Housing Office now hiring student assistants
The UNL Housing Office is concluding Student '
Assistant (SA) selection and has begun selection of
residence hall directors (RDs) for 1975-76.
"A much higher percentage of our professional
staff is returning compared to other years," said
Marie Hansen, coordinator of residence hall programs.
This year the housing office is trying to lure people
earlier to acquire the best people, she said.
SA appointments will be made early next week,
and orientation will begin after spring break. She said
early appointments will allow students to file for
Residence Hall Association (RHA) offices then.
RHA leadership
Working in RHA may provide the leadership
experience and increased awareness of student
government and residence hall activities needed to
qualify applicants for an SA position next year, she
said. v
SAs are selected on the basis of their grade point
average (CPAs), files and personal interviews.
Originally 300 students applied, she said, but about
50 were declined because of low CPAs, and about
100 were declined after staff members read their files.
Each applicant's file includes his application with
two essay questions and several reference forms. If
the applicant lives off-campus he needs three
references from anyone; if the applicant lives
on-campus he needs references from his current SA,
his RD or complex program director (CPD), a person
of his choice and from five students living on his
residence hall floor and randomly chosen by housing.
During the interviews, held in mid-February both
on-campus and off-campus, applicants were judged by
basic criteria, she said, but the two types were often
finally selected by interviewers.
Many complexes hope to have SAs from both
kinds of living on the staff because it adds a new
Nebraska desirable
RD selection began last week when Hansen and
several other housing staff members attended a
conference to interview prospective RDs from across
the country. Nebraska is more nationally known and
a more desirable place to applicants than it has been
in the other three years she's attended, Hansen said.
For the first time, she said, students are the
drawing card. People want to work with rational
students corrmitted to student government and to
building a community, and Nebraska students seem
to be more like that than other students. Although
applicants may still show an interest in the "Big
Red", the kind of student at UNL has become more
important, she said.
To qualify for the RD position, applicants must
have an M.S. in student personnel, counseling or a
related field and previous residence hall experience.
Ministers
giving
counsel
at UHC
Patients who are bedridden at the
University Health Center (UHC) may
have a new kind of visitor to see them.
A ministerial counseling service began
operation at the health center on March
3. The service was cosponsored by the
12-member Campus Pastors Association
and the UHC staff.
The ideal format for the ministerial
counseling service was to have each
campus minister serve in the UHC office
on a rotation basis, according to Rev. Ray
Waetjen, minister at, the University
Lutheran Chapel. The UHC minister's
office is located on the second floor of
the health center.
Many campus ministers are busy with
special Lenten services which are taking
place at most campus churches, Rev.
Waetjen said. Each minister has his own
parish to administer, ne explained. ,
Want to spend time
"They (campus ministers) all have a
desire to spend time at the health
center," Rev. Waetjen said, "but time is a
factor now."
Although Rev. Waetjen and Sue
Tidball, a counselor of the United
Ministries in Higher Education, now serve
at the minister's office, they said they
have seen a total of six students since
March 3.
Conceding that few students have seen
the counselors, Tidball said more students
will use the service once it receives
publicity. She said that the Campus
Pastors Association will seek student
responses to determine if the -service,
which is on a temporary basis this
semester, should be continued.
Dr. Kenneth O. Hubble, director of
UHC, said campus ministers have visited
students at the health center for years. He
added that most hospitals, including all of
Lincoln's hospitals, have fullrime
chaplains who visit with patients.
Rev. Waetjen said the ministerial
' "uinseling service benefits both students
and campus ministers.
Someone to talk to
"Students will have someone to talk to
out of the confines of a church building,"
Rev. Waetjen said. "The pastor on duty at
the health center will serve as a friend to
a student who must stay at the health
center."
Campus ministers benefit by
counseling patients at the UHC because
' they can learn to' serve in a broader kind
of ministry than what they encounter at
campus churches, he said.
"We may have students walking in
here (to the minister's UHC office) who
wouldn't walk into a campus church," he
said.
Rev. Waetjen said the service was
primarily designed for students to come
to the minister's UHC office to talk to
the ministerial counselor on duty. He
said, however, that he has visited two
students who have stayed at the health
center.
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