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R e vamp ti g h ten s U H G ad m i n is trati o n
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Kenneth L. Bader, above, vie chancel
lor for student affairs, and Dr. Sam
Fuenning, director of the Nebraska
Center for Health Education.
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The" wounds that caused two University
Health Center (UHC) doctors to resign last
spring have healed and a tighter health
center administration is emerging, according
to several University administrators who
began in June to rearrange the UHC.
UNL Chancellor James Zumberge has
proposed long-range reorganization plans
that include:
Creating the Nebraska Center for Health
Education (NCHE) from four departments
which until last June were part of UHC.
Those four are Health Education Dept.,
Environmental Health and Safety Dept.,
Athletic Medicine Dept. and Health and
. Fitness Dept.
Removing Sam Fuenning as health
center director and appointing him director of
nche,; . ; i .. ;v.-:-
Naming Kenneth Hubble acting health
center chief until a search committee can
locate a permanent director, and adminis
- trator. A director may be found by January, it
was reported. -
According to Ken Bader, vice chancellor of
student affairs, there are two reasons for
restructuring the center.
First, the administration had to be
bolstered, he said. . .
"We needed to strengthen our manage
ment," Bader said.-y
Fuenning wa3 health center director
during the time the University "needed to
strengthen, management." Before Fuenning
was removed, ,Frank ;jStone and Robert
Gariinghdusd-Tesignea from thi JHC-staflr ; ;
The -two, along with 2o othsr h$,tlti center
physicians, submitted a letter last spring to
the NU Board of Regents protesting
Zumberge's reorganization and Fuenning's
removal.
"The reorganization was going to lake
place sometime anyway," Bader said. "And
here (the removal and reappointment of
Fuenning) was an opportunity to develop iha
health center as an administrative organi
zation." Eliminating improper usage of the money
students pay to support the health center
was the second reason behind the re
vamping, according to Bader.
Indians denied food stamps
By Deb Gray
"We have the right to eat," the
national chairman of the American
Indian Movement (AIM) said at a press
conference Friday afternoon on the
steps of the Federal Building.
John Trudell arrived from Min
neapolis shortly after the .government
cut off food stamps for Wounded Knee
supporters living in barracks at Air Park
West. The government charged they
were not following federal food stamp
regulations. In one area of dispute, the
government contested the residents''
communal cooking arrangement.
"They want to" talk about ineligible
ty,M the 28-yHar-ofd .'Nebraska native
said. "We are not her by choice. We
are here because people have to go to
court.'-"
"Anyone who 'has had any 'experience :
with courtroom involvements knows you
have to work to put together any kind of
defense," he said. "So we work, but we
don't get paid for it."
See' related story, p. 6
He said the 45 people living in the
barracks have enough food for a week.
Trudell, who has mm Im nations!
chairman cf AIM for
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years, saSd
AIM had m quarrel with Lincoln, it is
not Lf o,frs responsibility to tuppfy .
them with iood, he said: But he attached
the government's food stamp program
which he said was "set up to feed the
poor."
."We think it is very foolish for the
government to spend more money to
deny us food stamps then it would
actually cost to feed us," he said.
"We're just looking for equal justice
under this system. Everyone complains
about the taxpayer's dollar. Well, in a
way we're looking out for ins taxpayer's
dollar, too,"
He said the government was trylna to
"starve them Into submission."
They're hoping to keep us tied up in
the courts.. Not to serve justice,, but to
keep, us so they'll know where we're
at. Trudell said.
He said tho only fair trial in the case
would be no trial. " .
"I think it's time to stop this farce,"
he said,
Trudell said the , government has
failed to convict .any defendants in
Wounded Knee cases tried so far. ' ,
"How long does the government
intend to drag us through the courts?"
he asked.
Trudeil said he is not a militant.
"I don't want to fight with anyone,"
he said. "But we don't want to sit back
and see our peopio railroaded into jail
because we don't have any money.
"A lot of non-Indians can sympathize
with us, but they cannot experience
what has happened to us," Trudell said.
Hubble said the student advisory council,
which is part of the UHC administration, first
suggested the changes that eventually
curtailed the use of student fees in health
education.
"I don't blame the students for not liking it
when their money goes for something other
than health care," Hubble said, citing
medical research and education as some of
the nonhealth care programs that were
siphoning student money.
' Bader also agreed that the four divisions of
NCHE should not use student money to
support themselves. V v ;
j Students pay $21 in fees soon to be
raised to $25 with the Regent's approval to
support the-center. : ;
Before the reorganization some faculty
members were receiving medical treatment
arid drug prescriptions at the reduced rates
that students are charged, Hubbie said.
Students were, in effect, paying for the
cheaper medical . treatment that professors
and staff could not have received had they
consulted their own doctors, he said.
NU - presidents and other University
administrators under the old center manage
ment had received free treatments and
medical examinations at the expense of
student dollars, Hubble said. But , he
declined to identify any of the administrators.
The new health center policy under Hubble
outlines services that are available to faculty
and administrators and also prescribes the
cost of the services, thus eliminating or at
Jeiit re'du'blriaV the. use 'of Mudent lees fey'
. acuity, h ai.dV-.;'. -'.v'X.,. '' .,..""..,
Another goal of the reorganization is to
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reoucs cosis, nvuuw smu.
Eliminating night-call physicians who had
been commuting from Omaha and reducing
the number of doctors working from 8 a.m.
July, h added. "We are trying to operate as
efficiently- as possible with the bare
minimum of staff needed to preserve
excellent health care."
Hubble also said the number of beds
maintained for emergency in-patients could
be reduced from 14 to nine without affecting
service and would result In some savings.
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Jelin Trtidcli, nations! 'chairman of the Amerlcsn
Indian rvlovement. "
