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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1972)
editorial jpaimfemi r iloricil v.. Qlthllf hoppe iftnon! bustande beginnings over 20 years ago to its fine services today, ruennmg is tne oniy person ever 10 receive both of the two highest awards given to medical personnel by the American College Health Association. He now serves as a vice president of that organization and is recognized nationally for his abilities and accomplishments. Recently, he was chosen to serve on the Committee to Visit the University Health Services at Harvard College. It is a rare occurence that a person not associated with Harvard College should receive this appointment. The $21 fee that students are assessed each semester to support the UHC and its services is indeed a small one, considering the possible benefits any student can receive at the UHC throughout a college career. Student input is listened to at the UHC, and it is now looking for students to serve on the Student Council on Health. This council advises the UHC staff on all policy matters relating to students. Many students are now critical of the services offered by the UHC and its staff, but most criticisms are founded in error. Students should not be caught in the act of criticizing the entire UHC operation without first consulting its staff. If an error was indeed made by a member of the staff, a solution to the problem will be found by a most cooperative staff. The University Health Center deserves the support of the entire community. Its national reputation, wide variety of services and highly qualified staff are certainly an admirable credit to the University of Nebraska. Health Center serves The University Health Center (UHC), at a time when segments of the University of Nebraska are under fire from many directions, sometimes gets assaulted with a barrage of criticism. Many students are not aware of the variety of services and the quality of the staff that compose the UHC. Many people commonly refer to the UHC as "student health". In actuality, it serves all the University's faculty, staff and students. It has departments in nine areas, including occupational medicine, mental health, dental health, health education, athletic medicine, public health and the medical clinic. The occupational medicine department alone has helped cause a 32 per cent decrease in the occurence of occupational injuries among University employees. This alone saves over $80,000 a year in workmen's compensation payments that the University no longer has to make. The health education department set a national precedent with the creation of its highly successful Health Aide program. In the last year, alone, 10,00.0 contacts were made to Health Aides by students, and only 10 per cent of these became referrals to the UHC itself. This case-load reduction for the UHC has been significant, and the peer approach to health education provided by the program has been of tremendous national interest. The practice of preventive medicine has reduced the likelihood of medical hazards ever occurring on the UNL campus. This includes epidemics, early disease detection, and pregnancies. Dr. Samuel I. Fuenning, UHC Medical Director has been successful in building the center from its I, HIWiMIIIIIIUmJIHMiuuiniiiUM . -MW 1y ' if "I am the Howard thy Hughes! Thou shalt have none other Howard Hughes before me!" I'm getting sick and tired of being buttonholed at cocktail parties by beautiful young ladies demanding to know who's the real Howard Hughes. Is it some nutty recluse with eight-inch-long fingernails? Is it the mastermind who met or didn't meet author Clifford irving in a dozen spots around the world to divulge his autobiography for $650,000 in checks? Is it the disembodied voice that angrily denied being either of the above in a transcontinental phone call to seven ace newsmen? Or is it the petite, blond who deposited and cashed the checks under the name II R. Hughes in a Swiss bank account? Was this really living's petite, blond, Swiss wife, Edith? Who is D. B. Cooper? WHO IS HOWARD HUGHES? It is only my passion for privacy that has enabled me to maintain my disguise all these years as a middle-aged, middle-class, middling sort of American with a weak backhand. Skeptics will, of course, demand proof that I am really Howard Hughes. I have it here at hand: sworn affidavits from my closest associates corroborating the fact that Howard Hughes and I have never been seen together in the same room at the same time. Now that I have established my identity, I am preparing what will be the only authentic autobiography of Howard Hughes. Accept no substitutes! At this time I can, of course, only hint at its sensational contents. Born the illegitimate son of Ambrose Bierce and Susan B. Anthony, I dwell at length in the early chapters on the only thing I ever loved - an old sled inscribed with the single word, "Rosebud." The next three chapters deal with my sexual exploits as a young man - all in graphic detail with clear, easy-to-follow illustrations. From this I jump in Chapter VII directly to the Hughes loan. Here I tell for the first time how I loaned Donald Nixon $205,000 solely because I loved his Nixonburgers, having no idea he was related in any way to the then-Vice President of the United States, who has since been so helpful in taking care of my parking tickets. Of more interest to the general reader, perhaps, will be Chapter VIII, "My Secret Marriage to Jackie Kennedy," which will include all 205 clauses of our sensational marriage contract. As the world knows, that marriage failed. But I was married again in 1968 by Judge Crater to Amelia Earhart. Yet once again, it was not to be. There just wasn't room in my life for her and all her luggage. At the moment, I'm not sure how to end it. I think I'll end it with my new young wife (played by Ali MacGraw) dying in the hospital after telling me, "Winning your serve at love means never having to say you're sorry." I figure McGraw-Hill and Time-Life will buy an authentic autobiography like that for well over a million. In fact, I have the feeling they'll buy anything. But it's not the money I want. All I want is these beautiful young ladies at coctail parties to know I'm really Howard Hughes. Now maybe they'll talk about something else. Copyright Chronicle Publishing Co. 1972 PAGE 4 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1972
