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Non-tmditional sttidents'ret urn
to increase opportunities, enjoy
There's a gay in ray class who looks just like my
dad ," said the young freshman to her friend, loudly
enough to be overheard.
"Would it be weird to be going to school with your
dad?"
People used to think the avenge non-traditional
student was an 8 i-year-c!d raadracthcr sitting in
the front cf class wearing a pair of tennis shoes.
Today, UNL3 classillcatfon of nen-tradliional stu
dents includes parents or heads cf households who
are 18 cr cider and students who are 5 cr elder.
This year more than 5,000, or 20 percent, of the
students at UNL are classified as nen-tradltionals,
according to Enures from the university's Institu
tional Research and Planning Ofcc. llest haw
returned to school to improve their career
opportunities.
I worked for 12 years before coming back to
school," said Greg UZlzt, 23. "I knew ill had a deee
in engineering I'd 3 further toward the top; I d be
more satkfled with myssil"
He said non-traditional students are under dif
ferent pressures than the traditional (10 to 22-ycar-
11.3 cider you are, the leas you want to go into
debt . . . for a student who h 22, taking out a loan h
not nearly o threatening as it Is to someone who's
said "During the Vietnam and post-Vietnam period,
a lot more people were making decisions about
values. Nowadays, it's nothing but a media blitz. A lot
cf lids are here for bucks material values,"
But values change with the times, said 33-year-old
Diane Caporaso, a senior in university studies and
co-founder of the Non-Traditional Students
Association.
"I dent see my values any differently she said.
"IYe changed too. I think that before, everyone was
involved with sit-ins. Now they're involved with jobs.
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"I tee 23-3"ear-c!j that are hers just to party."
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Perl: Eehan, who has been cn ths beard cf the
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Tcu can spat them riht away," she sai l "They
show responsibility in class, they ask good
8 ) ta!!: car!;r ttcaa3 weVe J-iit been around
people more, she sd. ie hd " . ai- me
to come sit in front cf daas so I ccu!i r a cenveraa-
in claas." (laughs) T'.3 aI:o been called a trouble-
more.
llany non-traditional students were brought up
1ZI tllS Jl find OC-l 3 C-Ie3 veoaK-3
leecly docile.
Elizabeth Ehodes, a 2D-ytar-cli e'ectiical cn-
neenng student who ca-3 herself an cuig hi:
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A few non-traditionab said they found that their
"COs experiences astound a traditional student.
They tell how they started talking about the good
eld dap" cf radicalism and demonstrations at the
John Lennon memorial service and somebody came
up with the nostalgic idea cf picketing the adminis-
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"The kids were just watching us with their mouths
open," said llary JarryT.ka, a senior in geology and
cr. peering. "The fcsuas just arent there now.9
But rcsp-eat for ths experience of older students
b, Jare'nls said.
Eo llundy, who is studying consumer cTTairs, said
' younger students treat her just like any ether stu
dent but sometimes come to her for advice.
Vho knows? Going to school with a parent just
miht be fun. Certainly many non-traditional stu
dents are enjoying themselves. As one traditional
student told Kuth Harper, college and adult counse
lor, Dhision cf Continuing Studies, "rve always
wondered why my mother went back to school and
now I know why she's just having a coed time."
Association started
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founded three years co by Diane Caporaso, a
son, adult counselor for the Division cf Ccntinu-
Crporaso said she and Johnson put advertize
r:z:M l: the P:' Ncbrasiui to invite cider stu
!:r:ts to r.::t ia the Harvest. Boom in. the
If.Lraaka Or-n cn Friday aflerneons. , V--.'.
"Irene and I put a sijn on a big table and sat
there," she said. "I can't believe now we did that
Eat everytime we'd see someone who was an
cider student wander by we'd say Hi, we're older
students,' and start talking to them. That's how it
I iTOA now has 1 CO members and has represen
tatives in the Association cf Students cf the Uni
- varsity cf Nebraska on the Health Board and the
. Nebraska State Students Association.
NTSA meets every Friday from 11:30 am. to 1
p.m. in a room in the Nebraska Union (the loca-,
tien is posed cn the bulletin board) for a carry-in
lunch and meeting. They also schedule speakers
and social events. .
Trds week Frank Hallgren, director of the
Career Planning and Placement cCce will speak
to the members about searching for jebx The
meeting is open to all students, but especially to
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