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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
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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
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