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. - - .t M - UQIIU 0 is'(ycsa.ra 1 thurcday, October 31, 1974 I lincoln, nobraska vol. 98 no. 39 esidence hall changes p rovide 'next door' helt Editor's note: This is tha second in a series of articles examining differentiated housing during its first year in UNL residence hails. By Rusty Reno Help with an assignment may not be as close as next door for UNL residence hall students, but the Housing Office is working to provide this academic aid In a closer proximity than ever before. Assistant Housing Director Kenneth Swerdlow discovered last July that certain majors tended to request residence at certain residence hall complexes. From the residence hall preferences Swerdlow established a nonbllndind. complex designation for 10 majors. "The student still has the freedom to choose the dormitory he wants, and wo will honor that," emphasized Richard Arm strong, housing director. "We are just setting up possibilities." , ; Swerdlows plan names the following majors to these residence, halls: Abel-Sandoz: engineering, architecture and business; BurrrFedde: agriculture and home econom ics, Cather-Pound-Neihardt: teach ers colleoe and undeclared majors: - Har- per-Schramm-Smith: arts and science; leek: graduate, professional and nursing students. '. , Part of change Special interest floors were part of residence hail changes made possible by the NU Board of Regents last spring after the j Council on Student Life (CSL) recommended that alternatives to traditional residence hall -living be adopted. - Between five to 25 persons of one major ' would be placed on a floor, Swedlow's report I states, but no floors were set aside for just one major. "We have not thought of having individual floors with a concentration of majors, because it would have a reverse effect than what we are trying to accomplish," Arm strong said. He feared that students attending classes, eating and living together would restrict their view of college. "A student Is more likely to become a complete person if he Is exposed to more views rather than a one-sided narrow point of view," he said. Increase academic strength Armstrong commented that majors who iive' in the same complex could only have their academic strengths and interests reinforced. Differences between students should not be excluded, he said, and the creation of a floor clique would injure that possibility. "There are things that bring people together besides academic interests," he said. f - Swerdlow hopes eventually to have a dean's office for the majors represented in a ; residence hail. In this way, the "campus can ; be decreased in size," according to Arm strong, and communication between a student and his advisor, will be increased. Contact ;with the colleges to seek out. opinions about an outside office has not been developed, Armstrong said. ? Change in literature j The plan will cause a re 'ision In residence hall literature sent to prospective residents, I he said, including Swerdlovv's designation of' majors to the particular residence halls, i James O'Hanlon requested Canter-Pound-? Neihardt je desfgnated for undeclared! , majors to offer a special oroaram to them. i Although the plan brings students of the ' same major within a closer proximity, Armstrong stressed the importance between ' the difference of academic and residential life at UNL. "We do not want to produce carbon-copy ! students," he said. f Un ASUN acts aaainst ion renovation The ASUN Senate Wednesday night unani mously passed a resolution to oppose recently revealed remodeling plans for the Nebraska Union. , . ' -,'..r- v' The plans involve providing retail business space in the southwest corner of the Union first floor. They would involve remodeling or relocating - the Union Program Office, tho Women's Resource Center and the study lounge. The plans were explained by Union Director Af Bennett In a Wednesday, Oct. 23 Daily Nebrssksa article. The purpose of the resolution was to oppose the "Glass Menagerie-type setup" that renting building space to businesses would allow, according to Senator Mark Hoeger. He Introduced the resolution for the Senate Executive Commit tee. , Ron Clingenpeei, ASUN president, said he introduced the resolution to the committee. The remodeling would provide additional services within the union but at the same time would jeopardize organizations contained In the areas marked for business, he said. The money spent in remodeling could be used in areas with a greater need for .the money, such as residence-halls, according to Senator Tim Evensen, Residence Hall Association president. The remodeling plans could cost about $160,440, according to Bennett. The proposals will be submitted Thursday to the Union Board, a student advisory group to the ""Results of an earlier ASUN resolution to place on the homecoming ballot a choice of voting for homecoming queen or homecoming person next yearwere announced by Sharon Johnson, ASUN first vice president. According to Jphnson, 333 students voted to change the royalty vote from homecoming queen to homecoming person. Students voting to retain the title of queen numbered 803, and students who did not vote on the question numbered 358, Johnson said. The Senate also considered a government bill which would provide ASUN funds for salaries for ASUN committee chairmen. Chairmen for two of the three committees, education and student services, have resigned since the beginning of the school year, - , , According to Clingenpeei, salaries are neces sary for the chairmen's work. The bill was tabled until next week when It will bo voted on, according to ASUN procedure on government bills. Fred Stehiik, a Law Coilego freshman was approved as senator for the Graduate and Professional Coilego. Senator Sarah LeRoy who represents the College of Arts and Sciences has resigned. Building allows for handicapped By Chuck Deck.,-. . 'i;r " One., building oh" East Campus' is . different from the others. Its rough handled door levers, blinking fire-warning signs and automatic doors were designed with some special, people in rnind.': : This building, the new Home Econ omics Building (HEB), wts designed to be easily accessible to handicapped people. Light switches are built low to allow people in wheelchairs to reach them. The rough-handled door levers mark doors leading to staircases, warning blind, people of potentially dangerous areas, Lois Schwab, associate professor of Human Development and the Family said. Blinking fire signs warn the. visually Impaired of a fire in the building and automatic doors remain open long enough to allow people confined to wheelchairs to get through them. The $1,7 million structure was formally dedicated last Saturday, end ing ten years of planning, according to Audrey Newton, chairman of the Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design. Funding for the building came -from an appropriation by the 1972 legislature. ; The building will accommodate the 1,000 home economic majors and 1,000 Uliivi iuunid lamii itviliO bwnwiiliw courses, Newton said. "The old building was a re-adjusted dormitory and so the floor space was not used as efficiently as In this building , (HEB), Hazel Anthony, dean of the College of Home Economics, said. "I don't think there is any space in this new building that Isn't used effic iently." Mcds! for othsr buildings The 32,500 square feet of floor space in the HEB Is divided among two classrooms, ten laboratories, sight research and extension areas, a demon stration laboratory, an auditorium and office space for 42 faculty members. It also houses administrative offices- for -.the co.'fege and classroom offices for two departments 'within the college: textiles, clothing and design and education and family resources. , Another feature of the building Is its wall hangings, Newton, said. Alex GSrard designed a -series of brightly- . colored, modernistic tapestries that hang In the stairwells. Faculty members ' their offices, Newton said. v , DcbdUac ui nit; uutiumy a cho y ,. accessibility for handicapped people, it serves as a model for other buildings on campus, Schwab and Newton said. A $70,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare went for the construction fo safety devices for handicapped people, Newton said. Clothing displayed Historic clothing, such as old UNL cheerleaders' uniforms, is displayed in hallway cases. A room will contain other displays not yet assembled. Also located in the building are laboratories to train teachers and counselors of handicapped people; Schwab said; . Another laboratory contains equip ment to test fabrics, Newton said. Aft fabric's laundry properties, and its) fading and flamabllity are tested In the -laboratory. "In terms of efficiency and the artistic.-: angle, this building surpasses the old" home economics building," Newton f said. - ' - I f 1 i J 1 Lhtcsfd Municipal Court Judge Jcnlca Grcd'.vchi discussed Job pcfontkfs far women li law -at vornenPpeak - '74 Wednesday m tns ncof asKa union.
