More choosing summer school, officials say
— J Willllll
Senior Reporter
More and more students arc foregoing fun in
me sun for the classroom, University of Ne
bf£ska'L‘nc°ln summer session registration
officials said.
Liz Grobsmith, director of UNL’s summer
sessions, said the number of students enrolled
in summer classes has grown slightly in the last
couple of years, and she expected that trend to
continue.
In 1991, a total of 15,388 summer classes
were requested. In 1992, that number rose to
15,482.
Grobsmith said summcrcnrollmcnt had been
steady for about a decade, with class registra
tion growing slightly every year.
Students slock in summer sessions has gone
up recently, Grobsmith said, because of smaller
sections.
“Students are getting a little more of the
professor’s attention during the summer,” she
said. “It’s quite a bit different than in the fall or
spring.”
Grobsmith said summer school alsoattractcd
a lot of students who were working their way
through college/
“Studcntsarc working more these days,” she
said. “They’re only taking 13 hours in the fall
and in the spring, on the average. They need to
make those hours up somewhere, and summer
courses arc the first place they look.”
Earl Hawkey, UNL’s director of registration
and records, said students have relatively few
problems getting their classes during the sum
mer compared to fall and spring semesters,
when Drop/Add is often necessary.
Grobsmith said admission limits for sum
mer class sections were somewhat more lenient
than in the fall and spring semesters, making it
easier for students to get the c lasses they needed.
“If a class is overfilled by, say, one or two
students, then we’ll most often ask the profes
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During the summer we get
a lot of people here who
aren’t here during the
spring and fall semesters.
—Hawkey
director of registration and records
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sor to accommodate those extra students,”
Grobsmith said. “If it’s really overregistered—
by several students — we’ll usually create a
new section.
“It’s kind of a balancing act for us,” she said.
“Some sections don’t fill at all; others arc filled
right away."
Hawkey said students wanting to accelerate
their education, nontradilional students and
teachers working toward master’s degrees, are
the main students taking summer courses.
“During the summer we get a lot of people
here who aren’t here during the spring and fall
semesters,” he said.
Hawkey said UNL’s laid-back environment
during the summer months was another reason
why some students stay in town.
“The relaxed (summer) atmosphere on cam
pus attracts students who want to get a leg up on
their classes,” he said.
Grobsmith said preregistration isover for all
summer sessions, but general registration is
still a possibility for students who wish to take
classes this summer. For the presession and
eight-week session, general registration will
take place May 14.
General registration for the first five-week
session is scheduled for June 3 and 4 and July
9 for the second five-week summer session, she
said.
Students can also register late for summer
courses. A late registration period will be of
fered, accompanied with a small fine. The
presession late registration date is May 18; the
eight-week session’s late registration date is
scheduled for May 20; the first five-week ses
sion, June 9; and the second five-week session,
July 14, Grobsmith said.
UNL summer session
classes requested
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requested has slowly increased with the
trend projected to continue -
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POLICE REPORl
Beginning midnight Thursday
10:37 a.m. — Verbal distur
bance, Selleck Hall.
10:59 a.m.—Equalizer stolen,
parking lot at Harper Hall, $60.
12:20 p.m. — Person intoxi
cated, Cathcr/Pound halls.
3:14 p.m. — Person injured,
transported to University Health
Center, circle at 15th and S
streets.
Beginning midnight Friday
2:26 a.m. — Light poles dam
aged, Love Library, S80Q.
7:19 a.m. — Hit-and-run acci
dent, parking lot at Burr Hall,
$600.
8:10 a.m. — Purse stolen, Vet
erinary Basic Science Building,
$26.
12:13 p.m.— Burglary, Sigma
Alpha Mu Fraternity, 733 N.
16th St., $ 170 loss, $50 damage.
1:46 p.m. — Walkman stolen,
Love Library, $150.
2:17 p.m.— Hit-and-run acci
dent, parking lot at Harper Hall,
$200.
2:27 p.m.— Vehicle damaged,
parking total Harper Hall, $150.
3:55 p.m. — Bike stolen, Ar
chitecture Hall, $258.
