Wednesday, november 1, 1978
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daily nebraskan
Proposal rejected; would shorten law students' days
By Randy Essex
A proposal by UNL freshman law students that would
have rescheduled their second semester classes to allow
better use of time has been rejected, apparently because
of limited faculty opposition.
The proposal, drafted by officers of the class, would
have shortened students' days and allowed more study
time, according to Mark Williams, Student Bar Association
representative for the freshman class.
But Carl Circo, assistant dean of the law college, said
it is questionable whether days should be shortened. He
said it is policy to provide a full day's learning experience
for law students.
Williams charged that a full day is not provided on
Monday and Friday under the present schedule. He said
there essentially are only two classes on Monday, and half
of the freshmen have only two classes on Friday. Classes
end at 3 p.m. on Mondays and 2 p.m. Fridays, officially.
Ineffective days
"What the present schedule results in is ineffective use
of daytime," Williams charged. He said students are given
an hour between classes to prepare for their next class.
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Williams said the hour given students is too short a
time to study new material and too long a time for review.
He said the student proposal scheduled "a couple" of
classes back-to-back in an effort to establish longer blocks
of study time.
Under the present schedule students are "stuck with
coming back in the evening," Williams said. He said the
schedule makes it difficult for students to hold jobs.
But, Circo said the college does not want freshmen stu
dents to work because working is detrimental to the
program.
"We try to discourage freshmen from working in
everything we do, ' Circo said.
Must work
Williams said many students . must work to pay for
school.
The student proposal "didn't do what the students
wanted it to," according to faculty member Lawrence
Berger. He said two or three hour study blocks were not
established under the proposals, as the students intended.
Berger also said he saw no particular advantages in the
proposal, and he preferred the present schedule.
Circo said in a memo to freshmen students that serious
questions had been raised concerning the time faculty
members were given to prepare for classes.
Williams said he thought Circo went along with faculty
preferences to avoid controversy. He said "underground
grumbling" among certain faculty members may have led
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to Circo's decision.
Would have said no
Circo said if he wanted to avoid controversy he would
have said no to the first schedule changes, but he would
not name the professor.
Circo was very helpful, concerned and made all types
of efforts to compromise between student preferences
and faculty wishes, Williams added.
Faculty member John Snowden said he saw no
particular advantage or disadvantage in the proposal.
Snowden said he went along with the proposal because
he believes students are the ones to be served.
"If it made a big difference to them, it was OK by
me, ' Snowden said.
The proposal was drafted after a poll of the freshman
class showed nearly unanimous approval of more study
time during the day, Williams said.
Explanation of war
sought by committee
By Sara Martens
A student petitionand campus interest have resulted in
the search for a speaker to present a perspective of the
Vietnam war that would balance the presentation by
General William Westmoreland on October 13.
Students for Facts about Vietnam have collected 350
signatures on a petition which asks the Avery Lectureship
Series, the Convocations Committee of the UNL faculty
Senate and the Talks and Topics committee to sponsor
the speaker, according to Bruce Erlich, faculty sponsor
the organization.
"We are asking someone to respond to the question of
the war, and the meaning of Vietnam in the context of
ongoing foreign policy," he said.
Suggested speakers include Professor Noam Chomsky
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor
Richard Falk of Princeton University and Daniel Ellsberg,
who released the Pentagon Papers.
Talks and Topics and the Students for Facts about
Vietnam have tried to contact Ellsberg and Chomsky but
have not talked to either speaker or their agents, said J. B.
Milliken, chairman of the committee.
Ellsberg and Chomsky were being considered by the
Talks and Topics committee prior to the petition, said
Rocky Yapp, a member of the committee.
The committee is interested in another speaker not as a
rebuttal to Westmoreland but in an attempt to present a
balanced speaker program and because of student interest,
Milliken said .
No funds have been collected for the speaker, but
Talks and Topics is looking for support from the Nebras
kans for Peace, the Residence Hall Association, Innocents
and various campus academic departments, Yapp said.
Erlich said funds may also be available from the Convo
cations Committee of the Faculty Senate. Funds for West
moreland's visit were provided by the Avery Lectureship
series, which is controlled by the senate, he said.
The Convocations Committee will consider the request
after receiving an application for support, said Bruce
Johnson, chairman of the committee.
The application will be considered on its general inter
est to the students, he said.
Erlich said the application will be filed after there is a
definite commitment from a speaker.
"Our chances of getting one of these speakers is good,"
Yapp said. "We would like to present this speaker before
semester break or even before Thanksgiving to capatalize
on the interest created by Westmoreland."
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