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THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1970
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Spare-time
activities
available
Summer school students will find a
wide range of activities both cultural
and athletic available to fill their non
study hours.
For athletically inclined students
or those who just need some ex
ercise the t e n n 1 s court behind the
Coliseum is open for public use daily
from early morning until late at night,
except when regular tennis classes are
being held. The Coliseum gym will be
open daily for handball, and Softball
equipment can be obtained from the
Men's P.E. Department.
For women, the swimming pool in the
Women's P.E. Building will be open from
2:30 to 3:30 p.m. daily. During general
registration, women can also sign up for
courses in swimming, bowling, bad
minton, golf, tennis, movement fun
damentals, folk dance, and archery.
The Men's P.E. swimming pool will be
open from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. and from 4:30
to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Men
can also register for courses in swim
ming, tennis and badminton.
Art
Besides its permanent collections,
Sheldon Art Gallery will exhibit the
paintings of Jim Cantrell in its Art Shop.
Cantrell is an assistant professor of art
and graduate of the University of
Nebraska. His works have been exhibited
in the National Art Roundup in Las Vegas
in 1965. the Nebraska Governor's Cen
tennial Show in 1966 and the Invitational
Ceramic Planter Show at Sheldon in
1968.
The Sheldon Sculpture Garden, to be
completed near the end of the summer,
now has four sculptures in its permanent
collection the controversial "Birth of
Venus" by Reuben Nakian, "Bather" by
Jacques Lipehitz, "Willie" by Tony
Smith, and "Superstructure on Four" by
David Smith. "Floating Woman" by
Gaston Laehase will be added to the col
lection in the near future.
Planetarium
"The Solar Family," a skyshow ex
plaining basic earth-sky relations, is
being presented daily through June 20 at
the Ralph Mueller Planetarium at the
University of Nebraska State Museum.
The 40-45 minute show deals with the
planets, the size of the solar system and
galaxy and the changes in the skies due to
motion, according to Richard
Schellhouse, coordinator of planetarium
activities.
Beginning July 1 the skyshow will be
concerned with "Celestial Showpieces"
the more striking celestial phenomena,
such as meteors, meteor showers, aurora
phenomena and star field constella
tions. Shows are presented at 2:45 p.m. Mon
day through Friday and at 2:30 and 3:45
p.m. on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays.
Admission price is $.35 for students and
$.75 for non-students.
Theatre group
is preparing
for repertory
Hammering, stitching, painting, and
day-long rehearsals have begun at
Howell Theatre in preparation for the
1970 Nebraska Repertory Theatre's third
season, beginning July 6 and ending
August 22.
Flays will be presented at 8:30 p.m.
nightly except Saturday, according to
Mrs. Judy Buckles, theatre business man
ager. Three plays will be presented on
various nights: ,
"Oh What a Lovely War," a musical
review, is a collection of stories and
events combined with song and dance
satirizing World War I. "Twelfth Night,"
U a comedy by William Shakpopenre.
"Indians." bv Arthur Kopit, is described
as "a combination of Wild West Show,
vaudeville, and circus."
"This should be a very exciting
season," Mrs. Buckles said. There are
many difficulties to producing three
plays during one time period. For ex
ample, she said, actors have to learn
lines of three plays at the same time.
Since there are only 14 full-time actors,
many of them will have several parts
in the same play.
One costume designer and two
assistants will design and make all of
the costumes themselves, she continued.
The three plays together call for hun
dreds of costumes.
Stage designers and lighting and sound
technicians also are working on the three
plays simultaneously. One play, "Oh
What a Lovely War." has special
lighting effects and slide projections,
which call for extra equipment.
The Repertory Theatre Includes about
40 full-time members, fourteen of whom
are actors. The rest are costume
designers, set designers, technicians,
directors and students. Volunteer actors
and local musicians will also take part
in thelavs.
