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Vacation plans: catching up on sleep, work, tun
By Kathy Sjulin favorite skiing spots, according to students
planning to take time from their studies
Skiing, studying, sleeping and working and jobs for outdoor recreation,
are the most important items on the
agenda for 30 UNL students and professors Julie Naaf, 20, a sophomore majoring in
when asked about their plans for spring , speech pathology, said she and some
break. friends plan to ski at Winter Park during
Many of the students said they plan to vacation,
use spring break as a "catch up time' for For many students and professors, how-
their long neglected studies. ever, spring break won't be different from
Tim Rinne, a graduate student in a normal school week. Seven students said
English and an ASUN senator, said he plans they plan to work full time during break,
to "do all of the studying I haven't done Several said their jobs in Lincoln prevent
now' during vacation. This seems to be the them from going home to visit their
consensus among UNL students. However, parents and friends,
six said they will be skiing in Colorado
during break. , Vacation work
Winter Park, and Vail, Colo., are two Becky Larsen, 21, a senior majoring in
Spring break offers relief
for university community
By Mary Jo Pitzl
Research papers, exams and finals have
been standard elements of UNL since Day system.
One, but so, thank God, has spring break.
vacation periods for UNL, UNO, the
College of Nursing and those sections of
the Medical Center running on a semester
Where would students (and faculty) be
without that one-week vacation during
which they can catch up or fall behind in
their academic duties and get in one final
breather before the home-stretch run into
finals week?
Spring break has existed since the first v
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The guidelines state that the break will
run from Sunday to Sunday, start after the
end of the 10th week of classes and will be
followed by five full weeks of classes be
fore final exams start.
'This year the calendar is in violation of
the guidelines that were established," said
Roscoe Shields, a member of the Calendar
and Examinations Committee of the UNL
classes started in
exception.
Spring break this year falls after eleven ,
weeks of classes, and will be followed by
During World War II, spring break was four weeks, plus finals week, Shields said,
abolished, according to Shirley Thomsen, '
He added that spring break is not pur
posely tied to Easter (this year, spring
break ends on Easter Sunday).
assistant director of Registration and
Records and a 1946 NU alumna. ;
"Everything was accelerated," Thomsen
said. "They tried to end the semester
earlier so everybody could go home and get
jobs."
She said that the break vas re-established
around 1947, -
Since that time, spring break varied
The UNL campus will remain open dur
ing the 10-day vacation, according to Helen
Glover, secretary to Ronald Wright, vice
chancellor of business and finance.
No plans were discussed to close campus
operations to conserve energy, she said.
During the winter break, a two-week shut-
yearly until 1978, when the NU Board of down of university operations resulted in a
Regents adopted the University-wide Com- savings of about $100,000, according to
Calendar. The guidelines defined wngnt.
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With a laugh; he said students, faculty
and staff all need a break.
'' The University of Colorado thinks it has
found the most likely time for spring
break, March 22-30.
Steve Ready, student government co
president, said the fact that 20 to 30
groups have planned a national draft pro
test for that week indicates that is a
popular time.
Ready said student groups take informal
registrar, said is trips to the Texas Gulf and ski slopes but
nothing is organized.
Suzanne Holland, assistant to the vice
chancellor for student services, said the
University of Missouri student govern
ment is sponsoring a trip to Washington
D.C. for their spring break, March 22-31.
Holland said spring break provides an
opportunity: for, students to escape
academic and extracurricular activities.
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fashion merchandising, said she will work
at Miller and Paine during vacation. Rick
Tank, 22, a member of Delta Sigma Phi
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All 15 professors said they will use their
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sitting in my office working on a paper for
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Manv of the professors said they spend
their spring breaks doing research work
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search work, reative writing and paper year, when they are busy with classes ana
presentations. A Syeir-oM graduate student in
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history test given during the week before
break.
At least one student interviewed said he
isn't looking forward to spring break. Matt
Williams ,: an economics major, said he has
to have his wisdom teeth pulled during
vacation.
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conference in Santa Fe, N.M.
Three political science professors and
two speech communication professors said
they will spend their vacations in their
offices in Oldfather Hall.
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