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Students to be expelled for inadequate grades
By Anne Mohri
Senior Reporter
About 1,000 students will be dismissed from
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for aca
demic reasons this month, but there are appeal
procedures for possible re-admittance, said
Ellen Baird, associate vice chancellor for aca
demic affairs.
Last May, 999 students received dismissal
notices. I n Decern ber about 600 were dism issed
although some were readmitted later, she said.
The rules for appeals were not completely in
effect last May because the necessary publicity
had not been released, she said. Baird said the
student appeals are considered by a faculty
committee.
The committee was set up by Robert Fur
gason, vice chancellor for academic affairs, she
said. Furgason also appointed the members.
The Dismissal Appeals Committee in
cludes Baird, chairperson; Donald Gregory,
director of General Studies and associate pro
fessor of English; Sheldon Stick, chairman of
the faculty senate grading committee and pro
fessor of special education and communication
disorders.
Gregory said the rules have been in the
schedule of classes since the fall semester, in
the 1987-88 undergraduate bulletin and on the
back of grade reports.
Baird said the committee was used first in
January when 224 dismissed students ap
pealed.
She said 138 students were readmitted into
UNL, 74 were turned down and 12 appeals were
not resolved because of financial blocks on
students’ records.
Financial blocks are recorded when a stu
dent fails to pay all financial obligations to the
university, she said. Appeals cannot be filed
until all financial obligations are paid, she said.
A student with 0-18 credit hours who has
attended the university for more than one
semester will be dismissed for having a cumu
lative GPA below 1.00, according to the aca
demic standards policy.
Students with 19-45 credit hours will be
dismissed if both the current semester and the
cumulative GPA are below 1.75 and the previ
ous semester’s cumulative GPA was below
2.00, the policy says.
Students with 46 or more credit hours will be
dismissed if both the current semester and the
cumulative GPA are below 2.00 and the cumu
lative GPA was below 2.00 at the end of the
previous semester.
Students who are on probation for three
consecutive semesters are also dismissed,
Baird said.
She said the academic standards are ap
proved by the faculty senate committee.
Baird said grade reports and probation or
dismissal notices are scheduled to be sent to
students May 18.
She said students’ personal problems are
taken into consideration. One student’s parents
died and his funeral director wrote a note con
firming it
Students fill out an appeals form and give
reasons for their poor academic performance,
Baird said. She said it is possible that some
students make-up stories but most are probably
true.
“I don’t think one person said that their
grandmother died,” Baird said.
Baird urges students who have retaken
classes to file a D or Fremoval form because the
computers do not automatically re-average the
new grades.
As soon as a student receives a dismissal
notice, he should file a D or F removal form,
Gregory said.
The student should have his status evaluated
by contacting his dean’s office, he said, and at
that point the student can decide whether to
appeal.
Students can pick up dismissal appeal forms
in their college dean’s office, Baird said.
If students pre-register for summer or fall
sessions and receive a dismissal notice, their
schedules will be cancelled, Gregory said.
Students cannot re-register unless they are
readmitted, he said.
Students who are re-admitted into the uni
versity are allowed one semester to earn a GPA
that will return them to academic good stand
ing, Baird said. Baird said to remain in aca
demic good standing a student must have a two
semester GPA of a 2.00.
Ward Wllliams/Dalty Nebraskan
Dora Smith, class of 1938, greets Katherine, ’37, and Maurice, ’38, Peterson at a reception
honoring alumni who graduated 50 years ago or more.
Class of1938 reunites
Lots of fun was had then without much money
By Amy towards
Senior Reporter
Harry Brown, Ken Kratochvil,
Donald Lamp and Fred Geiger
hadn’t seen each other in 50 years
until they met at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln Half-Century
Reunion.
The four men were among about
75 people attending the “Kickoff
Cookout” Thursday for the reunion
that lasted until Saturday night
The men stayed in a rooming
house together when they attended
UNL’s engineering college during
the Depression.
“I icmember how much fun we
had,” Brown said. “We didn’t have
a lot of money, but we had a lot of
fun.**
The men kept in touch through
the years, playing tricks on each
other as they did in college.
Lamp said the practical jokes in
college made up for the lack of
money.
“Ken lost his fountain pen, and
we told him it went down the regis
ter,” Lamp said. “The rooming
house had an ancient furnace, and
Ken went down and took it apart to
look for the pen. He came up cov
ered with soot to see Harry writing
with his pen.”
