More UNL students
choosing 2 majors
By Dionne Searcey
Staff Reporter
Double majoring “makes sense”
to students who want to get ahead in
the job market, an official said.
“Our society is becoming more
and more a society of specialization.
One way in which students can spe
cialize is to combine areas of inter
est,” said James Griesen, vice chan
cellor for student affairs.
A recent article in the Chicago
Tribune said that more students are
choosing to have double majors at the
undergraduate level to help them
compete in the job market.
John Beacon, director of scholar
ships and financial aid, said more
students at the University ofNebraska
Lincoln are taking the double major
route.
“In talking with students that come
to the (financial aid or admissions)
counter and to NSE (New Student
Enrollment), I’ve found an increased
interest in that,” he said. “It allows
students to make themselves more
sellable in the specialized world.”
Beacon and Griesen did not know
the number of students with double
majors at UNL.
Mike Eckert, an advising assistant
in the College of Arts and Sciences,
said many students find that having
one major with two minors is easier
than double majoring.
But, he said, if students plan ahead,
double majoring isn’t that difficult.
“It’s tight, but it can be done,” he
said.
Students majoring in different
colleges at UNL need to plan care
fully, he said, because they must ful
fill two sets of requirements. Each
major requires a set of courses to be
completed.
Therefore, Eckert said, it’s easier
for students to double major within
the same college because the require
ments are the same. This way, he
said, classes can count for general
requirements and toward a major.
Griescn said some colleges at UNL,
such as journalism, encourage stu
dents to have double majors.
The combination is more of an
assurance that the students can mar
ket themselves, he said.
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■ skirtand two strings of lights taken,
6 Sigma Chi fraternity, 1510 Vine
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4:31 a.m. — Two men arguing,
Schramm Residence Hall.
5:37 pan. — False fire alarm, Wick
Alumni Center.
6:39 p.m. — Threatening phone
calls, Abel Residence Hall.
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Both of the above, right? You’re on your own
with laundry. But as far as shopping goes, you’d be
surprised how much Downtown Lincoln has in
store for Christmas...no matter how much you have
to spend. Get yourself a Downtown Christmas
Guide at the Union and you’ll see what we mean.
You can find fun little presents, Nebraska
souvenirs and lots of creative gift ideas—even
high-end fashions, electronics, jewelry' and more if
you want to spend some bucks. There are
interesting shops to explore, plenty of places to
grab a bite to eat and unwind, and none of those
obnoxiously long lines you get at the mall. Collect
free parking stickers with Park ’n Shop and you
can park free on Saturdays at the Centrum and
University Squaie garages.
When you’re ready to get into the Christmas
shopping mode, stick around Downtown. You’d be
surprised at how much Downtown Lincoln has in
store for you.
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UNL police promote campaign
City plans designated driver program
By Cindy Wostrel
Staff Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln Police Department, promoting a
citywide campaign, is encouraging
students to take advantage of a desig
nated driver program, an official said.
Cpl Larry Kalkowski said 21 drink
ing establishments and several busi
nesses are participating in the first
citywide program to encourage Lin
colnites to ride with a designated driver
when they drink alcohol.
“It’s not just the problem drunk
that we’re afraid of,” he said. “The
ones that say, ‘I’ll be OK,’ — they’re
in the most danger.”
That’s because it doesn’t take much
alcohol to impair a driver, Kalkowski
said. Three to four drinks can put
someone “well on the way to being
impaired, if not intoxicated,” he said.
Drinkers become impaired at the
0.05 blood alcohol level, he said, which
is half what is considered intoxicated
under Nebraska law.
Establishments participating in the
program will provide free non-alco
holic drinks to drivers, post signs and
provide coasters or buttons to iden
tify patrons who aren’t drinking.
Members of the Mayor’s Traffic
Safety Committee and the Lincoln
Police Department's Traffic Safety
Unit have trained employees of par
ticipating businesses to carry out the
program.
The committee’s goal for the pro
gram is to reduce the number of alco
hol-related crashes in Lincoln by 10
percent from 1989. In 1989, 1,500
people were killed or injured in alco
hol- or drug-related accidents in Lin
coln, according to the committee’s
statistics.
December was chosen for the pro
gram because it is “one of the bloodi
est months,” with a high number of
alcohol-related accidentsand danger
ous weather conditions, Kalkowski
said.
On a weekend night, from one of
10 to one of three drivers is intoxi
cated, he said.
