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Moeser vows higher standards MOESER from page 1__ Moeser said he guessed UNL’s curriculum was “adequate,” but that it would be scrutinized by deans of the colleges to make sure students are being chal lenged. If not, courses would have to be upgraded to qualify as “rigorous,” a word Moeser uses over and over in his description of the ideal class. Another task Moeser has laid upon the shoulders of the deans is finding the areas of strength in their departments. For example, he said, if the editing classes in the College of Journalism and Mass Com munications are found to be the best courses that college has to offer, more money would be funneled to the news-editorial program. “We’ll concentrate resources in that program,” Moeser said. “We can shift money to make sure we have the very best support for that program.” Moeser said money for stellar programs would be found by shifting the UNL budget or through pri vate funding, like the $30 million the university re cently received for the Barkley Memorial Center on East Campus. Moeser’s last ingredient for a meaningful diploma is reinventing the honors program. Discussion has been floating around campus about creating a separate honors college. But that’s not likely to happen, Moeser said, because new col leges have to receive state legislative approval. “It’s too many political hurdles,” Moeser said. Although the honors program won’t become an actual college, it will become more demanding. Moeser said he realized the importance of honors programs during his time at the University of South Carolina. “We need to make a capstone honors program for students who have the ability to work way be yond the norm, and to work very hard,” he said. Right now, honors students are required to take 18 credits of honors classes before they graduate. That number could soon rise to 25, Moeser said. -T ft'i Iff ■■ rr ■ ■ Before that could happegi, Moeser said, more hon ors courses peed to be available. The honors pro gram also will need to become more organized, and Moeser has started discussion groups?and formed a task force to find out howto do that The honors program has been growing quickly, and is almost up to its capacity of 1,000 students, Moeser said. Nancy Stara, an accounting professor who is lead ing the honors program discussion group, said 800 students have been admitted to the program in the last two years. The growth came about for a few reasons, she said. UNL has concentrated on recruiting honors stu dents recently, she said. Also, Stara said, she hopes people perceive UNL as having an excellent honors program. More scholarships have been made avail able to honors students, including the book scholar ship, which pays some of students’ book expenses. Moeser said he expected the task force to pull together an associated core of faculty and increase the sense of community among honors students. Another important addition to the honors pro gram, Moeser said, will be one faculty member whose job is solely to help students get into top-notch graduate, medical and law schools, to get scholar ships and grants and to apply for awards like the Fulbright grant UNL honors students do get into those schools now and receive prestigious scholarships, but the university wants it to happen more often. “Right now, it’s happening on an ad hoc ba sis,” Moeser said. “We need it to be a lot more organized.” The proposed changes, Moeser said, will make graduate schools, professional schools and future employers excited to accept and hire UNL students. “This just relates to having students who are well-prepared,” he said. - 11 ffl! mi ill iii niii lit l iM 11 'll IlIKIll: 111 I 'I1 (1 il 1'<111181111 B" IB -■ _ . ... . .. A 1 V^-year-oId girl died in her sleep Saturday night when her neck got stuck be tween a bed and a wall. Sarah Gude fell behind an L-shaped bunk bed and suffocated in her home at 4045 South St., County Attorney Gary Lacey said. When her father found her at 5:30 a.m. Sunday, the child was not breathing, po lice reports state. Lacey said no other injuries or signs of child abuse were on the child’s body. A 29-year-old man who brandished a rifle at a neighbor Saturday morning was cited for making terroristic threats. Ken Butler was working on a car at his girlfriend’s house on the 5400 block of Benton Street when Ed Trotter, a neighbor, complained about loud music, Lincoln Po lice Sgt Terry Sherrill said. Butler told him he would talk to his girl friend because the music was hers, Sherrill said. Trotter kept complaining and approached Butler with a thick stick, Sherrill said. Butler retrieved a rifle from inside the house and allegedly pointed it at Trotter, Sherrill said. Trotter told Butler he would club him V" ne lumea. Buuer toia trotter ne wouia shoot him if he turned: Police halted the standoff and arrested Butler. . .r-,. --A. ■ . .. ■ *_ Police found a sawed-off shotgun tucked in a homeless man’s bedroll in West Lincoln Sunday morning. Police stopped Victorio Johnson, 35, near S.W. First and J streets H.$:53 a.m. after hearing that he may be carrying a con cealed weapon, Sherrill said. Johnson gave police permission to search his bedroll, where they found a 12 gauge shotgun, sawed off at 12 inches, Sherrill said. He was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. -———————7————-————J A homeless man was arrested Saturday night when UNL police found him sleep ing in the back of a university van. Mark Moeller was found at the facili ties management building, 19th and Y streets, at 7:55 p.m., Sgt. Mylo Bushing said. Police woke him and searched him, finding a metal valve with traces of sus pected marijuana on it, Bushing said. Moeller admitted to using marijuana and was arrested. 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