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SOLATE DORMS
by Tim Anderson
Dormitory residents have long used lack of privacy, excess
noise, cafeteria food and the general lack of hominess in the
dorms as reasons for moving off campus.
UNL students today use the same excuses plus an
additional gripe they acquired in March. At that time the
Regents approved a dormitory rate increase -from $940 to
$1,020 a year for double rooms and from $1,140 to $1,320 a
year for single rooms.
"I'm moving off campus this fall and I'm sure that if I
watch it, I can live cheaper," said Dan Worth, Cather
freshman.
Worth plans to live with three or four other students and
hopes to get a small house.
"There are just too many people here," he said. "I just
can't handle all of them. You go down for lunch and you have
to stand in a line that looks like you're going to a concert."
However, Worth has found some positive aspects about life
in dorms.
"It's real close to classes, all the food's prepared when you
want to eat and it's within walking distance of downtown,"
he said. "I'll have trouble finding a place off campus that will
be located so that I can walk to classes, movies, restaurants
and stores."
Worth's main reason foi leaving the dorm is his class load.
"I've got a pretty heavy class schedule next fall and you can't
get any studying done here." As an architecture major, he
will need a drawing table, he said, and there is no room for it
in the dormitory. He'll have projects to build that he "doesn't
want anybody messing with."
Worth's roommate, Terry Reding, also a freshman, said he
will probably live in the dorm again next year because of
financial aid problems.
Reding, who attended the University on a swimming
scholarship, said he wasn't certain if his financial help would
allow him to live off campus.
However, he too gets discouraged in the dorm.
"Some days you get rather bored, you look out the
window, and all you can see is the football stadium. Oldfather
Hall and Hamilton Hall - it makes you feel sort of alienated.
'The food's edible, I guess. If nothing else, it's at least
nutritrious. I wouldn't buy this stuff in any restaurant,"
Reding said.
Reding said he had switched over to the dormitory cafeteria
from the athletic training table so that he could eat with
friends. He couldn't tell any difference in the food, he said.
Phil Porter, another Cather freshman, had few compliments
for the dorm. One of his main gripes is limited visitation.
"I've visited some friends of mine at schools in Illinois
where they have 24-hour visitation and they don't seem to be
having any trouble,' Porter said. "I don't see why we
shouldn't be able to handle it.
"The food's all right if you haven't eaten anything for
about three days before. I get really tired of eating the same
thing," he said.
"At least I have a nice view of campus from up here," he
added.
Women in the dormitories agreed with the men residents
although their reasons were not the same.
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Hall freshman Sara Brandes said. "It just doesn't make the
place personal. Half the people in the restroom you don't even
know."
"I would just like to see dorms be more homey maybe
some carpeting and sinks in each room or something," Brandes
said.
Dorm room is basically adequate as far as she's concerned,
except for a storage problem. "My bed is about to come off
the floor because of the junk I have piled under it. There just
isn't any place to store anything."
Brandes plans to move into a sorority house in the fall. She
said she believes this will alleviate most of her dormitory
problems.
"Right now I can say 'hi' to about 30 out of the 45 girls on
our floor. I would only call about ten of them personal
friends," she said. "It's those 15 that I don't even know well
enough to speak to that bothers me. I won't have that problem
in the house. Also the house is homier."
Brandes' second roommate this year, Cindy Wolfe, also a
freshman, agreed. She also will move into a sorority house in
the fall.
"I just don't have enough privacy," she said. "I couldn't
stand to live in the dorm for more than one year. You just
can't get any studying done here."
Wolfe, however, didn't have any major complains about the
food. "It's pretty starchy which really shoots a diet, but
usually you can find something offered that you like.
"I think we could probably have visitation more frequently
- definitely not 24 hour, but at least more often. I don't see
anything wrong with some afternoon hours," Wolfe said.
She also said she favors alcohol in the dorms "as long as
everyone ays sensible about it."
Pound freshman Mary Johnson agreed that the alcohol
proposal would be "better in some ways. If you're 19, there's
really no reason to hide it."
Although Johnson said she's sure there is alcohol in the
dorms now, she didn't thik much would be found during the
week.
Johnson said she wants more freedom, so she hasn't signed
a dormitory contract for next year and doesn't plan to.
"I'm going to try to get an apartment with some other
girls-I'd go cray living by myself-but if that doesn't work
out, I'll probably try to get back in the dorm."
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