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Page 2 PROTEGE PROGRAM: A Good Education The Innocents Society began several, years ago a Pro tege program which should have by now, manifested it self in other phases of the University's educational , proc ess. : 5 '. : Some businessmen contacted Chancllor Hardin with the idea and, after thought, the Innocents were asked to take it over, according to a present member of the so ciety. . - - - , The Protege program grew to include 33 seniors this year, as well as 33 corresponding businessmen. It is de signed to inform the University senior about the field he is planning to enter, give him some insight into what kind of person does well in his field, acquaint the businessmen of Lincoln with the type of person the University is turn ing out and draw them closer to NU, give the Senior an idea of what Nebraska offers him plus contacts in his field. The Innocents get seniors' names from Administration and the various colleges. This year's program began yes terday at a kick-off breakfast. They stay with it after the beginning by setting up subsequent meetings between the seniors and their respective colleagues from the outside world. In addition, they get evaluations of the seniors from the businessmen in order to provide the participating stu dent with an idea of what his professional counterpart thinks of him. ' . The most important thing is, however, that many of these businessmen, professional men, of whatever voca tion, take these students with them on the job to the courthouse for a trial,, for example giving the student what he sometimes hears about, but rarely obtains, some practical education. It is significant that this type of activity is the neces sary ingredient in the future of the University. It (1) forces the student to draw out, investigate and discover what he is doing here and (2) gives the University that kind of public relations that nobody but students can give it the kind of public relations that could possibly determine the course of this institution in the all too near future, good practical evidence of the school's product. It should be remembered that the businessman gains from this type of contact also, but it is more significant that most of the effort is left to the individual student. He must want to schedule other meetings and move to do so. It is indeed encouraging that so far students partici pating in the Protege program, under the "direction of the ' Innocents, have followed their opportunity up after the kick-off breakfast But, it is also significant and not too encouraging that tbe general tone of education here has not taken the hint There is not enough practical education at tbe University. Many colleges and departments have labs and field trips and guest speakers, but even these fall short, of actually,, observing a professional counterpart on the job and maybe even helping him. It could be done as a scheduled part f the regular class semester. Some students do not, in their four or five years here, gain any practical experience at all in their field. They should be encouraged, as the school of journalism does in its summer internship program, to take summer jobs in their chosen field. Every part of the University should lake the example set by the Innocents with the Protege program, and form its own, thus enabling students to rapidly adjust on the job which would benefit both employer and employee. The responsibility for the program came to the Inno cents from Administration. It is a valid suggestion that the Innocents now return the letters of evaluation they re ceive from employers to Administration thus showing the University where it may be failing. That would place the responsibility for this new aspect of education on the administrative level and possibly get this important ball rolling. 'Overkill and Megalove:' A Book For All Kinds By Arnie Garson Overkill: "And all would be well if it (the atom) were not so resentful in the ag gregate, and poisonous when provoked. "t And Megalove: "Each of us was ordained by an act of love ... for megalove is flood tide, thousands of millions of . clasping em braces in a single night . . OVERKILL AM) MEGA LOVE encompasses' every imaginable level of human experience and ties it the matically in a personally identifiable way. Norman Cn ill's 190 page book, which is quite sparsely but powerfully populated with print, was given to me by an instructor-friend (of whom I have few). For those who like vivid imagery: "Fire . . warms the baby's bottle, but cre mates the nursery." - For the philosophers : "He (man) knows he is born without his consent and dies against his wUl;" 1 , For t h e romanticists "And in spite of what job ' bear, more units of fellow-" ship are moved each day than oil drums or iron in gots." For the sadists: "A fun ny thing happened to me on the way to the crematori um. 