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Hal Brown, a 22-year-old
whose nearest contact with
journalism when he entered
the University of .Nebraska
was reading a newspaper, is
one of the leading journalism
students in the country based
on a nationwide contest.
Brown, a senior in the
School of Journalism was re
vealed Saturday as the unan
imous winner of the toD
award in the January student
news-writing competition con
ducted bv the William Ran
dolph Hearst Foundation.
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choice of the judges but also
the only student to win iwo
first-Dlace awards in one
year.
In November. Hal won the
top honor in sports writing
while the January honor was
in news writing and concerned
the effect of the missue in
stallations on Nebraska's tra
ditional isolationism.
Hal picked up a $200 cash
award for his latest effort and
now has 30 points towards the
over - all student award
amounting to a $2,200 fellow
."Nebraska's School of
Journalism now ranks third
among the 45 accredited
journalism schools in the
country in the number of
Nancy Miller and John Nolon are the 1962 Ideal Ne
braska Coed and Outstanding Collegiate Man.
The two junior English majors were "revealed at the
1962 presentation of the Coed Follies.
With an overall scholastic . average of 8.258, Miss Miller
was one of the top five women scholars in her class.
Currently first vice president of Alpha Chi Omega
sorority, her activities include membership on the Student
Union program council, Red Cross, Union Board of Man
agers, and American Childhood Education president.
A finalist for AUF Activities Queen, Miss Miller has
served as her sorority pledge trainer,- a member on the
YWCA Board, and has held membership in Alpha Lambda
Delta, freshmen women's honorary.
The 19621 president of the Interfraternity Council, Nolon
is a member of the Student Council. He is also a Univer
sity representative to the Big Eight IFC, and is vice presi
dent of the organization's Student Government Association.
Nolon's activities have included presidency of his
pledge class, a member of the freshman baseball team,
All University Fund assistant, business manager of the
Cornhusker Yearbook, and scholarship chairman of his
fraternity, Phi Delta Theta.
His scholastic average is a 6.7.
The 1961 winners, Gretchen Shelberg and Jim Huge,
presented the awards a bracelet for Miss Miller and a
plaque for Nolon. V
The awards are given each year by Associated Women
Students.
Advice to all females-"Think Pink" was the winning
skit of the 1962 production of Coed Follies. It was presented
by Alpha Phi sorority. !
Feline wiles used on the bums in " '62 Skid-Row" gave
Chi Omega sorority the second place trophy.
"Black-faced" members of Delta Gamma sorority won
third place with a negro minstrel shew "All God's Chil--lun
Got Rhythm." J
A pantomime with deadpan money masks on three
"musicians," presented by Alpha Chi Omega sorority, was
the first place traveler act.
Also revealed at the Follies were finalists In the
Cornhusker Beauty Queen 'and Most Eligible Bachelor
competition.
Six Beauty Queens and six Most Eligible Bachelors will
be chosen from the finalists, and revealed in the yearbook
in May.
Beauty Queen finalists include: Cori Cabela, Ann Han
na, Barbara Ilg, Bonnie Knudsen, Willa Meyer, Diane
Milne and Kay Pierce.
Others are Sally Larson! Patricia Schmadeke, Linda,
Trumbull, Anne Witte, and Jamie Wotton.
Finalists for Most Eligible Bachelor are: Bill Buckley,
Doug Busskohl, Charles Decker, Larry Donovan, and Wes
ley Grady.
Others are GrantGregory, Ivan Grupe, Chip Kuklin,
Larry Meyers, Stephen North, Jerry Overgaard, and Larry
Patterson.
Vol. 75, No. 70
The Daily Nebraskan ;
Monday, February 26, 1962
English Dept. Receives
50.000
By MARGEY MARTIN
The University has been se
lected as one of three Eng
lish curriculum study centers
in the nation.
The Study Center will be
supported by a five-year
grant of $250,000 from the
U.S. Office of Education. This
grant will be split into equal
allotments of $50,000 per year.
