Project Editor: Jeffrey Miller, History 470: Digital History, Spring 2008

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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

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PETITIONS ASK UNI. TEACHERS BE REINSTATED

in other classes in the English department.

It was said that the petitions would be presented to the chancellor about Tuesday of next week.

While the regents action suspended Wimberly as a faculty member, he was left in charge of editing the Prairie Schooner, literary magazine subsidized by the university. He had expressed his intention of remaining in Lincoln until next fall and giving his full attention to editing the magazine.

Other members of the English department faculty have been placed in charge of Wimberly's and Eliason's classes. Students have been given their choice of remaining in these classes or transferring to other classes in the same department.