Perlman: 'Centennial,
by H. J. Cummins
The law college library has
almost as many rows of lights,
on thfe ceiling as study tables
on the floor. Grayish book
shelves with look-alike volumes
of legal texts surround the
tables. Signs advising,
'Consideration means
Deaf speaker
is problem of
by Steve Kadel
If you're going to lose your
hearing, the age of 15 is the
best time to do so, George
Propp told an audience of 50
at the "Mini-Symposium" on
the world of the deaf Friday.
Propp, himself deaf from 15,
said at that age a child is strong
but still flexible enough to
adapt himself to the new
condition.
PROPP LOST HIS hearing
while a sophomore at
Scottsbluff High School, and
transferred to the Nebraska
School for the Deaf, from
which he was graduated.
"Losing your hearing isn't as
much of a shock as most
people think" he said. "As
time goes on you gradually get
used to it."
He spoke verbally and with
sign language to his audience,
which contained many deaf
persons.
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speech how much money I
would pay to get my hearing
back," Propp said, "and I don't
think the amount would be
very high-if it came down to
getting a new car or having my
hearing I would probably take
the new car."
WHILE AT THE School for
the Deaf Propp received
individualized instruction, an
experience that he said shaped
his attitude toward education.
"I am strongly in favor of
the kind of individualized
learning that takes place in
open classrooms," he said. "I
think it's good that students
are allowed to study what they
want to learn"
He mentioned reading as the
most useful learning skill a deaf
person can acquire.
Propp said he soon learned
that lip reading was a skill he
would never master, and that it
took him two years to learn
sign language.
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Law Colleges are much alike'
might use Socrates' term
"external trappings" to dismiss
the dissimilarities. The colleges
are "closer than they look," he
said.
Harvey Perlman said he
believes "legal education has
been doing for a long time
what Centennial is trying to do
now."
more trouble acquiring sign
language after he has learned
regular language than if he was
born deaf," Propp said.
In a sense, a deaf person has
a better chance to grow than a
normal person does, he said.
This is because there are so few
deaf people that any singular
skills one possesses can quickly
elevate him upward in the
hierarchy of organizations for
the deaf.
'Meet the Profs' show
hits the road again
The UNL "Meet the
Professor" speaking program is
being reactivated after several
years of inactivity.
According to Asst. Director
of Public Relations Ken Keller,
the program is designed to
introduce faculty members to
outstate Nebraskans. '
The 16 faculty members
who have made themselves
available for the program will
speak to civic organizations in
the state, said the director.
Keller said a similar program
was in effect at UNL in the late
fifties and ended after 1965
when student enrollment
increased tremendously.
Faculty personnel were faced
with larger classes and couldn't
make themselves available for
the program as they had
previously, he said.
The director said the
program was not revived
because any great amount of
hostility was being felt from
the public. He said President D.
B. Varner, Chancellor C.Peter
Magrath and the faculty liaison
committee reactivated it
because they felt the
University should follow up its
responsibility of sharing
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allowed CEP to hire a part-time
lawyer to lead a legal project
for the CEP students who wish
to take it, and to spend half his
day in Centennial College,
available to students as a
"research person," Perlman
said.
He said the two-year project
has placed him in CEP this
semester, and Wallace Rudolph,
another professor of law, there
next semester.
Perlman said he sees the two
educational programs-law and
CEP-similar in three basic
ways: they are both
"communities" in themselves,
they are limited in the number
they can accept, and they are
both' "an attempt to get
faculty and students on as even
a plane as possible."
The CEP project is "an
opportunity to experiment
with whether law can
successfully be taught to
undergraduates," Perlman said,
adding, "And so far, I think it
faculty talent
the state.
The public
said UNL's
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suggested that
a student and a
faculty member go together to
these functions. According to
Keller, most civic groups only
have about 20 minutes for a
speaker to talk and to answer
questions and it is impractical
to have two speakers.
The director said civic
groups are sent a list of the
speakers available to them and
his areas of interest. Many
speeches have already been
made throughout the state, he
said.
The first speaker was Dr.
John Brasch who spoke to a
Grand Island club about
marketing. "I felt the program
went over well," Keller said.
The League of
Human Dignity, a group of
handicapped and other
interested persons will meet
Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the
Lincoln Center, 1 5th and N in
the first floor auditorium.
Everyone is welcome.
Transportation will be
provided by calling 475-4961
Ext. 58.
A Walk for Development
meeting to research past and
possible future projects and to
organize for another walk will
be held Tuesday Nov. 2 at 8:30
p.m. in the Nebraska Union.
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"Neither Wallace nor I
intend to train lawyers over
there," he continued. He said
he sees the project, rather, as
trying to return law to
undergraduate education.
Perlman said of
undergraduates, "You can't
really claim to have a liberal
arts education without
confronting the (legal)
problem."
Political science and other
subjects confront law
"tangentially," and that's
important, Pearlman said, but
they never "focus" on it.
The real legal view is left out
of undergraduate studies, as
evidenced by the exclusion of
lawyers in new interdisciplin
ary courses, the NU Law
College graduate said.
Students attempt,
theoretically, to study the
"phenomenon of their
society," Perlman said, so they
can know what's going on and
be able to participate in daily
activities.
"And the most pervasive
phenomenon of all is
law," Perlman said.
He added he hopes the
course will be offered to all
undergraduates although he's
opposed to requiring it, or any
course, since he's "never felt
comfortable teaching a course
if the students don't want to
be there."
Partially, "I hope the CEP
project will take the mystery
out of law," Perlman said. He
explained he and Rudolph
want to teach law on a "broad,
philosophical level-explaing
the role of law in a society, its
limitations, where it comes
from, and what you can what
you can reasonably expect the
law to do for you."
Citizens daily find
themselves in administrative
positions in their jobs, or
organizations they're involved
in, Perlman said. He said he
believes it's important for them
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The University Health
Center will sponsor an
educational program on
"Growth and Development of
Children" on Thursday,
November 4 from 7:30 to 9:30
p.m. at the General Arnold
Auditorium, 5300 West Knight
Drive, Lincoln Airpark West.
Dr. Paul Bancroft will be the
guest speaker and the emphasis
for this session will be on
"Infants and Toddlers". Any
interested individuals are
invited to attend.
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THE DAILY NEB RASKAN
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1971
