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wednesday, april 30, 2014 volume 113, issue 144
Inside Coverage
Trigger warnings
Literary launch
Faculty balance course content, student comfort
Student-run magazine drops 2014 issue
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NU, Wisconsin put streaks on the line
The No. 19 Nebraska softball team takes a 10-game winning streak into Wednesday’s doubleheader at Wisconsin, which is riding a winning streak of 13 games. file photo by andrew barry
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UNL lacks 24-hour study areas, sending students off campus
story by gabrielle lazaro | photos by andrew barry
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waitress approaches a booth in a diner and without a word sets down a pot of coffee and a mug. “I didn’t order the coffee,” says Kevin Crough, a first-year law student. “That server knew me because I’ve been in here so much. I come in here so often – to this specific Perkins.” Crough frequents many 24hour restaurants such as Perkin’s, IHOP and Village Inn to study. He and other students say they study at local businesses because the University of Nebraska–Lincoln doesn’t offer enough 24-hour study facilities. Late-night locations include: -Love Library, which is open from 7:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. Monday through Thursday. Friday and Saturday hours are extended to 10 p.m. for dead week and finals week. -The C.Y. Thompson Library on East Campus, which is extending its hours from midnight to 1 a.m. Sunday through Tuesday. -The Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center, which usually closes at 11 p.m. Monday through Friday, will remain open until 3
a.m. through Thursday and again Sunday through Wednesday. -The Nebraska Union closes at midnight, and the Nebraska East Union closes at 11 p.m. -Neihardt Hall is open 24 hours for honors students. Seven Big Ten Conference schools offer at least one 24-hour library during the week, and the main Northwestern University library is open until 3 a.m. “Right now we’re not 24/7 mostly because of budget, staffing and because of our statistics,” development and outreach librarian Joan Barnes said. “Statistics from the past don’t show that students will come or stay that late in our current environment.” She said budgeting is an issue in particular because the university would have to pay staff to be there. Love Library’s hours extended to 1 a.m. from midnight at the start of the spring semester. “We extended to 1 a.m. due to ASUN and other student requests – actually, mainly comments through Twitter,” Barnes said. “If students follow us through Twitter and give us feedback, we’re willing to listen to feedback
Harrison Drake, a sophomore advertising and public relations major, props his feet up on the booth as he studies at the Hi-Way Diner, just off of Nebraska Highway 2. wherever we can get it.” Nevin Rajkumar, a 2013 alumnus, said he thinks the libraries have limited hours of operation to regulate activity and behavior. “I think they keep it that way because after midnight you get weird people doing weird stuff in the library – and hobos as well. So the library hours kind of regulate this,” he said. Crough disagreed. “The library here isn’t open 24/7, which is very odd,” Crough said. “At Arizona State, it was open 24 hours the entire semester. It never closed down, even through the summer they had staff there for people doing research projects. I don’t understand the library being closed.” Barnes said administration understands there’s a demand for a 24-hour study location, so it’s working to fulfill the demand. Staff is considering 24-hour access for the Love North Learn-
Many students, like Drake, go off-campus to find 24-hour options for studying. The Hi-Way Diner is one of those options, as is Perkins, IHOP and Village Inn. ing Commons, which’s tentatively set to open in fall 2015.
“We want to make that 24/7 so then you have access,” said
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Big Red Welcome to extend 6 weeks into fall semester McCartney martin dn Big Red Welcome is making some big changes. In previous years, Big Red Welcome is held the weekend before school starts with traditional events such as the Tunnel Walk, Husker Mania, Party at the Union, Women’s Center and LGBTQA Resource Center Open Houses, East Campus Welcome, Campus Nightlife events, University Program Council events and the Street Festival. This year Big Red Welcome will include all those events but will host them and more through the first six weeks of the fall semester. According to Jenni Brost, assistant director of New Student Enrollment, the changes will allow more activities for students and hopefully retain students to campus. “We decided that we wanted to transition because we wanted to have events on the calendar that would pertain to anyone on campus,” Brost said. “Hopefully they (students) will find somewhere where they feel welcomed earlier. Maybe they’ll see the calendar and find an event or a group that interests them earlier than they
would’ve.” Veronica Riepe, director of Student Involvement, said she also thinks students will find more activities on campus that pertain to them. “I think it will give students, especially those new to our campus, a better sense of the various activities and events that occur on campus on a regular basis,” she wrote in an email. “By including all of those events on one website, it will be easier to find the activities that are occurring and will help promote events that are a bit smaller in nature and may be of interest to our new students.” The traditional events held in the past years – Tunnel Walk, Party at the Union and Street Festival – will continue this year. During Tunnel Walk, the UNL Marching Band help form new students in a ‘N’ shape in Memorial Stadium before taking a picture. This year, Scarlet Guard volunteered to do so. The Street Festival is set to take place with booths from various UNL departments and student organizations, along with vendors from the Lincoln community. Party at the Union will also take
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UNL programs to cut back in summer Colleen Fell DN The summer semester is a quiet one for the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. According to the Office of the University Registrar, the university currently has 7,372 students registered for this coming summer. Juan Gutierrez, an assistant registrar at the Office of the University Registrar at UNL, said it’s difficult to predict if there will be as many students taking classes on campus this summer as there were last summer. “It can vary all the time,“ Gutierrez said. In the summer of 2013, 8,574 students were enrolled at the university. That’s compared to an enrollment of 25,445 during fall 2013. The summer of 2012 brought 8,293 students to the university. On-campus events, such as those sponsored by the University Program Council and Student Involvement, decrease during the summer. Also this summer, the Daily Nebraskan will eliminate its weekly summer issues, aside from a visitor’s guide, New Student Enrollment issue and four issues during Jazz in June, a free outdoor jazz concert that takes place during four consecutive Tuesdays on the plaza west of the Sheldon Museum of Art, 12th and R streets. The reason for the cut-back is because DN officials are looking for ways to save money, especially when readership is low. This semester, the Publications Board announced plans
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On sunny days, students, faculty and university visitors sit next to the Broyhill Fountain at the Nebraska Union Plaza. to cut down from its usual five days of print to twice a week in the fall in a tabloid-style publication. The DN will rely more on its website to disperse
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content. Although most student organizations at UNL don’t have events during the summer months, that doesn’t
mean they aren’t busy. Veronica Riepe, director of Stu-
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