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' -A V ti 1 Page 2 OUTSTANDING NEBRASKAN: It's Our Honor This year tha Outstanding Nebraskan Awards are be ing presented only once, rather than each semester as be fore. This was done to lend prestige to the Award. How ever, nothing could lend more prestige to the Award than this year's Outstanding Nebraskans themselves Profes sor Linus Burr Smith and Richard L. Weill. Professor Smith is ending his last year as head of the Department of Architecture. He is the only head the De partment has ever had as he has served the University for 30 years. He has served on no less than 30 commit tees, local and national, in his tenure here. Dick Weill has exemplified the academic student, the recipient of numerous scholarships and honors. He is the recipient of the Root-Tilden Scholarship for study next year at the New York University College of Law, which recognizes him as one of the top twenty pre-law seniors in the nation in that respect. He will graduate here as the leading senior in accounting. But, not to be forgotten are the other nominees who along with Professor Smith and Dick Weill not only make this year's Outstanding Nebraskan Award an outstanding one, but who also provide for other examples by which to learn and benefit. Consider this list: Faculty: Dr. Lawrence K. Crowe, Dr. Donald M. Pace, Dr. Donald A. Keys, Dr. Roberto Esquenazi-Mayo, Dr. Robert N. Manley and Dr. Sue Arbuthnot. Students: Dennis Christie, Maureen Frolik, Sue Hovik, Diane Armour, Gary Radii, Bill Buckley, Dave Smith, Bob Seidell, Mike White, Lyman Lacy and Gary Pokorny. The nature of the award was enhanced by the nature of the nominees and the final selections. All these people, especially Professor Smith and Dick Weill, have left their mark imprinted on the University's history in service. It is with not only pleasure, but honor, that the DAILY NEBRASKAN honors today Professor Linus Burr Smith and Richard L. Weill as OUTSTANDING NEBRASKANS. NO DEADLINE: for A Yesterday the DAILY NEBRASKAN met Its last dead line of this semester, its 58th. Each deadline marks an attempt to do an outstanding job of informing and educating you, the public, just as in the professional field a weekly tries to do so once a week, a small jwn daily nce a day, and a metropolitan as many as eight or nine times a day. The journalist feels each time he meets a deadline not only a sense of pride and accomplishment, but a sense that he could have done a better job and always a long ing for more time in which to do it. On any journalistic publication, though, the deadline does not mean the end of the work. Almost immediately plans and work, footwork, phone calls, interviews, re search, begins for the next edition. It is not a job that one can leave at the office at night. It is a job which truly challenges and, thus, proves a person. It has been a good semester. Exciting things have happened. The DAILY NEBRASKAN has proven itself a good college newspaper, better than any other operating on a similar budget and under similar circumstances. The most important factors making possible the qual ity of any newspaper, though, s the quality of its audience, its sources and its critics. In those respects, the DAILY NEBRASKAN has indeed been fortunate. rv r a if "ii f ! H iOim MOBRlft, tdltor, ARNfE OAKMflN. mana1n nWnr: ftUMN SMfTHMCnOKR. ntwf -1ltori FRANK PARTKCH, MICK ROOD. Mnlnr toff wrlt-ri KAY ROOD, Jl'DI PETKRRmoN, BARBARA BKRNKT. PHIfHIIXA MUl.LfNH, WAL MS LUNPF.KN. TRAVIS HINKR, Junior staff writer- RICHARD HA I HKRT. DALE MAJRK. CAY tRITSCIIKCK. copy D",NNW DrfRAIN, ptirrtn.mpheri PEOGY M'FECE. porta e-Jllorj JOHN HAIXOHKN, ailUnt port editors SliJTJ?.tXI,c.lrt'ul"H',n mn""ri fK'K. nubucritxion manaaen JOHN ZtlLINUtR, buaineee majiaieri BILL OLNL1CKI. BOB CUNNINGHAM. PETE LAOE, bualnraa aaalitante. ubaortptloo rate 13 Mr wmeator or 15 per year. Bntartd la eatxmd elan matter at tha mat office In Unrein. Nebraaka. under Die aet at Aotruat 4, . TV nelly NMwaakan I pnbllihml it room fil, Stortrnt ITiHm-i. on Mmdor Weedir, Thumdaif. Friday by nlmtfty Jf Nehraaka etudrnta noder the Jurladlrtlnn of the Faculty Suhcom .iltt-a on St.d.et!t Publication. Publication uhall be Jree from enorh!p by the Subcommittee or any parens sulfide Hi ITnlveralty. Member of the Nebraatua art re (ponaibl for what they cauae to be printed. Friday, May 29" 1964 Fofc Music: The lighter Scfe You, Your Guitar, And Your Note Can Sing, Folk EDITOR'S NOTE: In just three years, The Smothers Brothers have become pop ular folk singers in Amer icaappearing on college campuses from coast to coast, in demand for guest