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TUESDAY, JUNE 15J971
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Some of the mora than 30 boys participating in the Cornhusker Basketball School listen intently to the tips offered by their
coach. The basketball school, which began June 6 and ends July 3, is open to boys age 1 1 through 1 1th grade and is designed
to teach them the fundamentals of a good basketball style.
Help Line Provides Information, Sympathy,
By Suzanne Story
NU Journalism Student
Cramped into one-half of a
:iny office, supplied with only
:wo telephones, a desk, a few
xx)ks and their wits, four
students help fellow students,
eachers and others answer a
jarrage of diverse questions
ind problems. This is the Help
Line.
The Help Line is a
Telephone service designed to
:erve the university
community. Because it is the
nly campus office open after
p.m. with a complete
dentification list of students,
nost of its calls axe for
tddresses and phone numbers.
Jut the Help Line isn't always
outine. There are many
mi que calls.
"How do you cook a pork
:hop 'WI dt is the address of the
i I c Company in
wnzerland? What is the
jest?' on period of a guinea
ig an you get a million
ki.ais worth of pennies in a
ox car?" These are some of
he questions the Help Line has
lealt with.
One student called wanting
o know how to make a Viking
Irink of fermented honey. Mrs.
ants Allen, a staff member,
ind him call a local liquor
Possibility of Earthquake Damage
'Nothing To Get Shook About'
By Pat Corning
NU Journalism Student
The 1969 seismic risk map,
released by the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey, has
placed Lincoln in a area of
higher risk of earthquake
damage although it's "nothing
to get shook about," according
to Charles G. Seale,
superintendent of building
inspections.
This information will have
no significant effect on
building requirements, Seale
said.
The Code Study
Committee, in considering a
revision of the city building
code, requested interpretation
of the seismic risk map by Dr.
Marvin Carlson, principal
geologist for the Nebraska
Geological Survey.
He explained that building
sway produced by earth
tremors is essentially the same
as wind sway. Since there
already are requirements for
resistance to wind sway, the
committee concluded that no
additional protection is
necessary.
Carlson explained that the
study had redrawn an old
seismic map into four zones
which indicate the amount of
damage should earthquake
activity occur.
Zone O indicates no
damage and Zone 3 indicates
major damage with
intermediate levels in the other
zones.
The zones are based on the
intensity of recorded
earthquakes through 1967
using the Modified Mercalli
Intensity Scale.
The new seismic risk map
places Lincoln in Zone 2
which, on the Mercalli scale,
indicates that moderate
damage could occur. The
previous report placed the city
sa an area of minor or no
damage.
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Stephen Pew, a staff
menber, said another student
needed to know the Seven
Wonders of the Ancient World
for a paper she was writing.
Phillip Pfeiffer, a third
staffer, said his favorite calls
involve "long-shot
information." He told of one
girl who needed a ride home
with a student. Because she
knew only the student's first
name and the address of his
apartment house, the phone
company would not give her
the phone number. She called
the Help Line.
Pfeiffer guessed at the
address of the house next to
the unknown student's. He
called the phone company, got
that number and called the
man. The man went next door,
looked on the mailbox and
reported the student's last
name back to Pfeiffer. The girl
got her needed ride home.
The Help Line even gets
long distance calls. Most of
these are for phone numbers
and addresses, but there have
been others.
Mrs. Allen told of a call
from Texas to settle a bet
about the colors of the foothall
team.
During football season,
bookies from New York and
chimneys, and loosened tiles,
bricks, stones and cornices.
Small cave-ins and slides
would occur along sand and
gravel banks and waves would
be produced on small bodies of
water.
According to Carlson,
Lincoln was placed in Zone 2
because of its proximity to a
geological structure known as
the Nemaha Ridge.
He illustrated this with a
cross section map of the
southern Nebraska border
which shows a layer of bedrock
rising close to the surface then
dropping abruptly.
The line along which this
drop occurs is called a fault.
The ridge, with the fault
along its eastern edge, runs
north from Oklahoma into the
southeast corner of Nebraska.
