friday, October 2, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 7
Board member selected
The third member to the State Student Association
board of directors and 18 Academic Commission members
were appointed by the ASUN Senate Wednesday.
Ben Barrett, a senior majoring in agricultural econo
mics from Harrisburg, Neb., was the final appointment to
the SSA board of directors, joining ASUN President Rick
Mockler and Nette Nelson of the Government Liaison
Committee, appointed to the board Sept. 9.
Members appointed to the Academic Commission are
Jan Bartholet, Maureen McQuinn, Cheryl Loseke, Bruce
Billesbach, Calvin Hansen, John O'Holleran, Jeanne
Burke, Dewayne UUsperger, Cindy Scobie, Kris Kiekhae
fer, Dan Barry, Laura Hein, Sharon Lingren, Jennifer
Jacks, Barb Seckman, Sheri Sellgren, George Ludvik and
Sanjay Bansal.
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Law admission test changed
By Tom Shelton
The Law School Admission Test has been changed
because of new legislation regulating post-secondary
admission testing programs.
' The writing ability test and math test were elimina
ted. Alan H. Frank, associate dean of the Law College,
said the writing test elimination is an improvement.
The writing test tested grammar, he said. Now writing
ability is examined in the applicants' answers and is not
graded separately.
"The essays are a better indication of one's ability
to write," Frank said.
Coachability, as defined by the Law School Admis
sion Bulletin, is the use of artificial or short-term learn
ing to improve test performance. The bulletin said
questions considered for the new version of the LSAT
were examined for potential coachability. It said that
only those types of questions for which success in
coaching had been judged to be low were selected.
The LSAT is designed to measure certain mental
abilities important in the study of law and to aid law
schools in assessing the academic potential of their ap
plicants, the bulletin said.
Frank said the questions on the test are designed to
test logic and reasoning ability. He said the test has
been improved by replacing bad questions with better
ones. He said he can't tell whether the new version of
the test will be more difficult until the test is used.
The new version of the LSAT is scheduled to be ad
ministered for the first time in June 1982. It will have
six 35-minute sections, two of which will be equating
or pretest sections that will not contribute to an exami
nee's score.
The four scored sections will include four different
types of questions, and these four sections will contain
between 110-120 questions, Frank said.
Also planned is a 20-30 minute writing sample or
exercise. The writing sample will not be scored. A copy
of the examinee's written work will be sent to each law
school to which an LSAT report is sent for the examinee.
Union Plaza provides forum
By Tom Shelton
A student, walking to
ward the Nebraska Union,
notices someone speaking
into a microphone. The
words the student hears
have nothing to do with any
curriculum with which he is
familiar, but instead tell of
redemption and hell fire.
The bewildered student
notices many other students
are also looking at each
other in wonderment. How
do groups get permission to
give presentations on the
Union Plaza?
"The plaza area is basi
cally public so anybody can
come and speak as long as
they don't harass people
and break the laws,' said
Ennio Quevedo, activities
coordinator of Campus Ac
tivities and Programs. "Pre
sentations must not disrupt
regularly scheduled classes
through the use of ampli
fied sound or other means.'
Student organizations are
advised to get permission
before they appear at the
plaza, but Quevedo said in
dividuals need no permission.
Both groups and indivi
duals must follow rules list
ed on the UNL Policies and
Procedures Handbook speci
fying correct behavior on
the plaza, Quevedo . said.
Student organizations are
allowed to check out sound
equipment owned by the
union for their presenta
tions, he said. Student or
ganizations need to apply at
the CAP office, in room 200
of the union.
Quevedo said the student
organizations are helped to
set up their programs the
right way;
"We help them with their
events and see they come
out okay with as little red
tape as possible, he said.
Students cannot appear
on two consecutive days or
for more than three days a
week. Concerts cannot be
gin before 3 p.m., he said.
to disrupt classes. In addi
tion, Quevedo said that to
his knowledge, the plaza
was placed by the union in
1968 with one of its purpo
ses being to give students an
opportunity to implement a
form of public forum.
Groups appearing at the
union plaza are frequently
monitored and if they be
come too loud, they are
told to be quiet, Quevedo
said. If groups become hos
tile or disruptive, he said,
they may be asked to leave
or may be removed by UNL
police.
Quevedo said a presenta
tion by one group does not
mean another may not ap
pear at the same time. He
said it was perfectly accept
able for groups with oppo
sing viewpoints to give pre
sentations. However, appro
priate action will be taken if
too many groups appear at
the same time and create
a disturbance, Quevedo said.
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