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UNL and the NU Medical Center "will
be reviewed next week by a North Central
Association of Colleges and Secondary
Schools accreditation team.
The team will examine both graduate
tad undergraduate programs for general
accreditation, according to Eucne Trani,
assistant vice president for academic
affairs.
In addition, the lMnernber accredit
tation team intends to meet with a group
of students selected by the current and
former ASUN presidents, Greg Johnson
and Bill Mueller, respectively.
According to Ken Marienau, 1 1 students
were chosen to meet with the team.
The meeting will be Monday in Chancellor
Roy Young's office.
' "As I understand it," he said, "and ri:ht
row I do not, they (the accreditation
tern) are gcrg to c!.:ex to s:e that the
information the university is feeding them
is correct;"
Marienau said the meeting was arrared
by the chancellor.
The students who will meet with the
team are Tony Williams, Carolyn Grice,
Shari Patrick, Doug Crary, Scott Cook,
Don Wesely, Eric Chapman, Rick Martin,
Marienau, Ken Havelka and Dave Siegel.
ASUN secretary Mary Johnson also will
attend.
The accreditation team wiU be at UN J,
throush Wednesday, YourBg said, .
The purpose of .the team's visit i3 to
make recemmenistiens, Young said, The
t;::h will give him v oral report of its
findings before it leaves, - and a written
report a few weeks later, he said.
A similar accreditation team recently
gave the University of Nebraska at Omaha
'a full accreditation. In its written report,
the team said UNO should be accredited
at the specialist bvd and placed in a 10
ytar evaluation cycle. UNO had been on
a five-year cycle. The racialist level is the
highest level' possible. . 0
The accreditation team includes cc";e
educators from across the country.
Prof, lends hand to wrist
The National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) has contracted
with a UNL professor to complete work on
a mechanical wrist to be part of a tele
operated arm for collecting solar energy in
space,
Leendert Kersten, associate professor cf
engineering mechanics, has completed
Phase I of the project, the design develop
ment. Phase II, the design of the hardware,
will be completed by the end of June, he
said.
Phase III, the construction and testing
of a workable prototype, will begin when
the university receives the $31,000 from
NASA needed to complete the project.
Phase III should be completed by May
1978.
The arm will allow astronauts or ground
control personnel to build and maintain
machinery in space.
. Kersten explained that it is dangerous
for in astronaut to be outside his space
capsule, so the tele-operated arm, mount
ed on a moveable pod, is a good alter
native. He added that the wrist must have the
ability for the three movements-yaw,
pitch and roll. To make something that
complex and still strong enough for space
work is complicated, he said.
A bill introduced in the Nebraska Legis
lature proposes that the Nebraska Psychia
tric Institute (NPI), a part of the NU Medi
cal Center, charge Douglas County for the
care of county residents.
The bill would authorize the NPI to
charge the same fees for patient care as do
state regional centers.
A 32-9 vote Wednesday favored the
introduction of LB538, which will be
referred to its sponsor, the Appropriations
Committee.
The bill says NPI Director Merrill Eaton
will determine patient care costs, which
would be subject to approval by the NU
Board of Regents.
The county would be immediately
charged for costs of patient care, support,
maintenance and prescribed treatments
upon the bill's passage.
The charges would not include the cost
of education nor the costs of capital con
struction, the bill states.
Lincoln Sen. Shirley Marsh said county
residents elsewhere pay for the cost of
patients in psychiatric institutions.
Sh said she thinks "residents of every
county should be treated the same, '
endorsing that residents of Douglas County
pay for patient costs of residents.
She said NPI proposes a charge of $15
a day for the first 30 days of treatment and
$3 a day for treatment extending beyond
that time.
UUea Sen. Douglas Bereuter also
supported the bill. Hesaid the medical
center needs the cash funds to offset
budget problems created by extinguished
federal' funds.
He said NPI needs some $140,000
which patient fees could help offset.
Sen. Jerome Warner of Waverly agreed
that NU would be left short without the
additional funds. He said a $150,000
state reimbursement to the county for
psychiatric services goes to Douglas County
Hospital.
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