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1^_ Jeff Haller/DN 1 James McClure, a member of HOTS, the residence hall orientation team, gives Mike Anderson and his grandfather, Leonard Anderson, a helping hand Tuesday by lugging luggage up the stairs of Cather Residence Hall. Halls filling up despite jump in fee By Mike Lewis Senior Editor -- UNL’s residence halls may need “No Vacancy” signs soon, even though the cost of a room has increased by $95 this year — a 3.1 percent jump. Residence hall fees went up this year because of a more than 4 percent increase in university faculty and staff salaries, said Doug Zalechka, direc tor of housing. Despite the increase, Zalechka said he guessed the residence halls were between 90 and 93 percent full, with students still filling out residence hall contracts. “Things arc changing by the hour,” he said. Last year at this time, Zatechka said, about the same number of stu dents had signed up to live in the residence halls. But more graduate and non-traditional students arc plan ning to live in the halls this year. More students living in residence halls will keep the housing office free of budget worries, he said. “We’re always glad to have more people.” Single rooms are filling up and soon may be offered only to graduate, non-traditional anddisablcd students, Zatechka said. A single room with a 20-meal plan will cost $3,465, while a double room with the same meal plan will cost $2,915. With a 13-meal plan, a single room will cost $3,410, and a double room $2,860. Because Sellcck and Fcdde resi dence halls and Piper Hall, a section of Neihardt Hall, slay open during vacation periods, the cost of living in those halls is $110 more than other halls, Zalechka said. Students living in residence halls I will find better parking than at many other schools, he said. Parking convenience, however, varies with different residence halls, Zalechka said. For example, parking is available near the Harper-Schramm Smilh complex, but Sellcck has al most no parking, he said. Teachers College increases standards IBy Ronda Vlasin Staff Reporter The UNL Teachers College is upgrading its program to better pre pare teachers for the real world, an administrator said. “Teachers arc facing a society that is quickly changing,” said Margaret Sicvers, director of the college’s Stu dent Services Center. “We need to prepare our students for these changes.” For students to graduate prepared to teach, she said, they need to know more when they enter the university. Sicvers said high school core admission requirements to the col lege, as well as changes in the general requirements to graduate from the college, would be raised. Changes in high school core ad mission requirements will be imple mented fall semester 19%. These changes include: four years of high school English; four years of math, algebra level or above; three years of natural sciences and social sciences; two years of the same foreign lan guage and one year of fine or per forming arts. Sievers said high school guidance counselors had been informed of the changes so this year’s ninth graders will be aware of additional classes they may need to take. ‘I don’t think we are blocking anybody with our increased standards,” she said. “Students will enter college more prepared and graduate with more knowledge. “If our country is ever going to be competitive with the rest of the world, it needs to start with the teachers and with school.” In addition to enforcing the high school core admission requirements, the Teachers College requires stu dents to have a 20 on the ACT college admission test or be in the upper half of their graduating classes, Sievers said. Requirements also have been changed to help Teachers College graduates perform well in teaching situations with minority students. “Eighty percent of Nebraska school districts have no racial ethnic minori ties,” Sievers said. “This means a high percentage of our students have never been around minorities.” The multicultural education course and two other cultural diversity courses will be required instead of one class in this area. The college also will require two years of a high school foreign lan guage or two college foreign lan guage courses, Sievers said, because 30 lo 40 percent of students in the United Slates do not speak English. “Teachers will often walk into a classroom where no one speaks Eng lish," she said. “Our students need to be prepared for this.” English requirements will be in creased from three hours of English composition to six. Students also will be required lo have a higher level of computer liter acy, Sievers said, because most schools now have personal computers. Teach ers must know how to use word proc essing programs, construct data bases and recognize the difference in pro grams for personal computers. ‘Teachers need to know how they can use them so they can leach stu dents how to use them,” she said. Two college-level math courses, with statistics encouraged, will be the new math requirement, Sievers said. Three natural science courses with one lab will be required instead of one. “The need for additional science courses is a given in this highly tech nological age,” she said. Sievers said the Teachers College did not allow students to enter tnc college with high school deficien cies. But students can enter the uni versity, get rid of the deficiencies and then enter the college. This policy could change, how ever, if a proposal to change overall admission to the university is approved, she said. l nc piupu?>cu ui<uige» in u*uun admissions slandardsarcalmost iden tical to the Teachers College’s new admission requirements. The only difference is that the fine or perform ing arts requirement would be broader under the overall admissions stan dards proposal, she said. Stan Liberty, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the faculty had accepted the admissions proposals. They will go before the NU Board of Regents in October or November. If the university’s overall admis sions standards change. Liberty said, the role of community colleges also will shift. “Since students will now have to look there to get rid of high school deficiencies, these schools will be less vocational,” Liberty said of community colleges. “More pressure will also be put on secondary schools.” Sievcrs said the Teachers College would enforce its new admissions requirements in 1996, even if UNL’s overall admissions standards are changed. First Christian Church (DISCIPLES of CHRIST) t i i. Close To Campus (16th and X Streets) 475-4289 • Free Parking Dr. Robert Kunz, Pastor • Rev. Glenda Dietrich, Associate Pastor Monthly Parking 5 Spaces Left - paved lot Mon.- Fri. Mon.- Sun. 6am - 6pm 24hrs. $20/month $38/month 'excludes football Saturdays K-CO I 9th & "S" St.474-6043 THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT TEVA SANDALS TEVA is the authentic sport sandal, ap proximated but never duplicated. 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