'There was this radi ated corpse, see . . ." Or for those who just ap preciate good gore: "All I could: see from where I stood Was three deep craters and some mud I turned and looked an other way paan Wednesday, February 26, 1 964 And saw a city dripping blood." And if you like cold sar casm :"A thing of beauty is a joy for as long as will be permitted by the interna tional situation." For tbe Carl Sandburg fans: "The bomb comes On little cat feet. It obliterates harbor and city and raises a cloud which then moves on." But aside from its sensu ous imagery, powerful wit and subtle humor, OVER KILL AND " MEGALOVE caries a message of social; protest so superbly written that by the time the reader finishes the first 20 pages, he starts to worry that there are only 80 pages left. OVERKILL carries a va lid message for both scien tist and laymaa. In an age when the touch of a but ton can 15 minutes later . destroy the lives and homes - of 100 million people, Cor win's word! cannot be light ly taken or easily, laughed off as overly pacifistic. The1 author's vocabulary is both challenging (afflat us, untradable, carcinoma) and creative (infinitesticle)! He masterfully captures the sympathy of the reader as early in the book as the introduction, which reads, "For Dianne, who wrote during an edge-of-waf cri sis in 1962: Dear Dad,-, Please answer my question . because 1 am worried. Are we going to be bombed? . Will you write to Kennedy if we are? Tell him I'm a girl of nine and I don't want to . . . you know what." 11 wt Scrip Review Attempted Irony Dear Editor: The "English Grad Stu dent's" winter SCRIP re V i t w, appearing in last Wednesday's edition of the DAILY NEBRASKAN is a refreshing attempt at irony. However, it seems to me that the ironic flashes are not sufficiently sustained. Too., often the. author, de-. Scends into prosaic journal ese, so that many of the ex pressions tend to lose then biting edge. But the clue that the wri ter is attempting irony ap pears when he deliberately lapses into trite and preci ous expressions: "a real collector's item," "Satur day Evening Post hacks," the folksy "it ain't artsy- Goldwater Meet Lacked The DAILY NEBRASKAN sends staff writers to report on speeches given by Sen ator Douglas of Illinois, Gov. Morrison of Nebraska, Gary K. of Lincoln, and Joe Blow from Hanibal Mo. But where was the reporter Thursday night when Mr. Peter Taurins came to peak to the Nebraska Youth for Goldwater? Mr. Taurins is the vice chairman of the Midwest Captive Nations Associa tion, and president of the Nebraska Latvian Associa tion. He has lived through the Communist take-over of his country; he has lived through a stay at a Soviet slave-1 a b 6 r camp. But where was your reporter? I Mr. Taurini presented a 1 State Department-approved film depicting tbe Commu nist take-over of Lativa. It showed the farced treaties in' which many countries lost their Independence. It ; showed the results those i wba gave their live in a i vain - attempt to preserve i freedom in their country. It j showed methods of dealing j with political prisoners. It ; showed criminals house- j breakers, thieves, murder- ; erg who took over tbe police department and se- cret police. It showed a free : country being taken over by j the Communists. ' i Mr. Taurins gave h i s J views of current United . States policy. He disagreed j wth the present soft for jeign policy, but also dis- ! agreed with the extremist -methods of the John Birch Society.- He exploded tiie myth that FDR was uni versally liked. (When he WNtUMfr craftsy-stuffsy," "a student literary tome," and "is a wow." These and many like remarks are barbed indeed. The assumption that poetry-writing is the exclusive right of English students (He's a freshman physics major, of all things!") is al so a delightful but of whim sey. But the crowning irony is that the idea "so if you don't like it, it's your own fault," is obviously false. The gestapo tactics of the SCRIP staff, headed by Su san Stanley Wolk. effectual ly prevent a healthy partici pation by the best writers. "My "City View" should not have been printed, as I died, the Latvians only prayed that the next presi dent would not sell them out as FDR had.) Mr. Taurins believes that if a commercial, run once, asked for volunteers soley displaced persons that there would be enough to present a very formidable espionage force in eastern Europe. He feels that the result would be a chain-reaction of uprisings against the Communist masters. He knows this, for he has spok en to recent refugees, and he feels what the people of eastern Europe feet Mr. Taurins explained the facts of life of Communism. . i Through his speech one could not help feeling that CAMPUS PAC IS HERE 25c - Assortment of Quality Products NEBRASKA UNION SILVER ANNIVERSARY LIMITED SUPPLY MAIN LOUNGE 5?V protested before its release. In another instance, a poem, written by a member of the SCRIP editorial staff, was quickly rejected by Mrs. Wolk and others until it was discovered by whom it had been written; it was subse quently printed. To the in sider, "so of you don't like it, it's your own fault," at tains delicious iron', in view of the author's undoubted familiarity with SCRIP edi torial methods. t Some clarification seemed to be in order so that, for the general reader, the de liberate irony of the author's last sentence would not ap pear to be accidental ob scurity. Michael Keedy Reporter those who favor soft for eign policy are