Fine, Performing Arts College
to award degrees at graduation
by Amie Haggar
Staff Reporter
Commencement ceremonies for UNL’s fall
graduates will be Dec. 18 at 9:30 a.m. in the Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
Rodney Moore, assistant director for regis
tration and records, said the newly created Fine
and Performing Arts College would award
degrees for the first time. In this college, 15
students are candidates for December gradua
tion.
“This graduation is different because of the
fact that the new college will probably have its
largest number of graduates graduating for a
number of years,” Moore said.
Moore said there were 1,501 candidates for
graduation, including 1,117 undergraduate stu
dents, 366 graduate students and 18 law stu
dents.
Of graduates, 68 to 73 percent traditionally
attend UNL commencement ceremonies, Moore
said. Other states typically have less than 50
percent attendance, he said.
“We have outstanding attendance,” he said.
“In the Midwest, graduation is looked at as a
time for families to celebrate. It’s a time to
honor tradition.”
Association of Students of the University of
Nebraska President Keith Benes said he prob
ably would say a prayer at the commencement
ceremony.
“Right now I’m leaning toward giving an
invocation, like the ecumenical one I gave at
the August graduation,” Benes said.
Despite the controversy that surrounded
prayer at graduations last year, the university
reinstated prayer at commencement ceremo
nies in August, Moore said.
Benes said ASUN passed a resolution last
spring calling for university officials to rein
state prayer at graduations. Benes said a student
poll indicated last year that students favored
prayers at commencement.
“I would base my decision on the response
I’ve gotten from students,” he said.
The commencement address will be deliv
ered by Priscilla Grew, vice chancellor for
research, who came to UNL Sept. 1.
Grew, a geologist, received her undergrad
uate degree from Bryn Mawr College, and her
doctorate in geology from Berkeley. Before she
came to UNL, Grew worked with the Minneso
ta Geological Survey at the University of Min
nesota in Minneapolis.
Moore said graduate candidates would be
contacted by the Office of Registration and
Records by next week if they have received D
or F grades this semester, he said.
Undergraduate caps, gowns and tassels cost
$11.72, while master’s degree and doctorate
attire runs from S22.37 to $24.50, Moore said.
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ASUN’s last business meeting of the
semester will take what President Keith
Benes called a “light-hearted” jab at the
Associated Press.
Benes said he would
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mind you.”
Benes said the bill was meant to release
a little stress the senators might be under.
“(The bill) should lead to some interest
ing discussion, even though we are getting a
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“It’s important that parents and students are
aware of that.”
Whatever addresses students list as perma
nent in their 1994-95 applications will be con
sidered valid for the 1995-96 school year.
The government won’t forward the applica
tions either, Beacon said.
Still, for most students, the process of apply
ing for aid will be much easier. Once a student
has submitted an application, his or her future
chance to play for the national champion
ship,” Benes said.
Two other bills that will go before the
Association of Students of the University of
Nebraska will deal with the Central Plan
ning Committee and Academic Planning
Committee, Benes said.
Benes said one of the bills supported the
disbanding of the Central Planning Commit
tee.
The other bill, Benes said, would allow
Benes to submit a bylaw change proposal to
Chancellor Graham Spanier to add another
student representative to the Academic Plan
ning Committee.
Benes said he was concerned about los
ing student representation on the two com
mittees. The Central Planning Committee
has two student representatives and the Ac
ademic Planning Committee has only one,
he said.
applications will be in the new format, Beacon
said.
“A student should be aware that there will be
some questions to answer, and they have to
correct or make changes on the form if anything
has changed for them between years,” Beacon
said. “But it makes it much simpler.”
Beacon said parents needed to watch the
mail for the new forms. If the new form does not
arrive, the student will have to fdl out a tradi
tional application form.
“They also need to know that if they submit
anything before Jan. 1, it will be rejected just
like anything else would be,” he said.
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alcohol isn’t present, he said.
“Whether it be alcohol or hazing,
the dangers are starting to rise,”
Thurbcr said.
A Phi Gamma Del ta pledge at UN L
recently fell from his house’s third
story window after consuming alco
hol there.
Thurbcr said fraternities in the fu
ture would have no choice but to ban
alcohol from the house.
“Rising insurance costs are terri
ble with fraternities,” Thurbcr said.
“There may be no alternative in the
future.”
Fred Yoder, a spokesman for the
SigmaChi national headquarters,said
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hisofficc supported the Orono, Maine,
chapter. But Yoder said he didn’t
think the decision would lead to a
fraternity-wide rule banning alcohol.
“We are a volunteer-driven orga
nization,” Yoder said. “Making some
rule that mandated no alcohol in fra
ternities of all shapes and sizes would
be immensely impractical.”
Yoder said the majority of Sigma
Chi chapters would not adopt the no
alcohol policy.
“Hopefully, several will,” Yoder
said.
Rising insurance costs are one rea
son fraternities are turning to the pol
icy, he said.
Insurance companies are realizing
fraternities are trying to curb the risks
involved in running the house, he
said.
“The escalating rates have slowed
down somewhat,” Yoder said. The
slowdown is a result of many national
chapters trying to curb risks through
policies and risk management pro
grams.
Fryer said his fraternity was start
ing a nationwide trend.
“I see what we are doing here is a
trend-setter,” Fryer said. “A lot of
other fraternities around the nation
would benefit from a dry house.”
But Fryer said individual fraterni
ties should be able to decide whether
to ban alcohol from the house. Mem
bers would look upon the policy more
favorably if it was adopted voluntar
i!y.
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rally, volleyball competition between
residence halls and a scheduled street
dance, which was canceled.
The homecoming tradition has
dwindled, Loudon said. Decause of a
lack of organization and planning.
“The future of homecoming is tied
in with keeping the traditions of the
past,” Loudon said.
In the past, homecoming events
began weeks in advance.
Seventy-four years ago, homecom
ing was described with perhaps a bit
more nostalgia. A quote in the 1919
yearbook calls homecoming a time of
retrospection.
“It is the day when Nebraska’s
students go back and gather up the
broken and lost threads of friendship.
It sets aside a time for reunions about
the campus hearth,” according to the
yearbook.
About 2,000 visitors attended the
first homecoming daylong program
in 1912.
Spectators watched a then-UNL
tradition of athletic games called The
Olympics in the morning. The
Cornhuskers played Kansas in the
afternoon, and 500 people attended a
banquet in the evening.
Three years later, in 1915, home
coming day had become more elabo
rate. A band concert and fireworks
followed the afiemoon football game.
At 8 p.m., dancing began.
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