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Friday, September 13, 1968 The Daily Nebraskan Page 5 Historian Svohoda . . . Archives will visitors by GEORGE KAUFMAN Senior Staff Writer It is said that people should learn from the mistakes of the past, but historian Joseph Svoboda can only wish those mistakes had never happen ed. Svoboda is in the process of establishing a Nebraska University Archives, a Gargantuan task started much too late. At present he is concerned with sorting and . indexing unofficial archive documents stored in the basement of Love Library over the years. 'UNFORTUNATELY, THESE things have not been kept in any order, and a lot is missing. These are the ETV plant for East Campus Planning is now in progress for a telecommunications building on the East Campus. The facility, housing four full-color capacity production studios, Educational Televi sion Commission offices and department of journalism journalism broadcastings labs, will face 33rd Street to the north of the Nebraska Center. Boyd Rooney, production and operations manager of the Commission, estimates the cost of the building at $2.8 million with an additional $1.3 million for technical equip ment and $100,000 for furnish ings. The Legislature has already approved $250,000 for prelim inary work on the project, and it is hoped that final ap proval will be given next s p r i n g."If so; construction should begin next summer with a completion early in 1971. The building will be state financed. 4jm j iw mmm Abraham - I . - lit " k . - ; u" - ; i instead kinds of things which, if you don't act right away, may be lost forever." These items include personal letters of the University's first chancellor, A. R. Benton; minutes of faculty meetings dating as far back as the kinds of things which, if you don't act right away, may be lost forever." These items include personal letters of the University's first chancellor, A. R. Benton; minutes of faculty meetings dating as far back as the late 1800' s, most of the official publications of the University, including the University Press; unofficial student publications; fraternity records; clippings; journals; and fiscal records. Although he is starting from scratch this fall, the C z e c h o s lovakian native praises the library staff for at least keeping the materials in the absence of any official archives. '"I think they did a good job just keeping this stuff all in one place," he said; "but there's really no order to It. I now hope to make this office the collecting center for these things." Svoboda has been given an office on the fourth floor of Love Library plus an ad joining room in which to start sorting the documents. He says, however.he hopes for more spacious quarters when a planned library expansion takes place. "There's a lot of history here for anyone who wants to start digging," said Svoboda, pointing to the stacks of old annuals, newspapers, letters and records. "Robert Manley (former NU history teacher) is com ing out with a history of the University next year, I think. But there's a lot of specialized history in these letters." ONE LEARNS interesting The M (D)(0) Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1968 11 V Kaplan fir The Camerata Thursday, Nov. 21, 1963 Ik ; Ravi Shanker, Sitar collect of dust things about the growth of the University with just a cursory examination : That the NU yearbook was called the Sombrero until 1907, when the first Corn husker appeared. That student unrest is not new. In the 1930's many "rebel" newspapers were printed and distributed on campus, such as the - anti everything "With Fire And Sword," put out by the "Gad flies," denouncing the Daily Nebraskan, the Cornhusker, Innocents, Mortar Boards, the administration, professors, the Greek system and in dependents. What Svoboda wants now 'is to get enough publicity that people know where he is and start bringing him anything which is directly or indirectly associated with the university. He is urging any student organizaton to bring him their records, publications and pictures, which they might duplicate for his records. Red Cross starts program to fill kits for overseas Russ Briggs of the Lincoln Red Cross Office announced today that Operation Shop early 1968 is now underway. The program, begun two years ago in the Lancaster County chapter, distributes bags for organizations to fill with personal items for Am erican servicemen overseas. One-half million bags are collected each year across the country. The quota for the Lincoln chapter is 1200 bags. "Students are very enthu siastic about the program be cause so many of them have friends and relatives in Viet Nam," Mr. Briggs com mented. Any group wishing to par ticipate in Operation Shop eariy is to contact the Red Cross Office immediately. ebraslta Singers a FRIDAY, SEPT. 11 INTERVARSITY 8 a.m. PSYCHOLOGY 70 - 8:30 a.m. ARCH. 59:30 a.m. A. PH. A 1:30 p.m. BAHAI CLUB-7:30 p.m.. INTERVARSITY-7:30 p.m. TURKISH STUDENT ASSN. 8 p.m. EAST UNION GO BIG RED DANCE 9 p.m., Smoke Rings Combo. , -fir-rti "-w, y T"c ' : A 1 V . a will ' V:"- - . fjSivji " I ----- 1 Stadium awaits the conflict Seats, seats everywhere and not a fan to fill them. Check back about 2 p.m. tomorrow and the situa tion will probably be quite different. About 65,000 fans are expected to pack Memorial Stadium for the Cornhuskers' opening game with the Cowboys of Wyoming Saturday. Union Music Comniiff 6 Presents imwm Thursday, Dec. 30, 1968 TV Byron Janis, Pinist Thursday, Febr. 20, 1969 .J 5K Giro Flamenco Dance Company STUDENTS $4 n FACULTY No sprecha Credits This summer lfi Nebraska students of French, Spanish and German lived at 464 N. 16th Street in an atmosphere closely simulating that of a foreign country. For five and one-half weeks trese students spoke, read, and wrote using only their second language. According t o Genevieve Meininger, instructor o f French and director o f "French House," participants ranged from high school students with two or more years of language study to graduate students just im proving their conversational us fax $7 fl & de English . for European skills. The program offered six hours of credit, equaling the entire second year of a language. STUDENTS were in a class from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., but not all this time was spent in a traditional classroom situation. Mornings were spent in classrooms and afternoons held three hours of laboratory work, listening to recordings o f conversation, literature and music of the particular country. Meals were opportunities for conversation with only French, Spanish or German MrtDSt . . spoken. In the evenings there were ''cultural appreciation" sessions where films, slides, records and speakers were all used to present the most com plete picture of a country's culture. "Culture," said director Ransom T. Taylor, "is the core of language studies not the result. The whole purpose of learning another language is not to acquire a new skill, but to broaden and enrich the student with the benefits of Wednesday, March 26, 'it 1 tr L, I s- A P.D.Q Bach (1802-1442??) Thursday, May 1, 1969 Ella Fitzgerald Q Worth iivlO In visit a new culture." The language house program is base;l on this idea. Taylor hopes that University will continue -m-ding the language housing" that new experiments ma,r tried. He said, "In my woL personal experience, it wr been the fines;, m rewarding experience iir years ot teacning. Future foi'H wildcattinip C7. uncertain The Interfraternity Council is expected to vote within -tyo; weeks to drop its currat wildcat rush policy, accordjllg to Sid Logemann, IFC presi dent. Logemann said the majori ty of rush chairman polled on the subject were in favor of discontinuing wildcat rush' which permits each house to pledge up to ten men during the summer. " ; HE CITED THREE reasons for discontinuation of the policy which has been in ef fect for two years: it is not achieving its original purpose; it is expensive to the houses; and it places unfair pressure on the rushee. The wildcat rush system was adopted, Logemann ex plained, with the assumption that it would be tested for one year, and then either re tained or a total program of summer pledging would be adopted. He added that the wildcat system is designed to help smaller houses build up their membership in the summer which would in turn aid them during rush week in the fall. Logemann said it was not working out this way. He dismissed the defense that it is an indication as to how well a house's rush pro gram is going. 1969 i - V y'Ti 7 . trsiicQ CP I