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December 8,1987 ____University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 87 No. 71
Class syllabi
have rules to
avoid hassles
Professors must obey rules
on Dead Week examinations
By Lee Rood
Senior Reporter
Students should remember to read
their syllabi before making any com
plaints about professors ignoring the
Dead Week policy, said Marlene
Beykc, director of development of the
Assoc ialion of S tudents of the Univer
sity of Nebraska.
Many students have legitimate
complaints about Dead Week viola
tions when they fill out complaint
forms in the AS UN office, but many
fail to read their syllabi before coming
to the office, Beykc said.
According to UNL’s Dead Week
policy at UNL, professors cannot give
tests or finals during Dead Week un
less the entire class agrees on the date
or the lest was scheduled in the sylla
bus.
Laboratory practical exams, ma
keup or repeat exams and self-paced
exams may be given during Dead
Week.
Any projects, papers and speeches
due during Dead Week must have
been assigned in writing by the end of
the eighth week of the semester.
AS UN President Andy Pollock
said there have been no complaints
filed so far this semester, but UNL’s
Dead Week policy is widely abused.
One thing AS UN can do to make
the policy more effective is encourage
students to fill out complaint forms in
the office if they know of violations
and arc upset about them, Pollock
said.
Beykc said all forms received in
the office arc looked at, but names are
taken off the forms to protect the
students.
Beykc said she received eight
forms last year — which is about the
average.
When a Dead Week complaint
form is filed in the AS UN office, the
professor is contacted to try to clear up
the problem, she said.
If the complaint isn't cleared up
with the professor, it is submitted to
the ombudsman ’ s office and, in severe
cases, to the Professional Conduct
Committee of the Faculty Senate,
Beykc said.
Donald Jensen, chairman of the
conduct committee, said the commit
tee has received no Dead Week com
plaints in recent years because the
violations usually go to the college
dean, where the problem can be
solved faster.
“We arc a court of last resort,”
Jensen said.
Mark Davia/Daily Nebraskan
Lincoln firefighters battle a fire that burned the engine and front end of Patty A. Reese’s car. Reese is a student loan
collection employee at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Electrical fire guts car engine on campus
By Jamie Pitts
Staff Reporter
This holiday season has already
cost Patty Reese about $8,000
when her car caught fire about 2:30
p.m. Monday.
Reese, a student loans and col
lection employee at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoin’s Admini
stration Building, was at work
when she got a call that her car
might be on fire.
Officer Barbara McGill of the
UNL police department, who re
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sponded to the call, saw smoke and
called the Lincoln Fire Depart
ment, the police report stated. “The
fire department arrived and extin
guished the fire which by this time
had totally engulfed the entire
engine area,” McGill stated in the
report
When Reese approached her
car, which was parked in the area
16 parking lot located north of the
union, firemen were prying open
the hood to make sure flames were
extinguished. After about five
minutes of prying, firemen opened
the hood and flames rose up from
the car. Three firemen watered
down the engine.
The cause of the fire was electri
cal, the report slated.
The front of the 1983 Oldsmo
bile was dented from an accident
Reese was in last Friday. But the
car drove Fine all weekend, it didn’t
act strange or smell funny, Reese
said.
Reese’s car was the only car
damaged from the Fire. Her car
received about $8,000 in engine
damage, the report stated.
People gathered around the
scene to find out where the smoke
was coming from.
“I’m just glad she wasn’t in the
car,” said Mona Reeves, a co
worker of Reese’s.
Ken Pischel, assistant director
of student accounts and Reeves
supervisor, was at the scene to lend
support as Reeves cried and later
laughed about what was left of the
charred and smoldering car.
“Atleastitdidn’tbummybooks
and accident report from Friday,”
Reese said.
Reese’s car was picked up at
4:30 p.m. by Pete’s Truck Service
Inc., 1815 Yolande.
Rupp to serve University Relations
University of Nebraska President
Ronald Roskens announced that he
will recommend Lee Rupp to be
named vice president of University
Relations.
Rupp, 49, is a state senator repre
senting District 22. The NU Board of
Regents is expected to act on the rec
ommendation at its meeting Saturday.
The appointment will be effective Jan.
1.
Roskens said university officials
were seeking a person who had thor
ough knowledge of how state govern
ment works, as well as comprehensive
understanding of communications
and public relations.
“Lee Rupp fits the bill on both
counts,” Roskens said in the an
nouncement.
Rupp, bom in Monroe, has a
bachelor’s degree in agriculture and a
master’s degree in biology, both from
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
He is a public relations representative
for the LcDioyt Land Co. of Omaha.
Rupp was first elected to the Ne
braska Legislature in 1982 and was re
elected in 1986. He was chairman of
the Legislature’s Constitutional Revi
sion and Recreation Committee in
1985 and 1986, and of the Govern
ment, Military and Veterans Affairs
Committee in 1987.
Rupp was a supervisor for the
northeast Nebraska district fisheries
for the Nebraska Game and Parks
Commission from 1971 to 1982.
Association official to speak
Nebraska to celebrate Human Rights Day
By Gretchen Boehr
Staff Reporter
The worldwide celebration of Human
Rights Day is Thursday, but Nebraskans will
have two days to recognize human rights.
Nebraska’s first celebration of the event will
be sponsored by the state’s local United Na
tions Associations Wednesday and Thursday,
said Glenn Feather, president of the United
Nations Association state division.
Human rights day celebrates the adoption of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by
the U.N. General Assembly in 1948, said
Emilia Gonzalez Clements, vice president of
the Lincoln chapter.
The declaration gives the basic rights to
which all men and women arc entitled, without
discrimination, she said.
“The United Nations wanted to stress human
rights as a means of keeping peace,” Gonzalez
said.
Becky Thomas, development director of the
International Center, said the national chapter
is working hard “to gel people more aware of
human rights in our country.”
TheOmaha Metro and Lincoln chapters will
sponsor a speech by Jim Olson, national field
director of the United States United Nations
Associations, on Wednesday.
Olson will speak on “Human Rights and the
United Nations” in the Nebraska Union’s
Georgian Room at 7 p.m. Olson is a na,:vc of
Minnesota who has served in various non
governmental organizations in public informa
tion and disarmament. Olson taught political
science and history at Jacksonville University
in Jacksonville, Fla., from 1969-78.
Olson will also meet with local association
members to discuss more effective operation of
local units and will give an update from the
national office.
On Thursday, Olson will speak on “Interna
tional Human Rights Concerns” at 7:15p.m. at
the Legislative Chambers of the City-County
Building in Omaha. There will be an outdoor
lighting ceremony for solidarity with the hun
gry and homeless after Olson’s speech.