Kratochvil said he’s still waiting
to get Brown back.
The men said they were anxious
to see the changes on the campus
since 1938.
Brown said his friends from
college hadn’t changed much since
he last saw them.
“(There are) just a few minor
adjustments in hair color and
amount, and some diametrical
changes on the women,” he said.
Dora Smith, a graduate of the
1938 Teachers College, said hard
times during the depression left
time only for work and school.
Eileen Donley Dart, who gradu
ated from the UNL College of Arts
and Sciences, said students made
their own fun in the 1930s.
Smith said most of the students
went ice skating and sledding on the
weekends and went to “hour
dances” at the girls’ dormitory.
Col. Bev Finkle, who graduated
from the UNL College of Arts and
Sciences in 1938 and received his
master’s degree in 1946, said the
money difference between 1938
and 1988 is hard for students now to
imagine.
“I was probably one of tffe rich
est kids on campus,” Finkle said.
“In 1931 I bought a Model A Ford
for $400. My dad paid my fraternity
dues and I got $5 a week for allow
ance.”
Football alum says
team was fun in ’38
By Amy Edwards
Senior Reporter
When Elmer Dohrmann played
football for Nebraska from 1936 to
1938, things were different.
“We had a lot more fun,” he said.
Dohrmann, 72, said the pressure in
athletics wasn’t as great as it is now.
There were no scholarships; seasons
and practices were shorter; and any
one who could walk onto the field
could play the game, Dohrmann said.
Dohrmann, who played end for the
Comhuskers, earned 11 letters during
his athletic career at UNL; in football,
basketball, baseball and track. A rec
ord, Dohrmann said, that will never
be beaten.
“Athletics are so time consuming
today,” Dohrmann said. “There’s no
time for all sports.”
When Dohrmann played football,
the team of 26 to 30 members won the
“Big Six” Conference all three years.
Dohrmann was6’5”and weighed 200
pounds. He said he was the biggest
man on the team.
mere was no training iaoie, no
year-round practice and no weight
room. The men played both offense
and defense, he said.
Dohrmann said there were three
coaches for the varsity team: the head
coach; the end coach, who was also
the basketball coach; and the line
coach, who also coached track.
Dohrmann practiced for his track
event, the javelin, during baseball
practice.
He entered in only the conference
track meets and placed for two years.
Even during seasons, Dohrmann,
senior class president and member of
Theta Chi fraternity, found time to
work nights in a restaurant and keep
up with schoolwork.
“We missed very few classes in
those days,” Dohrmann said. “I don’t
know of anybody on our teams who
didn’t graduate. When you went to
college, you just assumed you were
going to get your degree.”
There were no football scholar
ships during the Depression,
Dohrmann said. The players didn’t
have the pressure to win to keep their
scholarships.
“While winning was important, it
wasn’t as important as it is today,”
Dohrmann said.
Nobody had any money during the
Depression, he said, so nearly all the
players had to work.
As a freshman, Dohrmann won the
Simon scholarship. It paid his tuition
— $40 a semester.
Football tickets were cheaper, too.
Dohrmann said makeshift stands
were set up before every game for the
“knothole club.” Kids could get into
the knothole club to watch the game
for a dime.
Dohrmann said athletes today put
pressures on themselves. Because
few players make professional teams,
they should be more concerned with
their education, he said.
‘While winning was
important, it wasn’t
as important as it is
today.’
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Any student who wants to get an
educat ion could get a better education
today, Dohrmann said. Education
today can’t be compared to education
in the 1930s just as football today
can’t be compared to football then, he
said.
“Today football players are
stronger, bigger and faster,”
Dohrmann said.
But he said pressures from scholar
ships and professional teams
shouldn’t hinder education.
“The rules for education are there
now,” Dohrmann said. “The problem
is compliance. We should get players
qualified — get them to meet the
requirements.”
Dohrmann said the NCAA has
come up with too many rules and
restrictions. He said there should be
controls on the game, but he’s not sure
how far the control should go.
Dohrmann was drafted by the
Washington Redskins — one of 10
pro football teams in 1938 — after he
graduated from UNL. He turned
down the $ 18,000 contract to become
a sales trainee for IBM.
The physical education major and
English minor worked for room and
board only for IBM, a little-known
company at the time. Dohrmann said
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