The primary purpose of the
study will be 4o design a cur
riculum from kindergarten
through the first two years of
college, and to teach stu
dents to read with compre
hension and write with clar
ity.' Dr. Paul A. Olson, initiator
of the proposal for the cen
ter, said the curriculum cen
ter is the first of its kind to
be established in any field of
knowledge, including science.
Chancellor Clifford M. Har
din called the awarding of
the grant "another indication
of the national leadership be
ing provided by the Univer
sity department of English
in its field." He pointed out
that 23 major universities had
competed for the grants, but
he did not reveal the two
other universities which have
been selected.
The Nebraska English Cen
ter has a tentative, commit
ment from at least five dis
tinctly different public schools
in the state to test newly con
ceived material in language,
composition and literature in
their classrooms. And if these
curriculums prove effective,
they will become available for
use by any school 'system in
the country.
Dr. Olson said that begin
ning in the fall of this year,
the Center will test the ma
terial in one primary grade,
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Are Nebraskans
Isolalionistic?
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points among all of its students,"-said
Dr. William E.
Hall, director of the School.
A $3,000 award goes to the
number one school in the na
tion at the finish of the com
petition in May.
Hal's latest story was writ
ten in the depth-report Log
class taught by Prof. R.
Neale Cooule. Hal has plans
for another depth entry In the
Hearst competition but, as of
jet, fast no definite ideas on
the subject. Each month, the
nation's Journalism schools
can submit only two student
entries.
"Hal's initial practical exper
ience in Journalism came
with a worker's role on the
Daily Nebraskan. From there
he jumped into the sports
editor seat which he stuck
with for three semesters.
"I have always been inter
ested in sports," commented
Brown, who was on Water
bury's basketball, baseball,
and track teams. "I even
started thinking of coaching
as a career, as early as my
seventh grade year."
Inquiry
OnNSA
Requested
Sieve Gage, Student Council
president, in a special Council
meeting Friday, charged the
student body with the respon
sioihty of informing itself
Association (NSA).
Speaking in the absence of
West Coast Program Vice
President Mike Neff, who was
held up by snow between
Iowa State and the Univer
sity, Gage asked that Univer
sity students study the forth
coming report of the NSA
study committee,. discussing
it in their respective groups.
John Nolon, Council public
issues chairman, who also
substituted in the afternoon
session, asked that students
consider the long-run goals of
NSA as well as the criticisms
that it is not entirely demo
cratic when deciding the
question of the University's
affiliation.
"The final decision on NSAi
affiliation, as it stands now,
said Gage, "rests with the
Student Council."
However, the Council may
at any time between now and
April 11 remove the resolu
tion for NSA affiliation from
the table and amend it to re
quire a campus-wide vote for
final approval of the affiliation.
''Also, the Council may
move that the question of af
filiation be put before the
student body in the general
spring election at any time
after the NSA resolution has
been voted on at the April
11 meeting," said Gage.
Reporting that 10 students
bad indicated their Interest
in serving on the NSA study
Gaee said the interest is
"not phenomenal." He en
couraged others interested to
apply immediately.
It is this NSA study group
that -will compile an objec
tive study guide containing
arguments for and against
NSA affiliation. The NSA
study guide will be released
in sections at Council meet
ings up to April 11, serving
as a help to both students
and Council members in
reaching a decision on affilia
tion. Nolon bad previously em
phasized the need for study of
the role of the NSA in assist
ing such in day-to-day opera
tions of the Council as park-1
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CONFUSED LOVERS
This week's "Play of the Week" is Turgcnev's "A
Month in the Country," a story of confused love. Alexander
Scourby, Luther Adler, and Uta Hagen star in the drama.
"The Play of the Week" is a special presentation of Na
tional Educational Television, with the underlying idea be-
ig . . . me procaiauun m koi uieaire. klu.vi v pre
sents "The Play of the Week" Mondays at 9 p.m.
