Petitions Ask Uni. Teachers Be Reinstated
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Petitions Ask Uni. Teachers Be Reinstated
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Date
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26 February 1932
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Description
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This article shows the popularity of Wimberly and Eliason, at least among graduate students. The petitions were presented to the Board of Regents, but no action was taken.
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Transcription
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Petitions Ask Uni. Teachers Be Reinstated
Request Circulated In Behalf of Wimberly And Eliason.
Petitions for the reinstatement of Prof. L. C. Wimberly and Instructor N. E. Eliason to the faculty of the University of Nebraska were being circulated among students on the campus Friday. Wimberly and Eliason were suspended until next September by the regents this week as an aftermath of a liquor raid on the university coliseum, where the two faculty members had been chaperoning a party.
The petition read as follows:
"To the chancellor and members of the board of regents of the University of Nebraska:
"The petition of the under signed students of the university respectfully sets forth that they have learned that action has been taken by the board of regents to suspend Prof. L. C. Wimberly and N. E. Eliason of the English department and believe such action unjust and injurious to the students in depriving them of effective instruction and superior leadership respectfully but energetically remonstrate against such action and request their reinstatement."
One of the petitions was being circulated by three girls. They declared that the plea for reinstatement of the two instructors was instigated mainly by graduate students who had been taking classes under Professor Wimberly. They said that virtually every graduate student approached had signed the petition.
The petitions were being circulated in all of the classes which Wimberly formerly taught and also
(Continued on Page Fifteen.)
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Source
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Author: Staff, The Lincoln Star
Title: "Petitions Ask Uni. Teachers Be Reinstated"
Periodical: The Lincoln Star
volume:
pages: 1, 15
26 February 1932
Nebraska State Historical Society, film 071 L63s 2233, copy and reuse restrictions apply, http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/services/refrence/use_policy.pdf
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