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New schedule inconsiderate
Dear Editor:
The last two years have been very discouraging. Reces
sion, unemployment, escalating fuel bills and an explo
sive arms race leave many of us literally shivering in front
of our TVs. My own experience, however, has been
ironically encouraging.
Having been five diopters nearsighted, the wearing of
eye glasses was both a hindrance and a necessity. As of
February, my eyesight is 2015 - a little better than
2020. The surgical skill of Dr. Aziz Y. Anis and excellent
care received at Bryan Hospital are due my thanks, as are
Drs. Fydorov and Arrowsmith. It has been a privilege to
be Dr. Anis's second patient and Lincoln's first resident
to undergo this operation.
It was ironic, for a corn-and-beef, Republican-registered
Nebraskan like me to find that this surgery was
developed eight years ago in Moscow. It is encouraging
that, in spite of Cold war propaganda, and the continual
deployment of nuclear weapons, scientific advances can
still serve people.
We live in a potentially wonderful age, an age in which
men as far apart as Fydorov in Moscow, Arrowsmith in
Nashville and Anis in Lincoln can share ideas and learn
from each other. If political men would or could use their
awesome technologies productively, the world's future
would look much brighter.
Bruce Koehlcr,
architecture
Technology supercedes politics
Has anyone read the schedule of classes for fall 1983?
Read the academic calendar closely. The fall semester has
been delayed one week, causing finals to end on Wednes
day, Dec. 21, and graduation to be on Thursday, Dec. 22.
Most students wouldn't have noticed this until November.
Upon further investigation, one will discover that the
university is "closed" from Aug. 12 to Aug. 22, thus
causing the one-week delay.
Have the administrators of this university taken into
consideration the hardship and inconvenience that this will
impose on the students and their families, especially
graduating seniors? It appears not. The least that could
have been done would have been to inform the students
of this change, in advance. Instead the administrators try
to slip this schedule past the students. This demonstrates
the indifference that is felt toward the students.
Many students have plans for the week before
Christmas and the academic calendar of next year will
destroy those plans. Many families will miss graduation
because they can't afford the time off from work. Some
students won't have time to get home by Christmas.
Graduating seniors have made plans for work during that
week. There are several students who were planning to get
married that week. All of the plans will have to be altered
as a result of this bizarre schedule.
In encourage the student body of this campus to
attempt to restore the schedule to a more reasonable one.
ASUN must act on this issue by passing a resolution
demanding a change and by petitions distributed through
out campus. All of these measures must be done quickly
while there is still time. It is time that we remind everyone
that this is the students' campus.
I invite a response from the person(s) responsible for
making the academic calendar.
Philip R. Pombrio Jr.
senior, mechanical engineering
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All in all, 1 think things will turn out well for the
students. We should be able to get just as many of the
classes right by guessing as we would have been able to if
nothing had ever happened.
The regents would write : Wait a minute - I'm not even
going to try to speculate what's going to happen here.
They'll all be in town for the regent's meeting next week
end, but I wouldn't put it past them to come down a few
days early. Think of the situation : Twenty-four thousand
students gone, thousands of empty beds, empty buildings
and closed gymnasiums, with the regents having access to
all of those keys. You add to that the fact that a case of
Coors Light tall boys is only $8.89 at N Street, and any
tiling could happen.. Keep an eye on those police reports,
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