thursday, august 28, 1975.
daily nebraskan
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Medical Center admits more Nebraska 'residents'
More Nebraska "residents" will attend
the University of Nebraska Medical Center
(UNMC) ihis year than last year, but not
because of Lincoln Sen. Wally Bamett's
study of the school's admission practices,
according to Pete Boughan, assistant to
UNMC Chancellor Robert Sparks.
A July 30 article in the Lincoln Star
cited the study, which is being conducted
by the Legislature's Public Health and
Welfare Committee, as reason for the
increase. .
Boughan said that although figures show
that only one of the 145 students admitted
is not a legal resident of the state, a recent
law liberalizing residency requirements has
increased the number of so-called
Nebraskans. The law states that resident
status can be obtained after six consecutive
months of residency. Eighty-three per cent
of the new class attended high school in
Nebraska, he said.
Boughan also said that the fall class was
chosen prior to Bamett's proposal.
The Public health and Welfare
Committee heard members of the UNMC
Admission's Examination Board Aug. 12.
Interviewing process
"I wasn't satisfied with all their
answers," Barnett said. He said he is
concerned with the medical center s
' interviewing process.
"There may be personality clashes at
the interviews," Barnett said. "The
interviews carry a lot of weight, although
they (the Board) won't tell us how much."
Barnett suggested interviews be conducted
by a panel of Nebraska doctors instead of
UNMC faculty members.
Barnett said' he would like to see more
counseling for students who were both
accepted and rejected.
Expansion of the medical school, which
will accept 153 students next year, would
help solve admission problems, he said.
Requirements Fair
Boughan said current admission
requirements are "as fair as we can devise."
To be considered for admission to UNMC,
an applicant must take a national standard
entrance exam and be interviewed by
faculty members. A transcript of college
grades and letters of recommendations are
aX&d that LB571 a bill that
increases the number of physician
residencies placed in Nebraska from 233 0
283 in 1976 and 320 by July 1978, will
provide, more doctors practicing rural
medicine.
Emphasis will be placed on family
practice residency which prepares a
physician to work in small communities, he
said.
Union College tuition rebate
not expected this semester
Builders' calendar returns
The University of Nebraska Builders'
school calendar is back after a four-year
absence.
The calendar lists coming movies, plays,
speakers, cultural events, sports schedules
and frequently used campus phone
numbers. -
Fifteen thousand of the books were
printed, courtesy of the Nebraska
Bookstore, according to Clay Statmore,
chairman of Builder's Calendar and
Directory Committee.
The calendars are free at Nebraska
Bookstore and will be distributed by
Builders to all residence halls, Greek
houses, faculty and university staff
members.
The calendars were last distributed in
1971, but were discontinued because of
poor response, Statemore said.
A proposed tuition rebate for Union
College students probably won't take
effect this year, despite a five per cent
increase in enrollment, according to Ron
Bowes, director of College Relations.
The plan proposed a $300 tuition rebate
if enrollment reached 815 full-time
students, owes said.
Registrar Anita Kiddwiler said 830
students had registered by Tuesday, 14
more than enrolled last year. But because
only 780 will be full-time students, the
rebate will not be paid, she said.
Bowes said college officials haven't
given up, but hope enough students register
so the tuition plan can be effected.
Union College, 3800 S. 48th St.,
became the second school in the nation to
try the tuition rebate plan. The College of
the Pacific in Stockton, Calif, was the first,
Bowes said.
Rap sessions begin soon
Gay action group activities organized
Gay Action Group rap sessions will start
Sept. 4.
Groups will begin with the discussion of
the novel The Front Runner by Patricia
Nell Warren. Dave, a Gay Action Group
member who prefers his last name
withheld, says The Front Runner is "one
of the few good books on gay affairs that
isn't full of porno garbage."
The schedule for further sessions is
flexible, Dave said. The group meets at 8
p.m. on Thursdays in the living room at
UMHE-Commonplace, 333 N. 13th St. and
will be shown video tapes and discuss "how
to be gay in a straight world," he said.
Sexual biases and prejudices against both
males and females of the gay world also
will be discussed.
The University's Gay Action Group is a
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The Lincoln Gay Action Group,
different because it does not receive
student fees, works toward the same goal.
