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Tuesday, July 2, 1935
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 84 No. 163
Westhsr: Fair and warm conditions are expected to con
tinue as the holiday nears. Today wilt be mostly sunny with a
high of 87 (30C). Continued fair tonight with a low of 65 (1 8C).
Slightly warmer on Wednesday with a high of 91 (33C). The
extended forecast for the holiday calls for mostly sunny skies
and warm with highs in the mid 60s (30C).
Barb BrandaThe Ntbraskart
Fun and fireworks fly
on the Fourth...Page7
Sprint drivers feud
at Eagle track... Page 6
Water
you think
you're doing?
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Mark OavlsThe N.braskan
Megan McCracken and Jim PfeiSer prepare for a splashdown as their canoe tips over at Holmes Lake. Pfeiffer is a
canoeing safety instructor for Lincoln Parks and Recreation.
New admissions standards approved for '86
By Deb Pederson
Senior Reporter
NU is jumping on a national band
wagon and stiffening its admissions
requirements effective the summer and
fall of 1986, UNL Director of Admis
sions and Advising Al Papik said Mon
day. In May 1982, the NU Board of Regents
approved new admissions standards
which would put residents and non
residents on equal footing and use spe
cific classes, test scores and class rank
as the basis for admittance, Papik said.
According to a recent report by the
American Council on Education, almost
half of the colleges and universities are
reviewing, or have reviewed, their admis
sions requirements. Schools are raising
standards, specifying courses needed
for admissions and renewing the role
of test scores, the report said.
"I don't refer to it as a selective
admissions process," Papik said. "I
look at it as the minimum require
ments needed to experience academic
success here at the university."
Under the old requirements, resi
dents who were graduates of an approv
ed Nebraska high school were admit
ted on an open policy basis, Papik said.
Non-residents had to be in the upper
half of their class and submit test
scores which fell within the mean score
of the previous freshman class, he said.
Students would be admitted under
one of three options under the new
requirements, Papik said.
The first option for full standing
admittance requires completion in high
school of a set of core courses: four
years of language arts, including three
years of English; two years of mathe
matics, including one year of algebra
and one year of advanced math; two
years of natural sciences; and two years
of social sciences. High school is con
sidered to be 8th through 12th grades.
The second option requires a test
score of 1 8 on the ACT composite or 850
on the verbal and math combined on
the SAT.
The third option requires the appli
cant to have graduated in the upper
half of his class.
"A student can be admitted on con
ditional status if he has three years of
English and one year of algebra," Papik
said. "But he has to make up the defi
ciencies in the first year of school."
Admission to the university doesn't
guarantee admission into some of the
colleges, he said.
The colleges of Architecture and
Engineering have their own set of more
rigorous entrance requirements.
The College of Architecture requires
a class rank in the upper half, an ACT
score of at least 21 or an SAT score of at
least 970 and a specific list of core
classes, he said.
The College of Engineering requires
a class rank in the upper half, an ACT
score of at least 23 or an SAT score of at
least 1025 and a specific list of core
classes, he said.
Students who are accepted to NU
and want to pursue a major in one of
those colleges but fall short of the
requirements can go undeclared, remove
the deficiencies while maintaining a
GPA of 2.6 for Architecture or 2.5 for
Engineering and then transfer into the
college, Papik said.
"By looking at previous data, it
appears that most of the students
would be admissible to the university
anyway," Papik said.
A large majority of admitted stu
dents already have the core classes, he
said. About 70 percent have test scores
higher than the new requirement and
approximately 80 percent graduated in
the upper half of their class, he said.
"I don't think it (the new require
ments) is going to prevent many stu
dents from entering the university,"
Papik said.
The Board of Regents determine the
admissions requirements according to
state statute.
State museum receives rare specimen
Hostages express
sympathy for captors
By Michael Hooper
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska State
Museum received a rare fossil recently,
a partial jawbone of an Arctodus, an
extinct giant short-faced bear.
The jawbone, found in a commercial
gravel pit near McCook, and coming
from a "strictly" carnivorous bear, is an
important find because carnivores are
always the least numerous of animals
at any one time in history, said paleon
tologist George Corner, who works on
the museum's Department of Roads
Highway Paleontological Salvage pro
gram. "By far less than one percent of our
collections is of the big carnivores,"
Comer said. The Arctodus partial jaw is
the third one found like it in the state,"
he said.
The jawbone structure is not com
plete, but it has two well-preserved
molars teeth about the size of wal
nuts, Corner said.
The gravel pit company that found
the jawbone June 19 pulled it from 35
to 40 feet below the water level. Corner
said.
The fossil comes from an extremely
large short-faced bear, he said.
"It was over 11 feet tall and had a
reach of more than 14 feet standing flat
footed," Corner said.
"The scary Ctng is that it had
extended toes, ttidch enabled the Arc
todus to run faster, instead of curved
down toes like today's bears and with
their extremely long arms, they could
run down their prey - elks, deer, or
anything in their way," Comer said.
The Arctodus lived in the late part of
the ice age 20 to 30,000 years ago.
The partial Arctodus jawbone that
was found is about eight inches long.
"The whole jaw would have been a
foot long," he said.
Comer said he and other paleontol
ogists are taking measurements on the
Arctodus jawbone and comparing it to
other finds and documents on the same
species.
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By the Renter News Service
One of four Americans held by the
pro-Iranian Hizbollah organization dur
ing the Beirut hostage crisis Monday
praised his captors as "kind people"
and denied they were extremists.
Robert Brown, 42, told reporters at
the U.S. military hospital in Wiesbaden
that the four had been treated well
throughout their detention and said
they had discussed the situation in the
Middle East at length with them.
"I feel sorry that the Hizbollah has
been labelled extremist because the
people who took care of us were, I'm
convinced, of the Hizbollah and they
were not extremists. They were kind
people who took care of us very well,"
he said.
Brown was among 39 Americans
flown to Frankfurt Monday from Damas
cus following their release after 17 days
captivity. They were taken to the hospi
tal in nearby Wiesbaden for psycholog
ical and medical checks.
The Hizbollah "Party of God"
delayed the release of the 33 men over
the weekend by initially refusing to
free the four men in its charge.
The four were all emDloyed by the
Navy and fears for their safety had
been expressed in the United States
following the slaying of another Navy
man, Robert Stethem, at the start of
the hyack drama.
Several of the 39 hostages voiced
sympathy towards their captors, mostly
from the Amal militia, while in Beirut
and at a press conference in Damascus.
But Brown's comments appeared to
have added significance as they were
made in the West and he was under no
real or imagined constraints to be care
ful in his choice of words.
Talking in the garden of the hospi
tal, he said he saw one of the two
hyackers who seized Trans World Air
lines flight 847 on June 14 twice during
his captivity in Beirut.
He added that he had recognized the
man partly from the unmistakable silver
pistol he carried.
The wife of Ailyn Conwell, who be
came the hostges' spokesman during
their ordeal, also voiced sympathy for
the men who held the 39 Americans
captive.
After visiting her husband she told
Reuters they had treated all the hos
tages well and that there were "no hor
ror stories.
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