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October 3, 1990__University of Nebraska-LincolnVol. 90 No. 27
‘ Reaching new heights
A student makes his way up the stairs in Bessey Hall on
Tuesday.
Reunification excites students
Germans ready to party
By Sara Bauder Schott
Senior Reporter
A 45-year-old wound was healed
when Germany was reunited
last night, and German stu
dents at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln decided that was worthy of
celebration.
They had a few problems putting
their party together, however.
Wolfgang Dunkel, a German ex
change student majoring in business,
said the students had trouble finding a
room for their parly. They couldn’t
have it on campus because the party
would have been noisy and would
have involved beer, he said.
“We’re Germans -- we have to
have beer at our party,’’ Dunkel said.
The students finally did get their
party together, deciding to hold it at
Chesterfield’s at nine o’clock tonight.
Bemd Meindl, another German
business student, said putting a cele
bration together in America is no easy
task. He said a major problem was the
21-year-old drinking age, which meant
that holding the celebration in a bar
would exclude minors.
Meindl said that now that they’ve
found a room, the German students
are trying to gather flags and other
German memorabilia for their party.
Dunkcl said the reunification is spe
cial because it involves people com
ing together after being split for 45
years.
‘ ‘This symbolizes the end of a bad
time in German history,” Dunkel said,
referring to the post-World War II era
of a split nation occupied by commu
nist and Allied powers.
Because reunification has been on
the horizon for several months, Dunkel
said, his reaction was not spontane
ous, but he Teels “very, very glad.”
Politicians who used reunification as
an election ploy have slowed the
process, Dunkel said. He said he was
surprised it took so long for the two
Germanys to become one again.
Dunkel, who is from West Ger
many, said he has some distant rela
tives in East Germany. He said his
family was unable to contact those
relatives while the two Gcrmanys were
split.
See GERMANY on 5
Long-distance choice on hold
Official has hang-ups over students choosing telephone services
By Sara Bauder Schott
Senior Reporter
Proposed Federal Communica
tionsCommission regulations
to allow on-campus students
to choose their long-distance phone
company would hang up the univer
sity Telecommunications Center’s
operation, an official said.
Ruth Michalecki, director of the
Telecommunications Center at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said
that allowing students to choose from
the many long-distance companies
would create a billing nightmare.
“In the residence halls, you have
two students to a room,” she said.
“What if they want different serv
ices? And then what happens when
one of them moves out after two
weeks?”
The regulations would require the
university to let students choose their
long distance companies instead of
having the university choose one
company for everyone.
Choice would be costly, Michalecki
said.
Every time a student changed rooms
in a residence hall or greek house,
installation charges for a different
long-distance carrier could result, she
said. And the university would have
to pay those charges, she said.
Residence hall students change
rooms frequently and students in greek
houses move everv semester
Michalccki said.
Kurt Schrocdcr, an attorney in the
Enforcement Division of the FCC,
said the proposed regulations arc meant
to protect consumers.
About three years ago, the number
of complaints the FCC received on
operating services went up dramati
cally, he said. The commission started
receiving about eight complaints for
every one they had received before.
The FCC is receiving about \00
complaints every month, he said.
One complaint was the blocking
of access to long-distance carriers
that had not made a deal with the
phone owner. The deals, called pre
See PHONE on 5
Proposed plan would unite state business programs
By Jennifer O’Cilka
Senior Reporter
Afasl-paced, constantly chang
ing business world that places
more demands on students
every year has led Nebraska business
colleges to develop a coordination
plan to keep up.
Larry Trussed, dean of the Uni
versity of Nebraska at Omaha Col
lege of Business Administration, said
the 10-point plan was proposed so the
business colleges at Omaha, Lincoln
and Kearney could belter serve stu
dents and the business community.
The plan also was proposed to better
inform the community about needs of
the colleges.
Trussell said he and Gary
Schwendiman, dean at the University
of Nebraska-LmcolnCollegcof Busi
ness Administration, had discussed
such a plan for more than a year.
“The real genesis came from the
fact that the business community and
all studies on economic development
in Nebraska led to the business com
munity demanding more from the
business schools,” he said. “If'wc
arc going to effectively meet these
demands, we (die three campuses)
need to work together.”
Sam Reno, interim dean of the
School of Business and Technology
at Kearney Stale College, said the
world of business and industry is
changing so rapidly that it places more
demands on graduates.
Reno said those demands include
knowledge in international market
ing and the ability to deal with those
from other cultures.
Heidi Putensen, chairwoman of the
CB A Student Action Council at UNL,
said “a lot of businesses expect stu
dents to come out (of college) with a
lot more wcll-roundcdncss.”
This includes problem-solving,
environmental economics and busi
ness ethics, she said.
Instead of a one-time change that
would occur when a new course is
instituted, Trussed said students will
notice changes indirectly and gradu
ally.
If the plan is successful, students
on both campuses would have belter
See BUSINESS on 6
Recruitment efforts needed
Non-traditional student enrollment down at UNL
By Cris Wildhagen
Staff Reporter
Nebraska colleges’ success this
year in recruiting the 25-and
oldcr student has led to a
decrease in non-traditional student
enrollment at UNL, an official said
Robert Malhiascn, adult student
adviser at the Division of Continuing
Studies, said schools such as Doanc
College in Crete and the College of
St. Mary’s in Omaha survive on adult
student enrollment and the Univer
sity of Ncbraska-Lincoln loses many
students to those schools.
UNL. still is geared for the 18- to
24-year-old full-time student who lives
in a residence hall, Malhiascn said.
Full-time non-traditional student
enrollment for 1990-91 was 1,338,
down from last year’s enrollment of
1,370. Adult student enrollment peaked
at 1,436 in 1988-89.
James Griescn, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said the decrease wasn’t
significant.
UNL has to fight an “institutional
image” that it has mainly traditional
students, he said, but the university
has a good non-traditional student
enrollment and those students would
feci comfortable.
While UNL offers programs for
non-traditional students, he said, other
colleges set up curriculum packages
that aggressively target non-traditional
students.
The packages provide students with
a program to follow and a target gradu
“4 4
If we're losing, some
body's gaining.
Kriss
adviser for Adult Student
Network
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ation date.
Judith Kriss, adviser to the UNL
Adult Student Network, said the uni
versity probably is not doing enough
to recruit non-traditional students. The
Adult Student Network is a student
support group for the non-traditional
student
“If we’re losing, somebody’s gain
ing," Kriss said.
Students might be attracted to short
term career options that arc offered at
the other colleges, she said.
UNL should consider offering more
classes at times often convenient for
non-tradiuonal students - the early
morning, late afternoon or over the
noon hour, Kriss said.
But UNL docs make some efforts
to attract the non-tradilional student,
Kriss said.
The counseling center is aware
that non-traditional students have
certain kinds of psychological and
practical problems that might be dif
ferent from the normal student, she
said.
Mathiasen said the Division of
Continuing Studies offers programs
to help older suidcnts with study habits
and career objectives.
Every fall and spring a workshop
is held geared for the new and reen
tering non-traditional student, he said.
Representatives from the UNL of
fices and advisers from every college
arc available to answer questions the
students may have and to tell the
students what is offered in the col
lege.
Continuing studies also offers
advising in the evening and on Satur
days, he said.
Number of non-traditional g{j^n
undergraduate students
Total: 1.238 1,372 1,436 1,370 1,338
Source :Offioe ol Inatituiionai Research Planning and Fiscal Analysis.
John Bruce/Dally Nebraskan
