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The Daily Nebraskan Page 5 Thursday, Feb. 10, 1966 Bridge Tourney Sunday A bridge tournament will be held Sunday In the Nebras ka Union, with the winners being rated against other ma jor school tournament win ners across the nation. The hands are pre-dealt and picked, with all schools play ing exactly the same hands, exactly the same contracts and with the same opening lead, according to Jerry Farrell, who is conducting the tournament here. The tournament is open to all full-time graduate and un dergraudate students. It starts at 2 p.m., but Farrell said that participants should come to the Union about 1 or 1:30 p.m. in order to become fa. miliarized with the rules. There is a $1 entry fee. A national winner will be named from the local contests In addition to regional winners who will compete in a tourna ment in late April or early May at Bradley University in Peoria, 111. Regional winners will re. ceive all-expenses paid trip to the tournament in Peoria. The region which includes the University also includes all the Big Eight schools and a few others. Farrell said that the hands are constructed by well-known bridge experts and that after the tournament is over, pamphlets analyzing all of the hands and hov the ex perts would play them will be distributed to the contes tants. The American. Contract Bridge League handles the nation-wide contest. Farrell said the playing skill has increased to such a degree that most of the play ers who make it to the Peoria contest have achieved the Master rank in bridge. If students are not full-time, they may still participate if there is room, but are not eligible to participate in t h e Peoria contest. NROTC Offers Shorter Course A new two-year Naval Re serve Officers Training Corps program will be offered at the University this year. The program, which is in effect at 52 colleges and uni versities across the nation, leads to an officer's commis sion in the Naval or Marine Corps Reserve. Sophomore men having "C" averages, who are single and at least 18-year-old, are elig ible. Candidates for the NROTC program must enroll in a special six-week summer session which consists of aca demic instruction, laboratory drill, and physical education. Officers commissioned un der the program serve on active duty for a period of not less than three years. f Wmmtm9 " wm HISTORY History Staff Stresses Individual Approaches By Julie Morris Senior Staff Writer While leading their classes down the ages from prehis tory to the modern ages, his tory professors infuse the ma terial with their own con cepts, ideals and person alities. Presentation and emphasis differ from teacher to teach er, but the student is basical ly given "the facts and the best interpretation we have of historical events," accord ing to Dr. Steven Ross, asso ciate professor of history. Ross said the student is then expected and encouraged to take the facts and the dif ferent interpretations he has absorbed and formulate his own working theory of the na ture of history. History, the story of man, is Dasicany tne s i u a y 01 change. "History is a dynam ic thing, there are patterns of change that can be under stood," Dr. Robert Manley, assistant professor of history said. Ross said history is con cerned with studying the way "you get from the cave men to civilized man and what factors impel change." A teacher's concept of the actual role of history influ ences his presentation. "His tory should give the student a better grasp of the flesh, of what man is so we study all of man," Donald Nugent, instructor of history said. Nugent said he emphasizes the "cultural" angle of his t o r y attempting to "stress what is general, universal in history." War, diplomacy, economics and politics often pertain only to one or two countires at a time, he said. "I want to sub merge students in the entire waters of history," he added. Ross, on the other hand, ii milium I III I III lT Y a , i Js a v Lace into Vs I bmII " " 1 i'"'"l'1r"n''nl ' Brogues Jy I y i i -.y" .. V.V' ....... r. - mnvp nn in the blucher side Outside everything's smoothed over in smooth black forest or black cherry or black calf. City Club Shoes $15.00 to $24.00. Wouldn't you like to be in our thocst Most of America is. Inlernational Shoe Co., St. Louis, Mo. ' 1 . ( :-r- 1 -r T i - .,w.4..t.:.-... ... ' , ,i lj 1 lectures and emphasis differ depending on the instructor. emphasizes "essentially eco nomic, political, military and scientific factors rather than moral, religious factors lead ing toward change." -' "I like art just as well as the next man, but it didn't really change things very much. 