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Separate commencement nixed
by BILL SMITHERMAN
Nobraskan Staff Writer
A proposal for a separate
Law School commencement
ceremony this June has been
nixed by University officials.
The rationale given was that
there is not ample time to
organize such a function
because of the late date of the
proposal, according to Douglas
Deitchler, chairman of the
Nebraska Law Student
Association Commencem e n t
Committee.
THE PROPOSAL, was first
p r e s e n t e d to the Universi
ty administration September
18, 1969.
Deitchler said the proposal
was discussed with Lincoln
Campus President Joseph
Soshnik and the University
commencement Commitee
during the fall. On December
29, 1969, the students were Informed-
the proposal would be
presented to the Faculty Senate
in February.
IN FEBRUARY Indications
were that action on the pro
posal would be favorable, he
said. It was recognized that the
action would involve some ex
tra administrative work if it
were approved, but the
U n iversity Commencement
Committee agreed ' that this
should not reflect on the pro
posal or its merits, Deitchler
added.
The college of law would
have handled the details in
volved in a separate com
mencement, he said.
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HOWEVER, the proposal was
not presented to the Faculty
Senate Meeting. Deitchler con
tacted the chairman of the
U n iversity Commencement
Committee to find out why.
"At this time we were in
formed that the Board of
Regents had negated the
possibility of action on our re
quest for the present year,"
Deitchler said. "We were not
informed that this was to be
brought to the attention of the
Board nor given the opportuni
ty to be present for a presen
tation." IN MID-MARCH Deitchler
wrote a letter to the Regents
through Soshnik detailing the
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reasoning behind the request
and asking for a personal ap
pearance before the Boayd. He
said he has received no reply.
Deitchler cited the im
personality of the Commence'
rnent at Pershing Auditorium
as a major reason for separate
Law College ceremonies. Th
separate ceremony would allow
for a speaker and prograr"
concerned with law as well as
personal hooding of each law
graduate.
ALTHOUGH PH.D. reci
pients are hooded at the
PershingAudito rium
ceremony, the law students,
graduating with a juris doc
torate (J.D.) are not. Deichler
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said that when the question of
hooding for Ph.D. 's and not
J.D.'s was raised to the
U n iversity Commencement
Committee the only answer
given was "tradition."
"The reason for our proposal
is not to be "clannish" or an
tisocial but rather because nf
the strong personal rela
tionships and attachments
developed by the law students
after three years of working,
studying and practically living
together," Deitchler said.
HE ADDED that the request
seems to be in line with the
feeling of the Board as " ex
pressed to him by the Ad
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mencement exercises should
have the maximum possible
meaning to the individual
graduate and his family.
"As now structured, the
commencement exercises are
totally devoid of any special
meaning to a J.D.", Deitchler
said. "We are run through just
like cattle."
The proposal has the support
of the Law, College faculty, he
said. In addition, both the
House of Delegates of the
Nebraska Bar Association ana
the Nebraska Association of
Trial Attorneys have passed
resolutions supporting the
separate commencement proposal.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1970
THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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