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friday, september 2, 2011
volume 111, issue 011
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Perlman introduces lofty goals for UNL’s future riley johnson daily nebraskan
University of NebraskaLincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman called for an increase in student enrollment and graduation, tenured faculty and research spending by 2017 to increase UNL’s competitiveness in the Big Ten. In his 12th State of the University address, Perlman announced a campus growth goal of 30,000 undergraduate students, up from nearly 25,000 students this year. Graduation rates, he said, need to improve to keep up with the university’s peer institutions. In conjunction with the student increase, he called for a 160-professor raise in tenure-track faculty to 1,300 and a doubling of research expenditures to
$300 million from this year’s $132 million. More students and faculty are necessary, he said, to help the university compete better with its much-larger Big Ten peers. “If the last decade can be summarized as 10 years during which we determinedly chose to become better, the next decade will be characterized by an equally determined effort to become bigger without sacrificing the excellence we have achieved,” Perlman told the crowd of 1,200 faculty, students and staff. Perlman and some members of the university community said they feel these goals are obtainable, even if they put added pressure on professors and pack more students in UNL classrooms. “As a freshman, you walk in there and you’re like,
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see online Video highlight of Perlman’s speech available at: ··www.dailynebraskan. com ··facebook.com/dailynebraskan. ‘Wow, this is one class,’” said Ashley Blum, a senior agribusiness major, reflecting on the large lecture halls of her first years at UNL. Blum said she hasn’t had a class of more than 100 in either her junior or senior years. But she said large class sizes can be intimidating. Perlman said he expects
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Bus system unreliable for some students
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Some non-athletes still choose to attend UNL for Husker football alone story by Justice Jones | photo by Travis Rice
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ameson Langer came to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for Husker football. But not as an athlete. Alhough Langer, a sophomore electrical engineering major, transferred to Southeast Community College this year, he’s been a longtime Husker fan. At age 12, Langer went to his first Husker football game with his father. “I walked into the tunnel and saw the ‘Sea of Red’ and got goose bumps,” he said. It was a bonding experience, not only for his family, but also for the group of friends he was allowed to bring, he said. That game is why he initially chose UNL for college. “As I saw the ‘Sea of Red’ I knew that Lincoln was the place for me,” he said. He was also following in the path of his father, a UNL graduate.
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Tickets taken from students dan holtmeyer daily nebraskan
With the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s switch to the Big Ten Conference, interest in Husker football tickets is at an all-time high, as are the emotions from students — and their parents — who haven’t been able to secure tickets of their own. The practice of ticketscalping, or selling tickets above their face-value, is
against university policy and has caused particular consternation, university officials say. The NU athletic department has responded by cancelling the tickets of some offending students, what was called a “collective decision” among NU Athletics, Dean of Students Matthew Hecker and the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska. At least three students received a letter from
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UNL in early August saying, “Because you have violated the terms and conditions of your UNL season ticket purchase agreement ... your student season football ticket request has been denied.” The students are not entitled to a refund, according to the letter. One 22-year-old student, who asked to remain
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if you go UNL Student Rally for Tickets where: Outside of the east side of Memorial Stadium when: Today, 4 p.m. why: Students are rallying for better chances of getting Husker football student tickets. Two tickets will be given away at the rally.
University of NebraskaLincoln students have reached a standoff regarding Lincoln’s StarTran bus system. While many students think the system works well, others have found flaws in it and are dreading the cold months when bikes are locked up and the buses can no longer be avoided. Dawn Futrell, a sophomore marketing major, has already faced problems with the StarTran bus schedule. “I’m from Seattle, and there, it’s easy and every 10 minutes,” she said. “Here, it’s like, ‘Oh, it’s 20 minutes late, that’s cool.’” She says the buses are inconsistent and have caused her to be “really late to class.” Along with running late, bus schedules don’t fit every student’s needs. “The bus is slow, especially in the summer,” said Celeste Wong, a senior psychology major. “I need to wait for 20 minutes for a bus or later at night.” However, not all students have had problems with the system. “In Omaha, I’d completely avoid (the buses),” said Hunter Glick, a junior advertising major. “But Lincoln buses aren’t too bad.” Glick now lives too far away from the bus routes and plans on getting rides from his friends all winter, but he said he used the system last year. Felicia Benes, a sophomore horticulture major, said the Lincoln buses, which she uses to get out to East Campus, are more
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convenient than the shuttles that run to and from her apartment building. She admitted she got on the wrong StarTran bus earlier in the day. “But that’s because I didn’t ask where they were going,” she said. “Otherwise, I pretty much understand the map, but I don’t carry it around with me.” Benes said her boyfriend drives her home if she gets out of class after the shuttles stop for the day. Freshman electrical engineering major Treynor Wolfe said he feels differently. “It’s a pain in the ass,” he said. The schedule is slow and hard to read, Wolfe said. He’s even had problems with some buses missing a time completely. “One time the schedule said it’d show up at 9 (a.m.), and it never showed up at all,” he said. Most surveyed UNL students agreed the buses’ stops end too early. Many students expressed discontent in the bus schedule retiring in the early evening. For others, merely getting on the bus is a puzzle on its own. Some international students have had a hard time deciphering the maps. “There is no knowledge about how to use the bus stops,” said Shengmao Lin, an graduate engineering student. It’s not only international students having trouble. “I don’t really know
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