FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1969
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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Students spend summer
with 'frustrating9 poverty
by Carol Anderson
Nebraskan Staff Writer
Four University students
discovered this summer that
fighting poverty is often
frustrating and takes a lot of
patience. They also dis
covered that poverty exists
right here in "River City."
Arlene P a 1 d e r , now
NFU on the move
by Sylvia Lee
Nebraskan Staff Writer
The Nebraska Free
University is getting back on
its feet this fall after what
NFU coordinator John
Marcotte calls a second
semester slump las year.
Marcotte and a core com.
mittee of six, are gathering
course suggestios, course
leaders and people interested
in unstructured learning, to
get NFU off the ground
sometime next month.
Registration has been set
for Octorber 6-10 in the
Union, and the NFU bulletin
board will be set up next
week for course suggestions
and tentative slgn-ups,
Marcotte said Thursday.
The committee Is con
tacting former course
leaders and inviting all
faculty members to
participate, according to
Marcotte, to get "as many
choices as possible."
A course leader need not
be knowledgable in the sub
ject that interests him,
Marcotte added, since group
interaction is often the most
important aspect of a free
university course.
Meeting times, and the
program for courses will be
decided within each in
dividual group, with no
grades, credti, or attendance
requirement, he said.
No courses are definite yet,
Marcotte said, but booklets
and advertising will be
circulated on campus when a
list is made up in the next
couple of weeks.
Some ideas under con
sideration are a discussion .
group which could meet Ullllie lO draw
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foreign films, and sensitivity HlCUia
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Many, he said, end before or
after the official semester,
depending on the class in
terest and objectives.
The concept has come a
long way at the University of
Nebraska, and at universities
all over the country, since
the idea caught on four or
five years ago. The free
university idea arose as a
complement and an
alternative to the "canning
factory education" many
students feel they are getting
today, Marcotte said.
Finst semester last year,
over 60 courses were offered
through the NFU. The
courses were taught by
faculty members, students,
and people from the Lincoln
community.
Past course offered by
NFU have been the guitar,
art, rock music, studies of
literature, political thought
and philosophy. Popular
courses were on sex and
marriage, led by a campus
minister, and radio broad
casting techniques, discussed
by a Lincoln is jockey.
Students can expect a
learning atmosphere free of
such prodding devices as
graae, assignments, and
metered knowledge.'
Marcotte said, but they must
expect to give of themselves
if they gain anything from
the experience.
He encourages freshmen
and other students afraid of a
too-heavy load to sign up and
try a course that looks in
teresting. "If It proves to be
too mucn, nobody will be
mad if you drop out,"
Marcotte said.
training class. The latter
sort of amateur group
therapy where people have
the opportunity to discover
themselves and how they
relate to others, Marcotte
said.
The committee plans eome
changes in the Free
University this year, ac
cording to Marcotte. ASUN,
which supports but does not
officially control the Free
U n iversity, appropriated
more funds this year than
ever before for NFU.
While most of the budget
goes for printing and ad
vertising expenses, the com
mittee hopes for a surplus of
about $300 to establish a
project resource fund.
Marcotte said that the money
will be available for class
projects that have been
financially limited In
previous years. He cited the
lack of funds as another
reason for NFU's bad second
semester last year.
Another innovation
Marcotte hoies to try Is an
underground publication
not outlined yet which
would carry information
about new NFU courses,
news, creative writing, and
generally sustain interest in
NFU throughout the year.
Marcotte pointed out that
the semester is really an
artificial s'artlni and stopp
ing tlmo for NFU courses.
A large press contingent
will cover the Nebraska
Southern Cal game Saturday
besides the regular Nebraska
news media.
The lineup Includes: Maury
White, Des Moines Register
and Tribune; Dave Simpson.
New York Times; Pat Put
nam. Sports Illustrated; Jeff
Prugh and John Hall, Los
Angeles Times; Bud Furlllo
and Steve Bishoff, Los
Angeles Herald-Examiner;
Loel Schrader, Long Beach
Press-Telegraph; Bill Hirsch,
Boulder Camera.
Free bus service will be
available to Cornhusker fans
for the first time Saturday
The NU athletic department
plans to furnish service
between the new State
Fairgrounds parking lot and
14th ami Vine Streets before
and after home games. The
service starts at 12:30 p.m.
The University N Club's
annual alumni meeting Is set
for 11 a.m. Saturday at the
Cornhusker Hotel. Lincoln's
Dick McCashland will be In
stalled as the club's new
president.
teaching in Omaha, Sandra
Wiese, Barb Phalen and
Murph Murphy worked at
f ederally-sponsored Com
munity Action Centers in
Pawnee City, Falls City,
Auburn and Tecumseh
respectively.
The students were
members of Student Action
Front (SAF) which organized
at the University last year.
Most of their projects in
volved working with youth
groups although Miss Phalen
and Murphy turned into
carpenters to help finish the
centers in their towns.
Why did these towns need
help?
Employment is a big pro
blem in southeast Nebraska,
Miss Phalen said, because
the only industry in the area
is Campbell Soup Co. Conse
quently many young people
leave.
Most cf the students she
worked with at Auburn were
not poor, Miss Phalen said,
but "you have to start
somewhere. Anything that
can make them feel like a
community is worthwhile."
Although construction con
sumed most of her time
sometimes 16 hours a day
Miss Phalen also visited low
income farm families with
the county organizer.
Of her experience in Falls
City Miss Wiese remarked,
"I think it was successful. It
takes a long time to get
going. We just got our foot in
the door and that took all
summer. I never realized the
process was so slow and you
get so frustrated."
The four got together once
a week as "an escape valve"
which was needed, Murphy
said, because they were
always "turned on and
everyone (townspeople) was
always watching for a
mistake or weakness."
Murphy said his big job
was completing the center.
His youth group sponsored
dances and he showed an
anti-marijuana film narrated
by Sonny of Sonny and Cher.
"Grass isn't a big thing
there yet," Murphy said,
"but it will be. Alcohol is
big."
Miss Wiese and Murphy
said that lnter-town rivalry
lowered center effectiveness.
This meant choosing between
town and county.
"The Southeast Community
Action people were impress
ed with us," Murphy said.
But the students weren't
always impressed with the
Community Action people.
Although Murphy praised his
center director, he said the
local talent working in the
program lacked intelligence
and training.
"The program Is not doing
the best possible job, but it is
working," Miss Phalen said.
Because it is run by the
government, it is ad
ministered poorly, but she
added, the faults can be cor
rected.
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tion who passed for 392 yards and five touchdowns in the Trojan spring
game, was declared a doubtful starter Thursday 'for Saturday's Nebraska
game after sustaining a back injury. See story page 4.
Friday, September 19 .
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Nebraska's two new co,
captains are fullback Mike
Green and All-American
defensive halfback candidate
Dana Stephenson. Green is a
6-0, 208-pound senior from
Omaha Tech, and Stephenson
a 6-2, 183-pound senior from
Lincoln Pius X.
Past Devaney era co-cap-i
tains: 1962 Dwain Carlson
and Bill Thornton;
1963 John Kirby and Dennis
Claridge; 1964 Bob Hahn
and Lyle Sittter; 1965 Frank
Solich and Mike Kennedy;
1966 Bob Cburchich sod,
Larry Wacholz; 1967 Marv
Mueller and Ben Gregory;
1968 Tom Penney and Jim
Hawkins.
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