WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1972
SUMMER NEBRASKAN
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Textbook display
Teachers and students
browsed through the newest
textbooks and multimedia
materials at the annual summer
sessions display last week at
the Nebraska Union.
Sponsored by the Nebraska
Professional Bookmen, the
textbook exhibits featured
materials for kindergarten
through twelfth grade.
Teachers placed orders for
shipments in the fall, but some
visitors came just for a quiet
afternoon of reading.
Health Center open
to summer students
Some 250-300 students visit
the University Health Center
daily during the fall and spring
semesters, but during the
bditor Mary Kay Quintan
business Manager Mary Dorenbach
The SUMMER NEBRASKAN is
published nine times during the
summer session six times in the
first session and three in 'he
second. Information for
publication may be brought to
3 1 9 Nebras ka Hall or
telephoned to 472-3377.
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summer, there is not much
demand for Health Center
Services, according to Cindy
Schievelbein, director of nurses
at the center.
Summer Health Center
hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. with
emergency hours from 5
p.m.-7:30 a.m. The nurse on
duty during emergency hours
uses her discretion on whether
to call a doctor to treat an
emergency patient, Miss
Schievelbein said.
During the regular school
year, about ten doctors rotate
evening emergency service,
with one doctor on duty every
night, she said.
Three eight-hour shifts of
nurses have regular hours in the
hospital, and Lincoln area
specialists schedule regular
hours lor students needing
special services.
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transferred to UNL for two or
three years thus taking more
than four years to complete
their education.
This figure does not show
how many were majoring in
fields thnt take five years, such
as architecture, pharmacy or
engineering.
Dr. Robert Brown of the
UNL counseling center said the
center tells parents of incoming
freshmen at sum m e r
orientation sessions that "it's
not unusual for a student to
take more than four years to
complete his education."
Educators say wnile the
normal pattern of college
attendance is an uninterrupted
four-year process, a substantial
proportion of students take
five or more years to graduate.
Perhaps a third , of those
who earn degrees interrupt
their course of study in some
way, educators surmise. The
result is that wliile most college
seniors are at least 2 1 years
old, about half of them are 23
or older.
One reason some students
don't complete their education
in four years is lack of funds
which forces them to carry
fewer hours and hold a
part-time job or to drop out
entirely for a semester of year
and work, Brown said.
Brown said figures show
that 42 per cent of the
students enrolled in Arts and
Sciences either work part-time
or use their saving accounts to
get through school.
Brown- estimated that in
1961 about 20 per cent of the
students were working or using
savings accounts to finance
their college education.
While the total number of
full-time students working is
less than the 42 per cent in
Arts and Sciences, many
students find they must quit
school for a semester to work
in order to have money to
finance the rest of their
schooling,-Brown said.
On a national level perhaps
as many as a quarter of all
students work full-time while
attending classes (usually
part-time). Full-time
employees are considerably less
likely than other students to
earn their degrees, educators
say.
One student who is trying
to keep in school and work at
the same time is a 1967
graduate of North Platte High
School who has taken 12 hours
each semester since she started
working two years ago to have
enough money to pay tuition
and rent.
In order to graduate in eight
semesters a student has to take
15 hours three semesters and
16 hours five semesters. The
North Platte graduate has it
planned so she will graduate at
the end of 10 semesters and
two summer school sessions.
She says another drawback
is that since she works
part-time she usually ends up
working on holidays which
means she can't be with her
' family.
Students"" receiving an
incomplete schedule after
pre-registering are hindered to
a lesser extent in trying td
complete their education in
four years, Brown said. Getting
an incomplete schedule one
semester isn't usually the cause
of a student taking longer to
finish school, although
incomplete schedules repeated
several semesters could be a
determining facotr.
As much as students
complain about getting
incomplete schedules, the
figures don't support their
complaints.
After pre-registration for
second semester during the
1970-71 school year, 4,360
course requests were denied to
students out of 103,000
courses that were requested.
After the drop and add period,
when students can change their
schedules before classes begin,
the number dropped to 2,564
courses denied to students.
