Love Library renovations underway
BY GWEN TIETGEN
' With the renovations under
way in the Love South Library,
even the exit can be hard to find.
Chanty Stovall, a reserved
book coordinator at Love
Library, said some students
have been confused since the
main exit was switched from
Love South to Love North.
“Even with the signs posted,
a lot of students still ask, ‘How
do I get out of here?’ ” Stovall
said.
Renovations in Love South
started in November 1999 and
are scheduled to be completed
in March 2002.
Dean Waddel, UNL’s chair
man of branch services, said the
renovations will make things
easier to find in Love South,
which was built in 1942.
“We want to establish sight
lines so you can see where you
want to go and how to get there,”
Waddel said.
Some of the renovations that
will be done include installing
more efficient heating, air con
ditioning, ventilation and
plumbing systems; new eleva
tors that will access all four
floors; and a fire sprinkler sys
tem to protect the book stacks
and students.
Workers will also put in new
rest rooms and make upgrades
in lighting and windows.
"There may be some confu
sion, but there are signs and
library staffmembers around to
show students where things
are,”Waddel said.
Clark deVries, project man
ager for the renovation project,
said the construction is ahead of
schedule.
“We are progressing the way
we anticipated,” deVries said.
Renovations underway
inside the building are compli
cated because the library
remains occupied during the
renovations, deVries said.
“Currently, we are complet
ing the third floor finishes
including the dry wall and duct
work,” deVries said.
Once the third floor is com
pleted, all the offices, books and
information move again.
“The process is that we start
at the top and work our way
down,” deVries said.
Other renovations are being
made outside of the library. Next
to the link between Love North
and Love South, a new emer
gency generator was recently
installed.
Professors fight online notes companies
U-W1RE
DURHAM, N.C. - Since
dozens of online class note
publishing companies invaded
the Internet a little over a year
ago, the academic world - and
even one state government -
have taken measures to fight
back.
But because many profes
sors are split on the issue, the
responses have varied in inten
sity.
At Yale University, under
graduates may not "represent
any commercial interest” with
out permission, and the school
was forced to take action late
last year against versity.com, a
company that paid students for
their lecture notes.
“We attacked (versity.com)
in March of this year....” said
Tom Violante, assistant director
for institutional issues at Yale
College. “We issued a statement
which said Yale was objecting to
what they were doing. They
complied and took down the
Yale notes.”
Duke University, too, issued
a policy on intellectual property
rights late last year following
versity.com’s activity on cam
pus. The policy, which was
approved by the Academic
Council in May, reads: "Notes in
a course shall not be taken or
disseminated for commercial
purposes unless approved by
the instructor.”
Although some schools have
taken a more hard-line
approach in one form or anoth
er, students at Duke still have an
option to take notes with a pro
fessor’s approval.
“At this point, any faculty
member who does not want this
sort of thing to be done in his or
her class has at least implicitly
the right to forbid it,” said
Classical Studies Professor Peter
Burian, chairman of Duke’s
Academic Council.
"If the university had a
[stricter] policy... students
would be by the very nature [of
it] subject to the rules of some
judicial proceeding. Whether we
want to go that route or not is a
question that hasn’t been decid
ed.”
At versity.com’s new Web
site,
www.versity.collegeclub.com,
more than 200 Duke courses are
listed. Provost Peter Lange said
the university must test out last
year’s policy before even consid
ering an expansion. The council
is not slated to revisit the issue
this semester.
At Harvard University, an
undergraduate student can be
expelled if he sells his lecture
notes to anyone. And the
University of California system
has forbidden companies from
even coming to campus without
permission.
“As a whole, the University of
California system has been tak
“At this point, any faculty member who does not
want this sort of thing to be done in his or her
class has at least implicitly the right to forbid
Peter Burian
chair of Duke University’s Academic Council
ing the approach that it has the
right to regulate business on
campus,” said Jeff Gibeling,
chair of the Academic Senate at
UC-Davis. "You have to have a
contract, the idea being to pro
tect the intellectual property of
the faculty.”
Despite these intellectual
property issues, some profes
sors said they have other ethical
problems with online note-tak
ing companies.
“Teachers should be in com
mand of their own classrooms.
The teacher doesn’t only have
the right but has the responsi
bility to teach his or her class,”
said Mathieu Deflem, an assis
tant professor of sociology at
Purdue University.
“If they hook up with these
companies, they’re giving away
their responsibilities.”
Deflem has waged his own
campaign against these compa
nies and has set up a Web site
with centralized information
about them.
But enforcing note-taking
policies can be extremely diffi
cult. Although students must
notify Duke professors before
they agree to take notes for an
online company, Professor of
Experimental Psychology Carl
Erickson said that until receiv
ing a phone call from The
Chronicle, he was unaware
there was a note-taker in his
Psychology 91 class.
“It’s one of those things we
have little control over or seem
to have little control over,”
Erickson said. “I've always taken
it as Something that's beyond
the professor’s control.”
Although the war against the
online note-taking industry has
been waged largely at the aca
demic level, it has recently
moved to the government level.
Within the last two weeks,
the California State Assembly
and Senate passed a bill - A.B.
1773 - prohibiting the sale or
distribution of class notes for
commercial purposes; now, it is
awaiting judgment from Gov.
Gray Davis.
Opportunities keep some at UNL
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do intriguing and challenging
things within the Teachers
College.
"There are always new oppor
tunities to learn,” he said
O’Hanlon said he never
intended to stay at the university
this long and said most people
don’t plan it that way.
He has been involved with
institution-building activities,
and O’Hanlon said many admin
istrators who stay at the university
do so because they have a stake in
the university's future.
That’s why Omtvedt said he
stayed at UNL for so many years.
He thought he could positively
affect the university’s future, he
said
“My interest was where I could
utilize my background and make
a difference,” Omtvedt said. “I felt I
could make a difference in aca
demic excellence and move the
university forward.”
Omtvedt came to UNL as
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chairman of the animal science
department in 1975.
During his time at the univer
sity, Omtvedt was also vice chan
cellor for extended education and
the interim senior vice chancellor
for academic affairs.
With the different positions he
held, Omtvedt said he had no rea
son to look elsewhere for a job.
“Each one of those opportuni
ties gave me the chance to grow
professionally and be stimulated
professionally," he said.
While Omtvedtenjoyed being
an administrator, he said he had
no desire to move up to a universi
ty chancellor or president, but
said there was pressure on him to
do that
“That's not what I wanted to
achieve in my career,” he said. "I
7 felt comfortable
here."
Irv Omtvedt
Former UNL adminstrator
felt comfortable here.”
Omtvedt said the university
was a good place to work. The
large number of administrative
openings plaguing the university
right now has little to do with UNL
itself, he said.
Administrators are staying for
lesser amounts of time at institu
tions across the country, he said.
“People aren’t bailing out,”
Omtvedt said. “This is a good
institution to be associated with.”
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