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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1970
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
VOL. 93, NO. 50
The
Pickering picks up, moves to
by BILL SMITHERMAN
Nebraskan Staff Writer
One of the most controversial
campus ministers of the past
decade is leaving the
University of Nebraska March
1.
. "I am not leaving because I
am unhappy here," the Rev.
Allan J. Pickering said. "I've
had a great time at Nebraska."
He explained that he is leav
ing because he is "excited
about being given the chance to
do some things that will
educate me." He is leaving to
take a post with the National
Council of the YMCA.
Pickering commented on
many changes that have taken
place in the University since he
came here in 1960.
"I have seen the University
finally getting out of the "In
loco parentis" business just
this week," he said referring to
new no-hour dormitory policy
"There is still progress to be
made, but this has been a big
step."
He continued that in 1960 the
Office of Student affairs main
t a i n e d a "paternalistic
policeman-like stance." "To
day, it has become effective in
the role of helping students to
be students and changing living
experiences to learning ex
periences," Pickering said.
He added that he had seen
the appearance, openness and
acceptance of activist learners
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Geography Building
Black history is sole feature
Black History Week Isn't something
new it's been around for many years
but now people are beginning to
notice.
"Nationally, Black History Week is
going through a renaissance," said
Arthur Cromwell, one of the speakers
at next week's second annual observance
at the University of Nebraska.
AS IT was originally conceived by
Carter G. Woodson, who established the
Association for the Study of Negro Life
and History in 1915, Black History Week
would be a period in which contributions
of the Negro to civilization would be
emphasized to impress both the black
man as well as the white.
With that goal in mind members of
as part of the University com
munity. "Much of the life style of the
activist learner has now
become middle of the road," he
said. "Almost everyone's hair
is long now and learning by
doing has become an accepted
way of education."
The Nebraska Chapter of the
Students for a Democratic
Society was formed at UMHE
in 1964.
"There are many University
professors who would today
point with pride to the original
manifesto of the SDS and wish
it were theirs," Pickering said.
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the NU chapter of Afro-American
Collegiate Society have scheduled a week
of activities which include talks by Roy
Innis, National Director of the Congress
of Racial Equality (CORE), and other
speakers.
"BLACK MAN and The Frontier," a
discussion of the role of the black man
in the making of the West, will be
Cromwell's topic on Tuesday.
Cromwell, a graduate student from
Howard University in Washington, D.C.,
is currently working at KUON-TV on
a series of four documentaries on Black
History to be presented on the National
Education Network sometime after July.
"They wouldn't have felt that
way at the time it was writ
ten." Educational Television has
been one of the really bright
spots during his time in
Nebraska, he added. "It is
odd," Pickering said, "that a
state which is twenty years
behind in many areas should be
so up to date in ETV. It was
good when I came here and it
still is."
He noted that he had receiv
ed a great deal of criticism for
his activities from sources
outside the University.
However, he added, this
criticism was never able to
knock down his relationships in
the University community.
Pickering continued that his
programs have almost always
had the support, or at least ac
ceptance, of University faculty,
administration and students. At
Nebraska he has also had time
for versatile activities and
keeping up on his scholarship
of eastern and middle eastern
languages.
"This is one of the best
places in the country to do
campus ministry," he said. "I
have learned a great deal here
and I hate to leave."
Pickering explained that he
Is to be part of a project of the
national YMCA to cope with the
changing demands of coming
years.
"The national bureaucracy of
any locally based organization
' exists to deliver goods and
service to the local level," he
said. "When this function
becomes irrelevant, the
bureaucracy dies slowly and
painfully as financial support is
withdrawn."
Pickering continued that the
YMCA is an organization look
ing to continue its existence in
a "brave and visionary way.
The national YMCA wants to
provide services that will make
it unnecessary. It is, in effect,
planning, for its own funeral,"
he said.
He explained that he would
be involved in research to
discover how to motivate peo
ple so they never want to stop
learning. There will be a need
to explore and test many
possible educational avenues,
Pickering explained.
"If we find methods that will
work, they will be applied to
professionals at the local YM
CAs," he said.
"When the local professionals
become self-actuating learners
there will be no need for
bureaucratic organizations to
provide services and training."
Monday
Allen Buckingham, a history major,
will discuss the history of the Black
Soldier from 1776 to the present, in
cluding his personal experiences in the
Vietnam War.
BLACK SOUL Music will be played
every afternoon by three student bands
The Soul Sect, The Soul Sound and
Allen Mosley & Co.
Rap sessions are scheduled in the
Union Lounge every morning except
Thursday. Black Consciousness, The
Black Community and The Black Man's
History are some of the topics to be
discussed.
For Friday evening, an Afro-American
sponsored dinner and dance is scheduled.
YMCA
He continued that the YMCA
project offers him the greatest
freedom of any like offer he
has received. "The project has
been extremely well financed
and researchers have been told
not to get bogged down in
financial details," he added.
"I am also moving on
because I want to cope with
some of the problems of this
mobile society," he said.
Pickering explained that it is
necessary to cope with such
problems to learn about them
and to avoid hypocrisy when
talking about the mobile
world.
He added that a committee Is
at work to find a new man to
fill his UMHE post. No one has
been named as yet.
"I am sure the committee
will find a very capable man
who can take the UMHE pro
gram forward and make it
better than it ever has been,"
he said.
Friday, Feb. 6
Nebruska Union
7:43 a.m.
Inter Varsity Christian
Fellowship
12:30 p.m.
Placement
1:30 p.m.
American Pharmaceutical
Association
3:00 p.m.
Publications Board
5:00 p.m.
French Club
7:30 p.m.
Inter Varsity Christian
Fellowship
7:43 p.m.
Faculty Newcomers Club
7:00 p.m. & 9:00 p.m.
Chinese Student Association
movie "Dragon Inn"
t :00 p.m.
Inter Co-op Council dance
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