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Monday, October 23, 1967 The Daily Nebraskan Page 5 i Jn Concert . . . JOAN BAEZ . . . revolutionary force in folk-music, will appear at Pershing Auditorium November 15. Baez Wishes To Be 'Ordinary Person' By BARB MARTIN Junior Staff Writer One of the most important women in the world of folk singing curdles visibly when "show biz" is mentioned, according to Harold Davi son of Folklore Productions who recently edited a char acter study of Joan Baez. Davison emphasized the paradoxical quality of the singer, musician and com poser who will present a two-hour concert in Lincoln at Pershing Auditorium Nov. 15. Ticket sales for the per formance will begin Tues day in the Nebraska Union Program Office from 8:30 to noon for block sales of ten or more tickets. Gen eral sales will begin at noon for individual tickets, priced at $2.10, $2.60 and $3.10. According to D a v i s o n, there is nothing in the per sonality, demeanor, physi cal appearance or back ground of Miss Baez that substantiates her rise to the top of the efficiently or ganized amusement busi ness. ATTITUDE Davison writes that Miss Baez has assumed an atti tude of passiveness when confronted by the heavy tour schedules and frequent ap pearances expected of a star. She prefers to remain in her southern California home most of the time. Referring to wealth and publicity that accompanies stardom. Miss Baez said, "now that I've seen what those golden apples do to people, I know I don't want them. I need to keep part of my life for myself. Dur ing a tour I hear too much about myself." Davison indicated that the singer views her work in a manner far different than most performers. Her songs are chosen from a diversified selection that does not conform to the con temporary emphasis on love lyrics. SOUND AND FEELING Miss Baez said, "I don't care very much about where 432-1465 140 No. 13th SI A Distinguished Company Breathes Life Into Shakespeare's Lusty Age ot ("CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT") TICKETS NOW ON SALS Stuart & Cooper Lincoln Box OHico or Student Union THIS THURS. fc FRI. ONLY 2 P.M. $1.50 8 P.M. $2.50 MOOT tAWMM MOMS M ORSON WEUfS (1W K MM miBmmtataammmaLmifuteufmau FRE for Stat nd Hebrsska I ft . ri-t. r Anrxn-aui Grift, im m. rwn, wn a I - EBRASKA 432-3126 12th & P Street Y aj TODAY 2 P.M. $1.50 8 TM. $1.75 L Children- Idren $1.00 Anytime AH . VBt -- 'f a folk song came from or why, or even what it says. All I care about is how it sounds and the feeling in it." Folklore's representative said that this attitude is an integral part of the desire of Miss Bzaez to remain an ordinary person rather than an image of the public. He cited the singer's man ner of dress as another ex ample of her wish to be or dinary. Davison noted that she is neither flamboyant nor glamorous. She doesn't crave the extensive ward robe of a star but she is not a hippie. Her simple dress and simple hair style project Joan Baez, not an image, says Davison. AWS Holds Workshop "A "How To Do Work shop" sponsored by AWS will be held from 2 until 4 p.m. Monday. Seven wom en will participate in the workshop which is part of Focus On Coeds. Karen Wendt, workshop chairman, said that each speaker will give a brief talk and then questions con cerning the displays will be answered. Displays in plastics, mil linery, knitting, feathered flowers, c a n d 1 e-making, hints on decorating dorm rooms, and decoupage and decorative accents for the home will be set up in the North and South Party Rooms of the Nebraska Union. Tuesday at 7 p.m. a des sert will be held in the Union for house mothers, residence directors, AWS workers and board mem bers. A style show i featuring the American Woman, 1967, will be held at 8 p.m. in the Union Ballroom. The ten best-dressed coeds on Nebraska's campus will be presented and judges will select the one best-dressed coed who will compete nationally. AN ENTERTAINMENT EVENT 2 DAYS ONLY! J ifta t . at: RPV12tfc f Jf A SuL. Calf Prk ITHi f far Part -- 1PF2SIFS steve McQueen . 1 SAF.DW . 