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World hitchhiker includes
University in 4-year trek
Phillip Bambrick and his word worldly possessions.
bv John Dvorak
Senior Staff Writer
A world traveler, who hitchhiked
through many of the 45 countries
he has visited, paused during his
tour of North America to visit Lin
coln and the University Friday and
Saturday.
Phillip Bambrick, 25, of Sydney,
Australia, left home more than four
years ago in his quest to see the
world. But he underestimated that
task.
"I had planned to be gone for
a year or two. After starting, I
just couldn't stop. The world is a
bigger place than I thought. To
see it all would take a lifetime."
AFTER BAMBRICK left Sydney
in early 1964, he toured southern
Asia, the Middle East, North and
Central Africa and finally Europe.
He journeyed to Montreal to see
Expo '67 and entered the United
States at Niagara Falls, New York.
Bambrick spent last winter in
Mexico.
In early 1968, he revisited
Canada, and then it was on to
Alaska in July. From Alaska, he
came to Seattle, through Oregon,
Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and
into Lincoln late Thursday after
noon. Following his stay in Nebraska,
Bambrick plans to tour the
Midwest until the weather gets
cold, then head south. In 1969, he
plans to visit all of South America
and the Carribean area. In 1970,
it's off to Hawaii, then Japan,
Korea, Taiwan, The Phillipines,
Indonesia and finally, in early 1971,
home to Australia.
How did it all begin?
"I WAS employed as a customs
official by the Australian govern
ment," Bambrick began, showing
his well worn Australian civil
service card. Sydney, a city of
more than two and a half million,
is an international trade center.
"In my work, I often came into
contact with travelers and crews
of ocean liners and airplanes.
Gradually, I became envious of
them."
Bambrick, a constantly smiling
extrovert, could not withhold his
great enthusiasm for unplanned
globetrotting.
"So I resigned my job and since
I had some money, I took a
steamer for the Asian mainland,"
he said.
"I was just 21 and my parents
said I could do anything I wanted.
I wanted to get a good glimpse
and a good knowledge of some of
the world's countries and peoples."
Unlike 99 per cent of the other
tourists, Bambrick works strictly
on the "Who knows what's going
to happen next?" approach. He
never makes intricate plans.
Continued on Page 4
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 14 1968
Vol. 92, No. 19
NU rolls eastward
University buys
home
per
month
But there is no joy in Mudville . . .
by Julie Morris
Senior Staff Writer
The University is buying one
home a month in Lincoln's Malone
area and its purchases of land
there should be complete in the
next five years, according to
George Hancock.
Hancock, the University's land
( purchasing agent, said the
University plans to buy 70 more
sites east of the city campus
between 19th and 20th Sts., R and
Vine Sts. for campus expansion.
Hancock said the University now
" ownS about half of the land in the
area, part of the old T-Town black
ghetto.
He told a group at the Newman
Center Sunday, "We made some
mistakes" in buying land in the
area.
But, he added, "We went slow,
the mistakes would have been
compounded if we hadn't."
A group of University students,
including ASUN President Craig
Dreezsen, staged a protest last
spring against the University's
methods of acquiring the land in
the area.
They, and others in the com
munity, charged that the Universi
ty had failed to adequately provide
for relocation of the residents of
the area.
Hancock told students Sunday
that the eastern boundary of the
campus "is the only area where
we have any flexibility."
He said the University is contin
uing purchase of homes in the
area at a one-a-month average, as
the owners agree to sell them.
The University will not condemn
any of the homes "at this time,"
he said. All of the homeowners in
the area know the University
"must have the land" eventually,
he added.
"We know exactly where we are
going and we're not going an inch
past it, but we won't stop an inch
short of it," Hancock said.
The University purchases will
stop at 20th St., he said, because
of Lincoln city plans to build an
expressway through the area. The
city plans to buy that property,
he said.
Hancock said the University "will
not purchase a property where
there is a problem unmet" in a
family's relocation.
He acknowledged that there were
some problems in relocation in the
early stages of University
purchases in the area, but said that
aroused public conscience and the
establishment of several area
organizations to aid the families
has nearly solved that dilemma.
Hancock was joined in his
presentation by Gerald Henderson,
Lincoln human rights officer.
Henderson said many of the
families who've moved out of the
Malone area because of University
expansion and the city street pro
gram have moved northeast.
He said the city "transported"
its ghetto to an area three blocks
west of the East campus.
This happened, Henderson said,
because "housing has not been
available to minority families" in
Lincoln.
"Peopie want to see what the
federal fair housing law will do,
I see it doing nothing in Lincoln."
