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Books Continued from Page 1 Bookstores’ average margin on the sale of a textbook has risen from 20 to 25 percent, he said. New editions must be issued more often in certain disciplines to keep up with technology and world develop ments, decreasing the useful life of an edition from three to fivd years down to two in some cases, Williams said. Faculty aren’t stressing the impor tance of the text like they used to, Mastrovich said, now that handouts can be produced with relative ease and less expense. Students are choos ing not to buy the book. “A lot of people like to pin it directly on us, but we’re all (publish ers, retailers, users) party to the in crease in prices.” r { Winning wood a walk away State champion trees call East Campus home By Julie Skar Staff Reporter Champion is a word often used to describe an Olympic ath lete or a great sports team, but according to cham pion tree coordinator Mike Kuhns, it also is used to classify great trees. Champion trees are documented in the Nebraska Champion Tree Register as the largest of their spe cies. East Campus is the home to all six of UNL’s champion trees. Construc tion on City Campus makes it diffi cult for trees to grow large enough to be considered champions, said Kuhns, an assistant professor and extension forester for the forestry, fisheries and wildlife department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The bald cypress, which is the largest tree on East Campus, sits on a mound across from C. Y. Thompson Library near the east parking lot, he said. To earn the distinction of cham pion tree, the plant must be a tree, not a shrub. It usually has a single upright stem and must be at least 13 feet tall, Kuhns said. As soon as a tree is believed to be a state champion, measurements arc made of its stem circumference, its height and its crownsprcad, the dis lance between the edge of leaves on one side of the tree to the edge of the leaves on the other, Kuhns said. Points are given for the measure ments; the trees with the highest to tals qualify as champions. - 4* -— To earn the distinction of champion tree, the plant must be a tree, not a shrub. -99 " UNL’s five other champion trees include a Chinese lilac, a black jack oak, a scarlet oak, a lace bark pine and a blue ash. However, the blue ash champion is dying, Kuhns said. When a tree grows that large, it’s condition can deteriorate, he said. Nebraska’s best specimen of a champion tree is in Gosper County, located in central Nebraska. The eastern cottonwood, which is Nebraska’s state tree, is both the state and national champion. It is 35 feet around, 96fcetlal land 121 feetacross the lop. nmp«rt«y/Daii^ebraskan The bald cypress tree on East Campus is one of the six state champion trees on campus. ■I IRTHDAY SALE I There's still time (but not much) to stop into Pickles and help them celebrate. Get your favorite music at unusually low prices. Now until Sunday. _ Now available at Pickles: Transfer Continued from Page 1 cultural or natural science programs. The program, which lets students transfer a block of courses, offers more options than transferring on a course- by-course basis, said Steve Waller, assistant dean of the agricul tural college. The 2 Plus 2 plan would specify which course requirements would need to be fulfilled before moving to UNL. The students would then enter the university as juniors instead of fresh men with 30 hours of agricultural classes that might not count toward their degree, he said. “It lakes the risk out,” he said. Many students prefer to attend a community college because of lower costs and more hands-on training and practical experience that they might not get during the first two years at UNL, Waller said. There arc no enrollment figures available yet for the program, which began last April. Cindy Cammack, assistant to the dean of the agriculture college, said there arc 66 transfer students so far this year, up from 55 last year. Cammack expected the numbers to rise and said she has been getting more transfer folders every day. * 10 sessions for $25 with student I.D. * Bulbs changed regularly for maximum strength * Wolff Tanning Systems * We sanitize beds for you vvUlL//, i > 70th & A 489-6998 I I CD’S $9.97 CASSETTES $5.97 We are a location SALE ENDS SUNDAY I All Locations 17th & P.56th & Hwy 2 .3814 Normal *237 & 70th
