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daily nebraskan Wednesday, august 2Q, 1975 page 12 Help services ease student blues, off ermany answers Editor's note: Telephone numbers for services named in this article, as well as other helpful phone numbers, are listed alphabetically following the article. Before this semester grinds its way to a close in December, as many seniors as freshmen may et caught in the machinery. But keeping mind and body together through registration, drop and add, midterms and finals can be easier for the student who knows who to call or see for help. ' If a sympathetic ear is all you need, the university and Lincoln offer a variety of phone services! Volunteers staff Lincoln Personal Crisis Service lines 24 hours a day, and the University Health Center (UHC) offers Outreach, a phone or walk-in service, from 6 p.m. to 7 a jn. UNL's Helpline volunteers also will help, with personal problems, as well as providing miscellaneous information about the university. In addition, Helpline workers, who have access to many standard reference works, usually can answer such questions as "Who said 'My candle burns at both ends'?', and "How do you cook artichokes.?'' Personal problems Help for more specialized personal problems can be as close as the phone, too. The Lincoln Gay Rap Line is staffed from 8 p.m. to 2 a jn. by volunteers who will answer questions about homose sexuality, human sexuality and the . Lincoln-University Gay Action Group. Rapeline, a service of the Lincoln Coalition Against Rape, may be reached through Personal Crisis Service. Information on birth control, pregnancy and venereal disease usually can be gotten by phone from Lincoln Planned Parenthood or UHC. For mental, physical and dental health care, walk -in services abound at UNL. All three may be found at UHC, 15th and U streets, and low-cost dental work also is available at the College of Dentistry on East Campus. Psychotherapy, marital therapy and testing are offered for a minimum fee of $2, at the Psychological Consultation Center in 11 1 Burnett Hall. The center is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 7 to 9 pin. Tuesday and Thursday. Free counseling Free personal, vocational and academic counseling is available at the University Counseling Center from 8 a.m. to 5 pjn. on the third floor of Seaton Hall in the Selleck Complex. Group or individual counseling is offered. The Counseling Center also sponsors life Planning Workshops at intervals throughout the semester, and will conduct a workshop on job interview skills early this fall. Sex education and counseling on birth control, pregnancy and sterilization are offered at Planned Parenthood, ,3830 WUT WA'TTr "TIME !P TU U?VB eeAUTlRJU AKI7 A TPjEMKWWU TMS VvCWlWU THAT CW CCLteSXlGU ENP6 WITH TUB YJB &ikntett&B TUB 2ULtTY0P WHAT wEeu.. IN TUB GUlL MANY TTMS IP- VX J UAVPU'-T 2JJT7PplLV fOck IN TUE &r, WE. MCW YOJ'LL in,. " - 1 - ' i I" " PICiWSPAPSe A FEW C TUG U?S54. Adams Street, and free VD clinics are conducted there by the state health department. Legal counseling for students is available at the AS UN Student Legal Services, Nebraska Union 334. Academic complaints and suggestions may be taken to the Campus Ombudsman, Burnett 110. Miscellaneous information For miscellaneous information of all sorts, especially after UNL offices close, university telephone operators and the Bennett Martin Library reference desk can be good sources. The operators, who are on duty 24 hours a day, have most UNL data at their fingertips. Bennett Martin is open until 9 lji.. Monday through Friday. Both Bennett Martin and university library officials, however, said extensive research questions should be brought rather than phoned to the library. The university library will answer phone queries on book and periodical locations. Help numbers Bennett Mai tin Library .435-2146 - Campus Police . .. .472-3555 City Police .477-7111 College of Dentistry .472-3161 Counseling Center 472-3461 Emergency 911 Fire Department . .432-2222 Gay Rap line . . . .475-57 1 0 Helpline, 472-2111,12 Minority Affairs . .472-2028 29 Ombudsman .....472-3633 Outreach.. .472-2200 Personal Crisis ... .475-5171 Planned Parenthood466-2387, 88 Psychological Consultation .... .472-372 1 Rapeline ....475-5171 Registration Advising ..472-3601 Student Information (Centrex) ........475-3601 Student Legal Services ....472-3350 - University Health Center . . . .472-2102 University Library 472-2848 University Operators ....... .472-72 1 1 Women's Resource Center ..472-2597 Offices reinstate 8-5 schedule Employes in UNL business offices returned to an 8 a.m. to 5 pan. work schedule Monday. During the summer, university busiftss hours were 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. The summer .schedule was adopted in May in an effort to reduce air conditioning costs. NU Business Manager Ronald Wright said the tcU Ot tiu vApctiiieenuu summer schedule are being evaluated, but that no conclusions are available yet. He said he wants university employes to express their opinions about the summer schedule to hi office. r r kit "cTTj ?Hf 1 H ii l-' O m mm