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A. mm. j- w AYl I 1 sf i ir I t '11 if I lal u .ill in ., . ...... ..a. m. J(, .. . .. Page 2 EDITORIAL Thursday, January 17, 19631 EXTENSION SERVICES . . . Equalizer of State Education NOT LONG ago the Nebraskan print ed a story telling how the Extension Division has the largest enrollment of any division in the University. There are some 3,000 college and 14,000 high school enrollments. This is certainly matching the boundaries of the State. This large enrollment -in extension courses reflects the steady expansion of University facilities over the years until extension classes reach literally every corner of the State. (Besides the services provided the state, extension courses are mailed to all parts of the nation and to 80 different countries.) NOW THE STATE is considering a giant step in the educational television services offered by the University Exten sion Division. It is a necessary step that needs to be taken. Not only will it be an example for other state educational in stitutions to follow, but it will also pro vide the needed means to reach nearly every person in the state 90 per cent is the predicted coverage. ETV is the fulfillment of television's obligation to people. A program like the one proposed for Nebraska would fulfill this obligation to inform rather than just entertain better than in other media of mass communication such as radio and newspapers. Extension work is the coming aspect of education. It is assuming a greater And greater role in the planning of ed ucators throughout the country. In De cember, the Association of State Univer sities and Land-Grant Colleges met in Washington and formally recognized this new role the schools have acquired. In other areas of extension education, a committee was formed to link up the various institutions like Nebraska with projects involving extension education, particularly in overseas rural develop ment like the Alliance for Progress in Latin America. AGAIN THE University has been able to step into this kind of a role. Much effort by many administrators and edu cators here at the University has been expelled towatds making the University a center for Latin America studies. Al ready the University has courses in Lat in American history, economics, litera ture and politics. The eventual objective is offering Latin American studies as a major field here. On an individual basis, a number of overseas programs are already being run by land-grant colleges. The Univer sity has a formidable program in Turkey. IT IS DIFFICULT to estimate the part that the University has played in making possible the agriculture abund ance in the State. This is also so with the other land-grant schools and the part they have played in the agriculture abundance of this country. On a hemisphere-wide level, the Uni versity has extended some of the same techniques to Turkey and other countries by helping to set up soil analysis serv ices, agriculture short - courses and re search programs in productivity. This is an area where the North American rec ord can shine in comparison with Com munist promises and performance. FITTINGLY, the land-grant colleges have formally moved into this new task in the centennial year of the Federal Act that made the state universities, like Ne braska, possible. With greater Federal and foundation support, the land-grant ef fort could become a dramatic part of the Alliance for Progress as one news paper called it, an "Operation Food Pro duction" for all the Americas. But why jump from the State needs to this new hemispherical challenge? The University of Nebraska could step ahead of its sister schools by celebrating the centennial of conception of land-grant in stitutions with the approval by the state and the State Legislature of the ETV program. It's an area that needs full ex ploitation by State educators and is far from reaching anywhere near its full potential. Ifcnaur 1 'Home' Peace Corp Can Train Regulars 1 To the Editor: I A proposal to establish a domestic version of the Peace Corps which will be 1 brought before . Congress 1 this session has merit that its originators probably I never thought of. i The plan calls for the training of volunteers to work in depressed areas within the United States, such as Indian reservations, urban slums and emer- 1 a jaundiced eye by susan Stanley! "Tonight is the blue pudding night The night of Jerico The night of wooden gargoyles I will jabber, jabber, jabber and the wind will Sprinkle the moon with salt." In "A Manoeuvre," a laboratory the