The Gay Action Group provides the
crisis Gay Rap Line and a Sunday evening
Coffee House. They publish a monthly
newsletter, The Gayly Nebraskan.
This summer the group ran an ad in The
Lincoln Journal for the Gay Rap Line,
after which the number of calls almost
doubled.
Dave said Rap line workers handle
callers ranging from someone just wanting
to talk, to suicide calls, medical ar.d legal
problems, and questions regarding Gay
Activities in Lincoln.
The number for the Gay Rap Line is
475-5710. It is open from 8 p.m. until 1 or
2 p.m. nightly.
The Gay Coffee House is open Sundays
from 9 p.m. until midnight at
Commonplace. There is an admission
charge of $1 to help cover telephone
expenses for the Gay Rap line, music
expenses for the Coffee House and
publication of the newsletter, he said.
The Gay Action Group also has a
resource center, which "has many
pamphlets and gay newspapers that are not
found elsewhere," he said. They can be
checked out at the Gay Acjion Group
office at Commonplace.
Bowes said the California school's
tuition rebate plan included a pay hike for
faculty members to encourage them to
recruit students. Some instructors quit
when the additional responsibility was
given to them, Bowes explained, and the
program was dropped after one year.
Union College's plan, announced last
year, included an eight per cent hike in
tuition to cover a cost-of-living increase,
Bowes said. He said the plan called for a
slight increase in teachers' salaries.
"Our faculty wages are about those of a
janitor at. the university (UNL)," he said.
The cost of attending Union College is
about $3,5Q0 for nine months, Bowes said.
Kenneth Bader, UNL vice-chancellor for
Student Affairs, said a rebate plan could
not be instituted at UNL unless passed by
the Nebraska legislature.
"It (the plan) will bring in great flocks
of students. If I were a private college, I'd
be looking at things like that to cut costs."
"The idea caught the students' eye. At
least they are convinced college officials
are trying to hold down costs," said Myrl
Manley, president of Union College.
The college is associated with the
Seventh-Day Adventist church. It attracts
sutdents from a nine-state area, and
primarily not from Lincoln, Bowes said.
The school has jiot given up the rebate
idea, but will' try the plan or a
modification of it next year, he said.
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Dreaming of Europe? Why not join the
NU students who each year make that
dream a reality.
During the 1975-76 winterim program,
Dec. 26 to Jan. 11, NU students can take
charter flights to London and Paris, said
Evelyn Jacobsen, director of flights and
study tours. From those two cities students
will go to the countries of their choice,
including, for the first time, Risia.
Registration for the tours, open to NU
students, their immediate family and
faculty members, began Monday, she said.
Students may obtain three hours of credit
by taking one of the 19 tour courses
, offered. The credit is obtained through the
UNL extension division and the University
of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) College of
Continuing Studies.
Each course will be taught by NU
faculty members and most tours will have
10 students, she said.
Language requirements
The courses include studying art in
Spain, economics in Paris and agronomy In
Israel. Students may fulfill part of their
language requirements by taking their
fourth semesters of German or French.
Other courses are offered in journalism,
drama, English, architecture, psychology
socia work, education and the physiology
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Tours are going to Spain, West
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Israel, Italy, Hungary, Holland and
Belgium, in addition to those staying in
London and Paris.
Round-trip fare
Round-trip fare from Lincoln to
London and Paris is $311 and $327, $50
new contract with Trans World Airlines.
Jacobsen said the air fare includes meals,
bat does not include open bar or
headphone rental fees as previous flights
have. These services would have cost
students an additional $6, she said.
Jacobsen said the charter flights will
save students as much as 40 per cent of the
cost of regular air fare.
She said fare includes a SI 0
administration fee and can be increased it
the planes are not filled.
Increased number
Jacobsen said the number of instructors
wanting to take classes on the winterim
tours has Increased so much that she has
asked some professors to wait until the
summer of 1976.
Summer chartered courses will last two
and one-half weeks between the end ot
second semester and the beginning of the
first five-week summer session. Credit for
summer flights will be announced later,
Jacobsen said.
She said she has been discouraging
students who want to pay for flights only.
Students taking classes will have priority,
she said.
Anyone Interested in winterim
flight-study tours can contact the
Flight-Study Tour office, Nebraskan Union
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