friday, january 30, 1981
lincoln, nebraska vol. 106, no. 15
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ealth center treating 'excessive amount' for flu
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By Tricia Waters
Doctors at the UNI. Health Center are treating 40 to
50 outpatients a day for tin and cold syinptons. medical
director Or. 0. Garland Bare said.
Bare said the health center's doctors are seeing 250 to
300 outpatients a day, and an "excessive amount" have
mlluena .
"Vc almost never see that many tor llu." Or. Bare said.
Wednesday night, one student was admitted to the
health center with the llu.
Baie said laboratoiies haven't determined the kind of
llu students have.
Tim Sullivan, health aide lor Abel Hall's fifth floor, said
several students have come to him for flu and cold
medication during the past few weeks. List week, 20
oi the fifth floor residents had flu symptoms, he said.
Several students caught colds right after having the
flu and have been sick foi several days. Sullivan said.
"It's been that kind of year." Sullivan said.
lie said that this week he helped three more si li -
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Photo by Jon Natvig
Unseasonably dry
A barn sets on an arid farmland outside Bowling Green, Ky. Mold weather seems to be the rule rather than
the exception in the Midwest and Central United States, and the nation's farmers are expressing concern
that the lack of moisture w ill affect the Spring's crops.
UPC chairperson asks for hike
of $6,000 in '81-'82 student fees
By Lori McGinnis
Calling all University Program Council programs legit
imate, the chairperson for UPC's executive board request
ed an increase of more than $0,000 in student fees in the
19M-82 UPC budget.
"1 very program is legitimate and lias a specific pur
pose." Anita Johnson said.
UPC's total request was $66,587. plus $15,000 for
the Kimball Hall series. This would mean $1.7 per stud
ent per semester, in UPC student fees.
"We are confident we are meeting the needs of the
students because of the rising number of students attend
ing our programs," Johnson said.
The UPC budget was separated into the three sub-committees
UPC-East Campus. UPC-City Campus. UPC
Culture Center. Each sub-committee asked for an increase.
UPC-City asked for $34,920, an increase of $4,915
over the 1980-81 allocation. UPC-East asked for $14,633,
an increase of just more than $3,000. UPC-Culture
Center asked for $11,599. an increase of $510.50 for
1980-81.
Mike Madcharo. chairperson of UPC -City, said the bas
ic increases are in speaker costs, film rental costs, the arts
program and Model United Nations.
Levetta Chamberlain, chairperson of UPC-CuIture
Center, said the increases in her budget are in the Chicano
special events and entertainment.
Johnson attributed the increases in the UPC-East bud
get to the higher cost of speakers and musical enter
tainment. Each subcommittee is sponsoring new programs and
is trying to strengthen some older programs.
The Free University program is growing in atten dance,
said Art Morrow. Free University chairperson. Last
year there were 11 classes with 149 students enrolled, he
said. This year there are 22 classes.
"I would project that we'll have 300 plus students who
will enroll in these classes," Morrow said.
Johnson said UPC-East is trying to rebuild Corn
stock. Last year's attendance was lower because it was
rained out two years in a row before and students didn't
know too much about it, she said.
"We're looking at a population of students who haven't
seen Cornstock in three years." Johnson said. A subsidy
of $4,872.80 was requested for Cornstock.
UPC-East 's travel program is sponsoring trips to Kansas
City, Chicago and a new regional trip in Nebraska. Close
to $400 was subsidized for the trips, which have a capa
city of 40 to 70 people per trip.
CFA member Mary Schanbacher questioned the rea
son for total student fee subsidy when only a small num
ber of students participate.
Patty Ebel. chairperson of the travel programs, said the
programs are in need of more publicity. They are popular
at other universities but haven't gotten off the ground at
UNL yet, she said.
The committee also voted to accept the CFA's sub
committee recommendation for $560,363 allocation for
the Nebraska unions. The recommendation would require
$1 2.59 in student fees per student per semester.
The recommendation is a reduction of $3,850 requested
by the union.
"Everything they asked for seemed to be justified ex
cept the travel area." said CFA member Dave Van Pelt.
Daryl Swanson. director of the unions, asked for
$7,350 for staff travel expenses and $4,500 for student
expenses.
The requests were reduced to $5,000 for staff and
$3,000 for student travel expenses.
dents who hav flu and five who had colds.
Anyone with a fever higher than 102 degrees is sent
to the health center. Sullivan said.
Kat hryn Warden, house director j( Kappa Kappa
Gamma sorority, said some of the residents have colds
and flu. Most of the residents who are ill have cold and
sore throats, she said .
Bill Keppert. a member of Ag Men fraternity, said
some of the lesidents had colds and flu about ,i week
ago. He said about four or five of the 70 students had
been sick.
Pound I kill's eighth floor health aide. Gail Schitim. said
she has given llu oi cold medication to about five resi
dents a week. She said she took several students to the
health center.
A couple of weeks ago. everybody had the flu, but this
week several people had colds, Schrum said.
UNL police note
rising resistance
By I). Eric Kirchcr
College students now resist police with violence and
aggression they didn't show in the past, according to the
UNI. police chief.
The bonfires before the Oklahoma football game in
November were an example of increased resistance.
Chief Gail L. Gade said.
"It was a vicious type of situation." he said.
"1 don't think we would have seen that degree of de
structive behavior 10 years ago," said Robert C. Fey.
crime prevention coordinator.
The cause of the students' changed reactions is hard to
pinpoint. Gade said.
More drinking is occurring among students, and that
may contribute to the change in reactions, Gade said.
"I think that through the education process we have
fallen down." he said. "The thing that leally concerns
us is the lack of respect that the public shows toward
authority."
Gade and fey agreed lone students obey policemen,
but a crowd of students tends to resist them.
Groups of students are more emotionally charged than
in the past. Fey said.
An officer's attitude can affect the crowd's reaction.
Gade said, so policemen are trained to react calmly to
potentially hostile crowds.
Most officers try to be patient. Gade said, but they
reach a point where actions speak louder than words.
Although campus police reported seeing a trend tow
ard aggression, Lincoln police department officers said
young people are not turning violent.
"'I hey appear to be more aggressive. "Captain Ronald
Flansburg said, but "we are actually talking about a very
few students."
"The situations I've been to were more aggressive,"
Flansburg said, but he added that he cannot claim that all
students are resistive. Crowds incite a few members to
act, he said.
Lincoln Assistant Police Chief Clifton Koch also said
he doesn't see a trend toward aggressiveness.
"I think we have the same reaction that we had before,
but it's just on a larger scale," Koch said.
Koch blamed part of the police's problem on changing
laws.
Crowd-control laws of the past weren't specific. Koch
said, and police could use the laws to break up large gath
erings. Now the police need a change for a specific violation to
arrest partygoers, he said.
"Anytime a law is changed, it makes it harder for us."
the police chief said. The Legislature may change the law
back to give the police more control, he said.
A New Year's Eve party where police found about 300
partygoers in the street and in neighbors' yards near 19th
and Sumner Streets prompted opposing charges of aggres
sive civilians and brutal officers.
Police reported that the crowd encouraged the people
being arrested to resist. officers.
Jeff Nuss, 1901 Sumner, said the police attacked New
Year's Eve partygoers at his house without provocation.
Not all persons at the party werr UNL students.
friday
You've Got A Friend: Y-Pal program provides enjoy
ment for more than 100 UNL students Page 6
Experience it: A new music class gives students a feel for
their own personal experience through music . . . Page 8
Finally: Bob Devaney recently received a long-overdue
induction into the football haU of fame " Page 1 1