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UNL By Paula Lavigne Senior Reporter : Final NU enrollment figures show that UNL’s 2 percent student increase was the largest of the four campuses. The University of Nebraska has 49,659 students this fall, up 157 stu dents from last year. At the University of Nebraska Lincoln, the College of Fine and Per forming Arts accounted for the high est percentage of new students with 10 percent more than any other col lege, and the College of Arts and Sciences accounted for the most new students with 306, a 6.8 percent in crease. The University of Nebraska at Kearney experienced a .5 percent increase, while the University of Nebraska Medical Center saw a .5 percent decline. The University of Nebraska at Omaha saw a 2.4 percent drop. UNO freshman enrollment, however, is up 7 percent. UNL saw a 2.6 percent increase in undergraduate enrollment and a .4 percent decrease in graduate enroll ment. At UNO, there was a 3.4 percent decline in undergraduate enrollment and a 2.3 percent increase in graduate enrollment. UNK saw an increase of .2 percent in undergraduate enrollment and an increase of 1.9 percent in graduate enrollment. The largest increase was a 12 per cent rise in students enrolled at die Nebraska College of Technical Agri culture in Curtis. The numbers are affected by changes within the campuses. Those changes include: — All degree-seeking students at UNL are included in the figures for the colleges that grant their degrees. — Only non-degree students are now included in UNL’s Division of Continuing Studies enrollment. ■*. 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Cj*/ /1 VISIT OUR WEB SITE at http://www.loci.com/HO/viUage/Citibank/CSLC.html Code 297 Republicans want equal radio time By John Fulwtder Senior Reporter The Nebraska Republican Party wants equal time. But the Nebraska Broadcaster’s Association doesn ’t think equal time is called for. Yet. State GOP Chairman Chuck Sigerson said Wednesday that because Gov. Ben Nelson was a declared candidate for the U.S. Senate, his opponents should get equal time on the air. In a letter to the NBA, Sigerson wrote Tuesday that Nelson’s radio appearances fall under federal election rules. Nelson has a monthly radio call in show. ' . Dick Palmquist, NBA ex ecutive director, said Nelson had not triggered the equal time requirement. Equal time will be required, he said, only after Nelson offi cially files to be a ballot candi date. Dara Troutman, Nelson’s press secretary, said Nelson would file for the ballot some time after the first of the year. Sigerson said Wednesday that he understood Nelson was not violating the equal time rule.. “He is now receiving an un fair advantage that no other can didate, Republican or Demo crat, is currently receiving,” he said. Most of Sigerson’s concern focused on last week’s call-in show. Sigerson said more than half of the callers talked about Nelson’s Senate candidacy. “It became a ‘Ben Nelson for Senate’ program,” he said. John Bender, who teaches communications law at the University of Nebraska-Lin coln, said broadcasters would not be required to give Repub licans equal time even after Nelson officially files for the ballot. That is because both parties are still in the primary election process, he said. Though it may appear otherwise, there are no Republicans running against Democrats now, he said. Can didates from the two parties compete among their fellow party members for the primary nomination, he said. Only after the primaries are over, he said, will Republicans be competing directly against Democrats. They will then be able to claim equal time, he said. Democratic candidates for the Senate could claim equal time now, he said. But that is not likely to happen because no Democrats are running against Nelson. Appeal Continued from Page 1 summer, but if the appeal was a press ing issue the department would handle it. “I think what we do in the English department is notoriously humane,” he said. “We would make accommo dations and get people together. “We would do whatever we had to do to avoid heartbreak and tragedy and all that.” The problem doesn’t arise often because the number of grade appeals is relatively low, less than two per semester, he said. John Ballard, associate dean of the College of Engineering and Tech nology, said he has handled only two appeals since January 1994. The .col lege uses an ad hoc com mittee, he said, which should be easy to find during any semester. “All you need to do is find two students and two faculty who aren’t in the department,” he said. “It’s not that difficult.”