The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, October 23, 1968, Image 1
V f 'i tlltyif e WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER . , ' . . w r K 1 , i , i All this and free too . . . three NU coeds, from left, Mary Tobia, Linda Phillips and Desiray Bailey, check the Free University course offerings for fields of interest. Everyone can do his 30 new lore exp by Connie Winkler Junior Staff Writer Registration for Nebraska Free University (NFU) has been ex tended until Tuesday, Oct. 29, ac cording to Jim Humlicek, NFU co ordinator. Fifty NFU courses this semester will explore such subjects as "Common Sense Procedures for Medical Emergencies" and "Bud dhism". DR. ALAN Pickering of United Ministeries will again lead a course on "Marriage Social, Legal, Sexual Contract." The course will look at dating, engagement, premarital sex, romance, con traception and the varieties of marital behavior normal to stable family life. Groups will also be studied by NFU groups. "Project in Group Self-Exploration" will use specific exercises to discover more open and honest communication with other human beings in the group. "The Group Process" will take the individual's own experiences in groups to understand what groups are and how they behave. Several courses will center around the woman's role in the university. Small panels Mill field questions in the "Image of Woman" course to be led by Twig Daniels and Barb Ahlschwede. "Woman's Liberation" will ex plore the role woman plays and should play in a society based on equality of the sexes. Assuming that his "On the New Left" group knows nothing about the subject, Mick Lowe will lead a course on the history and philosophy of the New Left. "THE NEW Politics" will discuss the primaries, the current political situation, the election and where politics are headed in the near future. Racism of all kinds will be ex amined in several of the courses. "Racism" asks students to bring their own personal racism to the class. "Experiments in Race" will encourage self-realization in terms of black and white. "Foreign-American Student En counter (How They See Us and How We See Them)" asks that students be willing to share their ignorance as well as their knowledge with each other without taking offense. A NFU course in Negro history will survey the involvement and contributions the Negro has made to the past and present society. "Have You Seen Behind the Hilton, Mr. Brown?" Jim Humlicek and Dan Looker ask. Their seminar will investigate the problems of the powerless. They plan to develop a program with which to confront the middle class community on the problems of the powerless. The" course includes plans for a weekend in core poverty areas of Omaha. Other courses will be looking and working for a better university. "Tht Role of Students in the (Q 23, 1968 thing NFU courses iverse Academic Revolution" will em phasize what students can do to create desirable changes i n universities. "A Student-Oriented Education" will explore student motivated, student organized, interdisciplinary education. This group will decide the course of study for eight to ten students who will live together off-campus. Next semester these students will receive academic credit from the University without attending any regular classes. Political d seeks better student-faculty by Jim Pedersen Senior Staff Writer There is a need for informal relationships between faculty and students, but students must provide the initative to form the rela tionships, Dr. Caroll McKibbon, assistant professor of political science, said Tuesday. McKibbon is living in Harper Hall for one week as part of a spontaneous "live-in" to better faculty understanding of student life. "I would like to see this experi ment evaluated from the side of the student, the faculty, and the residence hall director," McKibbon said. "The evaluation should then be submitted to the administration as a student-instigated program for their opinion." HE ADDED that he is not staying only at Harper, but visiting other dormitories at the request of the students. AUF drive in progress The All University Fund (AUF) drive is now in progress. AUF is the only organization which can solicit funds from students for char ities. The organization is divided into six committees. sororities, fratern ities, independent women, indepen dent men, East Campus and Lin coln students. AUF sponsored a dance on Oct. 12 to raise money for the Keep Bi afra Alive Committee. Continued Page S !lllllllllilHlinilllUUIIiniinilllllHlllllllllilllll!lllll!llllll!lg 1 Walter Heller to 1 s I speak at Union I Dr. Walter Heller will be 1 the featured speaker in the I Nebraska Union Ballroom, Thursday, Oct 24, at 3:30 I i p.m. A reception will also be I i held in the Union from 2:30- 3:30 p.m. Heller is presently a pro- I fj fessor of economics at the University of Minnesota and I is a consultant of the Execu- I I tive office to the President 1 liUUQUlUuiBUUUUUltttl'i O HI areas MUSICALLY, NFU, offers "Pro gressive Rock 138," "Rock Music," and "There's a French Horn in the Swan Lake, Mr. Tchaikovsky!". Practical courses will offer lessons in photography, chess, finger spelling and the folk guitar. All interested students are eligi ble for NFU courses. Studeni can register and receive more in formation at the NFU booth in the Union. science professor McKibbon emphasized that he does not try to impose on any stu dent. "I cannot just invite myself in," he said. "The students must ask me. McKibbon added that he has desired to enter into more informal relations with students for some time. "I see their life better than they can see mine in this type of pro gram," he continued, "but this ex perience has added a new perspec tive to my view of students." According to McKibbon, he follows a schedule established for him by Cliff Sather, Harper Hall president "When I have any free time, I go to my room," McKibbon said. "I don't like the idea of walking up and down the halls sticking my head in students' rooms." McKibbon admitted that there is a delicate element involved in the experiment. "THERE ARE some people in the hall who are probably not