1 noouc'utt I I i3 A rj 1 ttillltltlillllf Illllllllllltllllltlltllllllltl1lllllttllllllllllllllllllilllllllllilllltif lllllllllllllllllltlltlllllitlllllllllirillllllllllllllllllllllf llltllllllllllillltJIIIDIfllttllllhtlf NU Aids Advise By GARY GILLEN Junior Staff Writer For the past 13 years University staff members have been acting as advis ors at Ataturk University in eastern Turkey in an ef fort to upgrade Turkey'! standard of living, accord ing to Dr. Donald G. Han way, chairman of the Uni v e r s i t y Department of Agronomy. Dr. Hanway and his fam ily returned from Turkey last August where he w a s leader of a University ad visory team for . the previ ous two years. STARTED IN 1954 The University first be came involved in the af fairs of eastern Turkey in 1954 when Dr. Elvin F. Fro lik, dean of the College of Agriculture and Home Ec onomics, and George S. Round, University director of public relations, visited Turkey at the request of the Turkish government, Dr. Hanaway said. "Establishing a univer sity is one of the most significant forms of long range assistance we c a n give, since it is directed to ward establishment of lead ership abilities, which are the key to future develop ment, " Dr. Hanway said. "If we can help them es tablish a good institution so they can develop their own leaders, instead of ADVERTISEMENT READING MACHINES OBSOLETE One of the major problems to be faced by the teacher of speed reading, when the method is ma chine oriented, is that most stu dents lose the acquired skill short ly after leaving the course. The machine provides a pacer for the student, forcing him to move faster, but when the machine is no longer available, the student tends to revert to his previous reading patterns. The Wood Method teaches the student to use his hand as a pacer, guiding his eyes rapidly down th page, and as his pacer is always with him, lie can retain and improve upon, his acquired skill. Srfl .. t. atAm EVELYN WOOD 6,000 WORDS PER MINUTE . The professor flipped through the term paper, all 80 pages of it, once . . . and marked the paper as he went without missing a misplaced comma. His speed? 6,000 words per minute with perfect under standing. The term paper was Evelyn Wood's. It was that event that sparked the idea for what eventually became Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics. Being a school teacher working on her Masters de gree, Mrs. Wood was natur ally intrigued with such reading skill She started looking for other fast read ers, to see if there was some basis of comparison, some "trick" or method that made them the great readers they were. Teacher Wood found 50 other such prodigies in cluding a housewife and a sheepherder. And all die rapid readers did have common characteristics: they read whole para graphs at a time, rather than word by word, and College P Sparks Ne sending them away at sub stantial expense, then we have established the basis for continued, growth," he said. A prime objective of the University team is "institu tional development," Dr. Hanway said. INTEGRATION IS SLOW Atatark University has been slow to integrate and coordinate programs of the university mainly because the laws of Turkey govern ing public universities do not provide for strong cen tralized administra tion, Hanway noted. Evidence of progress may be noted in the fact that whereas University of Ne braska personnel formerly taught classes through in terpreters, only one regu larly scheduled class was taught by an American during the past semester, he said, Turks can be more effec tive in the classroom than Americans, because teach ing through an interpreter reduces the effectiveness of the U.S. teacher. Only half of the normal amount of ma terial can be covered dur ing a semester because of the time involved in trans lation, Dr. Hanway pointed out. TIME IS PROHIBITIVE While it would be desir able for Americans to learn Turkish, the time required for prospective advisors to do so is prohibitive since most spend only two years ADVERTISEMENT Accelerated Prep School Tests Institutes Course NOTE: In March this year, the St. Johns Country Day School in Orange Park, Florida, arranged with the Reading Dynamics Institute in Jacksonville for special Reading Dynamics group instruction (St. Johns ratio of National total number of seniors is at nationally. Graduates have societies, among them Phi Scholarship, Fulbright Scholarships, etc.) Mrs. Dorothea B. Heinrich, experimental project, wrote Director of the Jacksonville TIME MAGAZINE Says: "Washington has seen noth ing like it since the days when Teddy Roosevelt read three books a day and ran the coun try aft the same time." Over the past eight