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V , Summer Nebraskan Tuesday, July 24, 1962 Page Two k r i . .' i 3 t i l Nebr. Folklore Society Preserves Traditions The Nebraska Folklore Society is on its way with eight charter members. The new society is for Nebras kans Nebraskans who are interested in preserving the traditional customs, beliefs, tales and sayings of Nebras ka people. A proposal for the estab lishment cf a Nebraska Folk lore Society was distributed at an April, 1962 meeting of the Midwest Modern Langu age Association by G. Tho mas Fairclough, NU English instructor, and Miss Mamie J. Meredith, retired assistant Ji V1V.OOU1 Jl llguou, Tire opening paragraph of j that nroDOsal states. 1 n e folklore of the American Midwest has become in re cent decades a subject of ab sorbing interest to students of language and literature, music and history, ' as well as to a large number of alert and educated persons who desire a better understand ing of the area of their resi dence or. birth. It is to such cnrii norcnnc that this proposal is di - rected." Organization Needed The proposal states that Nebraska's folklore has Deem represented in the Werarvi snd scholarly achievements , of individuals in the field such as Willa Cather. Mari Sandoz, John G. Neihart and the late Louise Pound. "What j it lacks is an organization of . those interested in and dedi-l cated to the collection, pres- ervation and eventual publi- I mversity of .eorasKa. tie cation of the manv folk tales, j will take part in a folklore folk verses and folk savings , discussion at the summer which are vet unrecorded." i meeting of the American Folk- The time has come for that I lore Society at Indiana Unl organization, said Miss Mere-j versity Friday and Saturday, dith. "We now have eight; July 27 and 28. paid-up charter members, and Miss Meredith stressed that I'm very proud of that, j the Nebraska Folklore Society We're a going concern, even j is for everyone not just though we won't officially or-j University of Nebraska stu ganize until October." j dents and faculty. A newslet- The society is for anyone ter will be mailed in Sept interested in folklore. Missjto interested persons, who Meredith said. "Folklore is; may write to Miss Mamie J. not something in the past j Meredith, 2340 Sumner St., it is being made right now, i Lincoln 2, Nebr. Undergraduate Teaching Affects University Images Despite the importance of I research and the glamour of! grants and contracts, the im- j age of a university at the i grass roots is still influenced i primarily by what the uni-i versity does at the under graduate level. This is the opinion of Dr. Joseph Soshnik, University ofj Nebraska comptroller, who spoke last week at the ban-! quet meeting of deans andj directors of resident instruc-i tion in agriculture. Graduation Cards Large Quality Selection GOLDENROD STATIONERY STORE 215 North 14th HUNGRY? Why nor hove o delicious pizza from THE PIZZA HOUSE Convenient dmcnloicn location I 1324 "0" St. I I f 1 I if , . 1 yv? Prices start SARTOR 1200 she explained. Quilting bees, rodeos and festivals of Ne braska's various ethnic .croups are examples of folk lore in the making, she said. Folklore Is Alive "Folklore Is something that's alive, and that's what we want people to under stand what we're doing here in Nebraska now is folk lore." she added. What is the importance of a state folklore society? B. A. Bctkin, in "Upstate, Down state," in the spring 1952 is sue of the New York Folklore Quarterly said. "In state folk lore and folklore societies lies - - the strength of regional and national ioiMore "Not onlv is the state the practical ,unit of collection, but in the shifting of the fo cus of the national society to the international aspects of folklore, the state societies have the opportunity and re sponsibility for the intensive cultivation of grassroots sour ces. "State societies are also the most direct route to pop ,ular interest in living lore! and to tne intelligent lead ) jership that develops out ofj mass support." Eotkin said. io oe mm cvuc cultural strategy, the state sociciics mubi ut.e nizance of regional, sub-regional and interregional (in cluding ethnic, occupational and socio-economic) factors and trends, liotKin saia. Folklorist Botkin was granted the fti.u. at ine, Dr. Soshnik said the effect iveness ot undergraduate ; teaching is important also) because the graduate- level; programs and research ef-! forts are dependent on a steady flow of