PAGE scarTHE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1953 . WON'T BE HUMAN FOSSIL:- -'U'Geologist Values Humor By FRAN 'SHELDON 'What I can't figure out is why anyone would want to read about me-my life has been pretty quiet." Enter Art Walker, '55. "Hey Art, come on in. Want to bust out into a little singing?" They sing. A . * PROF. RUSSELL C. Hussey of the geology department regards his life as so ordinary that he can see no reason why "anybody on campus would be interested." Prof. Hussey who studied music and nearly majored in English poetry during his un- dergraduate days at the Uni- versity wants to organize the "Geology 65 Barbershop Quar- tet" to perform on the last day of classes "to send everyone off with a good taste in their mouths." The Ohio-born geologist spent his youth in Canyon City, Colo- rado, and it was then that'he ac- quired his love for the out-of- doors. * * * QUICK TO point out that he Nas "never a professional cow- boy," "Doc" Hussey claims that this phase of his life provided the background for his whole philos- ophy. "I like a sense of humor and a little horseplay once in a while," he explained. "If I ever lost my sense of humor I don't know what I'd do. In my job I work enough with fossils with- out being one myself. "Actually, I never could be a stuffed shirt. I guess I've knocked around the out-of-doors too much and associated with too many cowboys and prospectors. REACHING for a prospector's pan filled with rocks that "don't have a particle of gold in any of them," Hussey began to reminisce about his 1915 trip through Cali- fornia with a friend, Emmet Pen- dleton. They toured the state giv- ing musical programs. "Pendleton played the piano, and I sang baritone," he said. "By gosh, I love to sing, though. I guess when you get right down to it, I've done a lot of things. Had a grand time too. We sang this-you know it, Art. Come on."' Interrupting himself in the mid- dle of "Out of the Night That Covers Me," Hussey expained that he wanted "to get Art here in on1 Haugen Talks On Language With a little effort, people in the three Scandinavian countries can understand each other's languages,' Prof. Einar Haugen of the Uni- versity of Wisconsin's Scandinavi- an language department told a meeting of the Linguistics Club1 yesterday. Prof. Haugen attributed .simi- larity of the languages to the fact that all three countries had at one time been under the rule of the others. Butt Views Difficulties lin Pakistan Education and the learning of the English language are the greatest problems in Pakistan to- day, Shamsuddin Butt, Grad., a native of Pakistan, said yesterday. Butt was guest lecturer at the Speech Assembly in place of Rep. Kit Clardy (R-Mich.) who was de- tained in Washington. He noted that misconceptions people from his country have about America are caused chiefly by Hollywood movies which por- tray all Americans as "nightclub patrons, cowboys and bank-break- ers" But Americans have misconcep- tions about Pakistan too, the grad- uate student explained. He said that Communist influence is weak in the recently independent coun- try despite a low standard of liv- ing. There is a heavy drain on the country's meager resources by a class of people who "live on noth- ing but charity," he added. Butt pointed out that funda- mentally Americans and Pakistan- ians are alike. Differences result, he said, from the scientific bent of mind in Americans, freedom of personality development in America and lack of devotion to duty in Pakistan which hinders in- dustrial progress in that country. Scott Speaks On AsiaPolicy The United States has a "tre- mendous security stake" in south- east Asian countries such as Bur- ma which have relatively new gov- ernments, Prof. Frank Scott of the McGill University Law School said yesterday. He said that although the Bur- mese government was relatively stable, proximity to Communist China and the presence of insur- gents within the country's borders forced her to follow a neutral for- eign policy even though she is democratically inclined. The meeting was sponsored by the economics and political science departments. liichigan Golfers Drop Op ening Home Contest * * * * *' s .4 --Daily-Don Campbell PROF. RUSSELL C. HUSSEY ..geology 65 barbershopper * * * ' * * * this quartet, but he has too many other things to do." "IT'S EASY for extra-curricular activities to absorb too much of the student's time," he pointed out. "Activities are fine, but you are here for an education-at least you're supposed to be. "I was in the second Union Op- era, and I sang with the Choral Union. Actually, I did a lot of singing, but that's the only kind of activity I can remember. Play- ed a little ball on campus too." * * * PROF. HUSSEY, who will re- tire in four years, plans to do a "lot of traveling" with his wife. He wants to "go back to southern France to take another look at, the old caves. "There were caveman fossils there, and I'm very much in- terested in them." He also expects to return to Colorado, and to continue his present work at Escanaba on the geologic history of Michigan. * * * IN LINE with his theory that "students should be taught, with proper guidance, to think for' themselves," Prof. Hussey, in his two geology courses, tries not to inflict his own opinions on the student. "I merely present the facts, and if a student doesn't think they are convincing, that's up to him." He is pleased with the large en- rollment in his course in evolution' because many people misunder- stand the term, he said. HE CLAIMS that there is "too much 'wet-nursing' in college to-{ lay" and feels that if a person can't think while he is at the Uni- versity, he will never learn. Although he is author of sev- eral books, Prof. Hussey is proudest of his 3,000 slides which he made himself as a hobby. He colored most of them by hand with a camel hair brush and. Japanese watercol- ors. It is these slides that make both of his courses worthwhile, accord- ing to the professor. "Without them the subject of geology would be dead. We have no geology here in the Midwest." Hussey explains that he was "just passing through on the way to Colorado after the first world war" when he was offered a job at the University. "Thought it over a couple of days and decided to take it. Never did make it back to the West to live," he concluded. He dug into a drawer and came up with some papers. 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