5:04 p.m. — Backpack stolen,
University Bookstore, $119.
7:38 p.m. — Hit-and-run acci
dent, gravel parking lot at
Haipcr-Schramm-Smith, $70.
9:12 p.m.—Person intoxicated,
transported to detoxification
center, Nebraska Union.
Beginning midnight Saturday
1:02 a.m.—Disturbance, 1245
R St.
1:50 a.m. — Person walked on
vehicle, parking lot at Sandoz •
Hall. $150.
3:23 ajm. — Soap in fountain,
Brovhill Fountain, $100.
1:22 p.m. — Purse stolen, Ne
braska Union, $130.
1:47 p.m. — Vehicle keyed,
parking lotatHarpcr-Schramm
Smilh, $250.
2:08 p.m. — Carpel damaged,
Abel Hall.
8:45 p.m. — Tree stolen,
Schramm Hall. «
10:59 p.m. — Verbal distur
bance, parking lot at Harper
Schramm-Smilh. .
Beginning midnight Sunday
2:14 p.m. — Harassment, Love
Library.
3:15 p.m.—Trespassing, Poul
try Complex.
7:02 p.m.—Bike stolen, Sandoz
Hall, $335.
7:57 p.m. — Vehicle damaged,
parking lotat Sandoz Hall, $70.
9:21 p.m. — Two males fight
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NSE leaders ready for incoming freshmen
Student guides
wrap lip months
of intense training
By Jeffrey Robb
Staff Reporter_
After months of intense training,
the 1993 team of New Student Enroll
ment leaders is ready to educate thou
sands of incoming freshmen about
being a student at the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln.
The NSE program was created to
help incoming freshmen adjust to life
at a large college. NSE also helps
students pre-register for classes, gives
campus tours and answers the ques
tions of students and their parents.
“We need to make people aware of
the services offered and the things
available to new students... We give
tips andlnsight so that the transition to
college is easier,” said Stacy Brandi,
an NSE leader. '
“We need lo make the students
com tollable and let them know that
they made the right decision,” Brandt
said.
This summer’s NSE leaders made
the decision lo become leaders last
October.
Pat McBride, director of NSE,said
115 students applied for the NSE leader
positions. Each applicant had to an
swer four essay questions. After the
essays, the applicants were screened
by individual colleges, which nar
rowed the field to 56 people.
Of those remaining, at least one
student from each of UNL’s colleges
was chosen as a representative,
McBride said. The rest were chosen
based on the percentage of new stu
dents that entered each college the
year before.
In the end, 26 students were hired,
and then the training began.
This semester, NSE leaders took
Educational Psychology 496, also
known as ihc “New Student Enroll
ment Orientation Leader Training
Internship.” The course is worth three
credit hours, McBride said.
He said in the past few months the
leaders have learned to guide campus
tours, to speak in public and todiscuss
with people the possible problems
they could encounter as new students
at UNL.
McBride said that for NSE leaders
todo their jobs well, they must memo
rize mountains of facts about UNL so
they can answer any of the questions
people might have. '
As summer approaches, the lead
ers arc perfecting their new skills,
McBride said. The final step in their
education calls for them to break into
groups of four to seven and organize
a skit that would help new students
better understand problems on cam
pus.
As the training comes to a close,
McBride said that this NSE leader
group prepared very well.
“They’re better prepared than the
year before,” he said.
But with all this preparation, NSE
leaders still have problems perfecting
the backwards walk necessary to guide
a campus tour. Many leaders from
past years said that stumbling or run
ning into things on campus was the
only obstacle that NSE training
couldn’t help with.
Suzanne Gish, an NSE leader from
last year, said leaders couldn Tal ways
rely on students to tell them when they
were about to hit something.
“Students arc always quiet at the
beginning of the tours,” Gish said.
“They’re loo timid to speak up.”
She said she almost backed into a
concrete column on one tour. Tour
guides narrowly averted tumbling over
shrubbery countless times, she said.
McBride said that for somebody to
walk backwards, they needed to prac
tice doing it for a long lime.
“Thai’s usually the big story at the
end of the year,” he said.
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