"Oh What a Lovely War," will be
presented July 6, 7, II, 16, 22. 24. and
31, and August 5, 8, 10, 13. 18 and 21;
"Twelfth Night," July 9. 10. 15, 18, 20,
23. 23. and 29. August 1, 3, 6, 11, 14,
and 20: "Indians." July 13. 17, 21, 28,
30. August 4. 7, 12. 15, 17, 19 and 22.
Tickets for each performance will be
$2.00. Season tickets for $4 50 can be
purchased at the ticket office In the
Temple Building. 12th and R Streets.
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Footbridge near the new chemistry building indicates that con
struction is almost complete.
On city campus
Construction
almost finished
By early fall the University's city
campus should start looking "like a
university should look" according to
Harley Schrader, the University's chief
construction engineer.
Construction has been going on con
stantly at some point on campus for
at least two years, Schrader said.
Howeveer, most of the major construc
tion projects, except the Engineering
Complex, should be completed by the
beginning of the fall semester.
The Engineering Complex, on Vine
Street between 16th and 17th Streets,
should be finished in March, 1971,
Schrader said.
Bids will be let in the near future
for completion of the patio on the north
side of the Nebraska Union and for
construction of the 14th Street Mall.
About half the Union patio has been
completed. The mall, which will be
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Sheldon 1o present Kinetic Art
"Another major event for film," "The
Kinetic Art: Series II." will be shown
in three programs this summer at the
Sheldon Art Gallery.
Series II is a group of 23 international
avant-garde films assembled by Brant
Sloan under the auspices of the Educa
tion and Visual Arts Division of
Universal City Studios.
Program I, consisting of eight short
films, will be shown June 23 at 3 p.m.,
7 p.m. and 9 p.m.. Program II. with
nine films on June 30 and Program
III, with six films on July 7 at the
same times.
Series I of "The Kinetic Art" was
shown at Sheldon last summer.
Working on the premise that "visuals
and sound are the sensory universe of
an established world," and that "cinema
is a marvelous way to set up the in
terplay of literary, musical and visual
values," the Education and Visual Arts
Division is distributing the collection to
colleges throughout the country.
similar to the 12th Street Mall in front
of Sheldon Art Gallery, will include a
turn-around for traffic in front of the
Administration Building.
The mall itself will extend to the north
end of the parking lot north of Teachers
College.
New sod and shrubs will be planted
in areas damaged by construction work
so that by fall the campus will "have
an appearance of character," Schrader
said.
"But we need the cooperation of the
students and faculty," he added. "We
have had some parking problems due
to the construction and many students
and faculty members have been parking
their cars on sidewalks and g r a u n d s
not meant for parking."
"When the construction projects art
completed, we hope that ttiese ptopie
will find other parking places."
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Construction continues at the engineering
Among the films in the collection are
"Egypte, O Egypte," an ode to that
ancient country, narrated by Jean
Cocteau and directed by Jacques Brlssot.
This film was winner of the Prix Biennale
de Paris in 1963.
"Ego", an animated film by Bruno
Bozzetto, is described by critic In the
Los Angeles Evening Herald Examiner
as "a marvelousiy suggestive tourney
into the unconscious mind."
Charles Earnes "A Rough Sketch tot a
Proposed Film Dealing With the Powers
of Ten and the Relative Size of Things In
the Universe." is a short film, not much
longer than Us title. According to the Los
Angeles Times, it is "on of the most
mind-boggling pieces of celluloid" in ex
istence. The film deals with Infinity and
the H-bomb.
Another animated film, by
Czechoslovakia's Jan Svankmajer is
described as a "dance macabre through
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The Summer Conference on the
University and Society, an attempt to
keep the ideas of the new university
alive over the summer, will offer panel
discussion, workshops and project
groups during the first session, open
to the public.
An organizational meeting will be held
tonight and the first panel discussion
will be Monday evening at the Union.
Stephen Hilliard and Scott Morgan,
assistant professors of English, are
leaders of the conference coordinating
committee, composed of students and
faculty members.
"The purpose of the conference,"
Hilliard said, "will be to continue the
dialogue begun in May on the nature
of the university and its relation to
society.
"We want to keep things alive during
the summer," he continued. "We are
College of Life
was 'Symbol1
Is the College of Life Dead?
