Volume 37, Number 1
Friday. Sept. 17, 1982
Up 9.5% En rollm e111 rakes off B) Ronale Anson
Stao Hall photo
Elusive ~o ld NIC aopbo111ore Christy Davida brougbl home the prued gold 111edal for ... 1.a.a1ng the I ,SOO-metcr run for the Unlced States In lntcmatJoaal compe.dtlon In Tah,·aJJ t,,·o weeks aao. The complete 1tory la oo 11aac 7.
Sausser. Ely chosen
Pair
of
trustees sekcted
A total of I .39S voters turned out Sept. 14 in Kootenai County 10 elect
t,,,·o members to the NIC Board of Trustees. . Nominee Don Sausser received the highest number of \'Oles with a total of 815.
Robert T. Ely captured the second bo11rd seal by acquiring a total of 487 votcsand edging Stephen R. Meyer by 11 l'OlCS • Sausser will serve a term of 1-wo years and Ely a tcnn of six years.
The 1982 unorricial figures sho" student enrollment h:is increased about 9.S percent over last year. but final figures :ire nol yet available. According 10 Reg1~1rar ltsuko Nishio. the on,campus en rollment ns of Sept.1 4 showed the incre:ise. but this figure will change because of d:iss odJustments. ii.hio said that she could not give any more figures because the enrollment will change ofter deletions tdas:, concellntionsl and night school rei;inra11on B:i.sed on last ,ear's enrollment of 2.234. the m,rcase mdica1es an unofficinl 101al of about 2.4SO students enrolled. This i~ an increase of ;1t,ou1 ill students. "The academic enrollmem is probobl\ up 9 percent." NIC Presidcm Barry Schuler said. "11 cenamh "ouldn I be 1oc:111onal." \ oc:monal enrollment "111 go do11 n becauw of budget cul~. Schuler said. The forcsm 1cchnicion course did not enroll ill\\ DI.'\\ students th1, vear and the office occup:11ion~ clas\ 11 ill ha,·c: no )econd semc~ter da\:,. \'oca11onal enrollment decreased l.i.\t year by S percent v. h1le ,1c:idemk enrollment increJ~ed S percent. About I .9S4 academic ,tudent~ were on campus. The 9.5 percent mcrcasc this year means that :-.ICs enrollment has grown about "10 percent since the fall of 19--. La.st year's enrollment rose only 3 percent over 1960-81. "hich sboued a 12 percent mcrease. The 19'9.&0 enrollment increase "11s 2 2 perc:en1 ,..·hen 1.950 students were on campus. In 1978--9. the enrollment went up 2.4 percent .iod in 19-'7.78 i1 sk:)'TOClmed 21.'I percent to an enrollment of 1.854 Enrollment last sp ring sho" ed the only exception to the UP" ard trend of the last few years b) regutenng ~ 3 percent decrease.
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