years, more than 300,000 graduates including many of our nation's legisla torshave taken this course. They are convinced that the Evelyn Wood Beading Dy namics Institute method is the most significant educational breakthrough since the printed page. . . PERFECT COMPREHENSION rofessor Ideas they remembered every thing they read. Mrs. Wood began to teach herself these princi ples and dius developed a system for teaching others. It took another 12 years be fore she had her system de veloped, tested and proved. She worked with students at Jordan High School, Jor dan, Utah, where she was an English teacher for nine years. Then she taught her new reading system to stu dents at the University of Utah for another three three years. And always, Mrs. Wood's students learned to read between three and ten times faster . . . and they improved their comprehen sion of what they read at the same time. Mrs. Wood took her sys tem to the University of Delaware where additional studies were conducted be fore she brought it to the public; in 1959. In Septem ber of that year, she opened the first Reading Dynamics Institute in Washington, D.C. Today there are over 60 institutes across the country with more than 300,000 graduates. Turkey) there, Dr. Hanway siad. The university now has 800 students in its Faculty (College) of Agriculture, an equal number in its Fac ulty of Science and Letters and 75 students in its Facul ty of Medicine, which opened in early 1966. The Turks established the medical school on their own initative outside the University of Nebraska program, Dr. Hanway said. However, former Dean of the NU Medical College, James P. Tollman, advised them on equipment needs for new medical facilities. Ataturk University was built at Erzurum, an area about the size of Nebraska but with four times the population. 'A good university would contribute much to the economic, cultural and liv ing conditions of this large group of people," he ex plained. SEVEN ADVISORS PRESENT Seven University of Ne braska advisors are pres ently at the Turkish univer sity including representa tives from the chemistry, physics, English and agri cultural departments. Students are admitted to Ataturk and other Turkish universities on the basis of their standing in a national entrance examination. About 30,000 persons take the test and only the upper one third are accepted, Dr. Han way said. ADVERTISEMENT on campus. Merit Scholarship finalists to least 15 times as favorable as been elected to numerous honor Beta Kappa, Woodrow Wilson faculty member in charge of the the following remarks to the Reading Dynamics Institute, "Members of the faculty of St. Johns Country Day School read in TIME that Evelyn Wood had developed a meth' od of teaching people to read at thousands ot words per minute. They felt that it would be worthwhile to in vestagate its value tor our school. "Visits to the Reading Dn- namics Institute in Atlanta and an article in THE READING TEACHER con finned our belief that the ability to read dynamically might bring to readers what jet engines brought to air craft travel. But there were skeptics around who warned us diat, 'this feat was phys ically impossible, 'the whole idea was a commercial gim mick and it was not real reading, just skimming." I was selected by the faculty to be our test case. "It was not easy, and I worked faithfully on the as signed homework drills. But what a thrill it was when I first realized that the whole page of print was clear and the thoughts had penetrated my mind, without being con scious of words, while mov ing along at a rate of 1,800 to 2,000 words per minute. I wish everyone who has a love for books could share this experience. "Reading dynamically forces the. reader to make fuller use of his mind. It is not for a lazy person. The speed with which he reads demands better concentra tion, there is not time for ex traneous thoughts to stray into the mind, and conse quently comprehension is bet ter. Our mind, when forced, will put ideas together in log ical order. This is what Read ing Dynamics trains us to do. class at St. Johns prove that all our expectations have come true. Students read at five to eight times their en trance speed with significant ly improved comprehension.'' m- -m Leader Joins University Faculty A leading investigator of environmental causes of cancer will join the Uni versity of Nebraska