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I don’t know what your other options are, but I think Nebraska is still overall one of the better options in terms of financial stability. The $50 million in planned cuts for 2012/13 will certainly hurt, but many schools have already gone through worse.</p>
<p>It’s hard to say what the AAU move will mean short-term and still harder long-term.</p>
<p>No Imagination…$50 million in cuts?? That seems almost unbelieveable. Could it be $5 million? That is going to hurt a lot! Any ideas what will be cut?</p>
<p>Iowa State, where other DD is, has had cuts of $2 million, $3 million, but $50 million seems crazy. Is the state in that bad of shape or is it political posturing? </p>
<p>I know that every state has money problems…trust me I’m from Illinois. We are at the bottom of the pile. I will never see my pension. Will be working until I’m 90+. lol</p>
<p>The $50 million number is correct, although it’s across the entire NU system, and it’s “potential” cuts, and not cuts that would happen in a single year but over two or more years. This budget announcement was made in Sept 2010. </p>
<p>The latest article about this from the Daily Nebraskan mentions anticipated cuts of 10 to 15 million over the next two years. Here’s a link to the article:</p>
<p>[“Daily</a> Nebraskan News”](<a href=“http://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-readies-for-another-round-of-budget-cuts-potential-faculty-raises-1.2540644]"Daily”>http://www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-readies-for-another-round-of-budget-cuts-potential-faculty-raises-1.2540644)</p>
<p>If you do some googling on <university_name> budget cuts you’ll see that this is a widespread problem.</university_name></p>
<p>I realize the folks in this post have already been to Lincoln and back, but for anyone else reading: </p>
<p>“I think that we ate at Selleck…three big dorms surrounding it right down the street from the big rec center.”</p>
<p>That would’ve been HSS (Harper-Schramm-Smith). Selleck is 7 short buildings right by the Union quad. </p>
<p>I must say that this is dorm food we’re talking about here, which is not exactly notorious for being healthy, though I think they do try. Also, this is carnivore country (Nebraska is “the beef state”), so it is fair to say that vegetarian options aren’t always handy (both in the dorms, and in the state in general).</p>
<p>The place where the athletes eat that the tour guide referred to is called The Training Table and it is located in the bottom floor of Memorial Stadium. At least when I was there (I graduated in 2007), students WERE allowed to eat there for lunch, just not dinner. It’s worth checking out–I never found the food to be FANTASTICALLY better than the other dining centers, but if I remember correctly I think there may have been more fresh fruit and veggies. Plus, you may get to sit just a few feet from your favorite athlete. Just don’t go up and ask for their autograph or bug them about that missed tackle last game–tacky!</p>
<p>As for things to see in Lincoln, I don’t think anyone mentioned the Sunken Gardens yet. It’s at 27th and Capitol Parkway (just a few miles from campus), and it’s a lovely place and free to visit. [Lincoln</a> Parks & Recreation | Sunken Gardens](<a href=“http://www.lincoln.ne.gov/city/parks/ParksFacilities/publicgardens/sunken/index.htm]Lincoln”>http://www.lincoln.ne.gov/city/parks/ParksFacilities/publicgardens/sunken/index.htm)</p>
<p>If you have some extra time, I would check out Omaha as well, less than an hour away. On the way, there’s lots of attractions at I-80 exit 426, about halfway between Lincoln and Omaha. There’s the Wildlife Safari (drive-through zoo run by the world-famous Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo), air and space museum, and Nebraska’s largest state park, Mahoney (has trails, horseback riding, a water park in the summer, ice skating in winter, etc.). In Omaha itself, I wouldn’t miss the Old Market area downtown, and the aforementioned zoo is PHENOMENAL (many rank it higher than San Diego)! In Omaha there’s also the botanical gardens, Joslyn Art Museum, Durham Western Heritage Museum, and a lot more, depending on your tastes. Many major concerts and sporting events come through Omaha as well, so your kid may go there on occasion if he/she is interested in that kind of thing. So far this year the Qwest center has had everything from Lady Gaga to Taylor Swift to Janet Jackson to the Harlem Globetrotters. Omaha’s a really easy city to navigate, too. Can you tell I’m originally from Omaha and I love my hometown, lol?</p>
<p>Oh - and I’ll add one more thing too. UNL has a program they call Good.Fresh.Local where they have a special monthly meal focusing on those principles, and they have individual items in the dining halls from their local producers daily. </p>
<p>[UNL</a> | Housing | Dining | Good, Fresh, Local](<a href=“http://housing.unl.edu/dining/gfl.shtml]UNL”>http://housing.unl.edu/dining/gfl.shtml)</p>
<p>If you go to Facebook and “Like” UNL Dining Services you’ll get their announcements about these special meals as well as their holiday/special event meals.</p>
<p>P.S. Perhaps in the past “NU” was preferred (I assume this was when UNK and UNO first joined the Nebraska system), but “UNL” is in common use today–in fact, I rarely hear it called “NU.” It remains true that when someone says they go to “Nebraska,” they mean UNL.</p>