LINCOLN, Neb. —

The University of Nebraska Board of Regents voted to eliminate four academic departments from the state's flagship institution on Friday despite a deluge of public comment against the proposal .

At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the departments of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Statistics, Educational Administration and Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design will be shuttered, and most of the faculty laid off.

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More than a hundred faculty, students and staff packed the boardroom in Varner Hall in the morning. Some even stood outside in the snow, waving signs.

"It is a weird moment in time where your teachers have to be freezing outside to be asking to be allowed to do our job," Dr. Isabel Velázquez, a UNL professor of Spanish, said. "I'm h

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