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By Brenda Moskovits
Contemporary student concerns at UNL
include the high cost of education, getting
a job after graduation and finding buddies
to party with on weekends.
But 50 years ago, "the concern was to
do well and get good grades," according to
Ruth Leverton, a former UNL student and
professor for whom the new Food and Nu
trition Building on east campus will be
named.
Leverton, 70, attended UNL from 1925
1928 and returned to the campus in 1954
as a professor. She is now retired and living
in Washington, D.C., but still gives private
consultations and works for a church.
"That was the nicest thing that ever
happened to me," Leverton said, receiving
her masters degree at the University of Ari
zona and her doctorate at the University of
Chicago.
In the 1930s, the main concern was
"getting advanced education. There
weren't any jobs," she said.
"There was a strong orientation toward
being able to make your living as soon as
you got your degree," she said. "It was
very much drilled in by our parents to get a
job and be self-supporting."
Unlike today, few students extended
their education over many years.
Leverton said there were two kinds of
students in the late 1920s - those who
came from professional families and those
"sent by parents anxious that they do bet
ter than the parents had done."
Leverton said she did not remember any
great campus controversies and remember
ed things as "generally pleasant."
"The students were pretty self-centered
on their own problems, and at that time,
you didn't reach out to the rest of the
world," Leverton said.
Most areas were male-dominated when
she was getting her degree, she said. In
Food and Nutrition, having a doctorate by
age 30 posed some problems, she said.
Most women in the field were coming
back after age 40, she said, and considered
her "immature."
In retrospect, Leverton said'I honestly
have to say there are things I could have
done better," but added she would not
have changed the course of her life.
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