appearances on TV, and re cording five top-selling al bums. They have generous ly agreed to share their ex periences and vast know ledge of folk singing with our readers. By Tom and Dick Smothers You, too, can be a folk singer. Although folk singing is difficult, super-natural and pure, you can become pro ficient simply by following a few short cuts. After all, folk singers have traditionally been peo ple with untrained voices who sang for the enjoyment of their friends and families. The tremendous surge of popularity of folk singing in recent years had unfortu nately led many folk singers to become commercial. We utter loud sighs of disillu sionment about this every time we count our money. HOW TO START First you should learn to sing. This is an important part of being a folk singer. It is better if you don't know how to read music. Meter violations and illegit imate rhythmic patterns are essential to good folk sing ing, and besides, you'll be making up most of your own music. Start off by discovering your voice range. Lock yourself away in private in your own room, or in the shower. Do not turn the water on. Open your mouth, take a deep breath, and sing the lowest note you can. Then, sing up the scale to the highest note you can reach. This is your range. It may be an octave or even two, or it may be just three notes. If the latter, don't despair: it makes you even better qualified to be a folk singer. Now find the center note of your range. This is done by counting backwards from the top note, or for ward from the bottom note, to the center note. IMPOR TANT: The center note is YOUR NOTE. Start all your songs on this note, for you can thus sing up and down and around it and still stay within your range (and you will have to learn to sing in only one key). Soon you will become famous for YOUR NOTE. It will become your own identifying symbol. WARN ING: People will undoubted ly try to steal your note from you. Protect it with your life. HOW TO PRACTICE Now that you have your range, you can settle down to serious practice. Set aside a special period each day to devote to practicing. Don't hestitate to practice singing while engaged in any daily activity, such as walking across campus, in a movie, or during class. This Will give you an op portunity to become accus tomed to an audience, and establish your reputation as a bit of an eccentric . . . very helpful to a folk sing er. Select one simple song, and practice it daily until you have completely mas tered it. The proper mood and atmosphere are essen tial to the successful folk singer. Some find it helpful to use props to establish this your practice piece, u s e a noose. Jumping rope vigor ously while singing "Skip To My Lou" give a cer tain authenticity, and is healthful as well. YOU AND THE GUITAR A guitar is virtually the symbol of the folk singer, and you will, of course, need one. Preferably it should be in playing condition, but even a broken one makes a nice prop. It is also helpful if y o u can learn to play your gui tar. More important than play ing ability, however, is the way you handle your guitar. When in public, fondle it lovingly, treating it as though it were an integral part of you. Hold the guitar casually, yet with authority, in either of two approved ways : (1) Right Hip Sling Grasp the key end of the guitar firmly in your left hand, fingers in playing po sition. Sling guitar across body, with tail piece resting comfortably on your right hip. (2) Abdomen Carry Hold key end as directed above. Arrange fuitar horizontally across abdomen. This may make it difficult to use your right arm unless you have very short arms but It creates a good visual im pression. Another ad vantage of this hold is that If you sing from the abdo men, the guitar's sounding board will give your voice additional resonance. Avoid this hold if you are given to having hiccoughs. DRESS THE PART You will, of course, want to wear the proper clothes for folk singing. Male folk singers have the choice of a wide variety of clothing, anything from a suit and tie all the way to bermuda shorts and sweat shirts are acceptable ... IF! And the "if" is: if you wear some piece of old, torn clothing. Your outfit is not accept able unless this old, torn thing shows. This may be an old sweat shirt, or perhaps a moth eaten scarf or dish towel. The scarf is nice for those who like to act out some of the roles in their songs, as it can be used as a head covering (old woman), sash (dashing young hero) or modestly draped over the shoulders (ingenue). You will definitely be far ahead of your friends in be coming a folk singer if you are right now four