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page 2 daily nebraskan thursday, february 26, 1981 'F WIVt K' PHI W 'I : HIM: U-It l leftist 'Viffi1feflara;Sa a SIGN UP NOW FOR INTERVIEW AT E. CAMPUS PLACEMENT OFFICE. MARCH 4. We now have waterbeds. SOFA S199 LOVESEAT S169 COFFEE TABLE S53 Hand Finished Solid Wood Butcher Block Set Completely knocked down, over 50 fabrics Poof and Walrus Pillow Chairs $49 to $89 Decorator Pillows $1.99 - Floor Pillows $6.99 1325 "O' St 474-4501 M-F 10-6:30; Th. 10 7:30 Sat. 10-5 Sun. 1-5 E3 Rec Center . . . Continued from Page 1 sity Health Center, recreation department and Nebraska unions. According to Armstrong, student fees have constituted $600,000 of the unions' budgets over the past three years, the total budget being three times that. He said 75 per cent of the health center budget is student fees and all costs except equipment rental in the recreation depart ment are free supported. The student fee total per semester for 1981-82 is tentatively $75.50, an increase of $3. Fund A will re ceive $4.49 from each student; $71 .01 will go to Fund B. Most questions from the audience did not deal directly with the fee process, but with the need of some fees, and the administration's and NU Board of Regents' involve ment in determining fees and fee use. UNL student Iiric Johnson questioned Armstrong about the $18 debt service fee. Johnson asked why stu dents who do not occupy UNL housing should be made to pay the debt on housing. Armstrong said students who live on campus must pay an additional amount to the debt service through their boarding costs. Questioned about a proposed UNL recreation center. Armstrong said the idea for a new center has been around for quite awhile but only recently has been publicized. He said to gain approval, students must demonstrate to the regents a need and interest for a rec center. He said the survey question about the center on the March 4 ASUN ballot will test if that support exists. Armstrong said a center v.ould probably not be built unless Fund B dollars were plegded to it. He added it would be "equally as viable to consider outside sources" for funding. Speaking about student regents Armstrong said because they do not have a vote on the board, they must learn to work through informal channels. He said student regents must develop a style and technique for working with re gents. Without the vote, "their only power is one of discus sion, dialogue and influence. The outcomes are not restric ted to the power of the vote," he said. Armstrong was also questioned about UNL's prohibi tion of alcohol on campus. He said the alcohol policy is one of great concern to the regents, but added students in the past have not been successful in getting the policy changed. Students have appeared before the regents twice in Armstrong's eight years at UNL, he said, and have failed to get alcohol allowed on campus both times. Encounter center popular place for Morrill Hall's tour groups By Sue Jepsen Never again will people have to "look at everything behind glass" at a museum said Jean Uhrlaub of the Ne braska State Museum's encounter center. The encounter center, on the second floor of Morrill Hall, offers anyone of any age the kinesthetic as well as the visual experience of visiting a museum. The center houses stuffed animals, birds, fossils, "discovery boxes," aquariums and even sharks' teeth for museum visitors to come see, feel and smell. The center opened June 23. During August, the "summer high month," 4,694 people toured the center. Since school started, the average is 30 visitors an hour, Uhrlaub said. The center is geared mainly toward school children. Uhrlaub said it is open from 9 a.m. to 2:20 pjr. for r i mm stuff There will be an AUF meeting tonight at 6:30 in the Nebraska Union. Room number will be posted. Hast Campus Gavel Club will meet tonight in the Fast Campus Union at 8:30. Room number will be posted. 1L ASUN Presidential Candidates Debate Thurs., Feb. 26 7 p.m.-9 p.m. Raymond Lounge Neihardt Residential Center 540 No. 16th St The Debates will be in panel form, with questions allowed from the audience. All parties will be represented. Sponsored by Neihardt Students and RHA There will be an Afri kan Peoples Union meet ing tonight at 7 at the Culture Center. 16 & Y Streets. . Students wishing to be considered for nomination by the university for a Fed eral Summer Internship should contact the Coordin ator for Experiential Edu cation. Oldfather Hall, Room 1218. Positions are open for graduate students in business administration, political science, economics or other human services programs and for undergrad uate or graduate students with backgrounds in chemis try, mathematics or life sciences. All applicants must be planning to return to school in the fall. The application deadline is March 2. ASUN is now taking ap plications for Student Court justices for the 1981-82 school year. Applicants must be full time students with a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.75, and must have at least junior standing if an under graduate. The Chief Justice must be a law student. Information sheets and ap plications are available in the ASUN office, Nebraska Union Room 115. Deadline is Feb. 27. There will be a govern ors' conference on new horions for agriculture to day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the East Campus Union's Great Plains Room. Faculty ami students are invited. school groups and two hours in the afternoon for the pub lic. The idea for the center came from associate professor Allan Griesemer, who had a grant five years ago to visit other "hands-on" programs and became interested in hav ing one at Nebraska, Uhrlaub said. Money for the center came from the university and the Junior League of Lincoln, plus a lot of books and resource materials that were donated, she said. Displays for the center were all furnished free by the museum. They are all "non-data specimens," she said, which means they are useless for exhibits or research be cause little or nothing is known about the artifact. Very popular with groups The center has been very popular, Uhrlaub said, and already there are at least two groups a day scheduled to visit the center from now until May. Now that the annual spring mailing has gone to out state schools, Uhrlaub-said they are expecting to fill their schedule with visiting schools. A group of 30 people is allowed to stay for a 45-min-ute visit, she said. When groups come, they are given a brief orientation of the center by a volunteer, then the children are allowed to explore the center on their own, or participate in or ganized activities, she said. So far the center has two discovery boxes. One is the "fossil find," a sand box where children dig for a fossil. If they can identify it by matching it with sample fossils, they can take it home. The "smell box" challenges children to identify differ ent smells without seeing the source. For older children, Uhrlaub said there are flip cards at each display with questions for the children and the answers. There are also four tape-slide shows for children. One is about Morrill Hall, another is about the steps scientists go through bringing a fossil to the museum, and the last two are on dinosaurs. "Dinosaurs are really popular with the children," Uhrlaub said. Uhrlaub, the only full-time, paid staff-member of the "Encounter Center," worked from February until June last year putting the room together, including making a "systematic catalog of native American artifacts," she said. Uhrlaub, who has taught students from preschool to college in physical education and American history, said she had help with the job of classifying each item twice from the curators, and she also did some work on her own. Expanded catalog As an added feature, Uhrlaub also is working on a catalog of arrowheads, bones, fossils, rocks and minerals. When it is finished people will be able to use it to identify artifacts they have found by matching them to the cata log. Uhrlaub said the encounter center is constantly chang ing as new things are brought in. She said she hopes to begin changing the large animals this summer, putting the old ones in storage and rotating them with new ones. The center has also applied for federal funds to hire another person to plan curriculum and develop natural history instructional units for grades three through six. "We want to take the concept of this room and take it out into the schools," she said. The center now is staffed with 25 volunteers who con duct all the tours and do some classification work, but more are needed, especially on Sundays and for this summer. Uhrlaub said one of her next projects is a manual for the volunteers to supplement their 12-hour training session. "The center is continually changing and we are always adding." She said the volunteers need a manual to keep up.