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Wednesday, September 27, 1961 Page 2 The Daily Nebraskan EDITORIAL OPINION Educational Adventures Include Outside Interests A college education entails more than attending classes and doing homework. A broader education is possible through many different extra-curricular activi ties. One of these out-of-the classroom learning exper iences is the annual Foreign Film Society program. - Although these movies may be highly entertaining they have been chosen to give students, faculty and other Interested persons a close view of a world we seldom see otherwise. This year only 1,000 tickets will be sold to those interested and all pictures will be shown in the Nebraska Center for Continuing Education. The 12 movies will be shown twice on the days of viewing, which is a new twist in foreign film showing. We are not supporting the Society on a financial basis, rather for the entertainment and educational value of their films. The Society is by no means the only method of broadening one's mind but is a good example of an organization with worthwhile goals and purposes on our campus. . 1 i t t J i ) Flowerpot By Gretchen Shellberg Friends, we are of the home-grown Nebraska gar den variety. All the campus is a flowerbed. And it has some real boomers, and then it has I some buds that never open, and then it has some real weeds. We a 1 1 f t e n d to think in rel- ' ' , ative terms of who's who in the Miss Shellberg NU flowerbed. But, note, this is not the ONLY flow erbed around. Nor is Ne braska, nor even the Unit ed States the supreme flow erbed. There are flowerbeds in other lands that are grow ing species and varieties we have never imagined possi ble. But because these vari eties are not home-grown, we tend to think they are not good, not desirable, or just couldn't grow In this climate. But how do we know Tin- & .mM SARTOR'S Jewelry jg jfSl&V' - Arl S. ;; '. 1200 "O" Street C. w w - - , ' hMMzXJ i : 1 foreign students' organiza- tion on this campus. Rag editor Norm Beatty ex- plained the Nebraska Inter-1 national Students (NIA) or-1 ganization to the Japanese. 1 He told them that the group I contained both American and foreign students on this I campus. . I Hajime asked, "What do they do? What is their pro-1 gram?" s What would you have an-1 swered? Do you know? How iiiiaiiiii?iiitiiiiii iiiitiiiiif f if i if ititiiiiti JiiiiiiEtttit lit trtiiiriiitf if tiMiiiiiiiiiif iiii iif lift tmif utif f unit ti many American students on ctaff Vi;. 3 ticipate or at least get to know the foreign students? 1 Norm explained to t h e II StoAaV weather. til we try? ' I am referring to philoso phies and cultures and ideals. One can never be deemed "best until it is com pared with all others, Just as a petunia cannot be deemed the prettiest flow er until it is compared to a rose or an orchid. But when we shut out all varie ties but our own, we have no way of ever learning oth er possibilities. This is not inteded to be overly mystic. It is just an introduction to a story I have to tell from about Japanese students from Sophia University in Tokyo who visited the campus this week as part of their tour of U.S. universities and schools of journalism. These boys were in the Dai ly Nebraskan office yester day afternoon and they asked a question which planted a few seeds of thought in the- minds of tome staff members. ' Hajime . Hasegawa, . 21-year-old spokesman for the group, asked if we had a boys that this organization is primaruy concerned witn g getting to share cultures and ideas with students from various "flowerbeds" I (although Norm used dif- ferent n o Hi e n c 1 a t u r e) throughout the' world. But I how many of we AMERI-1 CAN students share with! them? I The Japanese wanted to I know if they ever discussed politics. He also asked if Nebraska students belonged 1 -to political ' organizations"-1 By Bob Nye 3 ss wnicn oDjectea w tne gov- s ernment or were active in I it- I Norm explained Y o u n g Republicans and Y o u n g Democrats were the only political organizations and! they supported the Ameri-1 can political parties. Hajime explained that in Japan the students were , and quite often acted as a I group to propose sugges- i tions to their government. I Students in Japan can say i what they want, but it usu-1 ally has little effect, he i aaaea. But the point is that they do say what they want and H they do take an active in-11 rarest in people from other sa nations. They want to learn, f The Sophia University l! newspaper quoted one of 1; the Japanese visitors to I! Nebraska as saying: "At E home we can get knowledge 1 about the U.S. through I books, pamphlets and mov- ii ies but I want to see these i things with my own eyes. Ii (umtuiued on page 4) Ulcers, coffee, ciga rettes, tranquilizers, and TV-dinners -Symbols J Symbols, if you will, of a way of life so ingrained and accepted as to become the brunt of fre quent if not slightly un easy joking. The-jAgejf Efficiency has descended upon us bringing its shadow The Age of Anxiety. The frustration and anx iety so prevalent today seems to be a direct re suit of depersonalization a complete lack of knowl edge or contact with the Self. Individuality is drowned in the hum of business and destroyed by econom ic pressures. Status symbols have re placed idealism as the driving force in our lives and security has replaced ambition. Until we can transcend the petty and trivial or until our minds can wan der beyond the walls of the Crib we are relegated to a vacuum of small and insignificant scope. Man can never know Self until he surpasses the forces of convention and mechanization which dic tate not only our con scious but unconscious actions. Our goals must reach beyond the Cadillac and two-cfir !gatage for emp ty satisfaction does not beget happiness. OBCttO III 19 VWSe K OTL WCHARUE BROOM CAM SURE BE STURM HE'S 50 STORD ME ACTUALLY thought that miss othmar TOOK AlONEV FOf? BEING A TEACHER! BUT rsUfS71&l6HOT H(M0OT.'ITOLDHIM...I...k J Courtesy of Omaha World Herald-! Daily Nebraskan Member Associated Collegiate Press, International Press Representative: National Adverttataf Service, Incorporated Published at: Room 51. Student Union, Lincoln, Nebraska. SEVENTY-ONE TEARS OLD 14th A R Telephone HE 1-7631 ext. 4225, 4226, 4227 Snhwriptloa nUm r $3 pT ttmmtrt or IS for tho trmilmlt yw. Kntmt m lewij Um ntsttrt 4 tba pott offle In Llneoln, Nebrwka, nor (mi vt Aunt , Wli. 1h Daily Nbrin la piibUnttet Mimimy. TnmMI;. 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