ater play opening tonight, written and di rected by Patrick Drake, the problem is that of a lack of communication between people in the world. To quote from the program, "The plot of the play is circular . . . stopping here and there, but going absolutely no where . . . within this absurdity of man's plight lies the basic acceptance of his condition." Originally written in connection with a writing course, "A Manoeuvre" contains a play within a play. A writer, married to an actress, is trying to ex press "poetic truth" through the medium of the theater. Introduced by harpsichord music, the play, staged in the Arena Theater, is set in a dingy flat, complete with leaky icebox. The writer is rehearsing two act ors in a play about a prostitute and her customer. Their inability to reach each other conversationally is underscored in the poetic dialogue. After the actors leave, the writer's wife enters, and we see the scene with the actors paralleled in the couple's in ability to communicate. Along with this, Drake conveys some ideas about the relationship of poetry to the theater. When the writer tells his wife that "nobody but the poet can enjoy the the ater," she tells him that "poets can't function anywhere except in their own little warped minds." Rife, the writer, is played by Fred erick Gaines; Clarice, his wife, is por trayed by Wilma Wolfe. The actor and actress are played by John Guinty and Maureen Frazier. Don Sobolik delivers a prologue to the play written by Frederick Gaines. All in all, "A Manoeuvre" is an in teresting play it reads very well, as one might expect of Drake and says quite a bit. Also on the evening's agenda are Je nise Burmood's production of "The Man With a Flower in His Mouth" and Judy Kriss "The Glass Menagerie." Go see them tonight or tomorrow night at the Temple Building. Today, I have the pleasure of introducing a promising young poet in the first of I "The NU Younger Poets Series." Ode to a University - This is the life .. . going to school, that is. (And what else would you do at seventeen?) , Where else would you go gather up smarts From professors soon-to-be-fired, From people who pass in the hall ("I didn't know she was older than her little 6ister!") From sitting under the trees by the library On a warm spring afternoon? Where else would you meet a man I (teaching The History of the U.S.A. Until the Civil War) i Who would tell us we could stop Making turkeys from pine cones, Making believe that Washington had real teeth? . Where else would you discover a man (long dead) In the sanctity of the stacks? . Discover him in your aimless wandering, From secret books that nobody had taken out In 25 years (give or take a decade) . How else would you be introduced to Mr. John Donne (and wonder, secretly, what he'd be like to neck with!) How else would you know about the music building Where you could play the piano for hours, alone, When you were sick of words, words, words? I Let us go, then, you and I. . . . , Where? To seek truth? Aaaagh ... , To the University. I by Georglna Spelvin S Daily Nebraskan SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION Teiepbuiie 477-8711, ext. 25S3, 2589, 2590 Member Associated Collegiate Press, International Press Representative. Na tional Advertising Service, Incorporated. Published at: Room 51, Student Union, Lincoln 8, Nebraska. 14th & R rtr4 ai aceani matter. aaatafa M. Ik paat nfftaa m Mnihi, Nearanaa OB) MXtraafcap Is ffaHnh4 IMh. Wadaaaitav. 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This is good as far as it goes, but plans have over looked one important func tion the proposed organiza tion could fulfill that of training volunteers for the regular Peace Corps. Six weeks in any one of the number of American metropolitan slums will make Afganistan seem like a vacation to any corps man. Sincerely, A Student Who Reads Problem Of The Week by Pi Mu Epsilon " QUESTION: Which in tegers can have squares that end with four identi cal digits? (Send your solutions to 210 Burnett Hall. The an swer will appear next week along with another problem.) SOLUTION: Last week we asked, "On which day of the week does the thir tieth of the month fall?" The thirtieth of the month falls most often on a Friday. 