'I'd sooner devote time to politics, economics and so forth the guts of history," he said. Bruce Pauley, instructor of history, hits something of the mean between Ross' and Nu gent's presentations. He noted that he concentrates on the cultural aspects more in ear lier ages and on political and diplomatic affairs in more modern ages. "In later periods people weren't too different cultural ly than ourselves," he said. "The further you go back in history the less interested I am in politics," he said. Pau ley said he includes "a lot about religion, entertainment and daily life" of the people. He said he also includes com ments about the role played by women. "It gives the girls today a perspective of how the kind of lives they lead are different or similar with other ages and of how we arrived at what we have today," Pauley said. History teachers are great ly concerned witih making their subject meaningful to students. Manley said he tries to teach with the idea that pe has two grpups of students before him, future teachers and future citizens. "I'm giving the teacher a tool he can use to make his tory more vivid and alive and non-teachers can begin to see the breadth of their respon sibility as citizens," he said. Manley said he tries to re late history personally to his students by pointing out the connection between local give your worsteds a real hot wing tip with the Flexit Cushion i i i u,iWM Jl trends and national trends Pauley attempts to personally relate history to the student and make it more vivid by re lating his impressions of his. torical places to the class. A continuing question among historians is whether man's nature has changed through the ages. A historian's answer to this can influence his entire orientation toward his material, Nugent pointed out. He said if man's nature has changed there would be no purpose in studying his. tory since we would not need to know how people complete ly different from us reacted to different situations since we would fundamentally be different from them. "I maintain that man's na ture in fundamentally un changed," Nugent said. "I don't think man's any better now than he was 5,000 years ago," Ross stated. "I'm not impressed with mankind's progress except his technical progress. He started out hitting each other over the head with clubs now he drops atomic bombs," he said. "People have changed in a fairly fundamental way," Pau ley stated. He said the changes come about from age to age and that in his view, while history cannot solve today's problems because man is not the same thing he was, it can give "a little bit of perspective to our situa tion." FFA Program Is 'Food Or Famine' The state Future Farmer o.' America officers will present a program at the Alpha Tan Alpha meeting Thursday, at 7 p.m., in the East Campus Union. insole in Champion Shooter Featured Al Mart, a world's cham pion pistol shooter, was the featured speaker at Wednes day's meeting of the Wildlife Club. Mart related his experiences as a big game hunter in Alas ka. This program was in ac cordance with the Wildlife Club's main purpose: "to pro mote better understanding of wildlife and its conservation," according to Terry C a c e k, president. The club has approximately 64 members and has recently accelerated its activities pro gram, Cacek said. "During the year, the club's activities include a pheasant hunt and a fishing and camp ing trip," Cacek stated. "A blue rock (clay target) shoot is also being planned for some future time." In April the Wildlife club holds its annual wild game banquet where an award is given for outstanding work in wildlife conservation. The organization is now in vestigating the possibility of promoting the establishment of a degree in wildlife conser vation at the University, ac cording to Cacek. A. I. 10 Watches Diamonds Watch Bands Little Colonel Vies For AF 'Promotion' The Arnold Air Society Area F-2 Little Colonel, Bar bara Atkinson, representing the University, will vie for the title of Little General at the group's national conclave at Dallas, Tex., in April. Miss Atkinson was selected at the area conclave of the Arnold Air Society, an honor ary Air Force ROTC organiza tion. A member of Angel Flight, (the auxiliary of the Arnold Air Society) Miss Atkinson is an Interfraternity Beauty Queen finalist and the philan thropic chairman of Pi Beta Phi sorority. She is also a Little Sister of Minerva and a member of the Council for Exceptional Children. A junior, Miss At kinson is majoring in elemen tary and special education. 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Nights Till 9:00 The regular session of Quiz Bowl competition begins Thursday at 7 p.m. with eight matches scheduled to be held in the Nebraska Union small auditorium. Teams must report to isola tion at the beginning of the half in which they play or be disqualified, according t o Larry Johnson, chairman. Thursday's matches are: Burnette Hall vs. Thoreau House, 7 p.m.; Fairfield vs. Alpha Gamma Sigma II, 7.25; Tweed Ring vs. Gamma Phi Beta II, 7:50 p.m.; Four Or dinaries vs. Kappa Sigma A., 8:05 p.m.; We Four vs. Avery, 8:40; Misnomers vs. C.I.A 'c, 9:05 p.m.; Magic Markers vs. The Mediokes, 9:30 p.m.; and Computers vs. Alpha Xi Delta Cardinals, 9:55. Varel And Bailly Group To Sing The Varel and Bailly Chan teurs De Paris will give a concert at the Nebraska Un ion Ballroom Mar. 3 at 8 p.m. The group includes many top form entertainers head ed by Charley Bailly accord ing to the Nebraska Union. 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