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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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installed sev- lUll/IUdl
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ing old news- RECYCLE
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Edie Truax, office manager for the
company.
The student group Ecology
Now is trying to initiate a a similar
recycling program at UNL. J. Bur
ger, project coordinator for the
group, said lie thinks recycling
would save UNL money and help
the environment
The original recycling project
ran into problems after just a few
years, Truax said, because of the
decreasing value of newsprint on
the recycling market
“Basically what happened ...
is that the newspaper market was
so bad that we couldn't sell it once
we collected it,'* she said.
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