The Vine Street Irregulars: A Chronicle of Graduate Student Life and Politics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1975-1976 (Paperback or Softback)

Hill, Michael R.

ISBN 10: 1609622685 / ISBN 13: 9781609622688

Published by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries 11/9/2022, 2022

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The Vine Street Irregulars: A Chronicle of Graduate Student Life and Politics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1975-1976.

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• Title: The Vine Street Irregulars: A Chronicle of Graduate Student Life and Politics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1975-1976 (Paperback or Softback)
• Publisher: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries 11/9/2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1609622685
• ISBN 13: 9781609622688
• Binding: Paperback or Softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 0.44 pounds
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

The memories recalled in the twenty-seven essays in the volume are anchored in sometimes intense and sometimes admittedly naive graduate student experiences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln during the 1970's. Master's degree in hand, I returned to graduate study at Nebraska in 1972 after four years in the military, benefitting not only from the G.I. Bill, but also from a National Defense Education Act Fellowship. I was increasingly wise to the ways of administrative bureaucrats who were sometimes enlightened, sometimes punitive, draconian, and exploitive, or - far more often - simply moribund. As adult students, we wanted fair play and respect. I pursued those goals at Nebraska as: (a) the Geography Department representative to the University Graduate Student Association, (b) as an early vicepresident of the Graduate Student Association, (c) as UNL's graduate student voting member on the three-campus System Graduate Council, (d) as a voting member on two Vice-Chancellor Search Committees, and finally (e) as the UNL Graduate Student Representative investigating and voting on a fellow graduate student's formal (and contentious) grade appeal. In these various roles, many students told me stories that made my toes curl. The cumulative result was a hands-on tutorial in bureaucratic/administrative machinations as they ground onward day after day on the Nebraska campuses. Subsequently, writing the essays that became The Vine Street Irregulars gave me a way to explore, in public, the issues, problems, and experiences that bedeviled the lives of far too many graduate students on the University of Nebraska campus during the mid 1970s. Now, nearly fifty years later, this volume preserves some of those struggles and hopefully captures parts of the socio-spatial milieu in which they unfolded. Minor errors and a few awkward phrases have been silently repaired. Where potentially useful, explanatory footnotes are appended.

About the Author

MICHAEL R. HILL, born in 1944, earned Ph.D. degrees in geography (1982) and sociology (1989) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His former teaching posts include: Iowa State University, Albion College, University of Minnesota Duluth, University of Indiana South Bend, Iowa Western Community College, University of Nebraska at Omaha, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the University of Notre Dame. As the founder and editor of Sociological Origins, he is interested in the history and development of the social science disciplines and the fine arts. He is the author/editor/co-editor of several scholarly books and numerous articles. Hill is a recognized authority on the works of Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Perkins Gilman as well as the history of sociology at the University of Nebraska. Michael is now Associate Director of the Jane Addams Research Center in St. Joseph, Michigan. Recently, he was for five years a docent in the Krasl Art Center and is himself occasionally an active artist. Hill twice won the American Sociological Association (ASA), Section on the History of Sociology (HOS), Distinguished Scholarly Book Award (2002 and 2005). In 2003, Hill was honored with the ASA/HOS Distinguished Scholarly Career Award. He belongs both to the American Sociological Association and the American Association of Geographers, and is a full member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society.