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. . . Mighty Casey has struck out.
Jobs by computer
to try NSA job placement program
NU
A National Student Association
program designed to offer college
graduates more job opportunities
will be undertaken at the Universi
ty this week.
ASUN will begin distribution of
questionnaires at living units for
the "Re-Con" job placement pro
gram, according to Bob Zucker,
NSA coordinator.
A method of changing campus
job recruiting from its present form
of students interviewing for posi
tlons with company
representatives, the Re-Con system
matches questionnaires filled out
by students with forms supplied by
companies.
THE STUDENT questionnaires
and company job specifications are
then transformed into computer
data. The computer selects the top
candidates for each job opening.
The names of the students are
Uien sent out to the corresponding
companies who must contact the
student and sell the job to him,
Zucker said.
According to Zucker, this system
affords students the opportunity to
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compete for jobs on a nationwide
basis.
"With this program, the student
from the University of Nebraska
is given an equal opportunity for
a job in competition with a
graduate from Harvard," Zucker
said.
NSA is paid by the Re-Con
Corporation for the administrative
cost of distributing and collecting
the questionnaires, Zucker added.
ANY MONEY left over is used
in the NSA lobbying program or
turned over to student governments
who are in need of funds, he said.
Zucker stressed that a student
taking a job from a company
participating in Re-Con is under
no obligation to Re-Con or NSA
financially.
"No company will offer anyone
a job on the basis of the question
naire," Zucker said, "but the com
pany will offer an interview."
"There is no guarantee of an in
terview," he added, "but why
should there be? The student is
not paying for anything."
Under the Re-Con system, large
companies which are financially
capable assume the cost of job in
terviews, according to Zucker.
Zucker does not think that the
Re-Con system will now seriously
affect the Placement Office.
"THE EFFECTIVENESS of the
program will depend upon how
many companies subscribe to the
service," Zucker said. "The size
of the program next year will be
determined by the number of
questionnaires students return this
year."
According to Zucker, the results
of the program might change the
role of the Placement Office from
introducer of student and company,
to the provider of an interview ar
rangement after the company has
already contacted the student.
"The Placement Office shouldn't
mind the change of their role if
their purpose is to see that students
get jobs," Zucker said.
This program does not stop the
student from using the Placement
Office interviews as they exist now,
Zucker added.
"No one is obligated to take a
job from the Re-Con service," he
said.
MANY COMPANIES do not
Of
recruit at the University
Nebraska, according to Zucker.
"If the companies are included
in the Re-Con service, it increases
the number of jobs available to
University students," Zucker said.
Just as the service will provide
students with a wider range of
companies to choose from, the
companies will have an increased
number of applicants for job s,
Zucker emphasized that max
imum participation in the service
will give students an alternative
situation in seeking jobs.
Theatre begins season
ivith "The Homecoming"
Harold Pinter's 'The Homecom
ing' opens the University Theatre's
1968 season Wednesday night, but
some of the faces on-stage haven't
been gone very long.
And Backer, Denis Calandra and
his wife Jean return to Howell
Theatre after a successful rerun
of "The Hostage" in early Sep
tember. "The Hostage" was first
produced this summer.
PINTERS PLAY took New York
by surprise two seasons ago and
is considered to be one of the better
plays of the decade, according to
many critics.
The University Theatre is one of
a few collegiate troupes which are
producing "The Homecoming" this
year, so soon after its Broadway
debut, according to Dallas
Williams, University Theatre
director.
"Most universities seem to be
giving plays like 'The Odd Couple
or 'A Delicate Balance' this
season," Williams said. "I believe
this demonstrates that we are a
leader in producing stimulating,
provocative drama."
The play has been called "bizar
re, ominous, and taunting dramatic
dexterity ... a steadily absorbing,
if tantalizing and disturbing,
theatrical adventure," by the New
York Post.
It unfolds at the house of a North
London "family of men:" Max (Don
Sobolik), the aging but still ag
gressive patriarch; his younger
brother Sam (Backer) and two of
Max's unmarried sons, Lenny
(Calandra) and Joey (John
Hopkins).
THE. ELDEST SON, Teddy
(Chris Stasheff), brings his
American wife Ruth (Jean Calan
dra) to meet his family for the
first time. As the play progresses,
the younger brothers become
strangely involved with Ruth before
her stunned, but aloof, husband.
Directing the play is Robert Hall.
The setting and costumes are
designed by Royal Eckert.
Curtain time at Howell Theatre
is 8:00 p.m. The play will be
Dresented Oct. 16 19 and 23
26. Reservations can be made at
the University Theatre box office.
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