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
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“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.
By redistributing the voting sites,
commission members hope to make
voting more convenient, Langenberg
said.
In other business, a presidential
candidate for the upcoming ASUN
elections was fined $5 by the Elec
toral Commission for campaigning
inside the ASUN office.
Deb Fiddclkc, TODAY party can
didate, was fined for receiving a tele
phone call at the office regarding
campaign plans.
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