Academic Senate hears
proposed code revisions
By Pat Dinsiage
Staff R&porter
James Griesen, UNL vice chan
cellor for student affairs, presented
proposed revisions to the Student
Code of Conduct to the Academic
Senate for review at a meeting
Tuesday in the Nebraska Union.
One revision states that all cases
of academic dishonesty will be
reported to the student judicial affairs
officer, Griesen said, whether or
not disciplinary action is brought
against the student
Deans of University of Nebraska
Lincoln colleges are “philosophi
cally opposed” to that proposal,
Griesen said, because a file on
academic dishonesty could affect
students’ future employment op
portunities even if they were not
brought before the judicial board.
But members of the Student
Judicial Board say a historical rec
ord of academic dishonesty would
be helpful because it could affect
the ruling if a student is brought
before the board, Griesen said.
In other action, the Academic
Senate elected 1990-91 officers and
executive committee members.
James McShane, associate pro
fessor of English, was re-elected as
senate president. George Tuck,
professor of news-editorial jour
nalism, will fill the renamed posi
tion of president-elect - formerly
called the vice president - for 1990
91.
Senate secretary for the coming
year will be Deanna Eversoll, eve
ning programs director in the Divi
sion of Continuing Studies.
Members of the 1990-91 execu
tive committee are Connie Ahlman,
Cass County extension agent;
William Ahlschwede, associate
professor of animal science; Royce
Ballinger, professor of biology; Jim
Hejduk, associate professor of
music; Sandra Herzinger, associ
ate professor and cataloging chair
woman for the libraries; Linda
Shipley, chairwoman of the adver
tising department; Jack Sicgman,
professor of sociology, Don Uer
ling, associate professor of educa
tional administration; and Sally
Wise, associate professor of law
and director of the law library.
LPD unit strives
for traffic safety
From Staff Reports
Efforts by the Lincoln Police
Department’s Traffic Safety Unit are
starting to improve safety in Lincoln,
according to the group’s leader.
‘‘I think we’re beginning to have
an impact,” said Lt. Frank Rowe.
The unit, which started its enforce
ment operations Jan. 18, is financed
by a three-year grant from the Na
tional Office of Highway Safety. The
grant provides for five officers and
three vehicles, with equipment and
Rowe’s salary coming from the city.
Rowe said the goals of the unit are
to encourage people to comply with
traffic regulations and to reduce acci
dents.
To achieve those goals, the unit
enforces traffic regulations and is
exempt from routine police calls except
in emergencies.
‘‘We’ve been issuing a lot more
citations than we have in the past,”
Rowe said. He estimated that the unit
has issued 6,000 to 7,0(X) citations
and warnings so far.
In addition to enforcement, the
team has tried to promote traffic safety
by working with the Mayor’s Com
mittee on Traffic Safety and sponsor
ing bicycle rodeos for youth, Rowe
said.
Psychology
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During the 1970s and early 1980s,
about 300 UNL students majored in
psychology, he said. But during each
of the past five years, the psychology
department has grown by about 100
students, he said.
“During that entire time,” Ber
man said, “we have had no increase
in faculty.”
The department has 20 faculty
members for about 800 majors, he
said, which translates to about 40
psychology majors for each faculty
member.
“It’s the worst faculty-to-major
ratio that I’m aware of,” Berman
said. ‘‘In my opinion, it’s worse than
business.”
In addition to all the students who
are psychology majors, Berman said,
many non-psychology majors also are
taking psychology courses.
Although UNL administrators have
given the psychology department
money to add another faculty mem
ber next semester, at least five more
are needed, he said.
Berman said officials have been
sympathetic to the overcrowding in
psychology courses, but there’s not
much they can do.
‘‘It’s going to lake new monies to
solve this problem,” he said.
Berman said the psychology de
partment currently is handling the
situation by giving registration prior
ity to psychology majors who are
ready to graduate.
But because some other students
end up being turned away from psy
chology classes, Berman said, he
sometimes hears complaints from
students and irate parents,
Berman said he thinks more people
are majoring in psychology because
it combines the best disciplines from
other fields, while also giving indi
viduals the opportunity to help oth
ers.
“(But) I don’t want to make it
sound too good because that might
encourage more people to become
majors,’’ he said.
Dead Week
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He said he doesn’t have an exact
number of complaints, but that it is
much lower than last semester’s
number.
Part of the reason could be that
complaints first semester often come
from classes taught by new instruc
tors who aren’t completely aware of
the violations, he said.
By second semester, those instruc
tors usually know the policy and abide
by it, Gilbertson said.
He said the primary complaint he
hears concerns instructors scheduling
tests during Finals Week and then
moving them to Dead Week.
The policy states that final exami
nations arc to be given only at the
regularly scheduled time published
in the schedule of classes, or at an
other time during Finals Week
“mutually agreeable to all concerned.”
The only tests that may be given
during Dead Week are laboratory
practical exams, make-up or repeat
exams and self-paced exams, the policy
states.
The policy also states that proj
ects, papers and speeches scheduled
for completion during Dead Week
must have been assigned in writing
by the end of the eighth week of the
semester. The topic, however, does
not have to be specified by then.
Gilbertson said that when his of
fice receives a complaint and there is
a violation of the policy, he contacts
the instructor.
He said he informs the instructor
of the violation and tells the instruc
tor that if the violation isn’t corrected,
it could result in action by the Grade
Appeals Committee or by the Profes
sional Conduct Committee.
It then is up to the instructor to
correct the situation or run the risk of
having the student take his or her
complaint to the committees,
Gilbertson said.
The ombudsman’s office can lake
no action against the instructor, he
said.
Mohling said ASUN can help stu
dents through the process of filing
complaints and bringing their com
plaints to the committees.
“We would help them sec the
complaint through to the end,” she
said, ‘‘or at least lead them in the
right direction.”
Math
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“We hope that by bringing stu
dents to campus, we will generate a
real gcxxi pool of students for the
future,” he said.
In addition to promoting math
education, Lewis said, the depart
ment also must promote careers in
math.
Because careers in math arc not as
visible as careers in related fields,
such as engineering or computer sci
ence, he said, students arc less likely
to look at majoring in math.
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