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Personable professors earn praise
By Angie Brunkow
Staff Reporter
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rofcssors often make or break a class,
UNL students say.
Professors who are personable, con
cerned about students and realistic about
class materials arc considered “best” by stu
dents at UNL.
Marc Schniedcrjans, an associate professor
of management, brings “real life” into the
classroom, said Julie Thurman, a senior mar
keting major.
“He teaches practical experience rather than
book knowledge, and he makes the class fun,”
she said.
Schicdcrians divides the class into teams
that compete by making management deci
sions. The team with the lcastexpcnses after six
weeks is awarded T-shirts.
R.L. Pardy, a biological sciences professor,
also uses T-shirts as a teaching tool.
Pardy wears a T-shirt printed with lest infor
mation before each exam, said Heather
Hoffman, a junior pre-physical therapy major.
Hoffman said Pardy showed real concern for
students, making certain they were keeping up
cl&ss.
“You never felt lost in his class," she said. “If
you tried, you could keep up and do well.”
Professors who seem to enjoy and have a
command of what they are teaching also arc
student favorites.
“4*
You never felt lost In
(R.L. Pardy's)Class
Heather Hoffman,
Junior
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Richard Hall, a history professor, is en
thused about Western civilization, making stu
dents want to learn, said Bill Homan, a senior
broadcasting major.
“He talked like students were interested and
not just like they needed to know," Homan said.
Students also give high ratings to professors
who add variety to their lectures.
David Woodman, a visiting professor of
biological sciences from India, tells stories
about his homeland to keep students’ attention.
“The stories went along with what we were
learning and made it different from what we
knew about the United States,” said Stacy
Brandi, a sophomore biological systems engi
neering major.
Students also praise professors who give
well-organized lectures and allow time for
discussion.
Ross Thompson, an associate professor of
psychology, bases his tests on the lecture so that
students know what to study, said Melissa
McLaughlin, a junior psychology major.
Above all, students said they Tike professors
who get to know their students.
Bill Tuning, assistant professor of health,
physical education and recreation, learns stu
dents’names despite the large size of hisclasses,
said Charles Richardson, a senior corporate
fitness major.
AndTuning always isavailablc for students’
problems in and out of the classroom,
Richardson said.
Student leader
aims to change
apathy, foster
UNL diversity
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
Not much in Andrew Sigerson’s Ne
braska Union office conveys ihe image of
a president.
File cabinets and bookcases are scat
tered throughout the room, a few pictures and
newspaper clippings hang on the wall and a
framed picture of his girlfriend is behind his
desk.
But nothing pretentious. Nothing, really,
that would reveal his status as president of the
Association of Students of the University of
Nebraska.
The week before fall classes began, Sigerson
was busy rearranging furniture in his office and
deciding where to hang a picture.
Now he’s settled in.
Last week, it was shorts and a T-shirt;
now it’s back to suit and tie.
But still no pompous, solemn attitude. Just
red hair, glasses and an easy-going smile. Sim
plicity.
Dui aigcrson s political oacKgrouna, wnicn
began when he was 5, is far from simple.
From handing out campaign balloons as a
kindergartener during the Congressional cam
paign of Omaha’s Lee Terry to spending the
past summer interning in the Washington, D.C.,
office of Clayton Yeutlcr, the chief domestic
adviser to the president, Sigerson's winding
political road is paved with success — and an
occasional failure.
As a ninth grader, Sigerson helped his father,
Chuck, in an unsuccessful slate Legislature
campaign. Chuck is now the Douglas County
Republican party chairman.
As a senior at Omaha Burke High School,
Sigerson got his first taste of government office
as a student council member. He also got his
first taste of defeat.
Sigerson ran for senior class vice president,
but lost because of an unavoidable family trip
to Philadelphia.
“We had to give a speech to the senior class,
but I couldn’t be there,” he said. “So I video
taped my speech, and the class had to sit and
watch that.”
The result was a five-vote loss to one of his
closest friends.
But it didn T faze S igerson, and his career has
since taken off.
During his college years, he has served as an
AS UN senator, the executive director of UNL’s
College Republicans and a legislative aide for
Rep. Bill Barrett’s office during Barrett’s stint
as speaker of the Nebraska Legislature.
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i Police make changes for students ’ safety
By Lori Stones
Staff Reporter
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i ludcnts reluming to the university will
S notice some changes in campus secu
rity, a UNL police official said.
Police Chief Ken Caublc said one
change was the replacement of old emergency
phones with code blue phones. The old phones
often were mistaken for pay phones, he said,
and repair costs were high.
These new phones will
connect the caller to UNL
operators, who then will
notify university police
where help is needed,
Cauble said. While the
phone is activated, a blue
strobe light will flash on
top of the phone.
Locations for the phones
were determined by Cam
pus Safely Committee members, UNL police
and student representatives last spring. Phones
were placed in areas where many students walk
at night, he said, and where lighting could be
better.
Ruth Michalecki,director of UNL Telecom
munications, said, “I hope students see it as
some measure of safety. I know that you can’t
view a phone as secure, but it is a means of
getting help quickly.”
In addition to being used for security pur
poses, she said, phones may be used when
students have car problems. Operators will
notify lowing places for assistance.
Caublc said security in the residence halls
also has been tightened. Instead of security
guards checking identification at the door, he
said, they will patrol the halls while the resi
dence hall desks check students’ IDs. The halls
will have full-time security officers starting in
November.
Students also can expect to sec more UNL
police patrolling campus on foot, Cauble said,
making them more accessible to students.
“This can’t be done in cars, and often stu
dents won’t call in with their questions or
complaints,” he said.
Program to educate,
counsel students on
prevention of rape
By Shelley Biggs
Senior Reporter
The Rape Education Project, a program
designed to better inform students about
sexual assault, will be implemented
this year.
The project, a joint effort between the
University Health Center, the Women’s Center
and the Association ofStudents of the Univer
sity of Nebraska, will give students support,
counseling and information on the prevention
of sexual assault.
Janet Crawford,directorof community health
at the health center, said each contributor to the
project would provide different services.
Crawford said the health center’s role was to
provide a peer rape prevention program that
will be aimed at training students about sexual
assault. Students involved in the program will
take a c lass and be responsible for the education
of other students on campus.
The student group will be similar to the peer
alcohol and peer sexuality educators on cam
pus, she said.
H“Wc want to make infor
mation more available than
it was in the past,” she said.
AS UN president Andrew
Sigerson said the student
senate will act as coordina
lor ol l,lc ProJal’ which he
said was formed to keep the
'ssues of sexual assault and
W&IEllAiMmM raP° on everyone’s minds
throughout the year.
“We want to let people know how rape can
affect their lives, whether it be a man or a
woman,” he said.
Peg Miller, coordinator of counseling at the
Women’s Center, said the center would work
toward making students more comfortable in
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