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December 2, 1985
Watchdog group
could be inhibitive,
professors say
By Suzanne Teten
Senior Editor
Although there is no evidence that
members of Accuracy in Academia, Inc.
are active on this campus, several UNL
professors say such a group could be
detrimental to academic freedom in
the United States.
Accuracy in Academia, a Washington-based
watchdog group, encourages
students to monitor professors' lec
tures for liberal biases and report them
to the organization. AIA then asks pro
fessors to acknowledge that they made
the reported statements and publishes
them.
Philip Dyer, UNL political science
professor, said he thinks the group's
intentions may be acceptable, but it
"inhibits the free running of the
classroom."
"I think there's always a possibility
of spies in a classroom inhibiting pro
fessors," Dyer said.
He said much of what professors
teach is subjective. As long as a partic
ular viewpoint doesn't become the
focus of the class, he said, professors
should be free to speak their views.
"I study a field and make a judg
ment about it," Dyer said. "Most of
what we deal with is subjective. You
spend 20 years studying a field it's
your wisdom about a field that you're
paying for."
Dyer teaches a course in nuclear
weapons. He said he tells the class that
he is against nuclear weapons. But he
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said he doesn't make that opinion the
focus of the class.
"There's very little that's objectively
true that's interesting," Dyer said.
Dyer said he deliberately takes
"pretty extreme positions" on contro
versial issues to "stimulate a little
mental turbulence."
"The alternative is sleeping," he
said.
Fred Luebke, professor of history
and director of the Center for Great
Plains Studies, said he thinks a profes
sor should have the freedom to "teach
the truth as he or she sees it."
Luebke said AIA will create a prob
lem because it identifies professors
who teach things the group disagrees
with.
"That's not democracy; that's fas
cism," he said.
He said students shouldn't cooper
ate with the group-because it would
end academic freedom and freedom of
speech. Students who cooperate with
the group "are being duped," Luebke
said.
Nels Forde, professor of history, said
AIA is "subversive."
He said a group outside the univer
sity could not make a fair assessment
of a professor's performance based on
reports from a few students.
Forde said he is very conservative so
he is "more accurately aware of liberal
biases" in some classrooms. But he
said AIA should be impartial and not
focus only against liberal viewpoints.
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Non-law students are urged
not to study at Law Library
By Janis Lovitt
Staff Reporter
A sign at the entrance to the Law
Library on East Campus greets stu
dents in the following way:
"STOP. Do NOT come into
this library unless you are a law
student or need to use the legal
collection. The law library is not
a study halL Study hall space is
provided in Rms. 125126."
With finals week fast approaching,
UNL students probably will be spend
ing a lot of hours in the campus librar
ies. The Law Library, however, only can
be used by law students or those using
the law materials, said Ruth Withers
poon, assistant dean of the College of
Law.
Witherspoon said the Law Library
must provide adequate study space in
ratio to the number of UNL law stu
dents. This rule, a factor considered for
accreditation in the American Bar
Association, is enforced by the ABA.
Most law colleges are members of
the ABA, Witherspoon said. As a result,
their libraries also must have proper
study space, she said.
Because of this rule, Witherspoon
said the Law Library posts signs asking
that only people using law materials
study at the library.
Although the rule has been in effect
a long time, the sign in the entrance of
the library recently was installed to
help enforce it, said Allen Ericson,
Student Bar Association president.
Sally Wise, law librarian and asso
ciate professor of law, said the librar
ians usually do not enforce the rule.
"We prefer to think that it is self
enforcing," she said. "We dont have a
bouncer at the door."
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Wise said the Law Library has not
had many problems enforcing the rule
in the past. If more problems occur,
other tactics will have to be used, she
said.
Wise said she realizes many stu
dents set law books at their desks and
pretend to be using them in order to
study in the library. She said the librar
ians usually can recognize these stu
dents by the way they use the books.
'We prefer to think
that it is self-enforcing.
We don't have a
bouncer at the door.'
Sally Wise, law
librarian and associate
professor of law
"Law students will usually use the
law materials a lot," she said. "They
will often have many law textbooks
with them. If someone is using a calcu
lator, that is a pretty good indication
that the person is not a law student."
One way librarians avoid these prob
lems is to provide separate study areas
for the students who are not using the
law materials.
Ericson said the policy is not meant
to discriminate against undergraduate
students, but to ensure that law stu
dents have priority to use the legal
materials. The undergraduates, he
said, "have their own study rooms in
125 and 126 or they can study down
stairs in the lounge."
There are signs indicating the loca
tion of these areas on the front doors
and on the main floor, Wise said. The
library has many classrooms that are
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available for study areas, she said.
Wise said the Law Library is appeal
ing to many students because it is
quiet.
Wise said other students may need
to use the law materials. These stu
dents often don't know how to use the
library, she said.
The Law Library has reference
librarians and offers tours to help
familiarize students with the library,
Wise said.
Wise said the library might become
crowded in the next few weeks because
of finals. She said she does not antici
pate any problems with other students,
but said the librarians will have to
make sure there is proper space for the
law students.
"We're not into kicking people out,"
she said. "We just want them to use the
other study areas."
SiegBrauer, a third year law student
said the policy is needed because of
the law library's limited space. He said
the library was crowded last fall but
cramped conditions have slacked off
more recently.
Undergraduates tend to study in the
law school lounge and library during
the beginning of the week, said Susan
Spahn, a junior law student. This
crowds out the law students who have
no other .quiet place to work, she said.
Also, non-law students leave garbage
lying around the library and generally
don't treat the place like the law stu
dents, Spahn said.
Wise said the Law Library will be
open for the next few weeks of the
semester from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 a.m.,
Monday through Friday, 8 am. to 12:30
a.m. Saturdays and 10 a.m. to 12:30 a.m.
Sundays. The Law Library will close at
10 p.m. on Dec. 19, she said.
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