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Tuition increase serves
students, official says
By Mike Lewis
Senior Editor___
UNL’s 7.5-pcrccnt tuition increase
may translate into larger figures on
students’ bills this fall, but the bene
fits could be greater in the long run.
James Gricscn, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said the revenue from
this increase would help pay for a
new student information system to be
installed at the University of Nebraska
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lion system should lower operating
costs, it could cut down on future
tuition hikes, he said.
The system will allow students to
use touch-tone phones to register for
classes, apply for financial aid and
check on the status of their financial
aid applications, Gricscn said.
It also will allow students and
advisers to perform degree audits from
a computer terminal, he said, and it
will centralize accounts so students
will gel just one itemized bill for all
their university-related expenses.
UNL will spend $4 million over
the next five years installing the
computerized system, Gricscn said.
The tuition increase also will cover
the anticipated S150,000 loss of reve
nue that will result from the elimina
tion of the $5 drop/add fee charged to
students, he said.
This fee removal, with the cost of
installing the student information
system, meant tuition had to be in
creased more than what had been
anticipated,Gricscn said. Initially, he
said, UNL had foreseen a tuition hike
of 5 percent.
Undergraduate resident tuition for
1992-93 will be S61.50 per credit
hour, up from S57.25 last year. For
non-resident undergraduates, tuition
will be $167.50 per credit hour, up
from $155.75.
Graduate residents will pay $81.50
per credit hour, while graduate non
residents will pay $201.25. Last year’s
costs were $75.75 and $187.25, re
spectively.
For law students, resident tuition
will be $80 a credit hour, up from last
year’s $74.50. Non-resident tuition
will be $205.25 per credit hour, up
from $191 last year.
StudcnLs enrolled for seven or more
credit hours also will pay $171 per
semester in University Program and
Facilities Fees — an increase of S10
over last year’s fees.
/\ccorumg 10 a siuay conducted by
Gricscn’s office in June, UNL has the
second-lowest tuition costs for the
1992-93 academic year out of the 11
schools in its peer group. UNL also
has the lowest mandatory fee rates,
excluding health fees, of any school
in its peer group.
UNL had the same rankings last
year, Gricscn said.
“We’re not going to change greatly
from where we arc in our peer group,”
he said.
Schools in UNL’s peer group arc
Illinois,Ohio State, Minnesota,Colo
rado, Colorado State, Missouri, Pur
due, Iowa, Iowa Stale and Kansas.
A similar study conducted by Gric
sen’s office in February ranked UNL
fourth in tuition costs and last in
mandatory fees among Big Eight
Conference schools for the 1991-92
academic year.
Gricscn said these rankings would
be about the same this year.
UNL’s tuition increase is compa
rable to tuition hikes at other Big
Eight schools and at peer institutions,
he said.
Orientation
focuses on
real issues
By Mark Harms
Staff Reporter
Real-life campus issues that new
students need to know about is the
focus of this year’s Big Red Welcome
Week,said Patrick McBride,director
of New Student Enrollment at UNL
In the past, McBride said, the
program was a one-day event that
t dealt mainly with topics such as lips
on academic success, meeting other
students and how to find classes on
campus.
UNL now offers a week of orienta
tion sessions on subjects ranging from
choosing a career, financial aid and
campus safety to ethnic diversity, date,
rape and avoiding alcohol abuse.
Last Friday at Hamilton Hall, the
program offered a session, tilled “How
to Have a Blast Without Getting
Bombed,” that dealt with alcohol
problems on campus and ways stu
dents can enjoy themselves without
drinking.
Students Taking a New Direction,
a new student organization devoted
to students who have chosen not to
drink or to drink in low-risk ways,
sponsored the session.
Janet Crawford, the group’s fac
ulty adviser and UNL coordinator of
community health education, said at
the session that drinking at parties
was a common activity for students.
In interviews conducted with 40
UNL students — 20 women and 20
men — Crawford said she discovered
that drinking games greatly increased
students’ alcohol consumption and
that women drank more than men.
She said that men, if they arc not
playing a drinking game, drink about
a half a can of beer every 15 minutes
but would drink 1 1/2 cans if they
were playing.
Women drank about about one can
in 15 minutes if not playing a drink
ing game and two cans if they were
playing, she said.
The organization is having a pic
nic at Holmes Park Thursday and a
stand-up comedy performance at
Noodles Comedy Club on October
22.
