WEATHER: INDEX Thursday, mostly sunny and warm, high around 00, southwest winds 10 to 15 miles per hour. Clear and mild Thursday night, low around 50. Fridav, mostly sunny and warm, „ orial.4 high around 00. Saturday and Sunday, warm Diversion.5 and dry with highs in the 00s. Increasing ®port*• • .. cloudiness Monday with a high in the 70s. Classifieds .15 Lows in the 50s throughout the weekend. September 28,1989University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 89 No. 23 ■ - ---- Survey shows UNL students rank parking No. 1 problem C J. Schepers Staff Reporter Parking is the most serious problem in the minds of UNL students, according to the spring 1989 UNL Student Health Survey. On a scale of one to seven, with one being no problem and seven being a serious problem, about 80 percent of 305 University of Ne braska-Lincoln students interviewed for the survey rated parking as a five, six or seven, outdistancing concerns over alcohol and stress. About 58 percent of students surveyed rated alcohol and stress as serious problems (five, six or seVen). The spring semester data recently was tabu lated into a report by Greg Barth, information systems manager for the University Health Center. This was the first year the study included the question: “How serious a problem are the following at the University, on a scale of one to seven, with one being no problem and seven being a serious problem?” The items rated by students include: park ing, student fees, stress, safety, crime, sexual harassment, gambling, alcohol, drug abuse, sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS. James Griesen, vice chancellor for student affairs, said he tries to convey students’ park ing concerns to UNL’s parking administration. Griesen said that when he traded places for a day with freshman Larry Miles in mid-Sep tember, he heard a “flood” of complaints about parking from students in Miles’ architec ture class. But Griesen said that parking concerns are « . -a -a not unique to UNL. He said he has seen “tre mendous” parking problems at three other campuses where he has worked: Ohio State University, the University of Michigan and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. One explanation for increased concern over parking, he said, is that the number of student drivers at high schools and colleges also has increased. “The number of cars seems to escalate every year,” he said. “When I was in high school, you could count on one hand the number of students driving,” Griesen said. Survey results show that more upperclass men said parking was a serious problem. While 61.1 percent of freshman rated parking as a major concern, 72 percentof sophomores, 85.8 percent of juniors and 89.6 percent of seniors reported the same. Differences between males and females over the parking issued varied slightly, with 83.4 percentof the females and 77.2 percent of the males rating parking as serious. Other significant differences between males and females were seen in the areas of stress, crime, safety, drug abuse, alcohol and sexually transmitted diseases. See PROBLEMS on 2 Muaents learn work skills Agriculture program prepares graduates for jobs By Jerry Guenther Senior Reporter Che UNL College of Agriculture is turn ing over new ground and combining different fields of study to help students become better prepared for their occupations with a program started last year. NUPAGE, which stands for New Partner ships in Agriculture and Education, is a pro gram of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The program, which began in August 1988, is partially funded from a three-year grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battlecreek, Mich. Maurice Baker, co-director of NUPAGE and professor of agricultural economics, said graduates often feel unprepared for their occu pations, even after spending at least four years studying and preparing. ' ‘We tend to teach students school skills and not work skills," Baker said. “We teach them how to take exams and that’s not what they need when they get out of here." Through NUPAGE, Baker said, faculty members have the opportunity to start courses that they believe could strengthen students’ learning experiences. Baker said NUPAGE has board members who meet with faculty groups to listen and discuss proposals for new courses or learning experiences. NUPAGE also encourages students and community partners, such as agricultural pro ducers and food representatives, to help plan . and develop new courses, he said. “The only input students frequently get is an opportunity to evaluate the course and the instructor after they have taken it,” Baker said. “They have no opportunity to benefit from their own suggestions that may later gel incor porated into the course.” Becky Thomas, outreach coordinator of NUPAGE, said she speaks with professors and department chairpersons to get names of stu dents interested in helping to plan a course. Thomas said she also talks to the students who have been suggested to get additional names. “We’re trying to broaden the base (of people planning the course), so that isn’t the same old input,” Thomas said. Although student input is important in get ting a new course developed, Baker said, fac ulty initiative is critical. See NUPAGE on 2 ”B.m„.JB.IIyU.L,^ Participating in a Navy exchange program, J. Scott Weldon spent two months this summer on a British Royal Navy ship. ROTC midshipman rubs royalty elbows Student sails with Royal Navy By Michelle Cheney Staff Reporter While other UNL students were va cationing and soaking up the sun this summer, UNL student J. Scott Weldon was sailing with the British Royal Navy and meeting British royalty. Weldon, a midshipman in the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln’s Navy ROTC pro gram, spent two months this summer on a British Royal Navy ship as part of a Navy exchange program. Weldon is a senior exer cise-physiology major. Weldon rubbed elbows with royalty on his last day in England. His ship, the HMS Amazon, was guarding the royal yacht. As he was taking pictures of royalty figures, Queen Elizabeth II motioned Weldon to come closer. He said he thinks she motioned him because his uniform was different from the British Royal Navy uniform. See ROTC on 2 Search committee applicants chosen By Jana Pedersen Senior Reporter Despite senators’ concerns about a restrictive time frame and small number of appli cants, ASUN voted Wednesday to approve the nominations of two stu dents for a position on the committee that will help select the new Univer sity of Nebraska president. Seniors Deb Fiddelke and Matt Gotschall were unanimously ap proved as nominees for the commit tee position during the meeting of the Assocation of Students of the Univer sity of Nebraska. After ASUN President Bryan Hill told senators that only three appli cants were interviewed for nomina tions to the committee post, Sens. Marc Shkolnick and Bart Vitek ques tioned the effectiveness of the way the committee opening was publi cized. “It troubles me greatly that there were only three applications,” Shkolnick said. “It seems to me that the type of university we have should lend itself to preparing (a greater number of) qualified applicants.” Shkolnick said he did not doubt *l c abilities of either Fiddelke or Gotschall, but he said he was disap pointed that there were no residence hall or minority nominees. “We better make damn sure we are involving the minorities in this decision,” he said. Vitek said that because this par ticular position was so important, he was upset that senators didn't try to recruit minority applicants. “We need to go that extra yard,” he said. “We neeid to spread the word better and take it into consideration that people don’t know that they might be qualified.” But Shkolnick said he realized that because nominations are due by the end of this week, the limited time frame prevented adequate publicity. Hill said he would have been will ing to extend the deadline to allow for more applicants if the deadline for nominations had been any later. But Hill said he was confident that either Fiddelke or Gotschall would adequately represent the UNL stu dent body if selected for the commit tee position. Hill said two nominees from each campus will be submitted to the NU Board of Regents who then will select one of the six applicants to sit on the 12-member presidential search com mittee. The committee will review all presidential applications starting in January and make a final recommen dation of six applicants to the regents, he said. Cost of recycling stopped UNL efforts in the past Editor's Note: This is the second story in i four-part series about recycling By Jana Pedersen Senior Reporter If a proposed recycling pro gram is started at the Uni versity of Nebraska-Lin coln, it won’t be the first. About ten years ago, the local Paper recycling company, Dennis aper Sales, iffBgwKf-m installed sev- lUll/IUdl eral wooden RECYCLE bins on cam- ni|[ir