qualified stu dents from the undergraduate colleges. For this reason, he added, it is important that we take care that the quality of our undergraduate teaching re mains high. Ph. 432-6866 at $75.00 JEWELRY "0" i little man "fJoWlNG AGAINST voj pscomally Co'ce'ofTKY-iVS JUS' that ve eea. yoatee not takms acvanws of au. Journalism Students Intern For On-the-job Experience Twenty-four students from the University of Nebraska School of" Journalism are receiving on-the-job experience this summer as journalism interns, according to Dr. Wil liam E. Hall, director of the school. This represents the largest journalism class since the post war influx of veterans were graduated. Dr. Hall said. Journalism internship con sists of 12 weeks of full time work in the particular field in which the journalism stu dent is specializing, according to Dr. Hall. The internship is not required to get a jour nalism degree, hut is re quired for obtaining a pro fessional certificate, he said. 75 Per Cent Intern Seventy-five per cent of the journalism students, howev er, do intern after their ju nior year, according to Dr. Hall. The internship is n o t permitted until the students are seniors because by then they have the required train ing to get the fullest benefit of the experience and also the ability to do a profession al job, Dr. Hall said. It is "experience gained on internship," Dr. Hall said, "that helped the school w i n first place nationally this year in the William Randolph Hearst competition." Locate Own Internship The student is expected to locate his own internship, guided by. the school of jour nalism, and he is not limited to any area of the United States, Dr. Hall said. Of the twenty-four students serving internship this sum-! mer, nineteen are in Nebras- j ka. According to their special j fields there are'eight on daily "South Pass Pete" (Peter newspapers, six in public in- Decker) in The Westerners formation, five on weekly ; New York Possee, published newspapers, three in adver- j in May, 1962. tising, and two in broadcast- j Old West Dancing: One ing. reads so much today about The interns, their home : "the twist," a dance as old towns and summer job 8rp;2S the dibnysian Creeks, listed below: ! which has been "re-invented" Daily Newspaper or Wire ' as a "come on" to bolster Service: Norm Beatty, Mor-jsome sagging bistros in our rill, Des Moines Register; 1 urban centers. Rod Hansen, Battle Creek, j ActusJly, this dance has Crand Island Independent; j been with us long, long Margrethe Plum, Lincoln. Mi- j time. It was the prevailing ami. Fla., Herald; Sue dance among homesteaders Isaacson, Norfolk, Norfolk Daily News; Nancy W. Ost berg, Madison, Lincoln Journal; and Linda Albin, Kearney, Kearney Hub, Dave Wohlfarth, Lincoln, Alliance i Times-Herald; Judy Harring-1 ! ton, Lincoln, UPI, Omaha. ! Public Information: Sandra j I Lyster, Fremont, Nebraska ! Psychiatric Institute, Omaha; l skip, too, gone agin, bKip Judith Waser, Lincoln, U.S. i to-my-loo!" Or "Mice are in A Special Every Week at ROYAL CLEANERS 352 N. 27rti HE 2-1339 5305 "0" ST. Look Tor The Gotden Arches Pure Beef Hamburger 15c Tasty Cheeseburger . . 1 9c Triple-Thick Shakes . .20c Golden French Fries.. 12c Thirst-Quenching Coke 10c Delightful Root Beer.. 10c Steaming Hot Coffee.. 10c Delicious Orange Drink 10c Refreshing Cold Milk 12c OPEN ALL YEAR Pill it on campus I Department of Agriculture, Washington. DC, Anda And erson and Dan Mook, Lincoln, both with College of Agricul ture, Lincoln: Jan Sack, Be atrice, Nebraska State Game Commission; and Don Ben nett, Scottsbluff, State Roads Department. Weekly Newspaper: . Joan Brown, Palmer, Wayne Her ald; Ruthann Chubbuck, Lin coln, Summer Nebraskan; George Peterson, Loup City, Rock County Star-Herald, Lu verne, Minn.; Judi Lee, Om aha, Omaha Sun; and Diane G o s k e r, Hooper, Papilli- on Times. Advertising: .P a m Hollo- way, Grand Island, Grand Is land Independent; Lori Bred- eson, Grand Island, H. H. Harney Advertising Agency, Lincoln; Kay Casey, Platts mouth, Summer Nebraskan. Broadcasting: Doug Mc Cartney, Norfolk, KOLN-TV, Lincoln; Louise H. Casey, Lincoln, KTUON-TV, Lincoln. Homesteaders Twisted in lSSOs Editor's Note: The follow- ing article is reprinted from ''The Hitching Post," by from the 1890's on, until the automobile took boys and girls awa!y from the. country schoolhouse. One form of the twist was the "skip-to-my-loo," a dance where you could fling your partner aDout m almost any fashion ana nouer, too, it