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For many students on campus, leaving their home
town main street behind was quite an accomplishment.
Going abroad would be unheard of.
What they don't realize is that travel or study in a
foreign country probably is possible for them.
Moreover, it can be surprisingly inexpensive.
Several UNI departments and offices want to help.
They offer programs or suggestions for foreign travel,
as well as for study or work.
One of those programs is the Wintoiim-F-light. For
about $260 students can fly to Europe and back during
Christmas break.
For about $350 more, they can ?:irn UNL credit by
taking courses in London, Paris, Munich and other
cities:
This spring, a similar trip tc South America is
planned.
Other ways to see the world include the Junior Year
Ahnwl nrnnram. snnnsored bv t h i UNL lanauaqe
departments. Students selected for tno program spend
3 yoe?hrernwaymsPtUoSef an'd woril abroad are explained
other ways to udve. a Nebraska Union
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with a family, become grape harvesters, work as
chambermaids or simply see the sights.
Spending time in another culture is one of the most
educational experiences a student pfn ye. It enlarges
a nerson's perspect ve. It helps h m snea nis
ethnocentricity And, too, it teaches him something
fPmsauihoaces new situations, how
much he values his country and more.
To find out more about nonacademic programs, visit
the Overseas Opportunity Center. For information on
academic programs, go to the Institute of International
Studies, Oldfather iuj.
departments, oiuaenis seiecieu i ur mc piuymni siu jUuiw,iUiv.
their junior year studying at a university in France, It could help get you places. jane Owens
Germany, Spain or another country. ; '
Ford is a good Scout: trustworthy, loyal, helpful, fiendly
"Ti ey say a scout is trustworthy, loyal,
helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient,
cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.
(These virtues will be) my guide and my
comDass in all my official duties" President
and "Eagle Scout Gerald R. Ford in a major
address to The Scouter-of-the-Year Banquet
m Washington.
'Hi, there, King Faisal. Hope you don't
mind my dropping by your palace like this to
make a courtesy call. But, by golly, I believe
in bev.g courteous at all times."
Wen, Mr. President..."
"Just call me, Gerry, King. I believe in
being friendly, too."
hopp
old friend, Leonid, wouldn't it be swell if
everybody could be friends like he and I
are.
"Ahah! So you've- made a deal with the
Russians to seil us rut. I suspected you
Americans would do anything to save
yourselves a few paltry hundred billion
dollars."
"Gosh, King, I don't knew anything about
this 'deal' thing. But I sure do believe in
being thrifty."
"I will never yk!d to threats! Go ahead,
send in your Man res!"
"Gee, Kino, l don't know what you're
talking about," Let 'rr'- ccme clean, because I
always believe in bjing clean. All I meant
was that Leonid and i are loyal buddies."
"A joint attar.k by Russian and American
troops? My poor country would be overrun in
hours. Ail right, you nave me over me ui.
barrel. What do you want me to do?"
"Whatever you say, King. Give me the
word and I'll do it. If there's one thing I am,
it's obedient." ' . ... u
"You leave me no choice. I will cut the
price of oil to a dollar a barrel and donate
$100 billion to your favorite charity."
"My goodness, King, that's trustworthy,
loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind,
obedient, cheerful, thrifty and brave of you."
"By Allah, you are an unbeatable
bargainer. I wash my hands of the whole
thing."
"And clean and reverent, too. Here, have
a WIN merit badge. You're a good scout,
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innocent ousronuef
What sort of
il iiaJaiah honor. Gerry.
d3! ocryoii have in mind?"
rbvarr What 's a deal, King? t-josrhoped t
might be helpful in my trustworthy way."
"Helpful? I assume, Gerry, that you are
here because you are worried about the
economic hardships our high oil prices are
causing you."
"What, me worry? If there's one thing I
always am, King, it's cheerful."
"Yes, I noticed (hat. You must have a card
up your sleeve. Have you come to warn me
you are contemplating sending your Marines
to take over my oil wells?"
"Well, that would sure be the brave thing
d"), Kina. But ft wouldn t be kina.
"I must warn you that if you make any
military threats, I shall be forced to make
friends with the Russians!"
Great idea, King. As I was saying to my
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Marriage institution satirization misinterpreted
'Wan, did you get zapped!" People have
been telling me ihat for the better part of
a wee-K now.
They were referring to a Daily Nebraskan
fjusit opinion by Sue Warren last Friday,
'r ich did a fairly good job of ripping apart
my coiumn of .last Wednesday.
Go, what are you going to do about it?"
my friends would ask smugly.
"If anybody is competent to criticize by
writing, I am, knowing my faults better than
;.nyone else could," I replied.
There were any number of things wrong
.vim last week's column on the institution of
marriage. But first, a brief defense of what
wo? r wrong.
I satirized a newspaper engagement
announcement rewriting it to read as it
might if the newspaper were honestly
reflecting a common societal view on the
leiaticnship between men and women a
vie.v with 'which I disagree strongly.
It vss clearly marked off by quotes,
reading: "Mr. and Mrs. Horatio Aiger
announce the sale of their daughter Petunia
o John Bourgeois of Alda. John will take
ever payments of the piece of meat after a
June wedding."
I was dismayed that Warren misinter
preted that literary device and assumed I
personally view -women as "pieces of meat."
Another point. Warren implies that an
unmarried person cannot form a valid opinion
about the nature of marriage. To carry this
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loaic further, wo would have to write off alt
male gynecologists z... hopeless incompetents
and bar from practice all psychiatrists who
lack a history of mental imbalance. .
Warren is most likely an expert about her
own marriage. Ho.veer, any further knowl
edge she might hve about marriage in
general must conn? from observation of other
married people and social sources of
knowledge, such as bocks, movies, etc.
These sources are certainly not closed to the
unmarried.
ray woloeh
iUQlefen at fee
Beyond that, my hasty tossing together of
thoughts suffered from the crime of
philosophical inconsistency on the part of the
author. I managed to stereotype an entire
class of people.
The ranks of the married include a wide
variety' of people, not hinted at by my
"movie-version summary" one type. I
have seen or heard of immensely happy
marriages whose partners didn't have to
sacrifice a bit of their freedom and can get in
return all the benefits marriage potentially
can bring.
daily nebraskan
Conversely, a high percentage of mar
riages end in divorce. The union made in
heaven ends in divorce court and hatred.
Of course, the divorced vary as widely as
the happily married. The causes can range
Uom personality conflict to unfulfilled
expectations to economic hardship to what-have-you.
Whether it goes on happily-ever-after or
ends in bitterness depends ultimately on how
the partners adjust to each other and to the
demands (economic, social, sexual, etc.) of
living together within the constraints of social
expectations.
So many things can go wrong that it is a
credit to human resiliency that most
marriages do succeed to some degree.
Perhaps I wrote that co!umn from an
entirely too personal point of view, forming
my own fears into a model which I would
attack while assuming it to reflect a real
danger.
It is often tempting to generalize one's own
experiences as applying to everyone. This
can backfire when those experiences fall on
the fringe rather than the middle of the
normal curve.
Just where I am in that fringe is unclear.
My opinion on marriage can fluctuate
between cynicism and optimism, depending
on whom I am talking to and on sunspot
activity. That probably reflects the variety of
marriage types and the ambiguity of society's
attitude toward them.
Wednesday, decern be r 1 1 , 1974
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