To welcome aii returning students
and new students
offers
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jewelry and all other
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Foreign Film Sen
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Second Semester
ElSine Great Films
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UNL Students Faculty and Staff $550
Non UNL Students Faculty and Staff $700
Patron $900
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
7:00 and 9:15 Sheldon Art Gallery
Sponsored by Union Program Council Foreign Films Committee
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To folk enthusiasts
Instrument kits appeal
"Life is like a mountain dulcimer."
This ad in Sing out! a folk song magazine, appeals to the
increasing number of mountain and folk song enthusiasts. The
person who purchases a dulcimer, like other mountain instruments,
now can either buy or build the instrument.
The dulcimer has wire strings of different lengths stretched over
a sound box, and is plucked by the fingers or played by two
padded hammers.
Advertisements for dulcimers, banjos, guitars, mandolins, and
the more exotic psalteries and thumb pianos crowd the classified
sections of magazines such as Sing out! and Saturday
Review-World.
Construction plans or kits are not limited to folk instruments.
Companies such as Burton's Harpsichords, in Lincoln, feature kits
for harpsichords and clavichords.
Companies also sell wood, fingerboards, bindings, and
accessories to build the instrument without a kit.
Is it worth it? Opinions differ.
UNL student Laurie Edwards, who ordered a $36 dulcimer kit
from a Denver company, said she did not find the kit too difficult
and was pleased with the results.
An article in Mugwumps' Instrument Herald, a folk instruments
journal, about assembling a $99 Stewart-MacDonald banjo, noted
that most anyone could assemble their kit easily.
Bob Fenton of Dietz Music House in Lincoln was more
cautious. He said two people who bought violin kits from him gave
up and had a violin repairman finish their instruments.
"Don't believe that a kit and a tube of glue are all you need.
Special home tools are needed for some kits," Fenton said.
"No musical background is needed, however. It doesn't matter
if you don't know which end to play," he said.
Neill Roan of Guitar Gallery compared the better kits to good
electronic kits.
When completed, Roan said, a $250 banjo kit will make an,
excellent instrument. He said that, depending on the individual, a
kit might take from a few days to a month to complete.
"In contrast, a guitar kit is a waste of time. It is as difficult as
violin making," Roan said.
The Guitar Gallery sells kits for Appalachian dulcimers, five
types of banjos and mandolins.
Growing interest in bluegrass is demonstrated by construction
requests for homemade instruments like the washtub bass and
musical saw, Roan said.
"Of course, take a bass fiddle E-string and washtub and you
have a washtub bass. And since a jug is a jug, apple cider jugs work
as well as white lightning," he said.
Merger enables some
to minor in religion
By Chuck Beck
Current restructuring of UNL's School of Religion, formerly
Cotner College, should enable students to obtain a religion minor
beginning in the fall of 1 977.
Restructuring of the school resulted from the merging of the
Cotner Foundation with the University Foundation in a trust
agreement. The Cotner Foundation will turn over its building and
funds to the University. The building is at 1237 R St.
Dean Raleigh Peterson said the restructuring of the school will
benefit students in two ways.
He said students who are interested in religion will be able to fill
gaps in their class schedules that occur under the present religion
program.
"Some courses now may not fulfill group requirements,"
Peterson explained. "Some religion courses are taught outside the
University course framework and do not count towards University
requirements," Peterson added.
Students now taking religion courses offered outside the
University transfer credits to their transcript and these classes
appear under religion on student records. The credits earned under
the present religion program count toward graduation.
Peterson said 23 courses now are offered and said that
combining courses from various UNL departments with the religion
program would result in the "opportunity for a minor in religion."
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Students will also benefit from the school's restructuring
because more students can be accommodated in the program,
Peterson said. The school currently enrolls about 200 students in
its courses, but he did not speculate how many students will seek
minors in religion.
Peterson said all types of students take the inter-reiigious and
inter-denominational classes offered in the religion program.
"Students with no religious beliefs and students with
fundamentalist beliefs take religion courses," Peterson said. "We
also have American Indian and black students, as well as Phi Beta
Kappas taking courses," he added.
Religion classes are taught in a historical, cultural and
philosophical context in keeping with a recent Lancaster Court
ruling, Peterson said. "UNL's religion courses neither promote nor
attack religion," he added.
A full-time professor of biblical studies will be hired to
coordinate the development of the school's program of religion
studies, Peterson said. In addition, the College of Arts and Sciences
will be encouraged to develop new courses of religion study, he
said., v 1
Also included in the restructuring of the school is the addition
of three new classes in Hebrew, world religions and biblical course,
leterson said. These courses, must be approved by the regents
before they can be offered, but Peterson said he expects the
regents to approve ihe classes soon.
page eighteen
daily nebraskan
monday, january t3, 1975
