November 8,1988 University of Nebraska-Uncoln ___Vol. 88 No. 51
Bereuter banner
gets complaints,
but is permitted
By Jerry Guenther
Staff Reporter
A blue banner that reads
“Doug Bereuter Congress”
hanging in the marquee
north of the Nebraska Union had
some people seeing red Monday.
Daryl Swanson, director of the
Nebraska Unions, said he received
three phone calls Monday complain
ing about the banner.
‘But as long as if is
a recognized
student organiza
tion we don’t have
any problems with
it.'
— Swanson
“This isn’t a totally unusual situ
ation,” Swanson said.
Swanson said people usually as
sume it is not possible for a political
banner to be hung in a public display.
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Penalties exist for late payment
By Tom Koenig
Staff Reporter .
Students who don’t pay their tuition
bills arc subject to fines or the hound
ing of collection agencies, according
to Robert Clark, director of Student Accounts at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Clark said many things can happen to stu
dents who have failed to pay their tuition.
A block, or hold as it used to be called, is
placed on students that haven't paid their uni
versity-related bills. When this happens, stu
dents' transcripts will not be released, graduat
ing students will not receive their diplomas and
future enrollment will be denied.
Clark said he encourages students to be
prompt with their payments.
Tuition and fees can be paid beginning the
first day of the semester. Students who nave
missed pre-registration and are registering Jan.
12 and 13 may defer their payments until Feb.
15 1989. ' -
On approximately Ffcb. 3,1989, a statement
of fees and tuition payments will be mailed to
the local address snown on the students' aca
demic record.
If students have not received their statement
by Feb. 8,1989, they should contact the Office
of Student Accounts. #
Payments must be received in the dursar’s
Office before 4 p.m. Feb. 15 1989. If no
payment has been made at that time, the student
will be charged a late fee of $20.
If no payment of all tuition and fees and
service charges has been received by the Office
of Student Accounts, the student’s registration
will be turned over to a collection agency.
Clark said that when follow-up letters have
been sent to students and no attempt has been
made by the student to pay the outstanding bills,
the Student Accounts Office will give collec
tion agencies the authorization to sue the stu
dent.
Tuition and fees for the 1988-89 school year
are $48.50 per credit hour for undergraduates,
$131.75 per credit hour for non-residents.
Graduate students pay $64.50 per credit hour
for residents and $156.75 for nonresidents.
Students who have a guardian in charge of
their finances should inform them of the due
dates. Payment should include the students’
name and Social Security number. Clark said it
is important for students to know that in the
event of a missing or delinquent payment, he or
she is still responsible for meeting the deadline.
Masters Week presents alumni
By William Lauer
SuiT Rsponer
Five distinguished alumni of the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln will talk
with students and faculty about their
career and education experiences in conjunc
tion with the Masters Week program Wednes
day through Saturday.
John Cooper, Donald Plucknett, Susanne
Schafer, Ray Shepard and David Young will
speak in classrooms on the UNL campus.
They will discuss “how school helped them
and what classes they would have taken to help
prepare for the real world,” said Barb New
comer, information representative for the
University Information Department and coor
dinator of Masters Week.
Since 1963, inviting outstanding alumni to
speak with students and faculty in classrooms
has remained the format for Masters Week,
Newcomer said.
UNL deans arc asked to submit nominations
of eminent alumni to participate in the pro
gram, she said. The list is approved by the
Innocents Society and the Mortar Board, spon
sors of the program, and the final selection is
made by the chancellor, she said.
Cooper, a Scolisbluff native, is head of the
solution chemistry section of the Naval Re
search Laboratory in Washington, D.C. He
earned a bachelor of science degree in chemis
try and mathematics from UNL in 1967, a
master of science degree and a doctorate in
chemistry in 1968 and 1971.
Plucknett is scientific adviser to the Consul
tauve Group on International Agricultural
Research for the World Bank in Washington,
D.C. A native of DeWitt, Plucknett received a
bachelor of arts degree in agriculture from NU
in 1933, a master of science degree in agron
omy in 1957 and a doctorate from the Univer
sity of Hawaii in tropical soil science in 1961.
Schafer, from Omaha, received a bachelor
of journalism degree from UNL in 1974 and a
master of arts degree in international affairs
from Tufts University in Medford, Mass. She is
a White House correspondent for The Associ
ated Press and has worked as a journalist in
Iowa, New York and The Netherlands.
Shepard, a native of Lincoln, is president of
the consulting firm Shepard Associates and an
educational publisher. Shepard is a past presi
dent of Scribner Laidlaw, a division of
Macmillan Inc., and has held management
positions with Houghton Mifflin Co. andGlobc
Book Co. He received a bachelor of science in
education from UNL in 1967 and an M.A.T.
from the Harvard Graduate School of Educa
tion in 1971.
Young is a professor of classics at the Uni
versity of California Santa Barbara and an
internationally respected scholar of the Greek
poet Pindar. An expert on Olympics and an
cient Greek athletics, Young has served on the
U.S. Olympic Committee and has been a dele
gate to the International Olympic Academy. A
native of Lincoln, Young received 8 bachelor
of arts from NU in 1959, a master of arts degree
in 1960 and a doctorate in classics from the
University of Iowa in 1963. _
Young
Shepard
Cooper
Plunkett
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senator
Survey: Parents worry about academic help
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By Eve Nations
Staff Reporter___
Parents of University of Ne
braska- Lincoln freshmen
were able to voice concerns
during a recent phone survey con
ducted by the UNL Parents Associa
tion, according to Peg Johnson, direc
tor of special projects for the office of
the v ice chancellor for student affairs.
The survey, which was conducted
Oct. 18, revealed parents were inter
ested mainly in UNL’s academic
support programs.
‘The parents w ere concerned with
advising, tutoring and how their child
could get help,” Johnson said.
The parents association attempted
to call 533 paronts; 358 were reached.
“A form was filled out as the par
ents were called,” Johnson said. “If
there was a prootcm or question mat
the parent wanted followed up on, the
form was sent to the appropriate
place."
For instance, she said, if a parent
had a child in a math class and the
parent thought the student needed a
tutor, then the form was sent to the
math department
After the follow-up request was
sent out, the report was to be returned
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out to thank the parents for their par
ticipation, Johnson said.
Of the parents surveyed, 59 calls
required follow-up inquiries, she
said.
The survey, according to Johnson,
was mainly a public relations effort
“It was done to determine if there
were services that needed to be of
fered or problem areas that UNL
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The parents who were called weft
randomly selected by a computer,
Johnson said.
“Part of the result was that, over
whelmingly, the parents were terribly
impressed that the university took the
lime to call," Johnson said. “It helped
show that the university cares about
their children."
