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w.-r-.-fv.i'W !-. k J. Ja.. iu- siSTTTPPrar-Tp, Vf"!F" 'F V " m,...- just a ui iHt- "w w - "w -w w Drought r Nebraska's June-July drought hurt the Univer sity. No one knows yet how much. But they're sure it did. , Some students just won't be able to attend UNL, Gerald Bowker, director of Academic Services, said. , Traditionally, students who apply but decide not to attend don't notify UNL of their decision, he said. They just don't show up. Annually about 75 per cent of the freshmen who apply enroll, bowker said. If a head count the second week of school shows :4a measurable drop from that norm, the brought would certainly be a reason," he said. The Housing Office is closing four dormitory floors because there weren't enough students to fill them. Farm prosperity has affected dorm occupancy rates before, some say. Some blame the drought this year. The director of scholarships and financial aids said his office has heard from about five students a week in August, who say they need more financial aid that they had expected before the draught. Jack Ritchie said he hasn't "come close to talking to all those affected." He, too, suspected most just wont show up. The University sent representatives to the U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare this.week to ask for more federally supported financial aid, Ritchie, said. But research by the Nebraska Congressional delegation indicates Nebraska would have a tetter chance at the aid if the state had been declared a disaster area by the President, he said, And late August rains make that look doubtful, he said. Ritchie said'he expects a lot of students to ask for more financial aid after school starts. He. advixes them to come armed with new information to indicate their families' crops and assets aren't as large as they had predicted in spring. National methods of computing financial need have always worked against farmers, Ritchie said, because the technique counts assets as much as income and farmers' land, and machinery make tnem appear Oh paper more able to finance a college education than they are. cbi u iff wv J .1 . -feMM.-tsr Wednesday, august 21, 1 974 lincoln, nebraska vol. 98, no. 1 Minorities hit harder by money problems K Financial problems take minority students out of the University far more often than they take white students, according to a study done this summer for the Student Affairs office. Eighty-five percent of the minority students con- Sbecial edition This is a special edition of the Daily Nebraskan. Regular publication will begin Monday. The Daily Nebraskan, with offices in the basement of the Nebr aska Union, publishes every Monday,' Wednes day, Thursday and Friday that the University is In session. Editor-in-chief of the Daily Nebraskan for the fail semester will be Jane Owens; news editor, Wes Albers; associate news editor, Becky Brite; and managing editor, Dave Madsen. tacted by phone said financial problems were "part of the reason" they left UNL. ' Additional reasons: one got married, one moved away, two quit because of "ethnic problems," one for academic problems, and one because of "voca tional indecision,'' The results are part of a study done by James Pinkney, a counselor and researcher at the UNL counseling center. He warned against over emphasizing the study. He said he received the names of 41 minority students who attended UNL during the past five semesters, then left. Of those, researchers found only 15, he said. Thirteen of them were willing to participate in the study. "I am cautious with the results because of the small numbers I'm deal ing with," he said. 4 i r 1 "V. X 4 it D The National AAU Junior Olympics was om of the largest groups to use UNL dormitories this summer. orms - 'summertime hotels ' Large summertime con ventions and youth pro grams would be impos sible for Lincoln without a unique innkeeper: UNL. This summer, as in summers before, UNL dormitories housed parti cipants of conventions and programs, according to Glon Schumann, UNL co ordinator for residence hail administration. "No other place in Lincoln could accommo date such large groups,"' Ipir" TraC ill X. w " - J Llncotn cartoonist J. Scott Stewart offers Ms icfsa of what UML students can expect this fall. Schumann said. "The University offers its dorm itories so the city can attract sizable conven tions." First priority are sum mer school students, he said. Youth programs are second, summertime Uni versity seminars and workshops are third. Pri vate conferences are low est. Dormitory use provides rooms for conventioneers only after local hotels are full, Schumann said. The University does not com pete with them for lod gers, he said. Tii income aisu iinipa defray costs to sudsnt lodgers during the aca demic year, he .said. That is, until this year. Rising operating costs may cut into any profit, this year, he said. The Housing Office will know in January whether the practice Is still profitable, he said. The National AAU Jun ior Olympics and national roller skating contests were two of the largest groups housed in dormi tories this summer. About 1,400 AAU con testants stayed in Abel Hall Aug. 8-12. Aome of , their families stayed in Harper Hall, as did 400 roller skating contestants. (Continued on pajo 2)