you wished: "My wile skips and the sugar dowi, snoo, snoo: It was a vigorous muscular and body sequence which only a good cornhusker and a morning pancake eater could endure throughout a long eve ning. However, this was a homesteader dance, pure in thought and action, brought here by the Scots and Irish with their accompanying tunes. Nebraskan Want Ads WANTED Wanted: A "ride to Scottbloff. Either Am. J, 4. or 5. Will iharc trantparu tion exprnif. Plrue call WaMa lM Foa 42S-2M1 at Piper Halt. work! HE . . i mm m jH do the Film Library Provides References "The University should have a good film library just as it has a good book li brary," Dr. Ruth Moline, Bu reau of Audio Visual Instruc tion Him Library supervisor, said. The bureau is a part of the University Extension Di vision. The film library should be used as a reference source just like Love library. "Some instructors now have their students view films on their own. The films cover the material being discussed in class and serve as back ground or supplementary ma terial. This is especially true of our filmstrip series," Miss Moline said. Last year the library dis- tributed S,500 films on cam - Water , Shed Program Opens New Potential in Recreation The small watershed pro gram in Nebraska is opening a new potential in recreation for Nebraska residents. According to Dayle William son, assistant executive sec refary of the Nebraska Soil and Water Commission, there has been coordination be tween the State Parks Divi sion and the Soil and Water Commission in controlling floods. Now the two offices are working together to pro vide recreation areas. An example of this new rec reational project is a five acre lake located on the Richard Hopp farm two miles north of Syracuse. The lake is in the Brownell water shed project, Williamson said. The lake is formed from a drainage area of 367 acres, Williamson said. All land that drains into any water shed must be terraced or grassed to reduce errosion and pre vent the lake from filling up with silt This lake is on private property and not open to the f nst Soviet Union James S. Pittinger. former ilock ActioilS Fail I assistant to the chancellor land manager of the tick In llritA XsiiAiVslet office suice March, said In united nations i each of the tickets must now rwirmprl from Page One) l he counted and verified. in maninna s erions xo acmeve a stable world through collec- tiva vtinn " H sJd. "Another objective ot tne U.S. is to neip inc iw- developed areas of the ld solve the age-old proWems 0f nunger, ist;ase hiki Huitri hvj , and make progress toward a better life, and so to con- tribute to a more prosperous world and to frustrate the sub- vrH'P efforts of the Com - munist bloc. Here too the United Nations can be, and is, of enormous assistance. UN More Effective "While the developed na tions of the Atlantic Commun ity and Japan must all pitch in, individually and collective ly, to help in this great task, there are many aspects of the work that the United Nations and its related agencies can do better and more efficiently than any individual nation or group of nations. Bingham continued, "Today, in various parts of the world, especially in Africa, there are still miliions of people who are "yearning for self-government and for freedom from the domination of a distant country or of a very present 1 local white minority. ! ."From a world point of, view, we believe that these j yearnings deserve to be satis- j fied, and, from a practical point of view, we recognize that it is in our own and the world's interest that the pro cess of decolonization be car ried on rapidly enough and smoothly enough so as to pre vent disastrous outbreaks of violence. "We know that change is inevitable and we want it to be a - peaceful change. To these ends, the United Na tions can contribute greatly, just as it has during the past 15 vears through the opera tions of the Trusteeship Council." Need something, but don't liave the time to traipse around looking for It? Want to sell something but don't know -fhere to find a buyer? Relax! Use tbe Summer Nebraskan want ads. 