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Anne Campbell, former
Director of Public Affairs for
the University system, is
speaking to the Free University
class "Lobbying in
Government" tonight at 7:30
p.m. in the Nebraska Union,
Ro n 242.
Students at the University
are sponsoring a Venezuelan
Festival of Food Sunday. The
event will feature food
prepared by students in the
International House. Roberto
Esquenazi-Mayo, director of
the Institute for International
Studies at NU, will show slides
of his trip to Venezuela and
Jorge Rivas, a native of
Venezuela will sing and play
the Venezuelan four-string
guitar. Tickets to the dinner
and program must be obtained
by 5 p.m. today in Room
1033,Oldfather.
The French film "Les Jeux
Sont Faits" (The Chips Are
Down, or the Game is Up) will
be shown at Sheldon Art
Gallery Thursday at 3:30 p.m.
Tickets may be purchased in
advance from Pam LeZotte,
1218 Oldfather for $1.25.
Prof. N.M. Bashara, winner
of the 1974 Outstanding
Scientist Award, will speak at 4
p.m. Thursday in the Nebraska
Union Auditorium on
ellipsometry, the use of optical
methods of study surfaces.
Students may express their
views on the financing of the
Soccer Club, Ski Club, Union
Program Council, Weightlifting
Club, Daily Nebraskan, Rifle
Club, Judo Club, Fencing Club,
Assoc. for Computing
Machinery and the University
Child Care Project at the open
hearing of the Fees Allocation
Board Thursday at 5:15 p.m.
in the Nebraska Union. A
schedule for the meeting and
copies of the budget and
subcommittee records are
available in Union 200.
Novelist James Gunn says:
Verne launched science fiction
Although many science fiction experts believe
that Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley was the first
true science fiction work, James Gunn, science
fiction author and University of Kansas English
teacher maintains that Jules Verne's 19th
century works mark the true beginning of science
fiction.
Gunn spoke to an audience of about 100
Monday in the Nebraska Union Centennial Room
on "The Discovery of the Future."
Verne wrote "a kind of simplistic science
fiction-so pure that he was decorated by the
Pope," Gunn said.
"Verne did more for the development of
science fiction than any number of
Frankensteins," he said.
Gunn is the author of 13 science fiction
books, including The Immortals, which became
the basis for a television series.
"Because it emphasizes man in his
environment, in his relation with the universe,
science fiction can provide us with a perspective
of ourselves which we would not otherwise get,"
Gunn said.
Science fiction, he said, can teach u$
"something about the insignificance of
ourselves." Man has existed only a couple of
minutes relative to the age of the universe," he
said.
To keep our planet and ourselves in
perspective, Gunn said, we can look at the Milky
Way and observe that "we live in its slum area,
with no more than a mediocre star for our sun."
Life and education, he added, are processes of
learning things we cannot do.
"But science fiction is a broadening
experience, an alternative to the way we are
taught to think," Gunn said. If science fiction
can effectively provide this alternative, he said,
"it has done more than just give us a vision of the
future."
In regard to his own writing, Gunn said he has'
tried to make science fiction easier to read.
"I have always tried to provide a bridge
between science fiction and the nonscience
fiction reader," he explained.
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