More women entering law
Range of practices, more opportunities spur increase, dean says
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Staff Reporter
A record number of female stu
dents have enrolled at the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law
this semester, the dean said.
Dean Harvey Perlman said the
number of female students jumped to
43 percent, or 74 of 170 students, for
the class of 1993.
The 6-percent increase in female
students over 1988-89 does not re
flect any special efforts or policy
changes in the college, Perlman said.
It reflects admission of the most
competitive applicants, he said.
Because women arc increasingly
entering a wider variety of practices,
their enrollment in law colleges also
has risen, Perlman said. Until recently,
however, historical prejudice and
traditional job roles have shunned
women from pursuing law degrees,
he said.
The prejudice came from various
law practices and from law firms’
sensitivity to women representing their
clients, he said.
“It’s the same prejudice women
confront in a wide variety of fields,”
Perlman said.
“Before the mid-’70s, there were
few women going to law school, so
there wasn’t any pressure on the (law)
firms, on the faculty or anyone else to
make positions available for women,”
he said.
Women also traditionally worked
in practices dealing with divorce and
family matters, but now arc evolving
into a range of practices such as cor
porate law, Perlman said.
“The legal profession is far from
perfect,” he said. “But in recent years
significant parts of the profession have
been open to women that were pre
cluded from them before.
“That process is gaining momen
tum now that we have a significant
number of women going through law
school.”
Today, between 35 and 40 percent
of law graduates are women, he said.
The college’s overall enrollment
also is the largest in recent history, he
said.
Enrollment climbed to 170 because
of the high number of qualified appli
cants that chose to pursue law de
grees, he said. About 300 applica
tions are accepted each year, but usually
only 150 go on to study at UNL.
Perlman said no problems are
expected in the first-year classes
because of the 20 additional students,
but as the class moves into its second
year, the program will begin to “feel
the pinch.’’
Because second- and third-year
classes require faculty with skilled
training and an “intense faculty-stu
dent interaction,’’ he said, additional
faculty will have to be hired from
outside the university. No decisions
have been made on how many will be
needed, he said.
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Checks not picked up during
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| Poetry recitation to launch reading series Thursday
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| p.m. Thursday in the Heritage Room
| of Bennett Marlin Public Library.
Bchrcndt will be the first reader
in the John H. Ames Reading Sc
ries since last semester.
Behrendt is the 1990 recipient
of the Annis Chaikin Sorensen
Award lor Distinguished leaching
in the Humanities. He specializes
in British romanticism and com
parative literature.
Hyde Lecture Series will begin i nursday at sneldon
Three East Coast architects will
start the Hyde Lecture Series for
the fall semester by speaking about
their professions Thursday.
The architects will speak at 4
p.m. at the Sheldon Memorial Art
Gallery, and a reception will be
held for them in the Link of Archi
tecture Hall afterward.
N. Scott Smith of Sasaki Asso
ciates, Inc. in Watertown, Mass.;
Ann Behaof Ann Beha Associates
in Boston; and Robert L. Harper of
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lege of Architecture at the Univer
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Cultural program still needs
more American participants
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Staff Reporter__
A lack of U.S. student involvement plagues
the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln English
Conversation Program, said its coordinator.
The program, which pairs U.S. and foreign
exchange students, emphasizes learning about
a different culture.
Pal Johnson, program coordinator for the
Office of International Educational Services,
said 40 pairs of students have been pul to
gether, but 17 foreign exchange students still
arc waiting for matches with U.S students.
Last year, about 60 pairs of students were
matched through the program during the first
semester, Johnson said. About 20 foreign stu
dents never received a match.
Johnson said that the drop in student in
volvement from last year could be attributed to
the earlincss of the semester. She said she
would continue to match students throughout
the semester.
Growing international interest has increased
the program’s popularity with U.S. students in
recent years, but the office still has had a hard
time reaching U.S. students, Johnson said.
International students are told about the
program by the IES office, she said, but the
office has to rely on advertising and fliers on
campus to attract U .S. students. The office also
sends letters to fraternity and sorority presi
dents, minority group presidents, language
classes and residence hall student assistants.
“Students are a little bit afraid of talking to
somebody that they’re afraid they won’t under
stand or won’t understand them,” Johnson
said. * ‘Once thev overcome that fear, they love
it.”
Despite the name, participants aren’t lim
ited to conversation, Johnson said, although
the program docs provide a list of cross-cul
tural topics for discussion.
Students arc matched according to mutual
interests if possible, Johnson said. That way,
they can do something that they both enjoy,
such as playing tennis or sightseeing in Lin
coln, she said.
U.S. students studying a foreign language
may request a foreign student from a specific
country to help them learn the language, she
said.
The program was created more than 10
years ago to give international students a chance
to practice conversational English, Johnson
said. But she said she feels the program bene
fits U.S. students more because they have an
opportunity to learn about a different culture
and language.
“The main goal is to introduce people who
probably otherwise wouldn’t meet each other
so that they can share one another’s cultures,”
she said.
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