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December 3, 1985
Dead week called
useful, but violations
concern professors
By Linda Hartmann
Staff Reporter
Despite some concerns about dead
week violations, UNL officials say that
allowing students time to prepare for
final exams is a valuable policy.
Desmond Wheeler, UNL Faculty
Senate president, said dead week may
not be the best policy, "but there is
logic in not having exams during that
week."
Approved in 1983, the Faculty
Senate's dead week policy allows only
laboratory practical examinations,
make-up or repeat examinations and
self-paced examinations to be given
during the week before final exams.
Policy good when followed
Stanley Liberty, dean of the College
of Engineering and Technology, said he
thinks the dead week policy is good as
long as it is not heavily violated. He
said moving a test into dead week
takes up a class period, but sometimes
it's necessary.
Liberty said the week before final
exams is good for structured review. He
said he worries more about instructors
moving regular exams into dead week
than moving final exams into dead
week.
Liberty said he is not aware that the
dead week policy is being widely vio
lated. Introducing new material during
dead week violates the spirit of the
policy, he said.
Stephen Hilliard, assistant dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences, said
no finals preparation policy is perfect,
but until students feel that the dead
week policy is not working at all, it
should be followed.
Tests can be on dead week
Hilliard said instructors may move
tests into dead week only with un
animous consent of the class or with an
option for students to take an exam
either during dead week or finals week.
He said any voting on the matter should
be done by secret ballot so students
don't feel pressured to vote one way.
Hazel Anthony, dean of the College
of Home Economics, said students
should not be pressured to agree to a
Woman I&OTC officer
toes to break banders
By Michael Hooper
Staff Reporter
Carlotta Horrace says most people
expect women army officers to be sin
gle, burly, masculine women with hair
above their lips. But, as UNL's first
woman captain in the ROTC program,
she's trying to prove that wrong.
Horrace became an instructor in
charge of the ROTC recruiting office in
October.
She says she has received "a lot of
strange looks and comments" because
of her career choice.
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change in final exam dates. Dead week
policy is for the students' protection,
she said. If it is not followed, she said,
it serves no purpose and should be
abolished.
Anthony said one alternative to dead
week and finals week may be to allow
instructors to give final exams on any
day during the last two weeks of the
semester. But she said many instruc
tors would not follow their exams with
more class periods, which would cut
the semester short for some students.
Another alternative is allowing sev
eral days without classes or exams
before finals week.
Hilliard said Harvard University allows
a "reading period" of one week before
final exams. Hilliard said the concept
works well at Harvard because of the
lengthy comprehensive exams given
there. But it may not work as well at
UNL. He said only highly motivated
students would use the time to full
advantage.
Wheeler said he does not like to
introduce material on Friday of dead
week that will be on the final exam the
following Monday. In that way, he said,
a reading period would be advantageous.
Reading period is possible
Liberty said UNL's semesters are
longer than those at some universities,
so a reading period policy may be pos
sible. But he said he doesn't support
canceling classes several days before
final exam week because it would not
allow students enough time for struc
tured review with teachers.
Anthony said she prefers the dead
week policy to a reading period policy
because many students would use the
days as a vacation instead of studying.
G. G. Meisels, dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences said dead week is a
good time for review. He said doing
away with several class periods before
final exams would reduce students'
chances for reviewing with instructors.
Keeping up with materials through
out the semester is the best way to
study for final exams, Meisels said.
Allowing too much time before final
exams by having a reading period pol
icy might encourage cramming, he
said.
Before coming to UNL this year, Hor
race was stationed in West Germany
where she commanded about 175 sold
iers, some of whom called her a wimp,
she said.
"When I first gave commands (dur
ing formation), they almost had heart
attacks because they heard a female
voice," Horrace said.
However, she said, "in the seven
years I have been in the Army, I have
not met any married woman that is of
rank higher than captain."
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
More school
gives security,
higher salary
By Joe Dejka
Staff Reporter
Big bucks and job security lured
914 UNL students to earn advanced
degrees in the 1984-85 schjol year,
university officials said.
Advanced degrees translate into
higher pay scales, more opportuni
ties for specialization and greater
chances for success, several UNL
officials said.
Most master's degree recipients
studied business, education, civil
engineering, computer science,
English, human development and
family, human nutrition and food
service management and music. The
College of Business Administration
and Teachers College awarded the
most doctoral degrees.
Representatives of several UNL
colleges said they expected the
number of degrees awarded "this'
year to remain about the same as in
1984-85. UNL awarded 177 doctoral
degrees and 737 master's degrees
last year.
Salary increase
Toni Santmire, chairwoman of
the UNL educational psychology
department, said a master's degree
in counseling or school psychology
can mean a $5,000 to $10,000 increase
in salary over a bachelor's degree
and more opportunity for career
advancement.
The department awarded 74 mas
ter's degrees last year, This high
number reflects the increasing
demand for human resources coun
selors with advanced degrees,
Santmire said. She said profession
als in the field think students with
bachelor's degrees only are not
qualified.
"Advanced training is the rule,"
she said.
CM presented 105 master's de
grees, the most at UNL, in the 1934
85 school year.
Dvee Buss, CBA director of advis
ing, said most of the students earned
a master's in business administra
tion. She said the MBA is a general
ized degree designed for people
from ncn-bushess fields.
By preparing a person for a
managerial position, the program
makes the person "very market
able," Euss said.
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of the Coihga of Engineering and
Technology, said the lutisiul trend
is for an increase in students pursu-
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ties in the field.
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son said.
Frederick M. Link, chairman of
the UNL English department, said
teaching at a university requires a
doctoral degree. The master's decree
is a step toward that goal, he said.
Credit toward the advanced degree
means a higher pay scale for stu
dents who want to teach in public
schools. But, Link said, seme stu
dents pursue their studies for their
own erjcymer.t.
The UNL School of Music pres- '
er.ted 27 niter's decrees in 1834-85.
Deb Anderson, the school's grad
uate secretary, said a master's decree
in music can mean higher pay; for
porfonr,6rs, better opportunities for
getting booked into touring groups
and better opportunities to teach
above the elementary lsveL
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