Monday, March 16, 1987
Daily Nebraskan
Despite large freshman lectures,
budget cuts, law dean optimistic
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"Without research assistants, stu
dents are not able to work closely with
faculty members, gain research skills
that will be helpful to learn, and learn
something on a specific area," Potuto
said.
Nevertheless, Thorson said he has
"positive feelings about the college,
and it's a good place to work. There's a
lot of support for what we want to do.
Everything is positive except for state
support."
Because of the cuts, freshmen are
subjected to combined lecture sec
tions of up to 150 students.
"Law schools try to stimulate dis
cussion in class," Potuto said. "After
all we are training future lawyers; in
larger classes it's a lot harder to do."
The 23-member full-time faculty out
grew the city campus location and
moved to East Campus in 1975. At the
old location in the city campus former
law building Perlman said it was impos
sible to continue a first-class program.
A first-class program, Perlman said,
includes faculty members who are ac
tively involved in scholarship and care
about good teaching, and a curriculum
that is balanced between theoretical
and practical instruction. The new Col
lege of Law building has space for clin
ical programs, for continuing legal
education programs and for conduct
ing real court situations, he said. The
Nebraska State Supreme Court holds
session in the building once ayear. U.S.
District Court Judge Warren Urbom
conducts court at his discretion.
Although its location distances it
from the activity and community of city
campus, Perlman said the Law College
offers diverse interdisciplinary pro
grams. "We have the first and most active
joint-degree program in law and psych
ology in the country," he said. The pro
gram is nationally recognized and ranks
with programs at Stanford and the Uni
versity of Virginia.
Perlman said that the psychology
and law faculty interact; psychology
professors teach law courses, and law
professors teach in the psychology
department.
Other joint-degree programs are of
fered with the Teachers College, bus
iness college, and the College of Agri
culture. The architecture college, den
tistry college and College of Journalism
are being considered for joint programs.
"This permits our students and oth
ers to take advantage of courses offered
throughout the university for law credit,"
Perlman said. In the case of psychology
and law "It permits students to simul
taneously get a doctorate in psychology
and a professional law degree and
allows it to happen in a shorter period
of time."
Perlman said there is a miscon
ception that students always become
lawyers. A wide range of opportunities
accompany a law degree, he said. Sixty
percent of the graduates enter private
practice, and some enter business man
agement, government, teaching and
journalism, he said. Most graduates
take a bar exam, he said, and last
spring all who took the Nebraska bar
exam passed it.
Perlman said that graduates-compete
well in the Nebraska job market
and out of the state. About 60 percent
stay in Nebraska and 90 percent are
placed within six months of graduation.
"We've seen a cycle in which gradu
ates of this law school will be working
in firms in Dallas, Texas and Phoenix,
Ariz.," Perlman said. "Those firms are
now coming up to interview on a regu
lar basis."
Several students said that overall,
they are pleased with the college but
find it hard to understand the state's
motives in cutting the budget.
"It's difficult to appreciate the posi
tion the state's taking," Cruise said. "I
don't see how we're going to benefit by
reducing the part of the budget con
cerned with education. They should in
crease it. I'm willing to pay my part of
the tax burden to support education.
People are really being short-sighted."
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Commission focuses on election costs
By Shawn Schuldies
Staff Reporter
The electoral commission permitted
a compromise between the AIM and
Unite parties on run-off election ex
penses and decided to send informa
tion to the deans of three colleges
about invalid voting for student advi
sory positions in a Sunday afternoon
meeting.
AIM will not have to claim a $285 bus
banner and buttons left-over from the
general elections in its account of run
off expenses. Unite will not have to
claim T-shirts and left-over buttons of
approximately the same value. Both
parties would have gone over the $100
limit for the run-off election if they had
to claim the items as expenses. AIM
members agreed to let the Unite T-
shirts be exempt if they could keep the
bus banner.
Dan Hofmeister, current first vice
president of ASUN, said it would be
difficult to enforce a ruling against the
buttons.
"The party members can't get a hold
of every supporter and prevent them
from wearing the buttons," Hofmeister
said.
Old posters in private rooms in the
residence halls, fraternities and sorori
ties also will be exempt because the
party members can't control whether
or not the people keep them up. Pos
ters in public places will have to be
accounted for.
The commission also decided to for
ward information advising the deans of
agriculture, journalism and home eco
nomics of violations in advisory board
elections.
Students are supposed to vote, for
advisory board members only in their
majors but many voted in all depart
ments of their colleges, said Marlene
Beyke, ASUN executive director. Sev
eral ideas Sot preventing such illegal
voting in the future came up in the
meeting, including having each school
hold separate elections for the advisory
board positions and putting the in
structions in bold lettering on the bal
lot and on signs in the booths remind
ing students to vote for candidates in
their departments only.
The commission will certify the
advisors as election winners on the
basis of only the valid ballots. The
commission also will review a com
plaint against Unite campaign spend
ing Tuesday afternoon.
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