The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, April 08, 1966, Page Page 5, Image 5
Friday, April 8, 1966 The Daily Nebraskan Page 5 Educators Research A new comprehensive me thod of teaching botany, said to be "revolutionizing courses for large numbers of students at Purdue University," was described to educators attend ing a special conference at Nebraska Center. Dr. Samuel Postcthwalt, professor of botany at Pur due and founder of a special teaching center, spoke before an assembly of specialists on educational media for the deaf. Postethwait, who five years ago had to borrow tape re corders and assorted other equipment to pursue his idea, stated he has found the way to teach 500 students in a class, give them individual attention, and at the same time, produce far superior Vox Populi Is Attacked By CFDP Delegates of t h e Campus Freedom Democratic Party (CFDP) attacked the Vox Populi party Thursday at the Hyde Park forum in toe Neb raska Union. Steve Abbott, CFDP's can didate for ASUN president, charged that the Vox- Populi Earty was a farce and that it ad no principles. He noted that the party slated its candi dates on the basis of five minute interviews. Vox Populi has no party responsibility, he said. "Vox Populi is a tremen dous machine. We'd like to see this machine think and come up with some issues,", Abbott continued. A meaningful bill of student rights will "be one of the CFDP principles, stating that "stu dents should have the final say over all thingi that govern them outside of t h e class room." Abbott announced that chairman of the CRDP Bill of Rights committee is George Duranske and chairman of the research committee is Allen Kessler. Randy Prior, a candidate for ASUN first vice-president, said that ASUN in the past year could be characterized by trivia, triteness and attempted tyranny. He suggested that Student Senate be reapportioned and apportionment made by hous ing units. He said that ASUN had grabbed for power and had dropped their most worthwhile projects. Applications For Grants Due June 1 Announcements of Ful-bright-Hays awards for facul ty members for research and lecturing during the academ ic year 1967-68 are now avail able in the office of James C. Olson, faculty Fullbright ad viser. Olson, whose office is in Ad ministration 306, said the awards are for Europe, Afri ca; the Near East South and East Asia, the Pacific, the Far East and Latin America. He noted that he does not distribute application forms, but that they are supplied to individual scholars by the Committee on International Exchange of Persons at 2101 Constitution A v e., N. W., Washington, D.C. The closing date for apply ing for research awards is June 1, and applications will continue to be accepted for lectureships as long as they are available Persons interested in filing applications for lectureships are advised to apply for them before May 1, after which date regular screening pro cedures will be put into ef fect and available appoint ments will begin to decrease in number, Olson said. ATTENTION! Seniors and Graduate Students Excellent Opportunity For Valuable Management Experience At The Nebraska Union Full time Asst. Night Manager position available. Evening & weekend work. For Interview, Contact: Mr. Barnes, Ass'r. Director, Nebraska Union, Administrative Office 111 Discuss Methods students than with the con ventional lecture-laboratory methods. Educators who have been watching the development now point to his success mea sured in terms of rising en rollments in botany at Pur due, students achieving high er marks, and the increas ing percentages of his s t u -dents, graduating and b e i n g accepted in graduate schools elsewhere. The center at Purdue con sists of 30 students carrels' equipped with eight-millime-ter color movie projectors, microscopes, tape recorders, plants and workbooks, which can be used at the students' convenience to supplement lecture periods. Dr. Postethwait explained that the movies and taped messages arc carefully pro grammed to supply a step-by-step series of learning exper iences to be accomplished by accomplished by individual students at the rates best for each student. "We find now that we can ask our students to do three papers or outside projects in volving library research in stead of one, as before," he said. "We are removing the stu dent from the spoon-feeding and one-way discourse of lec tures and the teaching envir onment of most schools which make the student study only for examinations," he said. "In place of this, the student progresses at the rate best for him, can be shown things and told things in ways that the traditional lecture and labor atory techniques can't even begin to accomplish." Dr. Postethwait said he started the center because he was "tired of seeing potenti ally good students penalized in their study of college bot any because of weak prepara tion in high school." The weakness, he said, often re sults because staff shortages in high schools force English instructors, athletic coaches, and instructors in other fields into the teaching botany. Cornhusker Staff To Be Chosen Applications for next year's Cornhusker staff will be avail able April 18. They may be picked up at the Cornhusker office, the Stu dent Activities office or the School of Journalism. The applications are due April 22 at 5 p.m. and inter views will begin April 28 at 3 p.m. The postions students may interview for include: editor, copy editor, photo editor, busi ness manager, assistant busi ness manager and seven man aging editors. ! LITTLE MAN 'WU , 1 eOL9 A LOT fAOfte OF MfBOCXS WHEM T GTASZTP.O nwiMfZ '(OPfcM (W-' -rec-ns. ..,.vf LINCOLN . . , will be left behind by many University students Friday as they leave the school for a nine day spring and Easter vacation. A large percentage of the students will be going to homes either in Ne braska or other states with ideas of catching up on study and term pa pers. More realistic students will realize as they drive away from the Lincoln skyline that vacation will probably result only in a needed rest. Other students no doubt see the nine days as a good time for skiing, group trips as far as Mexico and lots of fun. IS Cont. from Page 1, Col. 4 terpretated that the "Protes tant faith now means not in tellectual acceptance of an an cien confession, but open commitment perhaps best symbolized in the U.S. by the civil rights movement to eradicating I7ie evil and in equality that besets the world.'1 How does this death of God theory show itself on the Uni versity campus? Phillips an swered that "people often live out their thoughts without really formalizing them. In this manner it is possible for the faith attitude to exist side by side with that of the death of God. Culture is a mirror for real feelings. Culture is, then, expressing the ideas be fore theologians can say them." Students Disinterested The fact that most students seem to display a disinterest in religion, is in Phillips' es timation, an expression of the belief, though maybe uncon cious, that God is dead. "Through Christ," conclud ed Phillips, "we come closest to God. The crucifixion is the high point in man's search for God. When Jesus, at His crucifixion, cried 'My God, my God, why hast thou for saken Me?' this can be con sidered the high point. But, it is also the low point, for here we find the abandon ment of man by God." The opposite opinion can be found, apparently in the ma jority, on the campus. One of the opponents to those who say "God is dead" is Father Peek, of the St. Marks-on-The-Campus Episcopal Church. ON CAMPUS 1 KTVT , God Dead ? "As to this Christian athe ism,"' said Peek," these are the ideas of either sincere but misguided men or those of publicity seekers. This is not the first time that an attack of this nature has been leveled at the church." "The words 'Christian athe ism' are alone a paradox of conflicting words. They are either spoken by someone who misuses the words or misunderstands what they mean." Peek admits that he takes a conservative stand. He stat ed that he supports the an cient doctrines of the church. No Proof "It's not possible to prove that God really is when you use the scientific meaning of 'prove'. But by experience, I know that there is a God." "Those who say that they are not able to understand God are saying that God isn't much or that they're on t h e same plane as He. God is neither. He is above us, and all we can hope for is to un derstand a little bit about Him.'' A parallel problem, accord ing to Peek, is in attempting to prove what beauty is. One can't describe it and it is dif ferent to every person. But, when one sees beauty, one recognizes it as such. Teach And Exemplify "I doubt that the duty of the church is to get involved in a lot of outside problems. It is the church's job to teach and exemplify," stated Fa ther Peek. "I don't believe in discrimination of minorities, but I think that if we taught people to love each other as Christ showed, then there would be no need for t h e s e arches." Concerning civil rights, he said that he does not oppose demonstrations against dis crimination, as long as they are within the law. But when they are illegal, he feels that "two wrongs do not make a right." "All men have a job to do. If I preach well, that's my job and I've done it. It is not my job to go out andparade." "In my estimation, those who believe in the death of God are only showing that their faith is weak. Because they don't know, they say God doesn't exist. Simply because we can explain physical things doesn't mean we should be able to explain the supernatural." "Christian witnessing should be done quietly, and not with banner headlines. If everyone would live a Chris tian life from day to day, there would be no need for marches. Besides, when one UNIVERSITY BOOK Wishes you an ENJOYABLE -q, ..bSW we."--" preaches, he must preach for all groups, not one in particu lar. It appears to me that some people have forgotten about the American Indian." Forgotten Main Aspect In addition, Peek stated that some people have forgot ten a main aspect of the church. That is that the act of worshipping should be one of giving of the self to God, not a taking. "No situation can be solved until we love one another." Concerning the seeming lack of student interest in re ligion, Peek said that this is merely an expression of what students see in their parents. "Oten times, too, when stu dents get out of the discipline of the home, they tend to fall out of the habit of attending church. This is not a new de velopment with this genera tion, either. There is just too much competition for the stu dent's time and religion isn't stressed enough as an impor tant factor which deserves a portion of the student's time. Laziness "Certainly a lack of disci plice and laziness on the part of the student accounts for this lack of interest. Perhaps one out of every hundred truly believes that God is dead, but this is not the fact with the other ninety-nine. The motivation to go to church must come from with in. The individual must de velop the discipline to get himself started." Peek summed up