tuesday, October 27, 1981
daily nebraskan
High school students undergo
UN council trial run at UNL
By Patty Pryor
About 70 Nebraska high school students
spent last weekend at UNL debating world
issues and passing resolutions affecting
international affairs.
The students participated in a mock
two-day session of the United Nations
Security Council, sponsored by the Univer
sity Program Council's Model United
Nations Committee.
The session was designed to provide the
students with knowledge and practice in
acting as a delegate in the Model United
Nations held in the spring, said Howard
Dickerson, secretary-general of this year's
MUN.
skills, including debating and caucusing,
Dickerson said.
The session was mandatory for high
school participants this year, Dickerson
said, because "they cannot just go into
MUN cold (next spring).
"High school students are the future of
MUN, because if there were no high school
students participating, there would event
ually be no college students participating,"
he said. It's pretty necessary to get interest
ed high school students to carry on
through college.
"We just decided to up the standards,"
he continued, "to make sure they do a
good job when they're here."
The majority of college students involved
in MUN started in high school, he added.
The fall session also provided practice
for the 16-member MUN staff in running
the conference and following parliament
ary procedure, Dickerson said.
Delegates alternated between sessions
concerning proposals and debate of resolut
ions and sessions concerning caucusing and
lining up block support, Dickerson said.
"Generally, caucusing has been the
weakest and least understood by the dele
gates," he said.
"It's really just teaching what politics is
all about, anyway," he said.
Discussion topics included the U.S.
Libya plane shooting incident, the Angola
South Africa border conflict and the Israel
Lebanon conflict, he said.
The two-day session was sponsored in
conjunction with the United Nations
Association to recognize and celebrate
United Nations Day Oct. 24, Dickerson
said. The UN Association consists of
members of the community who believe in
the UN, he said.
The session ended Saturday night with a
UN Day banquet. A $50 award , provided
by the association, was given to the out
standing delegate, John Stick of Lincoln
East High School.
Participants in the session represent
about 20 percent of the participation
expected in the spring conference, Dicker
son said.
The first priority deadline for MUN
applications is Mar. 20. The applications
will be available in the CAP office Oct. 28.
UNL follows national trends
with more businesswomen
If national trends show women turning
to non-traditional fields of study such as
business. UNL is no exception.
College of Business Administration sta
tistics mirror U.S. Census Bureau figures
that show the number of women studying
business steadily increasing. Better opport
tunities for women in business fields are
credited with the increase.
Government figures show the number of
women college students majoring in busi
ness more than quadrupled between 1966
and 1978, from 204,000 to 819,000, ac
cording to The Futurist magazine's June
1981 issue.
At UNL, the number of women enrolled
in undergraduate business programs has in
creased more than six times in the last 10
years, increasing by about 100 each year.
"Women are going into business because
of the salaries, and their advancement op
portunities are much better," said Dvee
Buss, director of advising for the College of
Business Administration.
"Approximately 80 percent of the wo
men in the work force are in low-paying,
dead-end clerical positions "she said. "Wo
men are becoming more aware, of the op
portunities available to them at administra
tive levels, and financially it is a big incen
tive." In graduate programs, women are also
increasing in number. The fall 1981 enroll
ment of 45 women studying for a Master
of Business Administration doubled the fall
1978 enrollment. Of those 45, 16 are just
starting graduate studies.
Total graduate enrollment of about 300
students in 1981 includes more than 100
women, up from the 82 enrolled in gradu
ate programs in 1980.
Of the 2,942 undergraduates enrolled as
business majors in the 1981 fall semester,
1,154 are women, contrasted to the 172
women who were among 2,111 business
majors in the fall of 197 1 .
Buss, a business administration major at
UNL in the mid-1970s, said she was among
three or four women in business classes
then.
"You're talking half and half in a class
now," she said.
"The increase has been particularly
noticeable in the accounting area." In fall
1981, the ratio of women accounting ma
jors to men was closer than other majors.
Of 684 accounting majors enrolled, 308
are women and 376 are men.
The largest number of women business
majors, of those who have declared majors,
are studying business administration, a
general major. In the fall 1981 semester,
648 women are business administration
majors, along with 979 men.
Evidence that the number of women
studying business will continue to increase
might be seen in the class breakdown of
enrollments. The largest class of women
studying business is the freshman class and
the smallest is the senior class. The fresh
man class includes 416 women and 510
men. Women are 45 percent of the fresh
man business majors.
Most of the women graduate students
are pursuing master's in business degrees, a
general managerial business degree designed
for persons without business backgrounds.
Other graduate programs lead to mas
ter's in accounting, executive master's and
Ph. D. degrees.
Personality studied
in motivation talks
The study of personality - a survey of theory and re
search about personality - will be the focus of the fall
and spring sessions of the Nebraska Symposium on Moti
vation at UNL.
The symposium is supported by funds donated to the
NU Foundation in memory of Professor Harry K. Wolfe
by his late student, Cora L. Friedline.
Three psychology professors will give addresses at the
fall session, Nov. 5 through 6, sponsored by the UNL De
partment of Psychology .
Speakers and their topics are Seymour Epstein, profes
sor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts, A
Research Paradigm for the Study of Personality Through
Emotions;" Robert Hogan, professor of psychology at
Johns Hopkins University, "A Socioanalytic Theory of
Personality;" and Lawrence A. Pervin, professor of psy
chology at Livingston College Rutgers University, "The
Stasis and Flow of Behavior, Toward a Theory of Goals."
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