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May 4, 1990 University of Nebraska-Lincoln _Vol. 89 No. 147
Study shows growth
in graduate enrollment
of minorities, women
By Jerry Guenther
Staff Reporter
While graduate enrollment at
American colleges and uni
versities has been increas
ing in recent years, the growth has
been strongest for minorities and
women, according to a national study.
The study, by the Council of Gradu
ate Schools and the Graduate Record
Examination Board, is a summary of
three years of research and outlines
trends in graduate enrollment.
Results from the study are divided
into two categories. Data from the
first part of the survey arc based on
responses from 536 of 576 institu
tions asked to participate. Both stu
dents enrolled in doctoral and mas
ter’s programs are included in the
study.
From 1986 to 1988, the number of
women in graduate schools increased
almost 5 percent, from 419,693 in
1986to438,695 in 1988.
Women accounted for almost half
of all graduate enrollment in 1988,
with only about 200 fewer students
than men.
Male graduate enrollment increased
about 3 percent during the same pe
riod, from 425,018 in 1986to438,876
in 1988.
Although more students cam gradu
ate degrees at public institutions than
private institutions, private institu
tions had a larger percentage increase
in graduate enrollment from 1986 to
1988.
More than 266,500 students were
enrolled in graduate schools at pri
vate institutions in 1988, up 4 percent
from 1986. Public institutions had
670,039 students enrolled in graduate
school in 1988, up 3 percent from
1986.
Graduate enrollment by ethnic
groups was more varied, according to
figures from the second part of the
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Program will continue next fall
Start-up of recycling program slow
By dames P. Webb
Staff Reporter__
Two students in Harper Resi
dence Hal) are trying to
recycle aluminum cans and
newspapers in a way that would be
“beneficial to everyone,” but the
program has been slow to get started.
Freshmen business administra
tion majors James Vihstadt and
Andy Eilers head a cans and paper
recycling committee, called CA
PERS, dial was created in Febru
ary by the Haiper/Schrarnm/Smilh
Residence Hall Association.
But recycling efforts haven’t
been successful yet, Vihstadt said.
The problems began with student
awareness and participation in the
program and finding a buyer for
the materials, he said.
“We’ve put up posters in all the
lounges, and we’ve put up signs on
every floor, but a lot of those signs
get ignored,” Vihstadt said.
“(Students) just walk by the signs
and don’t bother to read them. ’
In the last 2 1/2 weeks, students
almost have filled the dumpster for
paper, but the bottom of the dumpster
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Officials: Values lower default rates
By Matt Herek
Staff Reporter
Colleges and universities are
benefitling financially from
Midwestern people’s values,
according to an official at the U.S.
Department of Education.
Jim Moore, spokesman for the
department’s office of post-secondary
education, said default rates on fed
eral loans at Midwestern colleges and
universities are lower than in other
areas - perhaps because of the way of
life.
Nationally, the average default rate
dropped 1.7 percent from 1987 to
1988, from 17.3 percent to 15.6 per
cent, Moore said.
But at UNL, default rales still are
lower than the average.
John Beacon, director of the Of
fice of Scholarships and Financial
Aid, said in April that the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln had a 3.3 per
cent default rate and that Creighton
University had a 2.2 percent rate.
One reason for that low rate, Moore
said, is the social, economic and moral
values in the Midwest.
Populations and families arc more
stable in the Midwest, where parents
teach their kids that debts should be
promptly paid back, said Moore, origi
nally from Lincoln.
If he came back to Lincoln, he
said, he probably would find that few
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Mol Ism Me Reynolds/Daily Nebraskan
“Cry Freedom’’
“Arrested” students, seated on the floor, are joined by other Lincoln Northeast students to hear
speeches by Dr. Kunle Ojikutu and Robert Hitchcock of the University of Nebraska-LIncoln. The mock
arrest was part of Anti-Apartheid Week sponsored by the school’s Amnesty International Chapter.
Call for recruits
increases growth
of Peace Corps
By Doug Isakson
Staff Reporter
After reaching a low point in the 1970s, the Peace Corps
may be regaining some of the popularity it achieved in
the 1960s, an official said.
Paula Kuzmich, press officer for the Peace Corps at its
national headquarters in Washington, said 26 countries asking
for volunteers for the first lime and a proposed budget increase
of $16 million are evidence that the corps is expanding.
Kuzmich said more countries -* including Poland and Hun
gary - have asked for Peace Corps volunteers in the last 18
months than did in the last 18 years.
Kuzmich said the organization’s $16 million 1991 budget
increase proposal from the Bush administration would result in
the largest increase in 15 years.
Kuzmich said the Peace Corps’ growth mostly is a result of
the growing demand for volunteers.
In the past, Kuzmich said, most volunteer positions were
filled by liberal arts graduates. Now liberal arts majors make up
only atx)ut 40 percent of the volunteer force. The remaining
positions often are fdled by graduates in computer science,
small business and especially in environmental fields.
Kuzmich said fears have been expressed that the Peace Corps
would ignore Third World countries after its move into Eastern
Europe. But, she said, the Peace Corps presence in Third World
countries has increased, and the new positions in Eastern
Europe represent only 2 percent of the organization’s budget.
Ruth Thompson, Peace Corps recruitment coordinator at
UNL, said more students have picked up volunteer applications
in the last year, but the number that have been returned has
dropped from 20 to 16 applications since last year.
Thompson, a Pfcace Corps volunteer for two years in the
Philippine Islands, said it was an educational experience.
“Volunteers get a tremendous amount of education about
themselves, their culture and about the U.S.,” Thompson said.
“You can’t save the world, by any stretch, but you can make a
difference.”
Thompson said Peace Corps applicants often have the mis
conception that they will be sent to a foreign country where they
will work for the Peace Corps. In reality, she said, members
work for a supervisor from the host country.
“People who arc expecting them to hold your hand,” Th
ompson said, “aren’t going to have those expectations met.”
Bob Wolz, a UNL senior in elementary education, was
notified Friday that he will become a Peace Corps volunteer in
July. Wolz said he will train teachers in the Philippine Islands.
‘‘I’m really exited,” Wolz said. “It’s starling to sink in that
it's a reality that I’m going.”
Wolz said he has spent much of his lime lately learning about
the food, culture, history and weather of his host country.
“I know so little about the Philippines,’ ’ he said. ‘‘I’m trying
to become familiar with the place before I go. I know there will
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