The Lincoln Police Department
and the sheriffs department are plan
ning to set up sobriety checkpoints,
Kalkowski said. But he said he doesn’t
know where the checkpoints will be
or how often they will happen.
Work study lures more students
By Stacey McKenzie
Staff Reporter
More students are taking the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln up on its
work-study offer.
Larry Apel, associate director of
the Office of Scholarships and Finan
cial Aid, said numbers are up from
631 work-study students last year to
874 this year. There are a number of
reasons for the increase, he said.
A new system allowing work-study
students the freedom to apply for jobs
with any university entity that is hir
ing has been “extremely beneficial,”
Ape! said.
The system gives the employer the
opportunity to be more selective in
hiring, he said.
Students also are attracted by the
increased earning limit for work-study
students, he said. The limit was raised
in 1988 from $1,000 to $1,500 each
year.
Wages offered by UNL also have
increased 41 cents from last year,
Apel said, making university wages
competitive with the community job
market.
But the system allowing students
the option of where to apply has not
helped the housing department find
woikers for hard-to-fill positions, said
Doug Zatechka, director of univer
sity housing.
Work-study students usually ap
ply for clerical jobs, Zatechka said,
not food service and custodial jobs.
“I’ve been able to fill them,” he
said, “but not with work-study stu
dents.”
Zatechka said he hires about 400
students and about 40 to 50 are in the
work-study program.
There hasn’t been a significant
change in the housing department’s
hiring of work-study students, he said,
and the new system “hasn’t hurt us
and it hasn’t helped us, either.”
But Apel said the benefits of the
system to students and employers
outweigh any negative aspects of it.
“There is always a concern that
certain areas not attractive wouldn't
get enough students,” Apel said.
The Office of Scholarships and
Financial Aid starts awarding work
study annually May 15 and keeps
awarding it until the fund has been
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exhausted, Ape! said.
This year’s work-study fund has
been exhausted and no more work
study is being offered for the remain
der of the year, Ape! said. However,
all priority students opting for work
sludv received it. he said
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lUNL professors to speak Wednesday on the Middle East
political science Professor bill
■ Avery will speak on U.S. foreign
■ policy and the Middle East at 3
■ p.m. Wednesday in the Nebraska
I Union.
As part of the student group
I Early Warning!’s informative pres
entation senes, Paul Olson, an
English professor, and Larry Doerr,
a campus minister with United
Ministries in Higher Education, also
will speak.
Olson’s topic is the legality of a
war in the Middle East and Doerr’s
speech will discuss conscientious
objection.
On Thursday, Rob Benford, an
assistant professor of sociology,
and A.L. Marsteller, a sociology
professor who leaches the Vietnam
Experience class, will speak.
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course should not be considered
remedial, he said, it wouldn’t be.
The report recommended that
“remedial” courses not be state-sup
ported and that no credit be given for
them.
Patricia Widmayer, president of
Widinayer and Associates, said UNL
is spending a lot of resources on stu
dents who probably should go to a
community or state college to make
up deficiencies.
“Too many students are not mak
ing it to their sophomore year” at
UNL, she said.
Griesen said the place to deal with
students who are not prepared for
college is at the admissions level, not
in the classroom with remedial courses.
UNL admits “very few” students at
the conditional level, and those stu
dents generally must make up defi
ciencies in regular college courses,
he said.
The only remedial courses offered
by UNL are in the math department,
in which many students seem to have
deficiencies, Griesen said.
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The worst recorded snowball fight
was in 1981 when 10 students were
arrested.
Dave Willman, president of the
Interfratemity Council, said the best
way to avoid a serious snowball fight
is “not to publicize it.”
He said fraternities are encourag
ing their members not to participate
in the fights. Individuals who do
become involved in the fights are
punished, Wi liman said.
“In the past, they’ve done some
pretty harsh penalizing,” he said.
Jayne Wade Anderson, director of
greck affairs, said her office con
stantly is taking measures to increase
students’ awareness and prevent a
snowball mob.
She said the office informs stu
dents ot the consequences of partici
pating in a snowball fight, which could
include probation or suspension.
“ lo me, I don’t know what’s ap
pealing about it," Anderson said.
Anderson and Willman said they
didn’t expect a riotous snowball fight
this year. They said they thought the
police would be able to handle the
situation before it became a problem.
But Becker said, "We (the police)
would net interfere until tlwre was a
serious threat of life, persons or prop
erty.
"Wc would hope that cooler heads
would prevail during the winter sea
son," he said, "and that students would
behave in a responsible manner.”