Its headquarters, a large tent north of
the library, blew down on the stormy
Sunday afternoon of May 24, but, ac
cording to Mark Thiesen, senator in the
Associated Students of the University of
Nebraska. (ASUN). the College of Life
still exists in the minds of a group of .
students.
"The impression left by the College of
Life should exist for a long time," he
said.
The College of Life was formed during
the student strike of May 5-10 by a group
of "frustrated students who felt that not
everything educational should happen in
brick buildings," Thiesen explained. They
set up the tent near the library where
they met for discussions' and informal
classes taught by members of the
faculty.
Stephen Hilliard. assistant professor of
English, described the College of Life as
"an attempt by students to show what a
university should be. It was a symbol."
He felt that the college was. In one
way, unsuccessful, because "it-never
managed to appeal to a large group of
students." The symbolic expression of a
new lifestyle was perhaps as important
as the discussion classes for many
students there, he added.
complex.
film series
evolution." This is "Historia Natura,"
which begins with Crustacea and pro
gresses through mammals to humans.
Svankmajer Is also producer of another
film In the collection, "The Waif." a story
of a farm, but with a unique twist.
Yoji Kurt, a Japanese animator who Is
well-known in the Kinetic Art series,
produced "Au Fou." a black comedy
about suicide. Kurt's Images, according
to the Los Angeles Times, "are in the
western style, and his cartooning has a
quaint (though sinister) took of those
drawings made by the Japanese of Com
modore Perry and his men."
Jordan Belson's "Momentum" Is a
panorama of "vibrant, swirling colors
and ever-changing patterns, this im
mensely beautiful film gives the feeling
of being In on the creation of the
universe."
A satire aimed at pretentious movies is
"S.W.B." by Gerard Pires. This film is
not to be taken seriously, according to the
Herald Examiner.
not specifically concerned with political
issues, although, for many involved,
political issues are symptoms of what's
wrong in education.
"A responsive university listens to the
voice of the students, faculty a n d in
stitutions and community it serves," he
added.
"The conference is also a response
to the growing concern over the ap
parently widening gap between the
university and other institutions and
communities in Nebraska," says a policy
sheet issued by the group. "The concern
of the conference will be with internal
reforms of the university and with im
proving the university's services to the
state, particularly in the area of social
stress."
Panel discussions will be held Monday
evenings. Hilliard said the group hopes
that 'the action and project groups will
grow out of these discussion sessions.
"We are more interested in the project
groups than in the panels," he said.
"These groups will be concerned partly
with studying the problems, but more
importantly, we hope they will lead to
action.
"In general, the conference will focus
on the problems of the apparently
widening gap between the university and
the society it serves. More specifically,
the conference will be asked to make
a suggestion for a series of summer
institutes to be held annually at the
University of Nebraska in following
summers."
The conference organizational meeting
will meet tonight at 7:30 in the Nebraska
Union. It is open to the public.
The Monday panel discussion,
"University Reform A New
University?" will meet at 7 p.m. in
the Nebraska Union.
Dr. David Levine, chairman of the
psychology department, will chair the
panels. Panel members will be Phil
Scribner, ' former member of the
philosophy department and of the
Centennial Education Program, who will
discuss prestructure in learning: Nancy
Ryan, graduate assistant, who will
Ws summer session
enrollment almost 13,000
Enrollment for both sessions of sum
mer school Is expected to reach just
under 13,000, according to Dr. Alan
Seagren, director of summer school.
Dr. Seagren said he expects about
7.800 students to enroll first session and
5,100 students second session. Enrollment
is up about 1,000 students over last year,
he said.
About 40 percent of the summer school
students are graduate students, he con
tinued, and a big block of these are
teachers attending just the summer
sessions. A large percentage of the
undergraduates are full-time students
attending school year around and Incom
ing freshmen.
Of the students. Dr. Seagren said, "I
am happy they have decided to pursue
their education at the University of
Nebraska and I hope we have programs
planned that meet their needs."
This is Dr. Seagren's first summer
as director of summer sessions. He
succeeded Dr. Frank Sorensen who
served in that office since 1948.