1 " A 3 4i LESSON IN DEMOCRACY A 4th grade teacher in the Philippines, reviewing her class for a national test, asked: "What is the most important gift the United States gave us?" The answer she wanted was "democracy." But the pup ils, who get CARE food at school, shouted in unison: "Milk!" Read Daily Nebraskan Want Ads (Author of I Wat Teen-aje Dwarf', "The Many, uone oj uoote wiut , etc.) INFERIORITY CAN BE FUN The second gravest problem confronting college student to day jft, inferiority feelings. (The first gravest problem is of course, the recent outbreak of moult among sorority house canaries.) let us today look into the causes of inferiority feelings and their possible cures. Psychologists divide inferiority feelings into three principal categories: 1. Physical inferiority. 2. Mental inferiority. 3. Financial inferiority. (A few say there is also a fourth category: ichthyological inferiority-a feeling that other people have prettier fish but I believe this is common only along the coasta and in the Great Lakes area.) Let us start with the feeling of physical inferiority, perhaps the easiest to understand. Naturally we are inclined to feel inferior to the brawny football captain or the beautiful home coming queen. But we should not. Look at all the people, neither brawny nor beautiful, who have made their marks in the world. Look at Napoleon. Look at Socrates. Look at caesar. Look at Lassie. CO vf i4' 1 v .- thzzz: m Mined bhl km What I mean is that you can't always tell what's inside a package by looking at the outmde. (Sometimes, of course, you can. Take Marlboro Ciurottes, for example. Junt one glance at that jolly red-und-white package so bright and pert so neat but not gaudy so perfectly in place whether you are at a formal dinner or a leach picnic so invariably correct for any time, clime, or condition one look, I say, at this paragon of pucks and you know it has to contain cigarettes of absolute perfection. And you are right! That pure white Marllwra filter, that fine, flavorful blend of Marllwro tobaccos, will give you a smoke to make the welkin ring, whatever that is. So those of you who have just leen sitting and admiring your Marlboro packs since the lginning of the semester, why don't you open a pack and light one? Light a cigarette, I mean not the package. Then you can settle back and smoke your Mnrllx)ro and, at the faim time, continue to gaze rapturously at the pack. Thus you will be twice as hanpv n. you are If that is possible.) But I digress. Let us turn now to the second category tnentul Inferiority. A lot of people think they are dumber than other people. 'Dim is -not so. It mut Ih remembered that there sre different ihiln of intelligence. Take, for inntance, the clas sic case of the Higufixis brothers, ('Imide and Sturbridge, stu dents at Wiike Forest. It was always, assumed that Claude was the more 'intelligent just because he knew more than Stur bridge about the arta, the sciences, the social sciences, the hu manities, and like that. Sturbridge, on the other hand, was ten times smarter than Claude when it came to tying granny knots. Hut no matter; everybody looked down on "Stupid Sturbridge," as they called him and looked up at "Clever Claude," as they called him. But who do you think turned out to be the smart one when their granny almost got loose and ran away? You guessed it good old Stupid Sturbridge. We arrive now at the final category, financial inferiority. One way to deal with this condition is to increase your income. You can, for example, become a fence. Or you can pose for a life class, if your college is well heated. But a better way to handle financial inferiority is to accept it philosophically. 1-ook on the bright side of poverty. True, others may have more money than you have, but look at all the things you have that they don't debts, for instance, and hunger cramps. And what ulmut friendship? You don't need money to have friends, and let me tell you something, good people: the older you get the more you will realize that nothing is o precious aa friendship, and the richest man in the world is the one with the most money. ' " Rich or poor, you can all afford the pleamire of Marlboro, Bailable at popular price In all SO ttatat of the Union. 1. My theory an looking inr a jafc -Play it big! Shoot far the top! Go straight to Un ma for t. Vm yemr Wad, mm. Ban akrj iot lap appolnlroanU mm of tacBigsbotaM TOW nail altar. I don't kaow asp imiakuta. t. BoaataM I AB yam have to oa ia find a praid t wbe Vkm doffa. YmiII lum him aaliof art of roar hand in no tana. I don't know an 4 Pwahijr, I don't know i Ifa not at had m Hiimm My idaa is to tad ami tin naam of tfce emaloriiwot nannaoa at theeompaBf I'm itiaarooloi m. Write bam a fatter tettikj his mm- qWtfiraliTiaa. Spoil tmt mf aataaaata, aiirtu, Sawpfir aa MmK. . A hilar to the Ho ho ho ! 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