Davis Urges Students
To Be Real Friends
By TOM KOTOUC
Do not be afarid to go all
the way with friendship, said
Carlton Davis, speaking to
a crowd of 300 at Sunday's
People-to-People orientation
meeting in the Student Union.
"There is no such thing as
half a friend," added the
Jamician friendship project
founder.
For your own sake, do not
join People-to-People (PTP)
because it is fashionable to
do so, said Davis.
I do not want to have met
another and tried to be his
friend for three months only
to discover be did not really
care about me as an individ
ual to find he is a hypo
crite, he said.
I do not say you can for
get your prejudices overnight,
but try, and try to under
stand why you have these
prejudices.
I doubt If you can justify
a prejudice if you try hard
enough to understand it,
added Davis,
People-to-People chairman
Chip Kuklin emphasized that
PTP is not an organization,
and especially not a prestige
organization, but an enlight
enment on one to one, person
to person basis.
Explaining individual phas
es oi the PTP concept, Broth
er-Sister chairman Jan Jef
fery called the brother-sister
phase "just a chance to get
together and make friends
spontaneouily, not a era
sade." Students indicating an in
terest in the brother - sister
phase will meet Saturday at
3: p.m. in the Student Union.
Job placement chairman
Janet Erwln said that her
committee will concentrate
now on job solicitation'
speaking in Lincoln and to
communities over the state to
ask employers to hold jobs
open during the summer
months for international stu
dents. This group will meet Sun
day at 3:00 p.m. in the Union
to organize the job place
ment phase. ;
"A massive survey is
planned by the Housing com
mittee of PTP to locate rent
ers near city and ag campus
who will rent to international
students," said Kurt Brad
ford, PTP housing chairman.
Post book project chair
man Jon Traudt asked that
individuals who wculd work
with him in initiating corres
pondence between persons
here and abroad should meet
at 4 p.m. Tuesday or 9 a.m.
Saturday at the Union.
one junior high grade .and
one high school grade of each
of the five schools. The fol
lowing year the next higher
grade will be added until all
grades are included in one
complete program.
The Center will base its
work in language and liter
ature on the curriculum ma
terials developed by selected
Nebraska teachers who at
tended the Nebraska Council
of Teachers' of English work
ship last summer. The Woods
Charitable Fund financed the
workship with a $10,000 grant.
In addition, Dr. Olson said,
material will be further de
veloped in a Summer Insti
tute for Teachers planned for
this coming , summer. This
program will also be financed
by the Woods Fund in the
form of a $27,000 grant. This
grant will permit 30 Nebras
ka English teachers, repre
senting all grade levels, to
be re-trained in using the ex
perimental curriculum this
summer.
The Center will also seek
to create a systematic com
position program extending
from kindergarten into col
lege. Dr. Olson explained,
"One of the great problems
in schools Is getting the stu
dents to write logically and
lucidly. This problem is as
sociated with a kind of a vac
uum which now exists as to
how composition can be
taught.
In language and literature,
we have a sound knowledge
which we can transfer to the
classroom, but in the com
position area, we simply do
not know what we should
teach or how we should teach
it. We hope to develop new
matenal and then test it in
the schools."
Dr. Olson said that of the
first year's budget of $50,000,
about $25,000 will be used to
commission the preparation
of new material by special
ists on the University staff,
high school teachers in Ne
braska and by other special
ists throughout the country.
The Center will do research,
'Such as:
Investigate how composi
tion was .taught in the past
when it was taught effec
tively. Examine how the new
science of linguistics can be
used to teach composition.
Determine whether close
analytical reading is useful in
teaching composition.
Decide . if one can be
taught to write with the use
of a systematic model of
prose masters.
Construct tests for what
constitutes excellence in com
position. Analyze levels of student
maturity at which basic com
position habits are formed.
On the college level, the
University will introduce the
Center's curriculum concepts
and materials into its fresh
man English program.
Dr. Olson will be the direc
tor of the English Center. The
co-director will be named at
a later date. The center will
be governed by a board of
directors who will determine
major policy matters. Board
members will include: Dr.
