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friday, april 11, 1975 lincoln, nebiraska vol. 98 no. 110
Butz to
address
newsmen
Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz will head the list of speakers at
the 102nd annual convention of the Nebraska Press Association.
The convention will be held April 1 1 to 12 at the Hilton Hotel.
Other speakers include Nebraska Senators Carl Curtis and
Roman Hruska; Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Tulsa newspaper publisher;
and Walter Grunfeld, National Newspaper Association President.
Butz will speak at the " Ak-Sar-Ben banquet at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday. Tickets to the dinner, available the night of the speech,
are $9.50.
forfinal budgets
Health survey shows
Students satisfied with care
A survey conducted by the Student Council
on Health showed that 77 per cent of those
students who use their services were satisfied
with the health care.
The council, an 11-member group which
serves as a liaison between students and the UHC
staff, conducted a study of the University Health
Center to identify questions about their medical
care.
The council wanted to gain insight into
students' views on the positive and negative sides
of UHC, cochairman Steve Williams said.
Compliments and complaints were heard from
137 students in a telephone interview survey-71
who had used the center and 66 who had not, he
said. Almost 90 per cent of the students who had
not used the center said they wouldn't hesitate
to use the services, Williams said.
More compliments
Compliments outnumbered complaints,
Williams said. He said positive feedback included
praise of physicians, low costs and the new
appointment system.
Frcm the more critical responses, the council
identified specific problem areas which needed
studying. Follow-up reports were written after
council members researched the area, Williams
explained.
Three members of the council-Mary Duryea,
Sue Lockwood and Williams, studied the UHC
staff. They questioned Dr. Kenneth Hubble,
UHC director, about the competence and
attitudes of UNL physicians.
The council reported that the UHC staff was
fully qualified, and met normal expectations in
the community. Because of their experience and
education, Hubble told the council, they practice
a comparable quality of health service to health
care in the community.
The UHC staff has 62 physicians, including
the 32 back-up specialists. These back-up
physicians work in the community at private
practices. They serve as consultants to UNL
students, who are entitled to one free visit (up to
$10).
Williams reported that the size of the existing
faculty is only a problem compared to the size of
the building. When the center was constructed in
1956, it was expected that the student
population wouldn't exceed 10,000 students,
Williams said. Today UNL enrollment is over
20,000, resulting in cramped quarters for the
physicians.
Thepresent staff sees an average of 200-300
persons a day.
The UHC staff includes specialists ' in
adolescent health problems, internal medicine
and dermatology. In addition to the regular staff,
a surgeon, urologist, dermatologist and
gynecologist come in weekly.
Why UNL?
Duryea and Lockwood, two other students
who helped study the UHC staff, also questioned
the reasons doctors decided to work at UNL.
Preference for the college age group was the main
consideration.
The council also reported doctors at UHC
have few administrative tasks, regular working
hours, and a work situation where they can
interact with their peers.
Finally, in response to complaints about the
negative attitude of some doctors, the council
reported that students could select and request a
particular physician, as long as an appointment is
made.
Doctors must be chosen with personalities
corresponding to the patients' needs, the report
noted, just as they would for a family physician.
By John Kalkowski
The Fees Allocation Board (FAB), after several months of
hearings on allocations for student organizations, made its final
recommendations Thursday.
According to Gary Martin, acting chairman, the
recommendations are final, pending appeals by the organizations
and approval through university channels. The groups will be
notified of their allocations by mail, he said.
Forty-eight student organizations asked for $333,350.20 in
funds for next year but the FAB has only $199,110 to allocate.
The money comes from student fees.
Each organization filed a budget with the FAB and had a
hearing on the budget. The subcommittees heard, the arguments
and made recommendations to the full board. Tentative
recommendations were then voted on by the FAB.
Cut required
Tentative recommendations totaled $214,215, requiring a cut of
$21 ,105 for the FAB to meet its budget.
The FAB, which originally had an April 1 deadline for making
its recommendations, has been meeting twice a week for the past
month.
At the meeting, the FAB made tentative recommendations of
$6",500 to the. Mexican-American Student Association and $6,000
to the Council of American Indian Students. Both tentative
approvals were then made final.
Of the 48 organizations applying, 15 received final
recommendations below the tentative recommendations of the
FAB.
Before beginning budget cuts, the FAB decided to hold $6,000
in reserve as a contingency fund. Last year, the board reserved
$15,000 for contingency funds, which, according to FAB member
Chris Zenk, proved too large.
Hal Smith, associate dean of student development, told the FAB
that the budgets will be conditional, depending on incoming funds.
UNL is anticipating a drop in enrollment next year, he said.
Carry over funds
The Nebraska Union budget was cut to $59,000, which is
$5,248 below tentative recommendations. AS UN's budget was
dropped to $35,000 with a stipulation that up to $1,400 in this
year's funds could be carried over to next year.
The Cultural Affairs Committee was allocated $10,000 for next
year and $1 5,000 for the following year, a total cut of $10,000. It
is the only organization funded for two years.
