NAEB Newsletter (Sept-Oct 1952)

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WISCONSIN NET AIRS "FRESHMAN FORUM" PROGRAM Radio listeners throughout Wisconsin Join University of Wisconsin freshmen in Madison and Extension Centers to make up the "student body" for a course this year outlining resources for richer living. Starting Tuesday, September 23* listeners at home or in class are heading 17 outstanding university faculty members* teachers of this semes¬ ter’s "Freshman Forum." Included in course subject matter are such topics as philosophy* music, dance, litera¬ ture, art, and politics. Lectures are carried on the tvo state AM radio stations and the eight-station FM netvork at 11 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Thursday is discus¬ sion day for classroom students. Moderator for the program vill be Frederick , Haberman* professor of speech. Program Goals "Freshman Forum," Haberman explained, has tvo major purposes: 1. To stimulate the freshman’s interest in various subjects offered by the university 2. To introduce the freshmen to a selected group of renovned'university professors Previous forums have centered around' the themes of freedom, vhat it means and hov it came to be* and modern science related to human needs. Some topics to be studied this fall are: "The Uses' of Philosophy"; "Enjoying Plays- On and Off the Stage"; "Why Men Dance"; "Literature as a Personal Resource"; "The Opportunities of Citizenship"; "Art - Why Don’t We Live Without It?"; and "Moral Force and Atomic Energy in the War of Ideas." Forum Speakers Lecturers vill be Dean John Guy Fovlkes* education; Walter R. Agard, classics de¬ partment; Julius Weinberg, philosophy; Ronald E. Mitchell, speech department; Mrs. Shirley B. Genther, physical education; Robert J. Francis, physical education; and Roe-Merrill Heffner, German department. Other speakers are Paul Wiley, English; James S. Watrous, art history; Richard Church, music; Chester Easum, history; David Fellman, political science; Graham Hovey, Journalism; Ervin Gaumnitz, commerce; Elizabeth Brandeis, economics; Edmund Zavacki, Slavic languages; Lt. Col. Jack C. Jeffrey, Corps of Engineers ROTC.