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Wednesday, September 9, 1981
lincoln, nebraska vol. 107 no. 12
Several colleges announce severe overcrowding
By Mary Louise Knapp
Overcrowded classes in several colleges are causing
space problems so severe that students are sitting on floors
and some students already enrolled in classes are being
asked to leave, college deans said Tuesday.
Arthur Kraft, associate dean of the College of Busi
ness Administration, said many students are having to
delay their graduation dates because they are unable to
get into overloaded business classes.
"Students are sitting on the floor," Kraft said. "Some
times we can't even find rooms for the classes ... we have
had to tell students they can't stay in classes," Kraft said.
Kraft said students have been coming to him "in
droves" for permission to enter crowded classes.
Higher grades required
Students who have been asked to leave classes for
which they are already enrolled include those who have
not maintained a cumulative grade point average of 2.5
and those who have not completed prerequisites, Kraft
said.
Students are admitted to business classes on a priority
system, Kraft said. For 100 and 200 level classes, the first
students admitted are business majors who have comple
ted 54 hours of other requirements but who have not yet
taken the business courses. Second priority students are
graduates who are deficient in 100 and 200 level classes.
Freshmen and sophomores are third priority.
For 300 and 400 level classes, seniors who will gradu
ate at the end of this semester have first priority, graduate
Fee rebate forms
available at unions
By Jeff Goodwin
Students who want a refund of their Fund A student
fees have until Sept. 25 to pick up an application form,
according to Randy Mclntyre, office manager of the Stu
dent Activities Financial Service.
Mclntyre said the application forms may be picked up
at Student Activities Financial Services Office, Nebraska
Union 222; ASUN Office, union 115; or the East
Campus Activities and Programs office, East Union.
After the form has been completed it should be return
ed to Nebraska Union 222.
Mclntyre said refunds may be picked up at Nebraska
Union 222 Sept. 28 through Oct. 9.
Students will not be able to receive student discounts
for certain services if they apply for the refund.
ASUN, which takes $1.17 of the $4.49 total, offers
free legal services for which a student receiving a refund
will not be eligible.
The University Program Council refund amounts to
$1.97. Students receive UPC discounts on such things as
films, speakers and dances.
The other activities which students can receive refunds
for and the amounts they can receive are the Daily Ne
braskan, 85 cents and the State Student Association, 50
cents.
Mclntyre said the number of people applying for re
funds was "less than last year but that could change."
He said information about the refund would be includ
ed in the tuition statements mailed to students.
"We're trying to get the word out to all the students,"
Mclntyre said. "This (mailing the information in tuition
statements) also has the advantage of getting the word to
them during the application process."
Tom Prentiss, Daily Nebraskan editor, said the refund
system was unfair.
"It isn't fair that people can get a refund on the
portion of their fees to be used for the Daily Nebraskan
and still pick up a paper, but there's no way of preventing
it. The Daily Nebraskan is clearly worth more than the
85 cents a semester covered by student fees," Prentiss
said.
Prentiss noted that the 85 cents covered by the refund
works out to a little over 1 cent an issue.
"I think students can easily afford that," he said.
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students with deficiencies are second, and seniors who will
graduate in May, 1982, have third priority, Kraft said.
These priorities exist only during general registration,
Kraft said.
The Business College has no money to add more sec
tions of classes, Kraft said.
Also, the college has already hired the maximum num
ber of teaching assistants it is allowed to have and still
keep its accreditation, he said. The American Association
of Collegiate Schools of Business has placed a limit on the
number of classes that can be taught by teaching assist
ants, he said.
"The question is what quality of education are w.e get
ting," Kraft said. "We have an outstanding faculty and
they have done a superb job, but this (overcrowding) is
difficult for them."
Kraft said students seem to be satisfied with getting
into a class, whether or not they get a seat.
"I'm sure the students are uncomfortable, though,"
he said.
Kraft said the business college will continue its policy
of overbooking classes with the anticipation that students
will drop out of the classes as the semester progresses.