Out of the 2,564 course
requests denied students, 2,035
were from the College of Arts
ind Sciences. According to Dr.
lohn Janovy, assistant dean of
the college, the reason so many
denials were in this college is
because many classes taught in
Arts and Sciences are required
for everyone, even if they are
in Teachers College or
Engineering. "A typical
Teachers' College graduate has
58 per cent of his credit hours
in Arts and Sciences," Janovy
said.
This number (of denials) is
within a five per cent margin
and therefore can't be
defended," according to Lee
Chatfield, dean of student
academic services.
In trying to make the five
per Cent margin manageable, a
week of free drop and add was
held for the first time in late
August before first semester of
-the 1971-72 school year.
"There were far fewer course
denials which meant that more
students were ready for classes
on the first day of school in
the fall," Dean Chatfield said.
Using the current demand
number plus a 15 to 20 per
cent increase that is expected
in enrollment figures, Dean
Chatfield estimates that in a
few years, course denials for
Lincoln campuses could reach
around 8,674 after
pre-registration.
"What happens when
students get incomplete
schedules is they than take any
class to fill in their hours.
These are classes they can't use
or don't want," said John
Robinson, associate dean of
the College of Arts and
Sciences. "Now what kind of
education is this?" he asked.
Students changing majors
account for part of the reason
it takes longer to complete
their education, Brown said.
Forty per cent of entering
freshmen change their majors
during their first year and ,
about 80 percent at least think
about doing so, he added. In
addition, about 10 to 15 per
cent of the Incoming freshmen
are undecided on a major when
they enter college compared to
around 5 to 10 per cent in the
early 1960s.
Another reason it might
take longer to finish
requirements for a bachelor's
degree is loss of hours
transferring from another
school.
Commenting about
studtents' credit hours not
transferring . from- other
institutions, Lawrence Bundy,
assistant director of
admissions, said, "I don't have
figures to support this, but the
feeling I get by processing
transfer transcripts is that most
students lose credit hours
because of poor grades and not
because there is not a
comparable course at this
school
"Relyingon an eyeball view,
I would say that one-fourth of
the student body
(undergraduate) is composed
of transfer students," Bundy
said. Courses taken elsewhere
that do not transfer because of
the lack of a comparable
course here are mostly those in
the professional sequences, he
said.
Another reason that might
keep a student from graduating
after four years of college is
having a language or math
deficiency when entering
college.
Shirley Thomsen, assistant
director of registration and
records, said she has no idea
how many students enter with
either a math or language
deficiency. "Depending on
which college they enter at
UNL, a student usually can
remove a math deficiency by
taking the high school math
course through the Extension
Division," Miss Thomsen said.
A language deficiency can
be removed by taking the
beginning language course and
adding five hours to the total
needed for graduation. "As
sometimes happens, a dean
may waive a language
deficiency, depending on the
circumstances," she said.
Because no two students are
alike, there can be no one
reason why it is taking more
than 20 per cent of the UNL
students longer than the
traditional four years to earn
their bachelor's degrees.
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ART GALLERY
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallnry
and Sculpture Garden, 12th and R
Streets, exhibiti a permanent
collection and periodic special
showings. Summer gallery hours:
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through
Saturday; 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday;
closed Monday and holidays.
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LIBRARIES
Major library units include Love
Library, Law Library,
Undergraduate Library at Nebraska
Hall and the C. V. Thompson
Library on East Campus. Library
hours: 7:30 am, to 10:20 p.m.
Monday through Thursday; 7:30
a m, to 4:60 p.m. Friday; 7:60 a m,
to 4:60 p.m. Saturday; 6 to 10:20
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STATE MUSEUM
The University of Nebraska
State Museum, 14th and U Streets,
features audio tours of exhibits,
Hall of Elephants, Hall of Nebraska
Wildlife, Hall of Man, Health
Science Galleries. Museum hours: 8
a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through
Saturday; 1:30 to 6 p.m. Sunday
and holidays.
SKY SHOWS
The Ralph Mueller Planetarium
a the University of Nebraska State
Museup-, features "Prairie Nights."
The sky shows ara presented at
2.45 p.m. Monday through Friday
and at 2 30 and 3 4B p.m.
Saturday, Sunday and holidays.
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