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About $15 million is needed to bring UNL into com
pliance with a "life safety" code adopted by the Nebraska
Legislature in 1969, according to Ray Coffey, UNL assist
ant business manager.
In the proposed $103 million 1977-1978 budget re
quest, $700,000 is earmarked for the fire safety improve
ments. The budget request was approved last Wednesday
by the NU Board of Regents, but still faces legislative
approval. -
Of the $700,000 requested in the 1977-1978 year bud
get, $500,000 is for UNL and $200,00 is for the four NU
agricultural experimental laboratories and the School for
Technical Agriculture in Curtis.
. Some buildings on the UNL campus were built as early
as 1894. So while newer buildings comply with state fire
codes, some of the older buildings do not, Coffey said.
Among those are Eessey Hall, Architectural Hall, Former
Law EJdg. and the Temple BIdg. .
The money, iff approved, would be used to add
sprinkler systems, magnetically-released fire doors, gyp-
Disturbed
"students
find hs'p
in Outreach
For students troubled by
emotional and medical
worries Outreach offers
solutions.
"Our thrust has always
been toward emotional, per
sonal and medically-related
problems," Dr. Carmen
Grant, staff coordinator for
the program, said. Outreach
operates as a walk-in and
phone-in counseling service
for students.
Headquartered at the
University Health Center
(UHC), Outreach is staffed
by 17 students trained for
para-professional counseling-
.
We serve multiple pur
poses, Grant said. "Out
reach offers short-term peer
' counseling, access to broad
er health care, and consul
tation and referral services.
"We try to give students
several options in counsel
ing," Grant said. Callers
may be referred to com
munity or other university
sources by the Outreach
counselors to solve their
problems, according to
Grant.
7ue Guueach line,
472-2200, operates from
6 p.m. to 7 a.m. CaSs re
ceived from 8 aon. to 5
pjn. are handled by the
'mental health depart
ment at UHC.
The largest percentage of
calls Outreach receives in
volves situational stress pro
blems, according to Jeff
Coffman, coordinator of
training and statistics for
the program. "Another big'
category is interpersonal
problems," he said. Out
reach averages 250 to 300
calls . per semester, Grant
said, and more than 90 per
cent of Outreach service is
handled by phone.
Applications for Out- ;
reach counselors wSI be
accepted in Room 104
at UHC until October 1.
Uppsrclassssen and seniors
who will be at UNL for the
ful academic year are qua
lified to apply. Trainees re-,
ceive 18 to 20 hours of pre
Eniinary training and ap
prenticeship. ;"" -
Help Line, a phone ser
vice offering miscellaneous
information and guidance to
czSars, was discontinued
this year because of budget
cuts. VL2e Outreach pro
vides coimsdsg' and re-'
ferral services to students,
Help Line only furnished
short-term consultation,
according to Grant. Except
for consultation, Outreach
will not assume any of the
services of Help line.
sum board fire resistant walls, smoke detectors, manual
fire alarms and other fire safety equipment.
About $500,000 has been spent on the fire safety im
provements in the last two years, Coffey said .
Teachers Cc-rge improvements ,
Fire code improvements were made on the Teachers
College DUg. last year. For instance, combustible wooden
lockers were removed .from the corridors and study
carrels and display cases were built in their place.
The inside stairway was converted into a fire tower,
in which magnetically closed doors and gypsum board
walls would provide protection from smoke and fire for
almost an hour. This would allow people to leave the
building.
An alarm system and smoke detectors were added to
the building. The alarm systems are connected with the
university exchange system in Nebraska HaU. If the alarms
sound, Lincoln Police, the Lincoln Fire Dept. and Campus
Police would be notified.
Other additions included exit signs, fire excape stairs
and fire extinguishers. Class transoms were removed, and
replaced by metal ventilation panels, which can be closed
in the event of a fire. .
PLsst Industry EL'g.
Another building that has received fire safety improve
ments is the Plant Industry EUg. on East Campus. A fire
there last year caused nearly $750C3 in danrges, as well
as destroying research materials.
Before the fire, a smoke detector system was being in
stalled. It was to be tested the week after the fire, Coffey
said. Fire safety improvements were added when the
building was rebuilt.
Hailey Schrader, UNL Physical Plant director, sail the
first three priorities are:
-Adequate exits from buildings. ,
-Fire alarm systems. -Creatirg fire towers.
Many of the buildings needing additional fire exits are
on East Campus, Schrader said. The Agricultural Hall, Ag
ricultural Engineering EUg. and the Poultry Science EJg.
are listed for receiving fire exits this year.
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