weeks behind In getting your hair cut. This advantage cannot be stressed to much. The shaggy look i the look of success. If you decide to effect the casual, bermudas - sweat shirt attire, you may wish to grow a beard to provide a fashionable and authentic accent. This may create a small problem for female folk singers, but a -little in genuity should solve it. On the whole, female folk singers should try to achieve the somber, suffer ing look. Try to dress all in black, and avid high heels. Your legs must not look attractive. Your hair should be quite, long and unstyled let it just hang there, preferably unwashed. Do not wear any make-up. PERFORMING IN PUBLIC You will gain poise and a reputation by performing before a public audience as much as possible. - Take advantage of every opportunity to sing for your friends. You Will probably lose all your friends, but only in this way will you establish a name for your self. Make it known that you are available for cornerstone-layings, weddings, fu nerals, bar mltzvahs, and Kiwanls meetings. Never go to any function without your guitar. Obviously anyone carrying a guitar will b asked if he can play it, and you can take it from there. Firetruck: Unanswered Queries, Latent Ideas, Partial Response Shade By ARNIE GARSON Why is a columnist? After one semester and 28 Firetrucks I'm still not sure. After every one of those trucks students came to me and complained bit terly. At the same time others simply said. "S a y, good column today." Yet the complaints still get to you. And as you ponder your real motives for writing this slam or that attack it be comes clear that the com plaints are justified. For no matter what my opinions are or were on an i s s u e, someone else has contrary beliefs which are just as valid and equally idealistic in his mind. So, FIRETRUCK has been a medium of personal expression of opinion. And the expression that opinion, whether popular or not, has served its purpose if students at any level be c o m e enraged or agree thoroughly. Anytime someone became stimulated enough to sit down and write a letter to the editor or to even come down to the NEBRASKAN office and talk about some thing that had been writ- ten, my purpose had been served. It didn't matter whether that person agreed with what I wrote 'or hated me for what I wrote. What does matter is that people were thinking and talking about the problems which confront our little Universi ty world. And it is only through this type of re sponse that solutions to our problems will be realized. So there are only two things that bother me as this last issue of the semes ter goes to press. One is the fact that more people weren't either interested or enraged enough to present their own dissenting or sup porting views. The other is that there were so many more thingsto write about than time or space to do it. Some ideas for columns never got out of the folder labeled "ideas:" What will the Constitu tional Convention decide on the controversial subject 6f-. organizational . representa tives on Student Council. Will they be disbanned or SEE ME LATER! Is this your reply when tha sub. Ject of life Insurance Is men. tionod? Sure, you're In a hurry appointments, -meetings, family obligations they all keep you on the go. But, the time spent in discuss Ing the protection and savings aspects of a life Insurance pro gram today can mean a world of difference for you and your family In the future. We wel come your Inquiries about a Connecticut Mutual Life plan. BILL C0MST0CK , ., LINCOLN BtDG. SUITE 707 432-3239 Connecticut Mutual Life INSURANCE COMPANY ? 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The Committee on Student Pub lications argues that the financial savings are im mense. What will be the fate of the DAILY NEBRASKAN next year: Its financial problems arc multitudiness. Yet administration has con sistently rejected pleas for additional funds. And Pub Board has decided that the paper will operate within Its budget next year even if it papers will be distributed only three times a week. So, there is much to be done and much to be said. And if answers to these and other problems are to be reached, students must talk, write, think and act. Writing about these prob lems involves all of the I About Letters i The DAILT NEBRASKA InrltM S rpadrrs to use It for repressions nf opinion on current topics reran!- r: lens of viewpoint. Letters must be S E: limrdi contain a verWnble ad s: deems, and be free of libelous mi- 2 (be chance of publication. Lenfflhy terlal. Pen names may be In- letters may be edited or omitted. 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