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SPORTS
Believing Back
Nebraska’s Dan Alexander has put his critics’
words behind him and emerged as the Huskers’
No. 11-back. PAGE 9
HI
The Angry Romantic
The School of Music presents a symposium
exploring the portion of Hugo Wolf’s inspired by
poet Eduard Morike. PAGE 12
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September 17,1999
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Partly sunny, high 78. Partly tonight, low 54.
Diversity reigns
on royal court
ByDaneStickney
Staff writer
With higher numbers of non-greek
and off-campus students, this year’s
UNL homecoming royal court has a dif
ferent look.
Traditionally, on-campus greek stu
dents have had a strangle-hold on the
royal court at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln. Through the home
coming steering committee’s efforts,
this year’s court is more representative
of the university’s population.
The current batch of royal court
members consists of 10 greek students
and 10 non-greek students. Last year’s
court included 20 greeks and only two
non-greek students.
Last year, only one of die 22 court
members lived off campus. Eight of 20
members live off-campus this year.
Matt Boyd, the ASUN royalty chair
man for the homecoming stoning com
mittee, said no changes were made in
the selection process. Instead, die com
mittee focused on getting more people
to apply.
“We made a big effort to advertise
and urge people who are not greek and
live off campus to apply for royalty,” he
said. “Greek houses know about it and
will apply every year. But it hasn’t been
part of other students’ thoughts, so they
blow it off as a greek thing.”
Boyd, a senior broadcast j oumalism
major, said the homecoming committee
it
We tried to get the
idea out there for
people. As a result,
we got a good cross
section of people to
apply.”
Matt Boyd
ASUN royalty chairman
tried to target places where non-greek
students would spend time, including
the Campus Recreation Center.
“We tried to get the idea out there
for people,” he said “As a result, we got
taking die initiative to apply.
Chris Linder, chairwoman of the
homecoming steering committee, said
her committee set up a booth in the
union and sent out universitywide e
mail to attract a mix of applicants.
“Applications were due last spring,
so we did the recruiting last year,” she
said. “We worked hard to make sure
people knew about it early.”
Students must go through a rigorous
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Degree checks
may see change
■ New degree audit
system may eventually
replace manual checks.
By Veronica Daehn
Staff writer
The creation of a degree audit
system designed to speed up the
senior check process is now under
way.
The senior check, which all
seniors must go through to ensure
they have the necessary credit hours
completed for their degrees, is cur
rently done by hand.
But Donna Liss, director of infor
mation systems and services, said her
office is working with the university’s
colleges to set up an electronic
Degree Audit Reporting System to
supplement the human workers.
“The degree audit system tries to
take what the checkers are doing
manually and make it electronic,”
Liss said.
The new system would not entire
ly replace the manual checks that are
done now. Instead, Liss said, it would
allow undergraduates the chance to
see where they stand before the last
minute.
Graduating seniors will still go
through the manual check before they
graduate, but students will be able to
use the computers to check their
standing as early as their freshman
year.
Liss said seniors need to use the
human checkers because computers
are not as accurate and still do not
“know” some things, like what class
es substitute for other classes.
Earl Hawkey, director of registra
tion and records, said his office does
plan on eventually using the electron
ic system for the entire process.
The registrar hopes to use it for
both the preliminary check a year
before graduation and the final check
the semester students plan to gradu
ate - when it is advanced enough to
do so.
Liss said the timeline for imple
menting the degree audit system
depends on each individual college.
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'The most beautiful sight’
Lane Hickenbottom/DN
ARMY ROTC CADET Ron Hustwit, a philosophy graduate student, salutes the flag during the POWAIIA
Ceremony on Thursday at the Veterans Memorial Cardens In Antelope Park. The ceremony, held by the
Arnold Air Society, an honorary Air Force ROTC group, Is an annual gathering to remember military person
nel who were prisoners of war or are missing In action. PLEASE SEE STORY OH PAGE 6
UNL professor dedicated to queen
By Kimberly Sweet
Senior staff writer
Carole Levin remembers her first
contact with Queen Elizabeth I.
Accompanying her mother to the
local library as a child, Levin remem
bers randomly pulling the virgin
queen’s biography off the shelf to
read during one of their weekly trips.
Levin quickly became enraptured
in the book.
“Her biography enamored me,”
Levin said.
But finishing the first book she
read on Elizabeth didn't end the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln his
tory professor’s fascination.
Instead, it sparked a career dedi
cated to spreading knowledge of the
life of Elizabeth and otter women in
medieval and Renaissance history.
Her passion for teaching and
researching Elizabeth - as well as
other historical British figures - was
rewarded this fall when she was
named a fellow of the Royal
Historical Society.
The British society elects histori
ans who specialize in British history
to be fellows.
It is a prestigious honor for a
UNL professor to have, said Dane
Kennedy, history department chair
man.
“It is noteworthy because she is a
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