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friday, september 27, 2013 volume 113, issue 025
Inside Coverage
Home sweet home Gamma Phi Beta creates comfort for new members
5 Floundering in uncharted waters An out-of-stater’s Nebraskan experience
Diving back in the water
Freshman Anna Filipcic dives during the Nebraska swimming and diving team’s annual Scarlet versus Cream Intrasquad Meet at the Devaney Natatorium. Filipcic made her Husker debut during the meet Thursday.
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4 Moving to the big time Volleyball prepares for Big Ten play
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Terri Muehlhausen picks out squash from the Fallbrook Farmers’ Market on Thursday. The Fallbrook community hosts a farmers’ market every Thursday evening from 4:30 to 8:30 at the Fallbrook Town Center.
Concealed weapons on campuses Study: Students say no place for guns at college
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photos by Andrew B a r r y Sisters Ella and Erica Cowan select miniature pumpkins from a stand at the farmers’ market Thursday in the Fallbrook Town Center. Besides fresh produce Taylor Nissen works at the stand for Page’s Produce at the and gourmet creations, the Fallbrook Farmers’ Market on Thursday. The stand, based out of event also advertises live music Valparaiso sells fresh produce, honey and hormone-free grass-fed and a child-friendly environment. beef.
Lincoln sees 0.7 percent drop in unemployment Nebraska’s overall rate stays unchanged; start of fall semester doesn’t play huge role in city’s jobless rate Tony Papousek DN
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Job prospects are now looking rosy for Lincoln, which saw a 0.7 percent decrease in unemployment between July and August. The current unemployment rate is 3.3 percent, 0.9 percent lower than Nebraska’s overall unemployment. But according to Scott Hunzeker, the research supervisor at the Nebraska Department of Labor, this is nothing out of the ordinary for the capital city. “A lot of times we’ll see fluc-
“University employment tuations that are largely based on wouldn’t have necessarily been seasonal factors such as kids going back to school, seasonal jobs, captured quite yet,” Hunzeker said. “Lincoln Public Schools and holiday shopping and things like that,” he said. “People get other public schools may have, depending on when caught up with people came back.” the month-toWe’ve This is largely month fluctuatraditionally because of the way tions. This Auunemployment stagust followed a had one of tus is determined lot of same seaboth locally and nasonal patterns as the lowest tionally. we’ve seen in the unemployment “When we look past.” at unemployment, N e b r a s k a ’ s rates, even it always measures u n e m p l o y m e n t through the a person’s status rate of 4.2 perfor the week that cent remained recession.” includes the 12th of unchanged bethe month,” Hunzetween July and phil baker August. And nebraska department of labor ker said. “For August data, classes Omaha saw a 0.4 wouldn’t have been percent decrease in session at the university. For to a 4.2 percent rate. Lincoln Public Schools, some The start of the fall semester at the University of Nebraska- teachers would have been on Lincoln might not contribute to staff already.” Lincoln’s fluctuation as much as one would think. jobless: see page 3
UNL graduate enrollment dips for 3rd year Layla Younis DN University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate and professional enrollment decreased between 2012 and 2013, following a three-year trend here and bucking a nationwide trend of increasing graduate enrollment as well as UNL’s uptick in undergraduate enrollment. UNL saw a decrease of 35 graduate and professional students in 2013, according to UNL’s Institutional Research and Planning. Since 2010, graduate and professional enrollment – including programs such as law, architecture, business administration and engineering – has decreased by 3 percent. Graduate programs have decreased from 4,620 students in 2010 to 4,554 students today. Meanwhile, professional enroll-
ment decreased from 607 to 515 in the same period. Nationwide, graduate enrollment increased 1.8 percent between 2011 and 2012, reversing a national trend of 2.8 percent decline during the two previous years, according to the Council of Graduate Schools. The 2013 decrease at UNL includes 30 professional students and five graduate students. Professional enrollment is typically students who are going into a graduate-level program in architecture and law, said Alan Cerveny, dean of Academic Services and Enrollment Management. Lance Perez, dean of Graduate Studies, said international issues and the economy are two potential reasons for increases and decreases in graduate enrollment.
graduate: see page 3