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thursday, September 27, 1879
lincoln, nebraska Vol. 1 03 no. 23
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Class votes out
fflale Members
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Twd tJNL studenU Were Voted out of a women's poe
try class because they were merit according to a teacher,
a class member and one of the excluded students.
the incident Occurred Aug. 29 during art evening class
of English 253A entitled Women and Poetry taught by
Linnea Johnson.
Johnson said the women class members were surprised
that two men were taking the class. She said the decision
to Vote "arose out of the class."
However. Molly Pfeiffer, a Sophomore class member,
said that Johnson suggested the vote. Pfeiffer said that
Johrisori told the class that since it was a women's course,
the class should decide and Vote.
because the course requires the students to write and
read their own poeiris, Pfeiffer said some of the Women
felt they would be Inhibited If rtteri Were in the class. .
As a result of the Vote, Wdrdie Wright, a senior from
Lincoln, is taking the poetry class independently, which
he termed unfair as 4 paying Student. He said he will be
excluded from individual instruction and class Interaction
because he Is taking the class Independently. His grade
Will be jdetermifted Ort the poems he turns in at the end of
the &triester, he said, instead Of being graded gradually as
students Usually Are.
WitkGHt SAID THE incident is "reverse discrimina
tion.' He said he argued With the women's reasoning but
theV didn't listen,
Johnsort said the Incident Was not discriminatory, the
siittaMn was "not Wanting rrtert It is WanMni all Wdrnert ,"
she said .
John Robinson, English department chairman and
Gerry fcrookes, Vicehairrrrarti said they Were hot 'aware
bf the sltuatkm. Mh said that the fehglish department
follows UNL by4aWs Which slate B m be discrl
Vntrtateti igajrisl regardless bfYace, age or Sex:-
mrbkei aid mav Mtachir
studeM frorrt taking a class Without Violating this policy .
Wright said he agreed tb take the class independently
because he had tb accept the Vote or tirdB.tfce class, tie
said he refuses tb drop the class because HSri hbt tbirVg
tb take this lying dbWn.'V '
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by Rich Jurgens
Collective bargaining was discussed at a faculty forum
Wednesday; the" same day UNO's election bft bargaining
began. La. u
Robert Haller, UNL professor bf English and president
bf the American Association bf University Professors Said
it Was hb coincidence that a UNL faculty forUm Was
Orgarti&d on the bpening day bf UNO's election on
whether tb form a faculty union, tit said AAUP wanted
to have the meeting before any results were known
at UKO.
Hatter, said theiresutts t M6 decision bUtWhether
U Tonf a taeuity iar fnWbat)lfM1eli4 UNt
prbfesbrs tb cbnsideir the same ty pe bf program , .
- rVWUiarftithanI' temple University prbfessbr bf
mathematics and a fottnet AAUt president, spbke to the
grbup bn the way Philadelphia Tenible university's
faculty tabbr UUibrt was developed, tr ml professors
decide tb Vote bn collective bargaining, they Would
probably nlbdel it after Teruple's systenv.
V4Bbth sides approach tdUe'ct'iVe bargaining -With some
Photo by Mark Biltingsley
fear " Nathan said.
If collective bargaining is passed, the administration
and faculty should work together in forming agreements,
he said. Legal and professional help or "hirei guns" as
Nathan called them, should be kept out of negotiations,
if possible.
"Those Whb are hot living under it (collective bargain
ing) should hot be involved in decision making," he
saia.
Collective bargaining can obtain fringe benefits
for faculty v he said, but the main reason collective
bargaining was established at temple was for salary
increases
He safe the stories at temple now range Mm 3 ,500
for an instructor per academic year to $30,000 for a full
prbfessbr.
As for benefits in collective bargaining for students,
Nathan said he hasn't yet seen any effects.
Nathan said temple has a 67 percent membership in its
AAUP chapter and that most of the remaining faculty,
was too cheap to pay their dues, and yet get the benefits
anyway."
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Gmd instructor studies
body language of jurors
by Val Swirttort
When jury selection begins in the Erwin
Charles Sirttants murder trial in Lincoln,
UNL graduate student and instructor DaVid
Suggs Will-sit with the defense attorneys.
As prospective jurors are questioned,
Suggs Will watch their eyes, their facial
Kpre$siOri$v the way they sit and the way
they hold their hands. Suggs said he may
learn more from those observations than
frbm the answers bf prospective jurors.
SuS is an expert In kinetics-body
tartguage-and parHnguistics, pitch, tone
nd the inflection xrt speech, these traits,
Suggs said, reXfeal peopled true feeling
more What they say.
Suggs thinks kinetics and paralinguistics
are Valuable in jury selection because When
- Questioned about a tase, jurors donvt
always say What they mean.
Before Jury trial begins, the judge and
ihe prosecution and defense attorneys are
allowed vtO otiestion prospective jurors.
Suggs contends that it is an important "
part of the trial.
' Somehow you try to find the people
that ire good for you and bring them in
' fte f ury he explained .
Limitations in getting information out
of Jurors Ynake that easier said than done,
Suggs 'said. There are time limitations, he
. added because if questioning dra on too
long, jurors get impatient ith the attor
ney. UMITATIONS also are imposed fey the
judge who has the power to prohibit ques
. tions lift feels are legally Irrevelent.
"So you cant ask t lot tf questions
- youM like to, to get the information yoti
, want," Sust said. y -
And tven if attorneys could tslc all the
questions they want, they are not guaran
teed an honest answer. Jurors often con
form to the group , Suggs said .
the first jurors to be questioned may
set a precedent so that "people questioned
later modify their answers so they dont
appear out of the ordinary " he added.
Also, jurors may not give truthful ans
wers if those answers are socially unaccept
able, Suggs said.
So while the defense attorneys note
answers from the 500 prospective jurors
in the Simants case, Suggs will make note
of eye contact, facial cues, body posture
and hand movements.
Suggs said he begins with the baseline
rating given a potential juror. These rat
ings are based bn non-threatening ques
tions, such as famBy background, job
experience and even hobbies.
'SINCE THE QUESTIONS are non
threktening, if a person shows anxiety
or negative feelings, it Y probably going
to be because he has some negative feelings
toward the attorney as an individual
Suggs said .
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