Books
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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.”
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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.
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To earn the distinction
of champion tree, the
plant must be a tree,
not a shrub.
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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.
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The bald cypress tree on East Campus is one of the six state
champion trees on campus.
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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.
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