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Union Centennial Room
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Sponsored by: Onion Programing Black Activities
Black Heritage Month
Instructor Carrie Bishop (left) leads a non-credit modern dance course at Centennial
Centennial
dispells the
"Cubicle
Theory"
In its six year history Centennial has been called many things by
people not in the program-a bunch of goof offs, a colony of
freaks, a group of intellectuals.
But when it began, it was intended as one of several educational
alternatives, according to Dr. Robert Knoll, professor of English.
Knoll, who was instrumental in forming the Centennial
Educational Program (CEP) concept, served as the college's first
senior fellow, or head teacher adviser, from Sept. 1969 to May
1971.
CEP, which began in 1969 during University of Nebraska's
Centennial celebration, reacted against what knoll described as an
"unhappy, cubicle theory of education."
Cubicle theory dispelled
"The institution files students into the cubicles of a dormitory.
The students then meet each other in the neutral cubicles of the
classroom or talk to the faculty in the cubicles of their office. We
didn't think the cubicle theory was the only possible alternative to
education," he said.
Two years ago, plans were drawn up for a Centennial II
program, which proposed a CEP approach to math and science.
The idea was discussed but never enacted, according to Dr. Jerry
Petr, professor of economics.
Centennial College, according to former UNL English professor
Ted Beck, set up three academic objectives: to encourage students
to think critically, to develop a range of intellectual cultural
interests, and to teach students to communicate effectively.
But, Knoll said, Centennial didn't always accomplish what he
had hoped it would.
Emphasis on self
"I am not too sympathetic toward the touchy-feely theory of
education. At Centennial there was a real emphasis put on knowing
one's self."
Self-discovery, Knoll said, comes after first studying the classics.
These writers "had a psychological direction that we can't touch."
"How are you supposed to find yourself, by looking in a
mirror?" Knoll said. "You discover yourself by reading Hamlet!"
The "it's-up-to-you" theory of education is not meant for
everyone, Knoll said. Few people, he said, have the intellectual
discipline to not drift into "directionlessness."
"Most students have to be starved into labor. They want to be
whiphanded by one pressure or another or by the University."
Job defines the person
People don't mind this structure, Knoll said, for in society
people take their identity from it.
"What's one of the first questions you ask someone when you
meet them." Knoll said. "It's 'where do you work?' Or in the case
of a student, 'What is your major?' the implication being toward
work after graduation.
"Through a person's work, you attempt to define how a person
is going to act and how you will act toward them. You expect
certain things out of a mayor. You treat a physicist with a different
degree of respect than you treat a chemist."
But, Knoll said, Centennial is always what it planned to be - an
alternative.
"We never said that Centennial was for anyone. It gives a
student a chance to try out his wings for his own purpose."
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CEP dance student Deb Pfenninger (right)
daily nebraskan Wednesday, february 12, 1975