James E. Miller, Jr., chair-
ma of the English depart
ment; Dr. Dudley Bailey, di
rector of freshman English;
Prof. Mary Mielenz of the
department of secondary ed
ucation: and Dr. Olson.
Dr. Olson said the key to
the national problem of im
proving high school teaching
of English will be the cur
ricula to come out of these
centers. The next step will
be the establishment of insti
tutes for re-training teachers,
he said.
Three NU Debaters Win
Single Tourney Honors
By WENDY ROGERS
University students Suzanne Moffitt,
Richard Weill, and Gary Pokorny were
among seven Nebraskans earning individ
ual honors at the NU sponsored annual
Forensic and Debate tournament.
Ranked as superior debaters were Miss .
Moffitt and Pokorny. Miss Moffitt also
earned a superior rating in extempora
neous speaking. Weill received a superior
in oratory.
The University of Kansas captured the
sweepstakes trophy Saturday for the best
overall ranking among the 31 midwestern
colleges and universities which partici
aied. Winning the debate trophy was the Uni
versity of Kansas City team, composed of
Bill'Isenhour and Bill Cohen.
In the Sweepstakes, William Jewell Col
lege ranked second; Northwestern College
(Minn.), third; and South Dakota State
College fourth.
Midland College of Fremont won first
place in the junior debate tournament and
its debate team earned a superior rating.
Other Nebraskans receiving Individual'
honors were: Brace Gronbeck of Concor
dia, Karen Meyers and Mariya Fetchs,
both of Midland, superior debaters; and
Harold Blanderman of Wayne State Teach
ers College, superior in Interpretative
reading.
Undefeated debate teams from the Uni
versity were composed of Linda Hillyer
and Kathryn Madsen, and Gary Radii and
Ann Whitmore.
Other undefeated teams were: Grace
land College, South Dakota State College,
and the University of Kansas.
Superior 'debate teams in addition to
Midland were: RockJiurst, University of
Kansas,, University of Kansas City, and
William Jewell College.
Earning secr.nd place in junior division
debate behind Midland was the University
of Kansas City. Third place winner was
Graceland College,
Colleges from outside Nebraska with in
dividual superior debaters were: North
western College, Rockhurst, University of
Kansas, University of Kansas City, Wil
liam Jewell, Buena Vista College, and
Gracelbnd.
Point totals in the Sweepstakes compe
tition were: first place University of
Kansas, 178; second place William Jewell
College, 172; third place Northwestern
College, 168; and fourth place South Da- '
kota State College, 164.
Twisting, Siding Halt Winter Slump
In Physical Therapy Department
By KAREN GUNLICKS
The lastest fads of twisting
and skiing have held up the
usual mid-winter patient
slump in the physical therapy
department of Student Health,
commented George Sullivan,
department head.
The biggest per cent of the
cases bandied are fractures,
dislocations and other injur
ies caused by participation in
the every day college activi
ties, said Sullivan.
Besides, thete, the depart
ment handles students handi
capped by polio, cerebral
palsy, acute injuries ana post
operative cases.
All students must be re
ferred, to this department by
their attending physician,
commented Sullivan. No one
may use the facilities here
on their own accord, he con
tinued. The types of equipment
used by the therapists are
light, heat, cold, water, elec
tricity and mechanical
means. A whirlpool swishes
temperature-regulated water
around limbs that have been
sprained or strained. ,
Light Is used in the form
of ultra-violet or infra-red
rays. Ultra-violet light is used
for various skin conditions
and , infra-red for muscles.
Sore muscles are also treated
by heat while mechanical de
vices are nsed for strength
ening weak muscles. An elec
trical current is used for stim
ulating muscles.
The department also works
with the physical education
department in developing aN
program for individual gym
nastics. Sullivan spends each morn
ing Monday through Friday
at the Health Center. In the
afternoons he works with the
athletes by helping with
weight program! and treating
injuries that come from par
ticipation hi the various
sports. He is on hand during
the games in esse of aa In
jury.
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