'Easy. Convenient. Eco nomical. And bent of all, they get results! Just dial 2-7631 Extension 3261 . we'll do the work ! for Background Materia! pus. Most of these filim were shown in agriculture, educa tion, business and psychology eourses. A lesser amount was used in history, Eng lish, and some s c t e n c e courses. "The films used often dem onstrate something that can't be presented as well in a textbook. This Could be how to disect a frog in a zoology course, for instance," Miss Moline said. Over 6,000 films, 40 per cent of which are tn color, are in the University's film library. The library can also rent films from other nniver sity libraries. This -Is espe cially done in such special ized areas as psychology. "We rent films to schools throughout the state, so we public Williamson said. How ever, Hopp allows his neigh bors to use the lake for boat ing fishing. As often the case, William son said, water shed districts will buy some land if the lake is "large. The lake then is open to the public. Each district obtains its funds through taxes. All construc tion of the dams is paid for by the government he added. Lakes in the water shed projects range from five to 20 acres in size. However, some of the water sheds now being planned, like the Big Indian project in Gage and Jefferson counties, will range up to 300 acres. The Bowman water shed 1962 Football Tickets Here Employees in the ticket of fice of the University athlet- j jc division are busv toriav sft- j er the arrival yesterday of more than 200.000 football tickets ...u6.. .-- j nowers nave nad orflers i in ior ine looioau ncKers i since last August, University - 7; . Z be able to order Mr tickets mWSept. 17 and 18. j " .. ""j j tinger said, "the students will come in, present their identification cards, pay for j the tickets and receive a ; number." A drawing of these num bers on Sept. 18, he said, will determine the priority of the students in getting tickets. The tickets win then be al located on Sept. 19 and 20. j Ticket sales fluctuate from season to season and from game to game, depending on different conditions, Pittinger said. One of the generally-accepted factors in this fluctua tion weather is shown below In its relation to ticket 1 sales during the home games j last season. ; OPPONENT SCORE WUVTHES SALES No. Dakota 33- O rainy fc chOy .129 I Arirma 14-14 drizzly coW 34.72! Syracuse 6-28 perfect 35387 Karat 6-28 rold 4c windy 32AV) Colorado 7 cold ,V I Oftiatvoma 14-21 perfect 2M39 SPECIAL STUDENT AND FACULTY DISCOUNTS BETTER QUALITY DIAMOND -WATCHES CHARGE ACCOUNTS WELCOME EXPERT WATCH KAUFMAN 1332 "O" ST. UD Additional try to buy films for our li brary that have a more gen eral " interest," Miss Moline said. However, the library has a budget -of only $5,000 a year to buy hew films, and this doesn't go Very' far, she ad. ded. A ten minute black and white film costs $60 and a colored film costs $120. The life expectancy of a film 'is about five years, she said. Since operating expenses, including staff salaries, are paid by the rental fees, it is necessary to have a film se ries" that can be used else where than on campus alone, Miss Moline said. The Uni versity doesn't pay the usual rental fees, but .only a dollar for up keep on each film it uses, she said. project, near Hubbel in Thay er county, is the latest proj ect under construction. The lakes in this project will range from 12 to 35 acres in size, Williamson said. Australian Visitor Institute Speaker The dean of facultv of sci ence at the University of Syd ney, Australia is visiting the University of Nebraska cam pus as guest lecturer for the Nebraska Mathematics Insti tute. Prof. Thomas O. Room, also head of the department of mathematics at Sydney, will speak today on Geometry of Displacements at 11 a.m. and Thoughts on the Double Six at 3 p.m. Both talks will be in Burnett Hall, room 320. Prof. Room earned his M.A. and Sc.D. at Cambridge University. He was lecturer visiting professor at the Uni versities of Liverpool and Cambridge, visiting lecturer at Princeton University and visiting professor aat the Uni versities of Washington and Tennessee. Since 1935 Prof. Room has worked with planning of uni versity methematics courses and since 1953, as dean of th- 1, 0f cHpnre win ith univers'ity courses n sci ence. He spoke to the Matbemat- jics Insitute vesterday on Ge- ! et proiegomen t0 ne. . ph d Pattern of Secondary Educa tion in Australia. A GOOD TEACHERS AGENCY DAVIS mm School Service StM CNROLl NOW Estoblished 1918 Serving the Mi- souri Votley to the West Coast. SOI Stuort Blda. tiivoln fi Nht. TYPEWRITERS FOR RENT CLEANING & REPAIRING BLOOM TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE 323 No. 13 HE 2-5258 JEWELRY REPAIRS JEWELERS OPEN MON. THURS. NITES OA1 AMI OAV Gold's Of NEBRASKA n.s mom or inuvmm Sale! 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