pleased with my presence," he ad ded. "The people who don't want to see me have no reason to coutac me, however." McKibbon stressed that if anyone regards him as an intruder, they can simply ignore him. "I am intrigued by the idea of a college within a college where there are faculty apartments in the residence halls," he said. McKibbon feels that the more rounded environment that is provi ded for the student the more the student gains from his college ex perience. According to McKibbon, he has neither cleared his living in Harper Hall with the administration nor has he heard anything officially from the administration. "I would like to see the results of this week developed further," he said. "It certainly has the potential for further growth." McKibbon added, that his values and attitudes towards students have changed since moving into Harper Hall. "In the long run, having lived with students will make me a bet ter teacher because I will have an additional identification with them," McKibboa said. Programs preparec for NU's 'Time Out' A series of programs for "Tint Out" was announced Tuesday iy the coordinating committee organizing the programs for Oct. 29. The programs have been divided into four general areas, Diane Theisen, coordinating committee member, said. She said the topics of politics, national issues, campus issues and racism will be the basis for the National Student Associa tion (NSA) sponsored program. DEFINITE scheduling as to pro grams, times and places will be announced Thursday, Dave Piester, coordinating committee member, said. He added that response to "Time Out" has been strong by those groups that have agreed to sponsor programs. ASUN President Craig Dreeszen said Tuesday that if professors deemed the "Time Out" programs worthwhile, he hoped they would dismiss their classes and encourage their students to attend the pro grams. Miss Theisen said a series of films will be shown on Tuesday, Oct. 29, in the Sheldon Auditorium. She said the NSA Student Film Festival, a newsreel on the Colum bia University student revolt last spring and a film on the Vietnam war, would be shown. Bob Zucker, coordinating com mittee member, said there will be a panel on the topic of University expansion into the Malone area. He added there is a possibility that Ernest Chambers, write-in can didate for the Omaha School Board, may participate in another panel. Another speaker is coming from Omaha to present a program on black history, Zucker said. - PIESTER ANNOUNCED that the political science honorary Pi Sigma McKIBBON HOPES that the students he is living with will gain a different image of teachers from the live-in. "Too often stereotyped as narrow person,' "Some people the professor is an egghead and a ' McKibbon added, at Harper were surprised at my interest in the Olympic Games." "I hope that the students can see teachers as human beings with a genuine interest in students," McKibbon said. gniiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiniiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiM 1 I I A 1 S I I ! s.-,v . 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She announced a panel discussion War on poverty a farce Cornell economist says by John Dvorak Senior Staff Writer The so-called War on Poverty is a grand facade, according to Dr. Andrew Hacker, a Cornell University economist and political scientist. Taxpayers, who finance the Great Society programs, simply lack the will to help people mired in poverty, he said. These tax payers begrudge every penny given to the tax collector. ' "THE UPPER middle class is unwilling to give up their stereos, new cars and other luxuries in order to help fight poverty," he explained. This mood is reflected throughout the country. Hacker, who studied at Oxford and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University, writes for many magazines and newspapers. He has edited three books on government and economics. lives in feelings According to Sather, the results of the program have been en couraging. "I would like to see this experi ment developed into a program in which 1 or 2 professors or ad ministrators would live for one week in Harper each month," he said. Sather feels that once students talk with the professors, they will be accepted. be accepted. Vol. 92, No. 24 will be held on current urban pro blems, moderated by Loren Case ment, assistant professor of economics. Other programs include & session on women's rights, a discussion on editorial freedom and responsibility in the Daily Nebraskan headed by Editor Jack Todd, and a discussion on academic innovation and ex perimentation, Zucker said. He said the program on innova tion at the University will be head ed by Student Senator Curt Donaldson and will deal with topics such as the Experimental College approach to learning. However, the main cause for the Great Society's failure is that business is not providing jobs for those who want them, Hacker con tinued. In the past, jobs were plentiful, the Cornell professor said. Even women and children labored in factories and industry. "Business, as we know it today, is on the way out," he declared. To be sure, private enterprise will still be important, he said. But with the advent of automa tion and mechanization, fewer workers are able to manufacture more products, he said. The areas of manufacturing and industry are precisely the areas where many people below the middle class seek ' employment. Lack of steady employment is one cause of social unrest, he said, and a solution is not immediately forthcoming. THE PROBLEM is compounded, Hacker said, by the surging birth rate. Birth rate among black citizens is 50 per cent higher than among whites, he pointed out. "We already know in what en vironment these people will grow up. We know how they will be miseducated. We already know all about their bad homes and neighbors," Hacker said. "The trend is away from business occupations and more to the con versational occupations," Hacker said. Less than 50 per cent of the American working force currently works in such traditional jobs as manufacturing and industry, he said. Continued on Paee 6 i L ft i - i