Safety Walk sheds some light
Areas around Avery
Hall and the Lied
Center were found to be
problematic.
By Sarah Baker
Staff Reporter
The preliminary results of problem
areas found at the annual Spring
Safety Walk were presented at
Tuesday’s Parking Advisory Commit
tee.
The primary areas the committee
was concerned with were the dim di
agonal walkway north of the Lied
Center far the Performing Arts and the
west entrance of Avery Hall.
“The lighting throughout City
Campus was consistently good over
all,” construction management profes
sor Linda Swoboda said.
Swoboda said she was also con
cemed with some of the lights being
“subdued.” She said she wanted to
look into either installing some dif
ferent varieties of light, such as up
turned lights like those near the Tom
Notebook sculpture located at the cor
ner of 12th and Q streets, or replac
ing some light fixtures with higher
watt bulbs.
Tad McDowell, manager of park
ing and transit services, said he was
interested in looking into having night
aerial photographs of the campus
taken and overlaying the photographs
with a sidewalk grid to see where the
actual dark spots are located.
“Aerial photographs would take
people’s perceptions of darkness out
of the lighting considerations,”
McDowell said. “Some spots seem
darker than they are because the ar
eas around them are well-lit.”
McDowell was unsure of the cost
and availability of night aerial pho
tography, but he said he is thinking
about looking into the process fur the
campus.
The committee also presented the
sketch of the 1997-98 University Park
ing Permit. McDowell said the com
mittee decided on the elliptical shape
for the permits, similar to this year’s.
“We have tried different designs
and shapes in the past,” McDowell
said. “The round shape has received
the least complaints about shape and
has also received less counterfeit at
tempts.”
The new permits will feature a
black and white sketch of the tower
on Love Library and will be the same
colors as the 1996-97 permits. The
hologram portion of the permit will
be shrunk down to a small red “N” at
the bottom of the pass.
The 1996-97 passes featured a big
ger hologram that covered a larger
portion of the permit. McDowell hopes
the counterfeiting of permits will con
tinue to decline, as this year there was
only one attempt of a student trying
to make a fake pass.
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Admission standards
rise for ’97 freshmen
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The others are deferred and denied
admission to UNL for fall 1997.
Griesen said the university has not
placed a cap on the number of students
to be admitted, and UNL would have
a place for any student who meets the
new admissions requirements.
But statistics show a direct posi
tive correlation between a student’s
academic preparation in high school
and their performance at UNL,
Griesen said.
The new requirements reflect a 1992
study by the UNL Admissions Policy
Advisory Committee cm the average
grade-point average of students who
took a certain number of college prepa
ratory classes in high school.
Notably, the study shows students
completing four or more years of math
in high school had an average GPA of
2.94 for their first semester, fall 1991.
Student completing two or fewer
years of math had an average GPA of
1.92—more than one point lower. Four
years of high school math is now a re
quirement for automatic admission; the
old math requirement was two years.
Griesen said other requirements
show similar, striking correlations
between students’ high school aca
demic achievement and their first se
mester GPAs.
A higher quality and success rate
of UNL students is expected to soon
raise the number of applicants to the
university, he said.
But word of mouth about more dif
ficult admissions requirements has kept
the number of applicants for this fall
Iowa* than usual, he said. By March 25
of this year, 934 fewer students applied
to UNL, compared to the number of
applications at the same time last year.
Schmidt said the dip in the num
ber of applicants was disappointing
but expected.
Jack Crowley, a guidance counse
lor at Lincoln High School, said most
of the school’s students who applied
to UNL wore “quite aware” of the new
admissions standards and were well
prepared to meet them.
Students with more deficiencies
were advised to attend Southeast Com
munity College before applying to
UNL. Despite this advice, Crowley
said he did not see a significant dip in
the number of students applying to
UNL from Lincoln High.
Schmidt said the dip was real, but
the number and quality of applicants
should rise again in fall 1998, partly
because the new requirements will
mean a rise in the university’s prestige.
More top-notch students will then
find UNL appealing, she said, because
the strength of the new freshmen will
begin to be reflected in statistics
widely used to measure the desirabil
ity of attending a university.
Such statistics include the percent
of students admitted who graduate, the
percent of students who stay in school
and the percent of applicants admitted.
“Some very talented students aren’t
interested in applying somewhere
where everybody gets in,” she said.
Griesen used the University of
Wisconsin as an example. Each time
the school has raised its admissions
standards, its number of applicants has
risen, he said.
When the Board of Regents first
considered adopting higher admis
sions standards, members said they
worried such a raise in standards
would make the university elitist,
when the university strives to serve all
Nebraskans, Griesen said.
But Nebraska’s new standards are
not in place to foster elitism, he said.
Schmidt said the university will
measure the success of the new stan
dards by the success of its students—
mainly by the number of students who
stay at UNL and graduate.
To help students succeed, Moeser
said UNL will work harder to focus on
students becoming better in all aspects
of university life, not only academics.
The university at one time concen
trated on helping students succeed in
their personal and academic lives, he
said. But the relationship between the
university and its students changed in
the 1960s and 1970s, and UNL “lost
(its) focus on students.”
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rapid growth, he said, and students
were demanding more autonomy. The
university then moved away from its
role as students’ parents.
' Students needed the freedom,
Moeser said, and it was important the
university recognized them as adults.
UNL somewhat gave up its role in
creating good citizens and lifetime
learners, instead of only giving stu
dents new knowledge, he said.
The new admissions standards will
help UNL in its efforts to “return to
(its) roots,” Moeser said.
The out-of-class experience will be
treated as a more essential part of stu
dents’ college careers, he said. The
university will attempt to address more
student issues, he said, including tol
erance and respect, personal integrity,
drugs, alcohol and sex.
The university also will work on
the “major challenge” of allowing stu
dents more opportunities to complete
undergraduate research outside of
their course work.
The University of Nebraska at
Omaha and the University of Nebraska
at Kearney have also adopted the new
admissions standards, with the excep
tion of the math requirement.
The new admissions standards will
allow academic success to become
more common and expected from all
NU freshmen, Moeser said, and UNL
will move forward as a world-class
university with world-class students.
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