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Basic costs of attendance Costs for a resident student enrolled for 30 undergraduate hours in the 1992-93 academic year. Figures are for UNL and its peer group institutions (health center fees and book costs are excluded). u or Illinois 3>oyt>u | Ohio State 6855 I U of Minnesota 6441 Purdue 6213 Colorado 6196 Colorado State 6190 U of Missouri 6109 1U of Iowa 5459 Iowa State 5212 UNL 4952 Kansas4739 1 m^rm" ,w . Source: Vice Chancellor (or Student Affairs Scott Monroe/DN UNL tuition, fees low compared to peers By Carina Loontjer Staff Reporter As many new students and their parents prepare for college, one thing they may not be ready for arc the bills that await them. Although the bills might seem large, compared to the other uni -> «-~«arsiues in us pee* group, ifec Uni-, verslty of Nebraska-Lincoln is ac tually a reasonable price, James Griescn, vice chancellor for stu dent affairs said. UNL is the second least expen sive university in its peer group, with only the University of Kansas being cheaper among the 11 schools in the group. During the 1992-93 academic year, UNL students paid an aver age of $4,952 for their total basic costs. This figure includes the cost of 30 hours of undergraduate classes, room and board in the university residence halls per year and man datory fees excluding health facil ity fees. Health fees arc excluded be cause not all of the universities have the same services available to students as those provided by UNL. Overall, UNL costs $1085.00 less than the average of the other schools in its peer group. -44 Learning respon sible personal ment should be a key objective to students In college. — Griesen, UNL Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs -ft - Griesen said rcsidcncchall prices were one of the main reasons UNL was so much cheaper than the other schools in its peer group. Living in UNL’s residence halls is $644 less than the average of the other schools. Griesen kid reasons for the low prices to live in the halls included low mainicnancc costs and the fact that all UNL residence See COST on 10 Computer Continued from Page 6 it’s whal the students want,” Griesen said. University of Nebraska at Kearney students have been using a similar touch-tone phone registration since April 2. Griesen said the program has al ready bocn a success there. The touch tone phone sy stem did not tic up phone lines, and the average connect time for students using the system was 3 1/ 2 minutes. “It went very smoothly for them,” he said. Donna Liss, a coordinator of Infor mation and Management with the Computing Resource Center, said the new student information system will help university personnel deal with an increasing workload. “Some of the computer software wc have goes back to the 1960’s,” she said. “It’s so dated and we have some things that we would need to do with the system that we can’t do.” Liss said administrators now have a need for prerequisite checks for classes, student grade checks and other needs that the old system could not handle. She said these items would eventu ally be available to students and ad visers under the new computer sys tem. The university is expected to hirp^ at least four people to facilitate the computer changeover, Liss said. She said that even though UNL, UNK and tbc University of Nebraska at Omaha were buying the same sys tem from the same vendor, the program’s software would be differ ent because of the different proce dures on each campus. Still, Liss said sne was impressed by the success of the UNK voice registration system. ”1 liked what I saw,” she said. Welcome to UNL As you look around and discover how great college life is going to be, stop by the Nebraska Bookstore and discover the difference that will v make college life even differ* 13th &Q - 402-476-0111 'a "*"* # ' k Monday - Friday 9am - 6pm, Sunday Noon - 5pm, Thursday till 8pm S 5.00 OFF Any Backpack sa«e« Present coupon at time of purchase. Not valid with other offers. One coupon per person. Expires October 1, 1993. 13th & Q - 476-0111