his opin ions by saying, "You can only go so far in searching for God. The limit is the five senses and a small bit of mentality which man possesses. "But, in talking of God, one must go far beyond these limits. Those who say they believe God is dead, must have neglected their spiritual lives not to be able to know His presence without being able to touch him." Make a NEBRASKA UNION MOW, , 12 Scholars Recognized By Greeks Fraternity and sorority members with the top scho lastic averages in their clas ses were honored at a recog nition dinner Tuesday night, concluding Greek Week ac tivities. Interfraternity Council honored the three top men in the senior class. They are John Cosier, 4.157; Bob Bell, 4.139, and Bruce Snyder, 3.886. Panhellenic honored the top three sorority members in the senior, junior and sophomore classes. They included seniors Vicky Dowimg. 4.138; Judy Young, 4.033; Emily Schlaht, 4.198; juniors Erma Winterer, 4.198; Jackie Eads, 3.988; Mar cia L'gerstron, 3.905; sopho mores Kris Bitner, 4.078; Nancy Fritzler, 4.028 Glenice Barrows, 4.021. Computers Discussed At Seminar Nebraska industrial execu tives are fast becoming con scious of the advantages of using computers in their busi nesses, according to Don Cos tello, assistant director of the University Computing Center. From 250 to 300 persons primarily Nebraska industrial managers and line officers have already evidenced inter est in attending a one-day se minar April 22 on "Industrial Applications Using Digital Computers." Costello explained that the seminar, to be held at the Nebraska Center for Contin uing Education, is one of a number of events to be held April 18-22 to better inform the public on the use of the University's Computing Cen ter. The seminar, with registra tion still open to interested parties, will deal primarily with applications of digital computers beyond the simpl er uses in record keeping of payroll and other accounts. Attendants will be shown how computers can be used to solve such prohlems as de termining the completion date of construction through pro gram evaluation, and to eval uate public demand and qual ity of product in business. Lectures on computers and their potential will be given by Mike Munger, research associate of the University's Computing Center; Dr. Mario Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif.; Dr. Don J. Nelson, director of the Uni versity's Computing Center; Costello and Roy Hallquist, assistant directors of the Cen ter; and Dr. Emerson Jones of Technical Management Inc., Lincoln. Read Nebraskan Want Ads Date for UNION BOWLING Ideal for Group Reservations Week ends STORE VACATION 'Success Depends On Issue' Unless a definite issue arises on which a definite stand can be taken. Demos Kratos will not function as a political party this year, ac cording to Dave Snyder. "If such an issue should arise, then the name would be rejuvenated," explained Snyder, a candidate for ASUN president and organizer of what was to have been a political party. He added that the group would not slate candidates or draft a platform for the April 27 ASUN election. "No platform will be drafted," he said. "We will exchange information and de bate issues and then decide if the individuals agree or disagree on various points." The group will serve to give inexperienced candidates background on issues in the campaign, Snyder noted. If the individuals wish to take stands as Individuals or small groups, he continued, they will then h a v e a basis on which to make their deci sions. "I personally don't know if parties are good or bad," he said, "but I do think that this is the year to decide the mat ter." "My hope is that with two parties (the Vox Populi and the Campus Freedom Demo cratic Party) more definite lines can be taken on various issues," he said. "You can argue back and forth forever about parties, but until an election takes place where there are two of them, you just don't know," he commented. Med School Hosts Upperclassmen Junior and senior Universi ty students interested in medi cine, nursing, medical tech- j nology and radiologic careers will be guests of the Universi- j ty College of Medicine April 23 in Omaha. Pre Med Day 1966 will offer displays, campus tours, pre sentations and discussions. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. in the Conkling Hall Lounge. CLOSE AT CIGARETTES Lowest Prices h - 1 3 r f ' ' ; I '4 t , ETEHY DIVIDEND BONDED GAS 16th & P Sts. Just South of Campus Honors: Is Kragz The speaker at the annual Honors Convocation on- April 26 will be Prime Minister Jns Otto Krag of Denmark. His visit to Nebraska is in response to a joint invitation extended last year by Ohan cellor Clifford Hardin and ;Val Peterson, then presllent of the Board of Regents. .. .... Krag, who has long been associated with the Danish government, started .his career as a directorate of sup py in 1940-45. In succeeding years, he has served as chairman of the parliament; minister of com merce, industry and shipping; economic counselor to the Danish Embassy in Wash ington; minister of economy and labor; minister of exter nal economic affairs and min ister of foreign affairs. . FRIDAY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, 12:00, Nebraska Union. ALPHA DELTA PI MOTH ERS, 12:00, Nebraska Union. A. PH. A., 1:30, Nebraska Union. AFRICAN STUDENT ASSO CIATION, 7:30, Nebraska Un ion. N. I. A., 8:00, Nebraska Un ion. PALLADIAN LITERARY SOCIETY, 8:00, Nebraska Un ion. SATURDAY DELIAN UNION, 8:00, Ne braska Union. 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