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Packets ’ popularity increasing at UNL By Eve Nations Staff Reporter While the use of photocopied packets is increasing at the Univer sity of Nebraska-Lincoln, the number of textbook orders has remained about the same, according to bookstore managers. Sales of packets from Astro’s Copy Services in The Reunion have stead ily increased, according to Fred Grady, building manager of The Reunion, 905 N. 16th St. Grady said that in the last two years, he has seen an increasing trend toward the use of packets, which represent 33 percent of Astro’s busi ness. “They have become more popular because they don’t require a lot of lead time,” Grady said. ‘‘A professor can throw materials together and have a packet by the next day.” Jim Perry, manager of Kinko’s Copies, 1229 R St., also said sales of packets have shown a large increase in the past several years. Perry attributes the popularity of packets to the versatility they offer. “The information is a lot more current,” he said. “They offer flexi bility, and you can get them faster than you can order a book, and they usually cost a lot less.” Most materials in packets are ar ticles from magazines and segments of old textbooks, Perry said. Richard Streckfuss, associate pro fessor of news-editorial journalism, said he uses only a packet for his -4 4 I couldn't find a textbook that had what I wanted to cover. Streckfuss associate professor -9 9 History of Mass Media and Society class. “I couldn’t find a textbook that had what I wanted to cover,” he said. “If I had a textbook that accentuated what I wanted to accentuate, I would use it.” But Streckfuss said packets don’t solve all of his problems. “One of the drawbacks is the packet is not a unit; it’s a bunch of stuff,” he said. “Many students don t under stand why something is in there (the packet) because it is all just thrown together.” Lorin Price, textbook manager at the Nebraska Bookstore, 1300 Q St., said that although the use of packets is on the rise, there have been no decreases in textbook orders. Textbook orders at the University Bookstore, Nebraska Union, lower level, have not decreased either, ac cording to Martha Hoppe, University Bookstore textbook manager. “Right now, professors use pack ets as supplemental materials,” Hoppe said. “The orders for supplemental texts have decreased,and I think it will eventually affect text orders.” Hoppe said packets definitely are viewed as competition for publishing companies. “Publishing companies are look ing at new alternatives for the fu ture,” she said. “Magraw-Hill is offering desktop publishing. They customize materials, and the binding used is better and sturdier than used in most packets. More and more compa nies will have to find alternatives to compete.” Some college students lack basic math, history, English, official says By Matt Herek Staff Reporter A University of Nebraska-Lm coln official said she agrees with U.S Secretary of Education Lauro Cavazos that general education must be emphasized more in college. Ellen Baird, UNL associate vice chancellor for academic affairs, scad some college students lack basic math, history, English and other skills. Last week, Cavazos outlined six goals aimed at improving higher education in the 1990s. Baird said those goals “in general are quite rational.” According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, Cavazos said, institutions should do the follow ing: • Decrease the difference in degree-completion rates by half between minority and majority students. • Increase the proportion of those receiving bachelor’s degrees who are proficient in a second language. • Ensure that all associate- and bachelor’s-degree recipients arc competent in college-level mathe maucs and science. • Ensure that graduates can write coherent and grammatically cor rect papers and have a basic under standing of world history, geogra phy and culture. _ • Increase by 25 percent the number of Americans completing doctorate programs in the basic arts, mathematics, sciences, engi neering and technological disci plines. Changes should include 50 percent increases in the numbers of women, blacks, American Indians and Hispanics. • Ensure that students leaving post-secondary institutions have critical-thinking and problem-soiv ingskiils. Baird said many students come to VJNL without foreign language experience. Students must be ex posed to foreign languages before puberty so they can absorb them better, she said. Universities also should work with high schools to broaden skills in English grammar and basic math, Baird said. Some college students do not know how to figure percentages or write a grammatically-correct English paper, she said. College students also should be able to evaluate scientific propos als or read articles on DMA or AIDS, she said. But the goals do not “cut it” if there is no money to back them up, she said. Curricula and research changes needed to reach Cavazos’ goals would be difficult to implement without financial backing from the federal government, Baird said. Spring election sites relocated for convenience From Staff Reports The Electoral Commission of the Association of Students of the Uni versity of Nebraska voted to relocate polling sites for spring ASUN elec tions. The voting booths will be located at the Nebraska Union and the East Union, Abel/Sandoz residence com plex, the College of Business Ad ministration, the Lutheran Center at 535 N 16th St. and the Lee and He lene Sapp Recreation Facility. The CBA polling site will be open in the morning on election day, March 14, and moved to the Lutheran Center in the afternoon. Based on a survey of voters last year, the Electoral Commission de cided to replace last year’s Hamilton Hall site with one at a residence hall. Jim I angenberg, commission chairman, said that last year Hamil ton Hall received the fewest student voters of the five polling sites. Only 9 percent of voters in 1989 said they voted at Hamilton Hall. 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