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.
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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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
Area F-2 includes the Air
force ROTC detachments
from the University of Ne
braska, Omaha University,
Drake University, Lawrence
University, Notre Dame Uni-
Clinic Discusses
A clinic dealing with explor
ation of geologic formations
useful as foundation and build
ing materials was held at the
University Wednesday.
Participants, including con
tractors and highway depart
ment personnel from Nebras
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Thurs. 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.
The music of these French
men is largely folk and popu
lar songs "of pure nostalgic
delight."
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