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Bader attributes advising
woes to lack of initiative
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By MajreDa Syaovec
Academic advising is a two-way street,
said Ken Bader, vice chancellor for student
affairs.
Bader said academic advising problems
at UNL basically are the same problems
any academic institution has to solve.
Bader said the main problem in the ad
vising system is not a lack of advisers
availability when students need them, but
the lack of student initiative when trying
to talk to an adviser.
It takes more than "visiting an office
every day at the same time, not finding'
the adviser in and then saying the adviser is
unavailabb, Bader said.
One problem lies in the concept of
advising. Many faculty advisers, Bader said, .
think a run. jen-year-old student can work
through the registrar m system with little
need to talk to anyone.
Some advisers, he said, are strictly aca
demic in nature and do not think advising
includes discussion of career and personal
goals.
Personal contact important
Bader said it is important for students -to
develop personal contact with faculty
members. He said a student who ignores
this is shortchanging himself.
This student-faculty involvement bene
fits the student in the long run, Bader
said.
"It helps to know someone in a field
who has had some professional experi
ence," he said "and is also helpful when
the student is seeking letters of recom
mendation for a job.
"We have a long way to go before our
advising system meets everyone's satisfac
tion, he said, "although we are quite a bit
ahead, of other institutions in some
respects.
The College of Arts and Sciences and
Business Administration have a combina
tion of advising opportunities, including
both faculty advising and peer advising, he
said.
Mary Corbin, a student adviser at the
Business College's Advising Center, said the
Center's seven or eight student advisers
keep undergraduate records and advise.
- She said the advising center serves as a
channel to handle problems concerning
college changes and grades. The center re
fers students with questions they cannot
answer to the dean's office, she said.
Pat Peterson, student adviser in the
College of Arts and Sciences, advises un
declared freshmen. "We try to make
undeclared freshmen feel comfortable in
being undeclared," she said.
The College of Arts and Sciences and
Business College student advisory boards
have established centers at the Nebraska
Union, Harper and Abel Halls to help stu
dents with pre-registration since Monday.
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Teacher tries
new approach
While classes increase in size, one
teacher tries to make his students feel like
more than a social security number.
Associate Professor John Demuth pho
tographs all students in his organic chem
istry classes so he can team their names. He
currently teaches two classes with 320 stu
dents total.
"I take the pictures home and study
them in the evening while the students are
studying their chemistry," Demuth said.
He said he tries to learn each student's
name within the first weeks of classes.
The students are "good sports about it,"
Demuth said, because they like to be
known by name.
Although his classes are primarily lec
ture, he said, he frequently directs a ques
tion to an individual student.
Demuth, who started photographing his
students in his first year of teaching 20
years ago, said he thought he needed to
associate the students' names with their
faces.
The largest number of students he mem
orized was two classes of two hundred, he
said.
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Grant sparks arts proposal
City Council Chairman Max Denney
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A $10,000 matching funds grant could
be the first step toward a Lincoln Bicen
tennial Performing Arts Center, which
would serve the city and university, said
Bicentennial chairwoman Barbara
Henderson. .. .
The Nebraska American Revolution Bi
centennial Commission, which uses federal
funds and money from locally sold com
memorative items, awarded the grant last
week.
The proposed Lincoln Bicentennial Per
forming Arts Center win occupy the old
Federal Bidg. between 9th and 10th streets
on P St. Funds would pay for remodeling
the building to include city offices and a
2,500-seat theater.
Henderson said the center, endorsed by
the mayor and City Council, was awarded
the grant because the project has more
than "local significance."
"Nebraska badly needs such a facility
for its capital city, Henderson said; adding
that Lincoln then could host "many more
performing people."
Lincoln architect
Henderson said Lincoln architect Larry
Enersen originated the idea to restore the
old Federal Bidg. two years ago.
Only sketches were made until now,
Enersen said.
The U-shaped building would contain
the theater inside of the U, on the ground
uoor. tie saia me approximate cost tor tne
theater alone would be $1.5 million.
Enersen said since the office space is in
"excellent condition," the main expense '
would be to install air-conditioning.
When city offices move into the build
ing, the dty win assume the lease, accord
ing to City Council Chairman Max Denney.
Currently, the Mutual Development Corp.
owns the building.
Denney said if enough money is raised
for the arts center, the building would be
sold to the city and UNL will lease it. .
The city has not yet proposed any fi
nancing, but Denney said the Council wi3
consider it if asked. He said citv financing
would be In the form of a general obliga
tion bond, which requires a vote of the
people.
Henderson said a decision on the rok) of
the mayor and City Council in the plan
will be made in the next couple of weeks.
She said it probably will be year to 18
months before restoration on the building
starts.
She said the foundation will try to buy
the building before it goes on the tax rolls
Jan. 1, because the said its price will go up
after taxes are assessed.
tsaaer expects $4 siudent fee increase next year
ByRexSeline
Although UNL faces no operating
deficit like the one which caused the
University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO)
to increase student fees, Lincoln students
still can expect about a $4 increase in the
1976-77 school year, according to Ken
Bader, vice chancellor for student affairs.
Bader said the addition to the current
$61.50 student fee was agree upon last
year by "all parties" when the decision was
made to procede with construction of the
East Campus Union.
These patties included student repre
sentatives and members of the Fees
Allocation Board (FAB), he said.
The increase will be used to retire bonds
issued to investors on construction costs
for the East Campus Union, he said.
. The City Caaipus Nebraska Union is
financially la fyooi shape, Bader said, and
although it is feeling the stress of inflation,
no iracreasa to cover its costs is expected.
NO increase
UNO has 'asked to increase its student
fees $12 for full-time students and $6 for
part-time students to offset its student
centers operating ' deficit, according to
Skeahan, director of the student center and .
coordinator for student developmental
programs. Currently full-time UNO
students pay $30 in fees each semester.
UNO Student Regent Clint Bellows said
last week that students are upset by the
proposed increase, which will come before
the NU Board of Regents in November.
The. increase would take effect in the
spring semester.
'They havent told me why students
always have to pick up the tab for mis
management and inflation," Bellows said.
Skeahan said he docs not know of
another source.
"I don't like asking the students for
money, but if anybody thinks we can get
the money from the Legislature at this
point, they aren't very cognizant of that's
going on," he said, referring to the state's
reported tight money situation.
$140,000 deficit
"If we don't have the money by the
second semester, the deficit could reach
$140,000, Skeahan said.
The student center's food service
accounts for $51,000 of the projected
deficit, he added.
The money from student fees will be
used to make the student center
operationally solvent, Skeahan said. The
profits from the bookstore and food
service will go to a contingency fund."
He explained that currently no
contingency fund for the center exists to
pay for replacement and renovation of
equipment.
Bellows said he is opposed to the boost
in fees from $30 to $42 per semester and
has asked for an accounting of student fees
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A total of $5 of the $30 fee goes to the
student center, said Lou Anne Rinn, UNO
student government treasutcr. Last year,
an additmnal $95,000 from the fees total
.went to pay the center's deficit, whe said.
df$30fee t0Ul t bUt S9 from
BeUows asked if the additional money
can be taken from another source.
."P1 ministration is able to make a
ccuows said. Its g question of whero
they're going to get it."
Several UNO student senators wh
SI JSJ, G,tewaj: ?uotd Sen. Steve
Shorers, a leader in the drive, "We're eoina
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ces Ron) there is student interest."