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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1971)
New community free school stresses 'experience, freedom' by MARSHA KAHM Staff Writer Of all ideas that begin in the mind, a very small number materialize. And of all people who speak of change, it's likely that the majority only speak ar.- do not act. The Free Community School is an idea that has materialized because people have acted. The school will open Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Westminister Church. Mich Zeman, organizer of the free school, began formulating an idea about two years ago. "I decided something needed to be done (about education)," explained Zeman, "and I committed myself to doing something." The thought simultaneously occurred to Mary Tidball, who is co-ordinating several courses. The free school for grades one through nine is similar in a way to one called Summerhill started by A. S. Neill in England, according to Zeman. Both schools believe that a community is important and also that the idea of freedom is crural. "The difference," said Zeman "is that learning is totally secondary there where here it is very much a part of what we're doing." "The most central thing about the school is to free ourselves with a total experience," emphasized Zeman. "When we involve ourselves in learning 'something, it's a study that matters to us. These courses are crucial. They can change and mature us." he added. "These are things that we have to know." The idea of a community is (OOOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOOOCJ o o o o o o o o o o o 0 0 o o 0 0 0 0 0 I ! i I 2 Fers Monday Thru Friday DooooooooooooooooooocQ PAGE 4 also very much a part of the school, a place to bring everyone's experiences together. According to Tidball, it is a time to get people together and share thoughts. The school is not limited to any age group but is for all people who are interested and have ideas to offer. The only cost for participation in the free school will be materials. No credits are given. Seven different courses will be offered at the same time, from 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesdays and a "community" class for the entire school to share ideas about everything will follow the other classes. "Corporations and Kings" which will try to analyze the power structure in relation to different social problems and also explore various approaches to changing the system. Dave Beckman, who has studied business abroad, is the co-ordinator. --Proceeding from the premise that all people are violent, the course entitled "Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence" will try to show how non-violence can be used as a viable alternative. It is co-ordinated by Zeman, Bob MacLennan, Minister of Christian Education atWestminster Presbysterian Church, and Dale Petty, a University student. --An encounter group session, "The Human Relations Workshop, "The Human Relations Workshop," is aimed at helping people become free as individuals and as a community. "I'm interested and excited a'oout education and want to work with people in Lincoln," co-ordinator Tidball explained. 0 0 0 0 0 o 0 0 0 o o 0 o 0 O 0 o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 explained. "Creative Education", which Tidball will co-ordinate along with Kim Hobson, a student, is a study of education today and what it could be tomorrow. Ideas will also be discussed about establishing a new type of elementary education, primarily a pre-school, A "Women's Liberation" course, co-ordinated by Kathy Nelsen, will develop as it goes along. Nelsen is interested in "getting down to gut feelings about people's emotions by communicating." An environment and organic living course entitled "How to Survive in the 20th Century" looks at the ecological problems of our country and possible solutions. John Cunningham and Katie Sharp are in charge of the course. Discussions dealing with organic diets are also planned. "The Political Process", co-ordinated by Herb Hopkins, a Lincoln lawyer, deals with an explanation of how laws are made, an analysis of the political system and ways to work within it to create change. The free school is never closed on the number of courses that it will offer, added Zeman. Jazz musicians coming Tuesday One of the best known jazz musicians of the current era, Freddie Hubbard, will bring his trumpet and his quintet to the Nebraska Union Ballroom Tuesday afternoon at 3:30. fooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooeooooooocoooocoooooooooQOoooocooooooooc teoooocooaooooooooocoooooooooiaooioooocooooooooooooooottoocooBOooooocoooag THE DAILY NEBRASKAN TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9,1971 YAF supports Regents' action in Rozman case The State Chairman of Young Americans for Freedom, (YAF) Terrell R. Cannon, said the Y.A.F. supports the Board of Regents actions in the Rozman affair. "The Regents, representing the people of Nebraska, have not only the authority, but the duty, to enforce standards of ethical conduct upon those in whose hands the education of Nebraska's college students rests," said Cannon in a prepared statement. "Conservative and moderate students, those who attend the University to obtain an education, have long served as captive audience for those professors engaging in tirades and tantrums directed at the very system, and people, who furnish the financial base upon which the University rests," continued Cannon. "Cries of "academic freedom" and "repression" cannot move those conservative and moderate students who, due to the Two fraternities censure Regents The members of Acacia fraternity voted Monday night to censure the Board of Regents for their firing of controversial Stephen L. Rozman, assistant professor of political science. The resolution also urged Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC) to adopt a similar position at their Wednesday evening meeting. The legis.ation passed with three dissenting votes. Another fraternity, Delta Upsilon, also voted Monday night to censure the Regents for their handling of the Rozman case. "The advancement of justice is imperative, not only to the University, but our society as a whole," the resolution states. shirts flares sportcoats shoes ties sweaters outercoats leather vests 144 North 14th hiscsijt effective censorship exercised by the social outcasts who reign over numerous of our graduate schools, have been effectively discouraged from attending graduate school and hence from entering the faculty," added John Hansen, new president of the Y.A.F. chapter. Continued Hansen: "I welcome the Regents action as a first step securing the rights of that student majority that is utterly nauseated by the classroom dictatorships of radical faculty members not willing to grant the freedoms to others they themselves abuse." Nebraska Young Americans for Freedom has been operating on a state-wide basis for 3 months and comprises 14 chapters, with about 300 members, in Liwoln , Omaha, and Norfolk. 11 a.m . - Free Speech Movement Press Conference, Nebraska Union. Noon - Gamma Lambda, Union. Noon - School of Environmental Development, Union. Noon - U. of N. Business & Finance Officers, Union. 1 p. m. - Chaperones Club, Union. 1:30 p. m. - Speaker: lan Mcllarg, Sheldon. 3 p.m. - Freddie Hubbard Quintet, Union 5 p.m. - Corn Cobs, Union. 5 p.m. - Mortar Boards and Innocents, Union. 6:30 p.m. - Pi Lambda Theta, Union. 7 p.m. - Jr. I.F.C., Union. 7:30 p.m. - Women's Action Group, Union. 8 p.m. - Human Relations Insight League, Union. 8 p.m. - Free University "Issues & Confrontations." Union. 8 p.m. - Black History Week Play "The Happy Ending", Union.
