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Campus Yesterday and Today: „ „ „ . „„ u ..
The photo on the left shows buildings on campus at 12th and R streets during the 1920s, including the former Grant Memorial Ha l and Phairnacy Hall. Sheldon
Memorial Art Gallery and its adjacent sculpture garden, seen in the photo on the right, are now located at the same location, along with Hamilton Hall in the
background.
U NL s history* charter traced t»to«r
By Lisa Vernon
Staff Reporter
Since its charier, started by an act
of the Nebraska Legislature in 1869
until present day, the University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln has come a long
way from the days of the prairie.
“The university’s history is evi
dent in the collection we have in the
university archives,” UNL archivist
Lynn Pom said. “We have yearbooks,
files, newspapers and much more.”
According to sources that detail
UNL’s history, the university’s char
ter originally provided for six depart
ments or colleges, but when the uni
versity first opened in 1871, only the
college of ancient and modem litera
ture, mathematics and natural sci
ences began. Only 20 students were in
attendance the first year.
The following year the college of
agriculture was added.
Admission requirements to UNL
were much different than today. In the
early years, it was noted that if you
could read, you were admitted.
UNL began with only four blocks
of land, which was at one lime sur
rounded by an iron fence. Today, the
university is set on 655.2 acres in
Lincoln, including both City and East
campuses.
UNL*s first building. University
Hall, was buill in 1871 and was ihc
only building on campus unlit 1886.
On June 25, 1874, 320 acres of
land were purchased by Ihc university
from Mr. and Mrs. Moses Culver to be
a farm for agriculture students to study
their trade.
Today, that farm is known as‘
UNL’s East Campus and is still the
sighlofagricullurcclasscs in addition
to numerous others.
The first UNL library began in one
room in University Hall, where it
stayed for 15 years. Currently, UNL is
Nebraska’s major comprehensive re
search university. The library is the
state’s largest with more than two
million volumes, 20,000 periodicals
and electronic access to libraries and
data bases throughout the country and
world.
Students began their life at the
university by living in boarding houses
off campus. Now, the 13 residence
halls, fraternities and sororities house
more than 7,500 UNL students.
January 1883 was when UNL’s
first fraternity. Sigma Chi, was estab
lished followed by Phi Delta Theta in
December of the same year. In 1884,
the first women’s organization, Kappa
Kappa Gamma, was started followed
by Delta Gamma in 1887. There arc
currently 17 sororities and 28 frater
nities in existence on campus.
In 1X90, the tug KCC looioan
iradilion was started with the organi
zation of the first team. Nebraska’s
biggest rival of the time was Doanc
College in Crete, Nebraska. Today,
Doanc is a division II college.
Ground breaking for Memorial
Stadium was held on April 26,1923,
and was dedicated in a Homecoming
game with Kansas on Oct. 20 of the
same year.
The name “Comhuskers” was first
applied to Nebraska athletes by
Charles S. Sherman, the sporting edi
tor of “The Nebraska Slate Journal.”
Before this lime, the athletes were
known as “Bug-eaters,” “Tree-plant
ers” or “Nebraskans.”
Parent adjustment vital to student’s success
By Stacie Hakel
Staff Reporter
A big problem for parents is learn
ing how lo “lei go” of ihcir children
when they leave lor college, a Univer
sity of Ncbraska-Lincoln official said.
Vcmon Williams, Career Coun
seling coordinator at UNL, said par
ents often had trouble adjusting when
their children siartcd their collegiate
lives.
“Many parents, when their son or
daughter left for school, they didn’t
realize what it would be like,” Wil
liams said. “They didn’t realize the
troubles they would have, like if they
were studying or eating.”
Williams said some parents may
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-* Many parents, when their son or daughter left for school, they didn’t
realize what it would be like.
— IWilliams
UNL Career
Counseling coordinator
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not be able lo adjust, and they may
sometimes act inappropriately.
He said examples of such actions
include calling theirchild loo often or
calling their child’s instructors if they
happen to be failing a class.
‘The student is the one who has lo
deal with it,’’ Williams said. “The
student is the one who has lo make the
grade and do well in the course."
Williams said parents needed to
learn to acccpl their children were
growing up and arc handling respon
sibilities.
1 f parents can ’l acccpl that change,
they should look for support from
others or re-evaluate their thoughts,
he said. ,
“Ii helps lo talk lo someone who
has been through it; you gel a belter
perspective on things by talking,”
Williams said. “It’s not like lhcyTrc
culling all lies, but having someone
else to talk to helps,” Williams said.
Williams said another method for
help would be relaxation techniques,
including such activities as prayer,
exercise and things to keep busy.
Belly Bal I, the mother of Erin Bal I,
a sophomore political science major,
said she was thankful her four chil
dren were not still dependent on her.
“I feel like you have to let go every
year,” Ball said. “Even as they grow,
they arc spending less time bccauscof
jobs and activities.”
W illiams said he helps out with the
New Student Enrollment program by
gi ving a lecture on what parents should
anticipate when their children leave
for college.
“Even though it is not that big of a
firoblcm, there is still that sinking
ccling as a parent,” Williams said,