facul ty next summer. Dr. Philippe Shubik was appointed by the Universi ty Board of Regents Fri day to the directorship of the Eppley Institute for Re search in Cancer and Allied Diseases. Shubik, succeeding Dr. Henry Lemon, will become Eppley Professor of Onco nology at the University Medical Center in Omaha next July 1. RESEARCH TEAMS Director of the Chicago medical School Institute of Medical Research, Shubik has developed two of the largest research teams in the world doing work on en vironmental cancer. Having received his doc tor of philosophy and medi cal degrees from Oxford University in England, Shu bik researches on the chem ical substances that cause cancer. Included in this area are air pollution, cig arette smoking and prod ucts of combustion. Shuzik's work is financed by grants and contracts from private and gov ernmental sources, totaling $1,400,000 a year. PRIVATE CITIZENS "The climate of interest ADVERTISEMENT Reading with your brain is the secret to reading 3 to 10 times faster. Your brain is capable of absorbing and comprehending written material at a fan tastic rate of speed ... a thousand, two thousand, even beyond 10 thousand words a minute. The fact that the average person is able to feed in information at only 250 to 350 words per minute is one of the great est wastes in human history. But it's not your fault. You were taught to read word by word probably aloud in front of a class. You were taught to sound thewords, you were taught to "sub-vocalize," to read with your "ears" instead of your brain. And in so doing, you tied a gigantic anchor to your reading speed ... to your intellectual growth . . . your ability to learn . . . and your ability to enjoy. To those people who care to loosen the anchor rope ... to those people who care to grow, Evelyn Wood Reading Dy namics offers a dramatic opportunity. Reading Dynamics teaches you to read with your brain. It teaches you to disregard TUES.-OCT. 24 READING DYNAMICS INSTITUTE 1601 P STREET 6:30 and 8:00 p.m. .-CCT. 23 READING DYNAMICS INSTITUTE 202 SO. 71 ST. 6:30 and 8:00 p.m. FRI. -OCT. 27 W. rratm U iBereaM the main efficiency f eick itndrnt AT LEAST I limn wllk (tod eomprchesilw. W. will nfana tat entirt tultlai mi mnj ttudnt who. after ewnplelnt minimum elm ana ilmdy requirement., aoei not t lent triple hli rending efficiency m meamred by our berinolnc and andinc test. Evelyn Wood 202 So 71 St. 1601 P Street Mi Coupon Today TO: Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institute. 1601 P St., Lincoln, Nebr. 68503 Please send me descriptive folder. I understand I am under no obligation and no salesman will call. Name Street Phone City State Zip..... 1 Wjl -mr In Lancer study and concern for scientific research expressed not only by the University but by groups of private citizens" -f - ' ' Congratulations to the Playmate Contest WINNERS! 1st THETA XI 2nd DELTA UPSILON 3rd SIGMA ALPHA EPS1LON PLAYBOY'S Miss August Appearing IN PERSON Oct. 27 and 28 at a t - . .'. . I V 119 NORTH ADVERTISEMENT FREE DEMONSTRATIONS LINCOLN OMAHA. BELLEVUE 6:30 .MONEY BACK GUARANTEE. READING DYNAMICS INSTITUTE Omaha Lincoln State... M WM anal aB s -m and the Eppley Cancer In- stitute were credited by Shubik for his acceptance of the position. 1 lKal Hm Mth STREET ADVERTISEMENT words as words and just let the story roll into your mind. You get the total impact, whether it's the sports page, die Bible, or an office memo. A word of caution. Reading Dynamics is not a course for lazy people. It offers no "magic" formulas. It teaches a sound and proven educational principle that is abso lutely guaranteed to yield results when the student applies his natural abilities. Results from over 300,000 graduates indicate tiiat die average student can expect to increase his reading efficiency (speed and compre hension) 4.7 times. You'll see a documented film with Washington Congressmen who have taken the course. Youll learn complete details about .the seven week course. You'll learn how Reading Dynamics might help you. Youll be served free coffee. Youll be given the opportunity to ask questions. You'll spend 60 minutes of your time. THUR.-OCT. 26 READING DYNAMICS INSTITUTE 1601 P STREET 6:30 and 8:00 p.m. TUES.-OCT. 24 INDIAN HILLS INN 8501 W. DODGE RD. 6:30 and 8:00 p.m. BANK OF BELLEVUE 201 W. MISSION and 8:00 p.m. Phone 393-1053 Phone 435-2161 mi m i N-23 s I 1 I