However, the attrition rate in business classes has not been
as great this year as it has in the past, he said.
Summer school encouraged
Kraft said the college has begun a full-scale program to
encourage students, especially incoming freshmen, to en
roll in summer classes. Summer classes are usually filled to
capacity, but not overcrowded, he said.
Lyle E. Young, associate dean of the College of Engine
ering and Technology, said enrollment in the college has
increased 70 percent to 80 percent from last year with
little increase in faculty.
"We are limiting class space to the students who show
the most potential," Young said. Students who have less
than a 2.5 grade point average are placed on a list of
restricted students and are not allowed to take engineering
courses until their grades improve, he said.
Max D. Larsen, dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, said students have been turned away from
classes in the modern languages, English, computer
science, math, and speech departments because of over
crowding. "Our classrooms are not big enough for all the stu
dents," Larsen said. "Students are not sitting on the floor,
but we do overschedule."
Larsen said new sections have been added to many
classes to ease the enrollment squeeze. However, there are
fewer faculty members than there were last year, he said.
Ron Joekel, associate dean of the Teachers College,
said classes in educational psychology, social foundations,
statistics and business communications are overcrowded.
The colleges of Architecture and Agriculture are not
experiencing severe overcrowding, officials said.
Cecil Steward, dean of the College of Architecture,
said that due to the college's enrollment restrictions,
classes are not overcrowded. Steward said enrollment is
restricted by a student's grade level and students must
reapply for admission to the college in their third year.
Earl F. Ellington, dean of the College of Agriculture,
said there are no serious problems with class space in the
college.
"We have had to bring in extra chairs in some instan
ces, and lab space is limited," he said.
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Kenneth Schultz, a UNL student from Gothenburg, demonstrates the Super Top, which is becoming a craze among
college students across the nation.
Senate alters term of office dates
By Tricia Waters
At its first meeting for the fall semester, the UNL Fac
ulty Senate proposed a change in the senate's term of of
fice, which now lasts from January to May.
In addition, the Senate heard several reports from
deans and committee members.
The new senate term will be from May 1 to April 30.
Elections will be the first two weeks in April.
The move must be approved by the faculty via referen
dum, the chancellor and the NU Board of Regents.
The Senate also passed Arts and Sciences Sen. Earl
Barnawell's proposal encouraging faculty to read aloud a
statement regarding fire exits at the first class meeting of
each semester and summer session.
The statement tells where the room's fire exits and
alarms are.
It also asks persons to report any information about
false alarms to university police,
"False alarms have been a serious problem and a dis
ruptive problem on our campus," Barnawell said,
W. Cecil Steward, Architecture College dean, showed
slides and reported on the people and state of Imo, Ni
geria, Steward is chairman of the Project Coordinating
Committee for a UNL-Nigerian project to establish the
new Imo State University,
Imo, in east central Nigeria, is the heart of the Igbo
tribe of Africa, Steward said. The area suffered much
damage in the Biafran War between 1967 and 1970, he
said.
"The development of this university has been a symbol
of recovery for these people," he said. Imo is the only
state of Nigeria's 19 states that doesn't have a university.
On three temporary campus locations in old buildings,
Imo State University will open Nov. 1 with 400 students.
In 10 years, projected enrollment should be 12,500 stu
dents on five campuses, Steward said.
Initially, the university will assist Imo State in
academic and master planning and design. Eventually, stu
dent and faculty exchanges and teacher training projects
will develop, Steward said, 4
Neale Copple, School of Journalism dean, reported
that heavy enrollment continues in the journalism school.
Copple said the 5-year-old graduate school for journalists
has doubled its enrollment over the last year.
Although money remains tight in the school, outside
funds keep it going, Copple said.
"Outside money, non-federal, non-state money, seems
to be fairly available, he said. He referred to thfe school's
recent $250,000 gift from the Hitchcock Foundation
- to aid research by professors in the graduate programs as
an example.
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