Centennial students
construct harpsicord
A student-constructed
harpsichord, only the second
instrument of its kind on
campus, now rests in the
lounge of Women's Residence
Hall.
With $300 and about 350
hours of work, Cheryl Long
and Ron Bowlin built the
harpsichord during Christmas
vacation. A comparable
instrument might cost about
$1,500 retail.
Long and Bowlin began
with a kit supplied from the
Burton Harpsichord firm in
Lincoln. The kit supplied
everything but the lumber.
The only other harpsichord
on campus is the Music
Department's electric
harpsichord in the Westbrook
Music Building.
The idea was first
considered in 1969, but last
last semester Centennial
College finally voted to fund
the student project.
Students have been
"extremely excited" about the
new instrument, according to
Bowlin. It is officially the
property of Centennial College,
but is available for general use.
"It's well worth the effort
and expense when you hear it
play," -said Long. .
A harpsichord is played
essentially like a piano. There
is a different, unique sound
because the strings are plucked
in a harpsichord, but struck in
a piano.
Ron Bowlin . . . tunes the harpsichord that he helped to build.
Planner : ' Man is planetary disease
Man is a planetary disease
and an epidemic, according to
Ian McIIarg, one of the
nation's outstanding ecological
planners and landscape
architects. Speaking to a filled
auditorium at Sheldon Gallery
Tuesday he developed the idea
of man in space, looking at a
green earth covered in spots
with a pathological brown. The
cause of this deterioration is
man, he explained.
His list of hated and
loathsome people includes the
Department of Defense, those
engaged in biological warfare
and those who sell death in the
form of toxins.
"Our major guilt is that we
are all inheritors of the
Judeo-Christian view of man to
nature," McHarg stated, "a
view which permeates western
society." This is found in the
first chapter of Genesis, which
says that man is made in the
image of God, that he is given
dominion over life and non-life
and is licensed to subjugate the
earth.
Although all of man's
actions are toward this view, it
is of no survival value at all,
according to McHarg. He
believes man is obsessed with
conquering everything and that
man thinks he is superior to
nature.
"People must understand
the way the world works."
stressed McHarg. He believes
that highly sophisticated
members of a technological
society have lost sight of that,
although the most primitive
people understand this basic
idea.
Man and plants are an in
teracting system, said McHarg,
and man must first realize that
he is a co-tenant of the earth.
McHarg, who is also a writer
and author of the book Design
with Nature, believes creativity
is essential to survival and that
the absence of it leads to
misfits and extinction. "All
organisms are required to find
of all environments the most
fit," he said, "and fitting is
creative."
Drug survey to involve 10
of University students
There has never been a comprehensive campus survey taken
on the drug problem. Coordinator of Student Affairs research,
Robert Brown will begin such a survey this week in an attempt
to obtain "actual figures" rather than rumors which circulate
on college campuses.
Participants in the poll will be chosen at random, involving
ten per cent of the University students. The questionnaires
were sent Feb. 8 and 9, but results will not be ready until the
beginning of March.
One piece of data Brown is looking for is the need for
special agencies to take care of students who may experience a
bad trip and need help. The health agencies on campus are
presently th? only services offered to the drug user.
WAG plans action : Millett here March 2
Asst. Secretary of State
to tape NETV program
Richard T. Davies, the
deputy assistant secretary of
state for European Affairs will
be in Lincoln Educational
appear on a program for the
Nebraska EDucational
Television Council for Higher
Education. Inc. (NETCHE).
Davies will video-tape the
program entitled, "East -West
Relations," on the Doane
College campus in Crete.
The program is one in a
series of eight hour-long
presentations entitled
"Problem Areas of American
Foreign Policy." The series will
be telecast to Nebraska colleges
and universities on NETV.
The first 20-minutes of the
program will be devoted to
analysis of Eastern Europe
today with the remainder of
the time spent answering
questions posed by a panel of
selected students from Doane
College.
"East-West Relations" also
will be broadcast on the public
television network Monday at
9 p.m.
The diplomat was born in
Brooklyn, New York, and was
educated at Columbia
University, receiving an A.B. in
1942.
A career Foreign Service
Officer since 1947, Davies has
spent 1 6 of his 23 years in the
Foreign Service working in the
Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe and in positions in
Washington and Paris dealing
with Soviet and Eastern
European affairs. He served as
political officer at Warsaw
(I947.49) and Moscow
(1951-53 and 1961-63). He
was on the International Staff
of NATO in Paris (1953-55),
and a Public Affairs Adviser in
the offices of Eastern
European Affairs (1958-59)
and Soviet Union Affairs
(1959-61).
NETCHE is a non profit
corporation of Nebraska
colleges and universities which
provides both credit courses
and supplemental television
The Women's Action Group
(WAG) took no formal action in their
meeting Monday night but they
hashed around an array of plans for
this semester.
Kate Millett, authoress of "Sexual
Politics" will be on campus March 2,
said Toni Hilliard, WAG treasurer.
Millett, sponsored by the Union Talks
and Topics Committee, will give
several lectures and participate in rap
sessions, Hilliard said.
Plans of solidarity with women's
action groups in Omaha and other
campuses were discussed. Lois Rood of
Omaha said three small groups have
been organized in the city, although
they are community rawer man
student-oriented.
Stating that they want to establish
communication with the Lincoln
WAG, Rood said "Lincoln may be the
center for focusing attention on the
legislature".
An abortion bill, drafted by WAG
counselor Sandy Little, a law student,
hasn't found any sponsors in the
legislature.
The present abortion law contains
language which is "vague and
overbroad," said Little. The language
she referred to was the clause
necessary to preserve the life of the
mother." Because the language is
vague, the law is unconstitutional,
Little said.
The bill drafted by Little "takes
abortion out of the penal code and
places it in the public health code".
Calling the bill "an abortion in
itself," Little said, "I think its
unfortunate that the legislature didn't
avail itself of the opportunity to make
some statutory corrections".
Member from WAG were also asked
to make arrangements for a course
called "Women in Contemporary
Society."
The course will be offered next fall
and spring in the College of Home
Economics. The inter-departmental
course will be taughi by Constance
Kies of the Home Ecomomics College.
The course will take "an overview
of the place of women in America
today," said Kies. WAG drew up the
course proposal and the home
economics department "has accepted
the idea that this is a student-oriented
course," she added.
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