"The summer sessions under Dr.
Sorensen were outstanding and I hope
to continue and further develop the
sessions in program, offerings. Dr.
Seagren said. "I refer, especially to ex
Outdoor concert
Aii-Staters to
in music and
The 1970 All-State Band will present
the Outdoor Promenades Concert at 7:30
p.m. Sunday in the Sheldon Sculpture
Garden.
The band members are among about
360 high school students taking part in
the All-State High School Fine Arts
Course which began June 7 and will
end June 23, according to Dr. John
P. Moran, director of the All-State Pro
gram. About 30 students are in the art and
the journalism sections, 60 In the speech
and drama section and 140 in the music
section.
"The big feature of the All-State pro
gram is that it is organized like the
university and it gives the high school
students a sample of university life,"
Moran said.
The music section offers courses In
dance, orchestra, chorus, band and
"pops" concert.
Students In the journalism section,
under the direction oi Dr. Gene Harding,
will publish two issues of a magazine.
This will give both students Interested
in newspaper work and those interested
in yearbook work a chance to work
together. Dr. Harding said.
Clashes will also be offered in
newspaper techniques, yearbook techni
ques and broadcasting.
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discuss learning outside the classroom;
Phil Medcalf, student, who will u. ,
. class bias in education, grading d d
accreditation; Dr. Paul Olson, professor
of English and director of the Tri
University Project, who will discuss the
university and society, and Bob Dewey,
chairman of the Philosophy Department,
who will discuss abstract knowledge.
Suggested topics for future Mon
day evening panel discussions in
clude the university power structure,
reform of curriculum and teaching
methods, minority groups and the
university, and the university and the
communities of Nebraska.
Study groups suggested subjects in
clude women's rights, racism in living
units, the university and business com
munity, the university and secondary
education, and the finances of the
university.
T,he conference is a response to a pro
posal made by the Academic Planning
Committee, an advisory committee to
the Faculty Senate. The proposal called
for a summer institute on social aware
ness to be established.
The proposal is part of a statement
issued by the Academic Planning Com
mittee concerning an open meeting May
13 on educational reform. Students and
faculty at the meeting presented
statements and suggestions concerning
educational reform which were then
organized into a report.
Mark Thiesen, student representative
on the Academic Planning Committee,
said the report will be submitted in
the form of resolutions to the Faculty
Senate next fall. The committee will
meet several times during the summer
to plan the direction of the proposed
changes.
The effectiveness of the proposals "all
depends on how much we carry through
next fall," he said.
Besides the proposal for a summer"
institute, proposals include making the
library work, adjusting living units to
academic pursuits, faculty evaluations,
and integrated studies courses.
panded opportunities for Incoming fresh
men and conferences related to current
issues and concerns."
Alan Seagren
perform
drama
The speech section, headed by Gary
Cook, will offer courses in original
speaking, debate, make-up, mime, Im
provisation acting, oral interpretation,
debate research and theatre labs.
The art section, directed by Keith
Jacobshagen, will offer courses In
drawing, art history and studio studies.
Throughout the three-week progm
the students will present concerts .nd
recitals which will be open to the publ.c.
The schedule of events is:
Friday, June 19, 7:30 p.m., speech
reading hour, Basement Auditorium,
Union: Sunday, June 21, 3 p.m. and
7:30 p.m., "pops" concert, Kimball
Recital Hall; Monday, June 23. 7:30
p.m., band concert, Kimball Recital Hall,
puppet theatre presentation by Lincoln
Community Playhouse, Temple Building,
Rm. 201; Tuesday, June 23. 7:30 p.m.,
chorus concert and honors recital, Kim
ball Recital Hall: Wednesday, June
24, 7:30 p.m., orchestra concert and
dance recital, Kimball Recital Hall, 1m
provisational acting recital. 201 Temple
Building; Thursday, June 23. 10:30 a.m..
final debates, 201 temple Building; 11:00
a.m., strings recital, Kimball recital .
Hall; 7:30 p.m. speech mime presenta
tion, 21U Temple Building: Final Concert,
Sheldon Sculpture Garden.
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