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Iwue 54 A daily independent STudemmust Survivor speaks on Holocaust MICHELLE REITER "My father and brother and STAFF WRITER everybody were crying." Friedman said, "and they ordered them to Arnold Friedman. 73. has only break everything up. The cries got talked publicly about his Holocaust louder then. experiences in the last several years. "The old European synagogues '"It was not until I saw the muse- were made of that real hard wood," um in Washington D.C.." he said. Friedman continued. "'And every- "They have so little there. There thing was broken practically like were so many people who suffered powder with bare hands; this had to and were forgotten. I thought. 'I have been done by God. I thought. have to talk about this."' 'I must get out and tell the world That was a several years ago, and what's happening.'" since then Friedman has told his Both Friedman and his father story rn synagogues, schools and were physically struck during this colleges around the Cleveland area experience. Friedman for speaking to share the reality. Sponsored by up for his father against the SS sol- the University Honors Program and dier who beat him. funded by a grant from the Partner- "I said. 'What did you hit my I ships for Community Action. Fried- father for? My father's a good man.' man shared his experience of sur- and he hit me on the side of my vival at the hands of the Nazi regime head, and there was blood every- to audience of students and faculty where, all over the floor." last night. Soon after that the Jews were Born in Irsava, Czechoslovakia moved into the ghettos, where Fried- in 1927. Friedman said he had never man said he and his family were for- experienced anti-semitism before tunate enough to get enough food 1944. when the Na/i stormtroopers most of the time. While Friedman swept through his hometown and witnessed a number of murders at began to terrorize the Jewish popu- the hands of Nazi soldiers in the lation. ghetto, he said no one in Irsava yet '. "I got all excited when I saw the knew anything about what was stormtroopers." he said. "'I ran already happening all over Europe. home and told my father about them, "They were very secretive about and he said, 'so what.'" Then they the gathering of the Jews," he said. sent out a decree that said Jews had "They took the old people away and to move their shops to a certain sec- we thought maybe they would be tion of town, and I ran home and given free health care," he said. told my father that. He said. So "And finally we got the notice to what? So Jews have to move their pack too." shops.'" Friedman said they marched in Finally. Friedman said, not even the winter past crowds that yelled. his father could deny the imminent "Kill the Jews! Kill the Jews!" danger when the Jews of Irsava were "But you could see some of the forced to destroy their own syna- Christians crying." he said, "crying MIKE LEHMKUHLE/ The BG Newi gogue. ENDURE Arnold Freidman speaks about the horrors he endured in the Nazi death camps. The 73-year-old man lost family, • See HOLOCAUST, page 7. friends, and his home during the World War II atrocities. Grad students may not make the grade Oklahoma BETH SHOEMAKER that were horrible." good qualities and aspects of teach- year. graduate psychology students tor them throughout the semester." requires STAFF WRITER Stan Smith, graduate coordinator ing." Smith said. "As a result, they all enroll in courses that "teach them Both Dubow and Smith agree that for biological sciences, said that the become better teachers themselves." how to leach others." During the this guiding of the graduate students quality of the teaching depends on The biolo- next year, they serve as teaching creationism When someone pays for the entire is essential. the graduate suident. "I think it's all about mentoring," extra value meal, they expect to get "Some of them are good, some of ment uses •iiits Headcoum grading the hamburger, fries and soft drink. graduate stu- papers and Dubow said. "We lake them on an In textbooks them aren't." Smith said. "But age nmeni preparing quizzes. individual basis and follow them When University students pay has nothing to do with it. It's all dents to teach only the ruiyVssociATED PRESS tuition each semester, they expect to about their knowledge and level of lab sessions. However, in "It gives them some very closely." receive everything they are entitled maturity." the psychology depart- experience, but it's not Smith said that he has only OKLAHOMA CITY — Science to, including a quality education Graduate students in the Biologi- ment, graduate stu- necessarily hands-on receives one or two complaint- a books used in Oklahoma public from the best possible professors. dents can eventually with the students." semester about ineffective graduate cal Sciences department undergo a become responsible f=^ Dubow said. schools would be required to But many students are sitting rigorous process — before they ever student teachers. acknowledge "that human life was through classes that aren't taught by for a typical lec- By the fourth face a classroom of college students. ture-type class. "Anybody who has a problem created by one God of the universe" college professors. They are being The biological sciences department year, they can be with a GA can lake several avenues under legislation passed Wednesday taught by graduate assistants — stu- employed 74 graduate students last "Graduate stu- responsible for to get the problem resolved." Smith by the Oklahoma House of Repre- dents who are pursuing their master's semester — second only to the psy- dents are not small sections of sentatives. assigned to teach introductory cours- said. "You can go see the course or doctoral degree and teaching on chology department with 76. instructor or come directly to me. The House addressed the issue of the side. Many of them are only a courses at all during es, including writ- "In our department, we look at their first year." said ing their own syl- We hope to get whatever problem creationism in an amendment to a few years older than the students they their undergraduate transcripts, GPA there is solved quickly and early on." bill dealing with the embattled State are teaching. Eric Dubow. graduate labus and selecting and their graduate exam scores," coordinator for the their own textbooks. Textbook Committee, which last Is the quality of graduate student Smith said. "We look seriously at Sharp said that he is only mildly year ordered biology books to carry department of Smith is concerned with having an instructor teaching on the same level as profes- their references, too. It's a whole Psychology. ,, a disclaimer about the teaching of package of things." J.2* pleased with only a year or two older than he is. sional teaching? Or are students' "It isn't until p, Q how the biolo- evolution that described it as a "con- educations suffering from the Making it through the initial their third or "** O "I think you have to take it on a troversial theory." l absence of a professor in the class- screening, though, doesn't always fourth year ** "*"« -*"- —incn, insKs case by case basis and look at each The disclaimers were scrapped room? ensure a teaching job for a grad stu- that they reach the their graduate students. teacher individually." he said. "But I after Attorney General Drew "Nearly half of the teachers I've dent. They are expected to attend and point where they are capable of being did think it was funny that this Edmondson said the committee has had have been GAs," Jeff Sharp, critique teaching seminars. effective teachers." "We think we do a pretty decent semester I'm enrolled in the same no authority to require them. job of teaching them." he said. "We class with a GA that taught me last junior history major, said. "I've had "They learn from the critiques Dubow explained that in their first also have faeultv members who men- But House members approved an some that were wonderful and some because they point out things that are semesier." amendment that says "the commit- tee shall ensure" that science text- books it approves for use in public schools "include acknowledgment $20,000 granted for that human life was created by one God of the universe." The House went a step further welfare research when it passed another amendment TODD NILEY reported that TANF has potentially that gives the committee "authority STAFF WRITER alarming implications for the well- to insert a one-page summary, opin- being of infanta, toddlen and their ion or disclaimer into any textbook Welfare recipients with young chil- families.