMIlfcT"T n"f tf V" GOING HOME? Is your car ready? Have our mechanics look over your car and make adjustments that mean smooth motoring ahead. GEORGE KilAUB MOBIL SERVICE 701 N. 10th HE 2-7960 0 Retarded Children on Ashland Trip Gain Train, Bus Travel Experience 1 1 2 1 1 2 A roundtrip journey last week of less than 80 miles from Lincoln to Ashland and back opened a new world of experience for two groups of people: the 25 re tarded youngsters who made the trip and the 18 teachers who took them. The travelers went "to Ash land by train and returned by chartered bus but the ex cursion was far from routine. It provided the basis for in struction in simple communi cation, courtesy and even ideas of distance, involving numbers things which most youngsters pick up with out special instruction. The trip was a part of the University of Nebraska's total specialized training program for teachers of three-separate groups of exceptional c h 1 1 drens the retarded, the gifted and those who are hard of hearing or deaf. Only the re tarded group went on the trip. Dr. Marshall S. Hiskey, pro fessor of educational psychol ogy and measurements and director of the University's Educational Psycholog ical Clinic who heads the pro- rJ"" ' MINN. fL,n I I " DflK 1 v v,s' n L . i. NE8R., - Y" lS " KAN, S MO, UJHftT IS THE MIOU6ST? These projects are being carried out by the Columbian government's Community De velopment Department in col laboration with the U.S. pri vate voluntary agency CARE. This will be the first program undertaken by the Peace Corps with a private volun tary agency."' Communities Volunteers will work in small communities with trained Columbian counter parts in village activities such as construction of feeder roads, building small commu nity schools, digging wells, excavating and stocking fish ponds, raising small farm animals, setting up recreation for children and cooperative farm improvement. . The prograirrwill send workers to villages in the provinces of Cundinmarca, Caldas, Valle, Tolima and Antioquia. The project will last two years. These trainees are presently attending Rut ger University in New Bruns wick, New Jersey. Columbia is located in the extreme northwest of S o u t h America. It extends from the Pacific Ocean on the West to the lowlands of Venezuela on the East and from the Carib bean Sea on the North to the Amazon Jungle on the South. Of a population of 12 mil lion, 40 percent is urban. Only two percent of Colum- bia's 435,000 acres is u n d e r cultivation. Philippines The Peace Corps will send 300 teachers to the Philippine Islands to serve as education al aides in the elementary public schools. Their primary task will be to improve the instruction of general science and the English language. The volunteers will work as assistants to the Filipino teaching staff under the su pervision of the principal of the school and district and division Filipino supervisors. Theae teachers will serve as models for spoken English, sources of vocabulary devel opment and readers of compo sition. In science instruction, the volunteer will draw upon cmm said the trio arriounted to a D-day following, weeks of preparation. , "The first objective of our program," he said, "is to show teachers the kinds of learning experiences which are valuable In the Instruc tion of retarded children. "For such youngsters the learning of the simple things you have to do to get from one place to another, how you act when you do them and how you communicate are tough problems which must be mastered," Dr. Hiskey said. Most people, he remarked, have no reason to consider the thinking and the patience involved in instructing young sters who, for example, can grasp the meaning of a traf fic light and be guided by its signals but who have difficulty understanding that a traffic light in the middle of an in tersection and one installed at the side of the street serve the same purpose. Before the youngsters boarded a real train and bus, they made several "d r y runs" In their classroom at University High School, lin his general familiarity with scientific subjects to help with simple classroom experi ments. The volunteer's role will be extended to some extracuric ular activities such as scout ing, recreation programs and parent-teacher meetings. English is taught in all pub lic Philippine schools after the second grade and is the dom inant language of trade and commerce. The Elementary Education Act of 1953 in the Philippines extended the compulsory school attendance to all chil dren from the age of 7 to 13. In the 1959-60 school year there were about 4,150,000 children and young people en rolled in schools on all levels. About 40,000 were graduated in Adult Education courses. Chile The University of Notre Dame, acting on behalf of the Indiana Conference of Higher Education, has agreed to send 40 Peace Corps volunteers to Chile to work in village de velopment and teaching ac tivities with privately s p o n sored Chilean Institute for Rural Education. The volunteers will be inte grated into the work of the Institute. Projects will include practical demonstrations of cultivation, horticulture, small animal husbandry, animal RUSS' SNACK BAR WELCOMES YOU Homemade Roll Pin 1227 FAST DEPENDABLE ONE DAY Laundry and Cleaning ... nn LAUNDRY AND CLEANERS 10 Cosh & Carry 239 Ho. 14th HE 2-5262 Tuesday, July 18, 1961 ing up chairs to simulate train and bus seats. They al so studied pictures of dining cars, sleepers, and buses, and worked hard to understand how, in travel, one m i 1 e stretches into two,, and two Into four. . , Do such learning experi ences pay off? , ' , . . Yes, says Dr. Hiskey, at least sometimes, "Some of the retarded chil dren we have had are now young adults and have found simple, self-supporting jobs. Most never achieve much ac ademic progress beyond 5th or 6th grade work but many of them can learn to com municate satisfactorily and to live In the usual social setting and that is better for everybody than a life in an institution," he said. . One of the next class as signments: writing simple thank you notes to the train men, the porter and the bus driver. Most of the 53 teachers and student teachers participating in the University's limited special program are from Nebraska but some are from other states, two from Alaska, vaccination, rural carpentry, family education, organized recreation and home e c o nomics. The Peace Corps members will be assigned to specific areas and Institute Operating Centers. They will participate in a program of health edu cation, first aid, hygiene, child care and community ac tivities to implement a newly organized Radio Educational Program. This project will also take two years. Chile is one of the Southernmost countries of this Hemisphere, occupying a 100-mile-wide ribbon of land be tween the Andes and the Pa cific Ocean. It is principally agricultural in its economy and depends on some min erals including copper and nitrates. Of its 6 million population, 65 percent is concentrated in the long, agriculturally pro ductive central valley. The population trend has been to wards urban concentration. The terrain is mostly moun tainous and climate ranges from temperate to virgin jungle. The principle cash crop is coffee. Columbia's economy is mostly agricul tural. Peace Corps volunteers there will carry on with the Columbian government's own plan for increasing the pro ductivity and living stand ards. Soft Drink. Cakn R St. MM I , iirumi f I