Six earthquakes have been
recorded along this fault line
by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic
Survey.
One of these was the
Tecumseh earthquake of March
I, 1935, which cracked walls
and toppled some chimneys
there but was not felt in
Lincoln.
According to Carlson, there
is a smaller ridge which runs
northeast across the state
slightly north &f the Nemaha
Ridge.
He believes the southeast
Nebraska earthquake of 1877
which was centered in the
northwest corner of lncaster
County may be attributed to
this geological structure.
From newspaper reports at
the time, there were two
distinct shocks, 10 seconds
apart, which rocked buildings,
and people reported "sickening
sensations." However, no
major damage occured in the
town.
This shock was felt in
Lincoln but caused no damage.
Carlson explained that
geologic information from
these two quakes was the basis
for placing Lincoln in Zone 2
although the city itself has
never received shocks of Zone
2 intensity.
"Although the seismic risk
map is correct from a regional
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New Jersey call to learn scores,
Pew said.
There was even one long
distance personal call. Pfeiffer
said a girl called to ask for her
boyfriend's phone number.
When he was unable to find it,
she burst into tears and told
him about a problem with her
boyfriend, Pfeiffer said.
Personal calls are among the
most difficult ones the Help
Line gets, according to Mrs.
Allen. People call with a
personal problem because they
need "to talk to somebody
who isn't looking at them
when they're talking. Our job
is to listen," she said.
Pfeiffer added, "They're
searching for their philosophy
of life. They sought other help,
but didn't get it." The callers
are confused, frustrated and
"can't cope with their
problems." Pfeiffer said.
Donald Holm, Help Line
director, explained the
procedure in dealing with a
personal call. "First we refer
them to another counseling
service. Then we give them
what we call emotional first
aid."
The "emotional first aid" is
the critical part of a personal
call. The staff handles these
calls "carefully," IVw said.
One personal call came
standpoint, local evaluation
based upon past seismic
intensity and geologic
framework would not include
the city of Lincoln in Zone 2,"
he said.
However, in speaking with
the Lincoln building code
study committee, Carlson
added, "Since it is not possible
to forecast either occurrence or
intensity of earthquakes,
principal concern in building
design should be given to
foundation conditions at the
individual building site."
Carlson's recommendation
to Seale and the code study
committee was that, from all
available information, he
would not expect an
earthquake to occur in the
Lincoln area with high enough
intensity to make it necessary
to design stricter building
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from a girl who was depressed
about her student teaching,
Mrs. Allen said. The caller felt
she couldn't talk to the regular
classroom teacher about her
teaching problems, the staff
member said.
Holm handled one of the
most serious calls, from a
young man threatening suicide.
Holm talked to the student for
three hours and finally referred
him to a counseling service.
The student has since followed
through with counseling, Holm
said.
"A lot of the more personal
calls come at night," Mrs. Allen
said. The average length of a
personal call is 36 minutes.
However, this may be slightly
high as there have been several
three-hour calls.
The Help Line also acts as a
clearing-house for Temporary
Work Study (TWS). A list of
students on TWS is kept in the
office, Mrs. Allen said. When a
University office calls in
needing a worker, the staff
member on duty gives the
caller a name from the TWS
list, she said. The University
office then calls the student to
work.
Although the Help Line is
not connected with the other
telephone services in Lincoln,
they sometimes help each
other. Pfeiffer said that after
he blew one call, he called the
alcoholics aid group to find out
how to deal with that type of
caller. Several weeks later that
group called him to learn how
to handle a drug problem,
Pfeiffer added.
The staff is "highly
committed." according to Dr.
Russell Brown. Dean for
student development and
originator of the Help Line.
"There's a lot of individual
interest, "Pfeiffer added.
"There is a carry-over. It's not
an 8 to S job."
The staff has regular
meetings when "people talk
with us about new programs,"
Mrs. Allen said. This is one of
the ways the staff gets
information.
