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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
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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
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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
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