The Daily Nebraskan budget was dropped from $35,000 to
$32,000.
Other organizations receiving budget cuts below tentative FAB
approval were: Geology Club, Pi Tau Sigma, Phi Beta Lamda,
University Child Care Project, NUPIRG, Culture Center,
International Club, International House, Chinese Student
Association, India Association and Alumni Association.
After making final cuts, the FAB found that it had cut $1,500
more than necessary. It voted that $100 be added to the India
Assoc. budget and $700 apiece to the Daily Nebraskan and
Cultural Affairs Committee budgets.
incoln draft evader plans return to Canada
By Susie Reitz and Jim Zalewski
Only four of 45 eligible Nebraskans took
advantage of President Gerald Fold's amnesty
program for Vietnam-era draft evaders, which ended
April 7. Stevel Thiellen, Lincoln, a UNL employe,
discussed the program in an interview Wednesday.
After five years of living in Canada, Thiellen
returned in October to fulfill an alternative service
agreement with the government for draft evasion.
Thiellen said in his job as a grounds crew custodian
at UNL he doesn't feel he is serving his country and
sees the program as a "compromise" by the
government.
Thiellen returned to the United States "to get
visitation rights to the country so he could visit his
parents and relatives living in the states," he said.
Going back
"As soon as my alternative service term of 20
months is finished I am definitely going to return to
Canada," he said.
He also needed a job, he said, because he lost his
job in the lumber industry in August because of the
failing economy and- declining demand for lumber
exports to the United States.
The first four years in Canada he worked in a
Mennonite hospital as an orderly. Last May he and his
wife moved to British Columbia where Thiellen
worked as a lumberman.
"The first day in British Columbia I found work,
the business was booming. But things fell off in
August and I lost the job," he said. "My wife had a
good job at the time and it was a hard decision to
come back."
"Some of the people still in Canada are waiting for
unconditional amnesty. They think the government
will see it was wrong and decide to forgive them. But
I don't think it will happen," he said.
If Lincoln were in
"Unconditional amnesty would be the right ihing
to do, but there are too many people who want
evaders to pay some kind of debt, so it probably
won't ever happen. Maybe if Abraham Lincoln were
president, but not with Ford," Thiellen said.
Others in Canada did not return because they had
secure jobs and had made new lives for themselves, he
said.
"I think everyone knew the ramifications of the
program and what it would involve, but they were
secure enough there, so they didn't come back,"
Thiellen said.
He said one friend who served in Vietnam says
n6w he believes the war was wrong.
"He even serves in the National Guard now, but he
says the war was a waste," Thiellen said.
Another friend is a conscientious objector who
went to Toronto, "not because he had to but because
he was just sick of the country."
Would do it again
Thiellen said that under the same conditions he
would go to Canada again. He said before the
Cambodian incursion he was not active in protest or
politics "but Cambodia and then Kent State really
turned me around."
Thiellen said he had given up his student
deferment because his lottery number was 1 65 "and
Nixon said the call-ups wouldn't go past 1 22."
"Everyone got called because there were so many
student deferments in Lincoln," he said. Thiellen quit
his job in Dncoln June 6, 1970 and left for Canada.
"My girlfriend and I were married and went to
Niagara Falls and Canada for our honeymoon-we
just never came back," Thiellen said, smiling. .
Canadians accepted all draft evaders, according to
Thiellen.
"They had learned from their experience in Korea
that a country doesn't fcet involved in an Asian civil
war and leave with anything," he said. "They knew
the United States was wrong in the war and even
passed resolutions in 1972 protesting U.S. bombing."
Canadians sympathetic
Thiellen said sentiments of the Canadian people
were best expressed in an incident which occurred at
the border when he was returning for amnesty last
fall. A Canadian customs official, "a law enforcement
officer and probably conservative, as border guards
usually are," Thiellen said, told him Lat "you guys
are the only ones who knew what you were doing."
"Canadians were very open and welcoming to
strangers," he said.
Thiellen, who is serving under a $5,000 bond, said
he doesn't plan to return to Canada before his service
is finished.
"It's hard to come back to a place after five years.
It means a complete re-adjustment. Most of my
friends now are living in Canada and few are still in
Lincoln," he said.
"I like it in Canada better, but just wanted to be
able to visit the United States," he said, "and I think
I ca i find a better job in Canada because there isn't
much difference to employers and other people in
'power' if you were a draft evader."
Three others
James Welch, Omaha, a draft evader woiking as a
technician at the University of Nebraska Medical
Center, said he did not care to discuss the amnesty
program.
"I have had a position of 'no comment' in the past
and I prefer to keep it that way," Welch said.
Paul ?. Pemberton, lincoln, and Michael J. Zink,
McCook, are the other two Nebraskans that took
advantage of the program. U.S. Attorney Thorn a3
Thalken said at last report Zink was seeking work at a
Denver hospital and Pemberton was working at a
Seattle hospital.
