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VOLUME ONE
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN
MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1975
Convenience for students
Summer figure
expected up
By Lynn Roberts
Summertime find the livin'
is easy except for students
spending their summer
vacation in a classroom. But
the easy part will come later
when credits earned in
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
(UN-L) summer sessions ease a
heavy course load or lead to an
early graduation.
Last summer 13,022
students opted for spending
their time in class insteed of
pursuing more enjoyable
summer activities &nd 1975s
total is expected to exceed
that.
F. William Sesow, associate
director of summer sessions,
said, original predictions
indicated there might be a drop
in enrollment but so far figures
have indicated there will be an
increase over last year.
The number of students
attending prescssion, which
ended Friday, and enrolled for
the eight week summer session
is 623 higher than last year"
with 2,234 students enrolled
for these sessions.
Sesow said he thinks
students enrolled in UN-L
summer sessions are most
concerned about pursuing their
degrees and getting done as
soon as possible.
"W? have an academic
environment here opposed to
some other schools where
outside activities are -more
abundant and appealing,"
Sesow said.
He said there is a wide
variety of students attending
summer school including
everything from the serious
student to people who are hre
"just looking for an
experience."
He added that many
part-time graduate students
attend summer sessions and
some colleges, such as teachers
college, offer more -graduate
classes in the summer than
during the regilar school year.
"Our philosophy for
summer school is to serve the
student," Sesow said. Surveys
are conducted and student
input is considered very
important in determining the
curriculum," he added.
'Many schools start with
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vacauun pinna r
A free "Nebraska Vacation.
Primer" will be held on
Monday, at 7:30 p.m. at the
Nebraska Center for
Continuing Education, 33rd
and Holdrege Sts., in. Lincoln,'
It will ' feature Nebraska
travelotrges, discussions, and
special sessions on vacation
spots and activities in the
Cornhusker state.
. Sponsored by the UN-L
Extension Division and the
Tourism Division of the
Department of Economic
Development, the program is
designed to give information
on low-cost, close-to-home
vacations to help people cope
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inflation.
The Nebraska Vacation
Primer is open to all individuals
interested in learning more
about vacation potentials in
Nebraska.
Dates to note
Ail, students who are
enrolled in the eight-week
summer session who wish to
change their grade from
pass-fail to grades or grades to
pass fail must do so by June
13.
All applications for degrees
or certificates to be sv rc!ed at
the end of the first 5-week
summer session must be
completed by Wednesday, June
11 at the University . of
Nebraska-Lincoln. Qualified
degree applicants should apply
at the office of Registration
end Records located at
Administration Building, 203,
between a.m. and 4 p.m.
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who wants to teach classes, but
here we start with what classes
students want," Sesow said.
Summer sessions, whichr
have been held at UN-f since
1892, have changed both in
number and length over th 2
years to adapt to student
needs, Sesowsaid.
In 1973. a three week
possession and an eight week
session were added to the two
five week sessions.
Thorough studies havs been
made of reactions to the
presession and most comments
are favorable, Sesow said.
There are faculty members and
students who said they would
never do it again.
He added there are many
classes that can't be covered in
three weeks and that many
who favor the presession like it
because ttoy are "devoted
solefy to that class."
Students are limited to
taking three hours in the
presession and six hours in
each of the five week sessions
. although permission can be
obtained by college deans .to
take more.
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Summer retool students may find, a few obstructions on the
pathways to their classes.
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sy pet for slum
It is not uncommon in the smail farming communities
and the ethnic, religious neighborhoods of larger cities in
Nebraska to find mourners returning from funeral
services, to assemble again in church basements and
meeting halls for a larger meal following the burial.
This social custom is actually an important part of the
greiving process and the acceptance of a person's death
according to Bob Guthrran, professor of Public Health,
who has just completed teaching the first death and dying
course offered on the UN-L campus.
Guthmann said parts of the ritual surrounding death,
such as the post-burial meal serves their purpose by
"psychologically getting people back on the track."
"It , forces them to socialize, to be with people, to be
back among the living' he said.
Guthmann first raqu'?v;jd a couise that would study
death and dying over three years ago meeting resistance
aldng the way from administrators who did not believe
the class would appeal to students. .
Since, than the subject of death has been often
explored in print and on other campuses.
"It's now one of the hottest topics going into high
schools,'-' he said, while estimating that 100 colleges offer
courses on death and dying. . .
Guthmann 's students in the two-week workshop
included several undergraduates, public chool teachers,
university staff and graduate students who often keep the
discussion going far past the one and one half hours
allotted each day for the class. They considered topics
extending from public health laws concerning death to
grappling with the idea of a religious burial service for a -suicide
victim.
, "As we began the course there was a feeling, especially
on the part of the old?r people, that death was sacred and
that we shouldn't get! into controversy over it, he said.
' Guthmann said one student cried every day in class but
said later that the course had helped her to accept the
reality death.
"The idea is that we have to face up to death as the
culmination of life, part of an inevitable natural process,"
he said, adding that many cf the students expressed a
iced for a wider undemanding of death that is
computable with life in their evaluations of the course.
"The media demands a denial of death it Is far too
remote from our lives." he said.
For example, a child can not believe in dsath because it
is not seriously treated in the television cartoon where a
train or tank flattens an annimated hero only to find that
character jump back up again.
It is around the age of first grade that children begin to
realize what death is, usually with the death cf their pets.
"Parents should use that event as an educational
opportunity rather than quickly getting rid of the
goldfish," he said.
Research has shown that as the child enters
adolescence and then young adulthood, his fear of death
increases. Often this is because deaths among other young
people occur in accidents and in other types of violence,
Guthmann said.
"Young adults are very afraid of death-it is real to
' them but seems very far off," he said.
Guthmann said research about death is in its infant
stages, with much to be dona in the realm of a person's
conscience and desire to live or die actually prolonging life
or hastening death. This may include people who manage
to stay alive to see themselves through some task they
believe they must complete, often with jmother family
member.
"Another scary thing is that, some people nay have a
premonition of earth. Some hospitals are not allowing
some people to be taken into surgery because they feel
the person may die. They often do die, even when the
operations do not involve great risk. It's one of tKose
strange areas we can't answer," he said, stating that
research into those areas will take years.
Guthmann said his class "want through some
depression at first, while people were fighting with their
inner emotions. By the end of the class we had gotten
more into it, and they were more accepting."
Guthmann is encouraged by the responre. of the
two-week workshop and would like to see course offerings
on death and dying expanded. He is exploring:
-a one credit hour workshop to be held next summer
during the first five-week session.
a three-credit course during the regular semester '
which he hopes to offer on a trial run during the evening
course schedule.
an intensive one credit-hour mini-course to be part of
a five-credit-hour package of courses for major students in
the department of public health.
"Some of our expectations weren't fulfilled because we
did not have time we just really were introduced to the
topic," he said.
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