living in the past and are not able to face up to reality. Many pseudo-intellectuals, who call themselves lib eralafter all, how else can they get brownies with their liberal professors? are so bogged down by their pet theories that they have com pletely lost themselves in the mire of their own ideology. I looked for the DAILY NEBRASKAN re porter, but he was not there. Come off it. Daily Nebras kan. You are no more un biased than the NEW RE PUBLIC. On the other hand, if you really are unbiased, you suffer from apathy. Evidently you don't really care, for where was your reporter? Stone-Age Statesman No. 2 $1.50 y mi from By Dick Recker . Senator Goldwater's can didacy has evoked mi ny varied responses, re Con servatives have their firs entry in the Presidential Sweepstakes in 12 years. The nation is treated to a campaign in which' clear and meaningful differences of policy will be debated by the candidates. The election has already seen the rise of one of its major issues. Sen. Gold water raises the issue of missile reliability. It's ap parent that this issue in volves the safety of all that we cherish. This is an issue that should transcend parti sanship but one doubts if it will. When Sen. Goldwater first raised the issue the po litical pundits, it recalled the then Sen. Kennedy's attack on the alledged missle gap. Fewer people recall Secre tary MacNarma's denial of any missle gap few months after the election. Sen. Gold water has raised this issue with political courge. Should his charges be proven reck less or irresponsible you will see his numerous and vor acious critics attempt to turn him into a political corspe. Before we fall prey to emotional attacks like Sec. MacXamra who questioned Sen. Goldwater's patriotism, let us study the issue objec tively. There is too much at stake for anyone to do oth erwise. The main area of concern for Sen. Goldwater, Gener al LeMay, Admiral Ander son, and many others is missle reliability under bat tle conditions. It is not. as some allege, a question of bombers versus missies. Nor a question of accuracy but rather reliability. The last moon shot demonstrated this when the shot hit its point exactly, but some sys tems failed to work. . The issue is whether we Should have a mixed variant of bombers and missiles. Sen. Goldwater states it j simply "Should we place all i our nuclear eggs in one bas ket." Many authorities have had serious misgivings about this but until a Presidential candidate risked his neck the public hasn't been JOHV MOREIS. rdllol.; AKVIC f.IWV. manuinf fdJUir; W AN KMITHBI B(,I K. lti liun : tbtVk rtKW H. Ml K IMMlI. -HUH- staff wntrra: JMtHI (UL MIKK kl 1 XIV. L kklSDT, hV B'MiD. junior maff tiwn, Bll H AKD HM M M. DAI.t HAJI.k. CV LUWHICK. am litor; HI VM OrtltAIS. iiurrtK-r; H('('K Hl.ltl. wiru Klltw; ftXi iY WKUt, aHkuULni ftiftirift dju; f-RKKlov Urn.. nrrulmioB man new; JIM DK'K. ubM-nuUun frto r: JOHN ZLIMM.KU. bUKimn manafMi MIX Gl SUCKS. HO Ct'KMVGHAM. PETE LAGE, tmm net aafiiffunu. Sobacriation ram (3 per temrmet r St per ar. Enured a arrond claw matter Ml the post office in Lmniln, Nebraska, under the art of Aujunt 4. 112. The Daily Nehrankan i putiliahed al room 5, Student I num. on Mon day, Wednesday. Thurwlay, Friday by I'niverutr if euraa itudemt under the jurudirlion f the Farult fcubcumrruUe on Student MloUiil fuuliratmna Khali br free from cm aorxrup by the Subcommittee or any peraun outaide the I'mveraiti'. Mem ber of the Nebraiikan are retponmbie tor what they cauae Ui be printed - 1200 'O- STREET tiHUHED JtWELtRa The Right aware of this issue. These critics contend that in face of unanswered ques tions the U.S.A. cannot risk over-reliance on missies. What are some of these questions? The critics contend that no complete test has been made of our missle system. They ask when has the U.S. fired one missle with a nu clear warhead at test tar gets? Have we ever con ducted a test in other than perfect weather conditions in Florida or Vanderburg? Do we really know if our missle-silos are adequate to protect the missies during the first enemy strike? What about the recent test firings of the Polaris sub Nathen Hale in which two out the three fired failed? Many authorities are gravely concerned over what is known as E.M.P. or electromantic pulse. This is a powerful surge that accompanies a nuclear blast.. If a enemy lauches a sneak attack we have no knowledge of what the E.M.P. of the bombs would do to the control systems of our missies. These and many other questions plague our mili tary defense experts. Sen. Goldwater wants a Senate investigation to determine the facts. This would give us a chance to see what ques tions can be answered and which questions will still need answers. In the absence of any dif- f e r e n t facts many feel America should keep a com bined deterent system of missies and bombers. They also wonder why, after Mac Namara ruthlessely ended Skybolt Dinasoar and partly ended the RS 70 program he has not, since taking office, begun research on any new weapons sysiems. 2JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!ll!li:i!!l!l!!llllllllllllllllllil! 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