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Big pigs
Josiah Frobish, son of Kent and Susan Frobish of Lincoln and a first-grade student at Lincoln Christian School,
inspects a pair of pigs during Kid’s Day at the Animal Science Building Thursday. Laurie Peate, a first grade teacher
at the school, said tne annual field trip was “a good way to expose (children) to farm animals.”
Requirements may change
Committee offers
admission policy
recommendations
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Senior Reporter
Significant increases in core-course require
ments for admission to UNL will be rec
om mended in a report to be release
today, the vice chancellor for student affair
said.
James Griesen, chairman of the 15-membe
UNL Admissions Policy Advisory Committee
said the committee would recommend the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln change how i
weighed its admissions criteria.
UNL admission standards now require stu
dents to meet one of three requirements. The)
must complete a group of core-curriculun
courses described in the student bulletin, gradu
ate in the upper half of their high school clas:
or score a 20 on the American College Test or
an 850 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
The cojnmittee, Griesen said, would pro
pose “changes in the way those three variables
interrelate.”
“We will be proposing that other measures
come into play in making individual admis
sions decisions,” he said.
Griesen said he did not want to comment
. further on the recommendations until the
- committee’s report was officially released.
The committee was appointed in August by
5 then-interim Chancellor Jack Goebel to study
the UNL’s admissions standards. It is one of
r four committees in the University of Nebraska
conducting such studies.
Committees at the University of Nebraska
t at Kearnev and the University of Nebraska at
Omaha also are studying their admissions stan
dards. Another committee is studying the univer
’ sity wide standards—those that apply to UNL,
UNO, UNK and the University of Nebraska
Medical Center.
i Griesen said UNL had no campuswide stan
dard tor admission. The University of Ne
braska standard of core curriculum classes,
class rank or ACT or SAT scores is used
instead, he said.
The admissions policy committee’s pre
liminary recommendations released today could
be the first step in creating specific standards
for UNL.
• Gricscn said the committee would spend the
next month accepting feedback on its recom
mendations. He said students, faculty, admin
istrators or anyone who wished to comment on
the proposed changes would have the opportu
nity to do so.
The committee also will send a copy of the
report to the chairman of every academic de
partment and the deans of every college, Grie
sen said. Committee members will meet with
any deans or chairmen concerned about the
proposed changes, he said.
At the end of the comment period, Griesen
said, the committee will reconvene to decide if
it wanted to change any of the recommenda
tions.
After the recommendations are completed,
they will be sent to Chancellor Graham Spanicr
for review, he said.
Gone buggy
Ads aim to lure students to ‘fun’ entomology class
By Rainbow Rowell
Staff Reporter__
/ ou’ll laugh, you’ll cry — it’s the
• * Y feel-good hit of the semester!”
“Bubonic plague, maggot-infested
wounds, kinky sex!”
“Who arc you sleeping with? What are
social parasites?... What is traumatic insemi
nation?”
These classified advertisements have caused
a stir since they first appeared Monday in the
Daily Nebraskan.
The ads arc trumpeting the arrival of a new
course at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln:
Entomology 108 — Insects, Science and Soci
ety.
Leon Higley, an assistant professor of ento
mology and author of the ads, can answer
Suestions about all the hype. Higley will teach
ic new course next semester.
“There are two reasons,” Higley said. “It’s a
new course, and there’s always trouble getting
interest.
“And the kind of students I want to reach are
not the type of students taking entomology,
biology or any science.
“I’m concerned with the chasm between
people who have knowledge of science and
those who don’t. I’d like to bridge that gap.”
Higley said the course would teach insects’
role in society, history, medicine and the envi
ronment, along with interesting, little-known
facts about insects.
“The intent of the course is to have fun,” he
said.
Higlcy’s second goal, he said, is to explore
how science is conducted
Higley has planned 10 ads to run for the
duration of the pre-registration period. At this
time, one section of Entomology 108 is planned
for Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 1:30 to 2:20
p.m.
Higley said he was looking forward to teach
ing the course.
June trial
scheduled
for Baldwin
Right to jury will be
waived, official says
From Staff and Wire Reports
Andrew Scott Baldwin will stand trial
June 8, the Lancaster County Attorney
said Thursday.
Gary Lacey said the date was announced
following a meeting Thursday with defense
attorney Hal Anderson and Lancaster District
Judge Paul Merritt Jr.
Baldwin , a 22-ycar-old student at the Uni
• versity of Nebraska-Lincoln, was charged with
first-degree and third-degree assault after al
legcdly beating a Lincoln woman and injuring
a police officer Jan. 18.
Baldwin pleaded not guilty and not respon
sible by reason of insanity to both charges to
both charges on Feb. 27.
If convicted, he could face up to 25 years in
prison.
“The first plea is saying, ‘I’m innocent,”’
Lacey said. “The second is saying, ‘I’m not
responsible by reason of insanity.’
“It’s a defense mechanism for making us
prove beyond a reasonable doubt,” he said.
“He’s not giving an inch.”
Lacey also said Baldwin would waive his
right to a trial by jury during a hearing sched
uled for 10 a.m. today. *
Merritt will decide the case.
“This is a technical issue,” Anderson said of
the insanity defense. “It’s my opinion that
judges are better able to decide that than a jury
is.”
Baldwin was released from jail March 2
after an anonymous source paid his $10,000
bail.
He is living with Nebraska football coach
Tom Osborne following inpatient evaluation at
St. Joseph’s Center for Mental Health in Omaha.
Communities,
NU swap ideas
using network
By Sean Green
Senior Reporter
Departments and colleges at the Univer
sity of Nebraska are taking part in an
outreach network designed to strengthen
Nebraska communities and businesses.
The Nebraska Developmental Network was
designed to help businesses and communities
and the university share ideas and resources,
Nebraska Lt. Gov. Maxine Moul said.
Steve Larrick, coordinator of the Nebraska
Community Improvement Program at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said that through
the network, the Col lege of Architecture shared
See COMMUNITY on 6
A frustrated, debt-laden Paul Tson
aas pulls out of the Democratic race.
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Love Library will run out of shelf space
in 5-7 years. Page 6
Connecticut crushes the Comhuskers.
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INDEX
Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports 7
A&E 9
Classifieds