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Denver scrapes
excess plaster
from the interior
walls of the
Kauffman
Residential
Center on
Wednesday.The
$14.7 million
building that
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J.D. Edwards
Honors Program
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February.
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STORY BY GEORGE GREEN
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Brainy building open in February
Some computer science and
business honors students will
have a new home next fall, if
construction plans on the
Esther L. Kauffman Academic
Residential Center continue on sched
ule.
The Kauffman Center, directly north
of the Nebraska Union, houses the I.D.
Edwards Honors Program in Computer
Science and Management.
Construction crews will finish work
on the exterior of the building at the end
of September, and the entire facility will
be done in February, said Laura Antczak,
assistant director of recruitment for the
J.D. Edwards program.
Students will not move in to the
building until next fall, but in February
classes will be held in the building and
administrators and staff will begin work
ing in it, Antczak said.
The finished building will house 116
students in 58 suites, Antczak said.
Each freshman suite houses two stu
dents and contains a private bathroom.
Sophomore suites have two private bed
rooms. Junior and senior suites contain
two private bedrooms, a living room, a
bedroom and a kitchenette, Antczak
said.
The building will also have class
rooms, break rooms, a presentation and
speech lab, a writing lab, a great hall for
dining and two state-of-the-art comput
er labs, said Steven Dunbar, Founding
Director of the J.D. Edwards Honors
Program.
“The program began in May of 1998
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The program began in May
of 1998 to prepare students
to use information technolo
gy to meet the challenges of
the industry in the 21st
century.”'
Steven Dunbar
J.D. Edwards Honors Program director
to prepare students to use information
technology to meet the challenges of the
industry in the 21st century," Dunbar
said.
J.D. Edwards offers undergraduate
and graduate curriculum and a three
week summed camp for 50 high school
students entering their senior year,
Antczak said.
Sixteen undergraduates and eight
graduate students entered the progra^i
last year and 32 undergraduates, along
with 15 graduate students, entered this
fall, Antczak said.
Undergraduate applicants must
score a 30 or above on the ACT or 1340 or
above on the SAT, have a 3.5 high school
grade point average and be in the top 10
percent of their graduating class, said
Antczak.
Program participants receive a full
ride scholarship, which pays for room
and board, fees and tuition, Dunbar said.
“We want to produce top- quality
graduates who combine business knowl
edge and computing fundamentals,"
Antczak said.
"Nebraska" song
canned for now
BY JILLZEMAN
For the past four years, stu
dents dutifully rose at football
games, commencement cere
monies and convocations to
sing the lyrics, “Nebraska!
Nebraska!”
But not anymore.
The alma mater, “Nebraska,”
will no longer be referred to as
the university's alma mater.
The decision was made by
Interim Chancellor Harvey
Perlman, who said he decided to
give the song a break because he
felt it wasn’t respected the way
an alma mater should be.
"My impression was that a
lot of people reacted negatively,
laughed at it and were indiffer
ent,” Perlman said.
The song’s lyrics were
penned by former chancellor
lames Moeser, and the tune was
written by Omaha musician
Chip Davis, of Mannheim
Steamroller fame.
Moeser ended his term in
July 2000, to accept a position as
chancellor at the University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
“I think (Moeser) had a good
idea, but it never caught on,”
Perlman said.
The concept of an alma
mater seemed outdated to
Perlman, especially when stu
dents didn't take it seriously, he
said.
I have never been in a cir
cumstance (where the song was
played) where people were not
laughing,or even seriously par
ticipating in it," he said.
Perlman said he has no
plans to choose a new alma
mater song.
The song was played at the
Spring 2000 commencement
ceremony, but the university
band did not perform the tune
at the summer commencement
ceremony or at the new student
convocation.
But the convocation wasn’t
entirely void of the alma mater,
as it was played during a video
that displayed different aspects
of campus, said Sally Buchholz,
interim director of public rela-.
tions.
Buchholz said the song was
not entirely removed from the
university’s play list; rather it
will be reserved to use at “spe
cial occasions.”
This means the song can be
played by request for any event,
but it will not be automatically
included in ceremonies, she
said.
Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska pres
ident Joel Schafer said he
thought
Perlman
made a good / have
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removing the never
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wasn't very (where
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departure were not
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opportunity or even
to eliminate seriOUSlv
the alma . "
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tell _ the Harvey
emperor he Perlman
had no Interim
clothes while chancellor
he was here,”
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Craig Cornish, acting direc
tor of bands, said he was
instructed by Moeser to play the
alma mater at nearly every per
formance.
Apart from official universi
ty ceremonies, the song was
performed at volleyball, basket
ball and football games, alumni
gatherings and pep rallies, he
said.
“(The band members) didn't
seem to enjoy it,” he said.
Derryl Myles, NU trumpet
player and senior broadcasting
major, said the band did not
play the song at band camp,
which was held before the start
of the semester.
Myles said he thought many
band members didn’t view the
alma mater as reflective of the
university, but simply as a
required piece of music
“No one was really attached
to it,” he said. "It was just anoth
er song to play.”
BY JILL ZEMAU_
Instead of waiting months to
receive the go-ahead for gradua
tion, a senior check for students
could soon be just a click away.
An appropriation to fund an
online degree audit program
that would help students track
their academic progress was
announced Wednesday in the
first Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska
meeting of the semester.
The Technology Fees and
Advisory Committee allocated
more than $170,000 to
Information Services for devel
opment and implementation of
a online degree audit program,
said Mike Echtemacht, commit
tee chairman.
The program received
$63,241.75 for the 2000-01 aca
demic year and is slated to get
$88,387 in 2001 -02, he said.
The committee's budget is
funded by technology fees, paid
by students, he said. The fees
add up to about $5 per credit
hour.
The program will provide the
equivalent of a senior check,
where students can see what
requirements they need to take
to graduate, he said.
Senior checks could
be done with a dick
The College of Business
Administration’s degree audit
program is near completion and
students may be able to access it
as soon as this year, he said.
When CBA’s program is
ready for use, it will be posted on
the UNL Web site, and other col
leges within the university will
soon follow, he said.
“It’s a long, complex
process,” Echtemacht said.
In other business, ASUN
president Joel Schafer, in his
executive report, encouraged
student senators to be active in
their roles throughout the year.
- Schafer said a student had
written an essay about ASUN
that said the senate was irrele
vant and unrepresentative of the
student body.
To reject the notion that
ASUN is irrelevant, Schafer said
senators should pursue issues
within their colleges that affect
the people they represent
“Don’t just show up on
Wednesday nights to give a
thumbs up or thumbs down,” he
said.
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