Minority
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nity, but also to attend a variety of
cultural events to test personal values
and gain new ideas.
He said he strongly urged students
to consider courses in the Institute for
Ethnic Studies. He remarked that ex
amining different cultures other than
your own can “open up new he-roes
and she-roes.”
But Green said she believed that to
really understand the issue of racial
conflict, you had to go through it.
Green said incoming students
should, “hang in there; keep their
head up.”
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rates for 1992-1993, but two factors
forced the university to exceed those
figures.
The first was UNL’s decision to
lower the drop/add fee, anticipated to
cost about $150,000. Griesen said the
fee was “an irritant to students,” since
the drop/add process was a normal
part of registration, and in many cases
was waived altogether.
1 he second, and most important,
reason for the increase was the instal
lation of a new student information
system. Griesen said that UNL would
spend $4 million over the next five
years on software to improve data
collection and retrieval on its main
frame computer.
The end result, he said, will be a
system which cuts down on the amount
of time students and the administra
tion spend on paperwork associated
with enrollment, financial aid, drop/
add and billing.
By the fall of 1994, Griesen said he
expected students would be able to
register by touch tone phones, as done
at several other Big Eight campuses.
The system will also allow stu
dents to use touch tone phones to
apply for financial aid, and also to
check the status of their aid applica
tions, Griesen said. Instead of stand
ing in line for an hour, only to find
their grant or loan check had not
arrived, they would need only make a
short phone call to the financial aid
office.
The touch tone revolution is only a
part of the new computer package.
The information system includes a
computerized degree audit program,
which Griesen said will allow stu
dents and their faculty advisors to be
able to check the studcni s status on
completion of degree requirements
from a computer terminal, without
going to the registrar’s office to re
quest a formal audit.
Lastly, the system will centralize
student accounts and billing. Instead
of receiving several bills from the
university, students would receive
only one itemized statement.
Gricscn likened the billing system
to a charge account at a department
store.
“You go into a Younkcrs in Ne
braska and Iowa and Missouri, and
f;et things from different departments
ike automotive, home furnishing and
the like, but you only gel one bill at the
end of the month,” he explained.
Ultimately, Gricscn said, the sys
tem should allow greater case in ad
ministration by lowering operating
costs, thus helping slow future tuition
increases and diverting more money
to directly serving UNL students.
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if the family has three or more chil
dren. These parents, he said, have
been through the experience many
times before, and have an idea of what
to expect.
Sometimes, however, when the last
child leaves for college, parcntscxpe
rience the Empty Nest Syndrome,
Williams said. The parents feel a
panic, he said, because it’s just the
two of them and they’ve forgotten
what that’s like; they now have to
learn to live with just each other again
and get reacquainted.
But the Empty Nest Syndrome is
not as prevalent today as it was five or
six years ago, Williams said. Because
so many kids come back and live with
their parents after they leave home the
first time, he said, there’s really never
an empty nest.
Feeling concern and anxiety over
children starting college is inevitable
for parents, he said.
Knowing that these feeling will
occur won’t make things any easier,
Williams said, but it can help in pre
paring the parents to deal with it.
And the children also can help to
alleviate their parents concerns, he
said.
“If kids know and can keep in mind
that their parents arc feeling anxiety,
it might be easier for them to pick up
a phone or write a letter,” Williams
said.
Variety of events engage
Lincoln culture-seekers
By Melissa Landis
Staff Reporter
Celebrating the arts on the Univer
sity of Ncbraska-Lincoln campus is
made easy by its three theaters—The
Lied Center, Kimball Recital Hall and
the Mary Ricpma Ross Film Theater.
The Lied Center for Performing
Arts at 301 N 12th St., which first
opened in 1989, is the latest fine arts
performance center added to campus.
Professional louring companies
stopping in Lincoln can be found on
the Lied Center's main stage.
Some of the main stage produc
tions already lined up for next season
include:
• Kathy Mattca: two-time Best
Female Country Vocal Performance
Grammy Award winner, who will be
playing songs from her latest album.
• Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet: Soviet
dance pair Assoluta Ekaterina
Maximova and Premier Dansucr
present a program of traditional bal
let.
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra:
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