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JOGGING Leader: Dave Bradley Description available at booth. 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7, Smith Hall Lounge CULTURAL-SEXUAL ROLES IN SOCIETY Leader: University Women's Action Group The main purpose of this course will be to analyze sexual role-playing through focusing on many dif ferent aspects of the area. Hopefully, one will be able to achieve a more total and complete conception of what is meant by the term "role playing". Rather than a single instructor, local speakers will be secured for specific topics that are familiar to them. The following are some of the topics that can oe aiscu&sea: roie development in the family, male-female psychology, transcending cultural roles (such as women in professional fields), analysis of media in portraying sexual roles, religious and moral effects on cultural roles, roles as an economic balance in a society, biological definitions and myths of male-female roles, alternative roles. The group will have autonomy in deciding what and how they wish to cover a particular subject. Ideally, reading material will be correlated with it. This Free University Course is being used for experimental purposes in establishing a Women Studies Course at the University of Nebraska. Time & Place arranged. NON-VIOLENCE : IS IT POSSIBLE? Leader: David Ratliff We would like to examine the feasibility of br inging about social change through non-violent civil disobedience as opposed to violent confronta tion with the authorities or a "working within the. system" method. Suggest reading Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. A more concrete course direction will be decided by the group at the first meeting. 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12, Smith Hall UP AGAINST THE WAR Leader: To Be Announced An intensive look at the peace movement with an eye to new directions in political imagination. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, Schramm EDUCATIONAL REFORM AT NEBRASKA Leader: Jerry Petr, Paul Wilson, et al These courses will be small groups oriented towards research and discussion of specific possi ble proposals for reform at NU, and towards Implcmentatin of such proposals. . 1. Schramm 7:30 Monday, Oct. S 2. Abel 7:30 Wednesday, Oct. 7 3. Smith Thursday 8th, 7:30 p.m., (lounge) 4. Selleck 7:30 Tuesday, Room 7005 5. Wesley Foundation 7:30 Thursday, Oct. 8 6. Burr 7:30 Wednesday, Oct. 7 POVERTY PENETRATION Leader: Janet White Broad directions the course will take are education and preparation of the student for volunteer work with lower socio-economic persons. Community organization and mobilization will be studied and evaluated on local and national levels. Methods - of influencing local power structures and citizenry will be covered. The psychology and culture of the lower socio-economic person will be considered from the perspective of the volunteer seeking positive interaction. Role-playing, speakers, panels, and individual experience will be the basis for discussion. If the group is Interested a volunteer project will be undertaken. 7:30 Thursday, Smith Hall THE INNER TEACHINGS OF JESUS THE CHRIST OR WHITE MAGIC Leader: John HatgidakU and BiU Sulhard The purpose of this course Is to unfold within each person the understanding of God's Creation and the beauties of the creative patterns of God's WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1970 Universe. We hope that each person may step forth and assume their position as a "creator' in their own right learning to function within the pattern of the Universal Law of Creation and using it harmoniously to create a more perfect world for themselves and all mankind. The basic course material will be the New Testament and the Teachings of the Holy Order of MANS, a non-sectarian, non-denominational order dedicated to teaching the Universal Law of Creation in accordance with the Teachings of Jesus the Christ and other great vatars of Earth. "Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?" (John 10:34) 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 6, Abel Hall THE FICTION OF JOHN BARTH AND KINDRED MATTERS Leader: Cater Chainblee Meeting times after the first meeting will be decided by the folk who take the course to suit their convenience and mine. My intention is to read and discuss the fiction of John Barth and Kindred Matters, but I don't have any particular framework in which to place these novels and short stories, preferring to work this out with those interested when we meet. I can't be more specific than that. Hopefully the number of in terested will not be much greater than a dozen or so, But I don't want to limit the number arbitrarily. Tuesday, Oct. 6, 7 p.m. Eng. Dept. Ubr. 2nd fl. Andrews PROJECT TEACH (A WHITE RACISM PROJECT TO END APATHY AND COMMUNITY HATRED) Leader: Bill Arfmann and Bob Fritmeier My conceptions of this class would be as follows: a) Primarily a group of white high school students and myself doing anti-racism work in an educ ational realm oriented toward constructive ac- tion. 1) First informing ourselves of the manifestations of racism in Lincoln community, put in context of the national scene, tapping sources of informa tion in loosely structured taps with people from minority groups in Lincoln and possibly Omaha. 2) After about a month of these homework sessions, setting up encounter sessions with Lin coln church and civic groups asking for ap propriate responses and reactions. The timing for this activity will have to remain open to group needs. High school students (informed) could be particularly effective in confronting their parent-types in these encounters, not having the "strike" connotations of University students in civic minds. 7 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 4, East Campus Union R E F O n THE NEBRASKAN PAGE 7