The Help Line has all the
college bulletins, an almanac,
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$11,600 Grant To Continue Journalism Program
An $11,600 grant to the
Schoof of Journalism at the
University of
Nebraska - Li ncoln will
continue a program that in one
summer gives students full-time
school, full-time work, and a
scholarship for the senior year.
The program is totally
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Street Journal. In addition to
the $11,600 for expenses of
the School of Journalism, The
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$700 scholarship to each of the
IS participants.
The plan was launched four
years ago at the University of
Nebraska and at Temple
University in Philidelphia.
"Working with the Newspaper
Fund representatives, we were
loking for ways to encourage
the development of high
quality, highly motivated,
newspaper copy editors," said
Neale Copple, director of the
School of Journalism.
Thirty students were
chosen from applicants from
more than 90 colleges and
universities. Half of the
students came to Nebraska and
the other half to Temple
University at the start of the
summer. On the campuses the
students took one course-a
copy editing course that lasted
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
sometimes later. At the end of
three weeks they had met more
information, a book of quotes,
a book of world records, a zip
code book and every issue of
the Daily Nebraska since April
10, 1970. It also has a bulletin
board plastered with notes
about events coming up.
"I've probably used
everything here at least once,"
Pfeiffer said. "We're on quite a
few mailing lists now," he
continued.
Regarding the origin of the
Help Line, Holm said, "It
began with Dean Russ Brown.
Jerry Gates did the legwork to
set it up." Gates is a former
graduate student at the
University.
Staff members are chosen
through "grinding interviews,"
Holm said. They must be
mature, cool in an emergency
and must give an open, friendly
impression on the phone, he
said.
The one-hour interview was
"terrible," said Mrs. Allen. She
said she also had to talk to
Brown and the student
advisory board.
Pew said he thought the
purpose of the Help Line was
three-fold: the students get to
shortcut the red tape and get
an open line of
communication; they have
somebody to talk to: and they
get their questions answered.
Unfortunately the Help
Line gets "a little, but not
much" feed-back. Pew said.
Sometimes a caller calls
back to say thanks or "you've
really helped," Mrs. Allen said.
The Help Line gets more
calls between 6 and 10 at night
than the rest of the day, Pew
said. The daytime calls are
mostly school related, he
added.
Friday evenings between 5
and 5:30 are the busiest times
for Mrs. Allen. She said most
of the calls come from male
students wanting the phone
numbers of women students.
One caller even asked her for a
date, she said.
The service of the Help
Line has grown steadily since
September. During March
alone, it had 1.642 calls,
totalling 8.605 since
September 10. 1970. Brown
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class hours than they would
have in a regular semester to
receive three hours of credit.
And they had been instructed
at times by as many as three
teachers - one teacher for every
five students.
At the University of
Nebraska Prof. Jack Botts ran
the program. "At the end of
those hard three weeks," he
said, "they were doing better
work than students normally
do at the end of a regular
semester."
Then each student was sent
to a newspaper where he or she
went directly to work on a
copy desk.
'That was the apprehensive
period for us," Botts
explained. "We thought they
were ready but we couldn't be
sure they could sit down and
go to work under the pressures
of a good copy desk."
Botts and the instructors
from Temple went out to get
the answers for themselves.
They visited every one of the
students and newspapers. As
the results came in, Botts said,
"we knew it was working."
That was the start. And
from then on the program
grew. The next year a western
branch was established at the
University of Nevada in Reno.
The following year Ohio State
University was added.
This year 60 students will
go through the program. And
Advice
said it is a "highly successful
operation."
The staff has not noticed a
decrease in calls because of
other campus telephone
services. "Each service is geared
to a certain thing," Pfeiffer
said.
Brown said that according
to information available to
him, the Help Line is the most
successful telephone service on
any college campus in the
nation.
The Help Line is funded by
the general operating budget,
Brown said. But next year's
bugdet request had a place for
it, he added.
Although closed during the
sum r, the Help Line will be
back in service next fall. Brown
said that even if there is a
budget cut. "We'll find some
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