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UNL Student Health Center
needs renovations Blom
photo by Bill Graf
Professor Henry Higgins (Dick Terbune) sings the musical question "Why
Can't A Woman Be More Like A Man" to his companion, Col. Pickering (Mi
chael Schawang) and a crowd of about 6,000 during the Pinewood Bowl com
mittee's production of "My Fair Lady" Sunday night. Approximately 25,000
saw this production during its four day run, which ended Sunday.
BY L0R1 MERRYMAN
The UNL Student Health Center,
with services open to 13,000 more stu
dents than was planned for in 1959, needs
expanding or renovating, Steve Blom,
Health Center administrator, said in an
interview Monday.
The Health Center, built in 1959 to
serve 10,000 students, is now using hall
ways for the laboratory and waiting
rooms in order to serve the 23,000 UNL
students, Blom said.
Not only has student enrollment dou
bled from what administrators expected
when they built the health center, but
services at the health center have ex
panded, Blom said. The health center has
added programs such as counseling, pa
tient education and wellness promotion.
Blom said he will work with ASUN
and the Health Center Board (a student
board of the ASUN) to try to get funds
for either renovating or expanding the
health center. This fall a consulting firm
will analyze the health center building
and services to determine if the center
needs to be rebuilt or expanded. Blom
said he is sure the consultants will see
there is a need.
The space shortages are obvious in the
center, whether making an appointment
at the front desk, walking by the labora
tory or waiting in one of the clinic rooms.
Blom said the open front desk and the
small rooms allow no privacy for pa
tients. Some of the clinic's original rooms
were divided in half, creating the 10 small
rooms the clinic has now.
Doctors have no space of their own
and storage space is practically nonexist
ent, Blom said. The center keeps few sup
plies. The pharmacy and business offices are
over-crowded, he said.
Another problem is the location and
size of restrooms. Although all the offices
on second floor, which previously were
hospital rooms, have unused restrooms,
the first floor's one small restroom has,
barely enough room to turn around in, he
said. All of the restrooms for handi
capped people are in the basement.
The center needs additional waiting
areas to the main waiting room right in
side the front door, Blom said. Students
waiting for dermatology or counseling,
for example, must wait in. the hallway.
The health center staff has creatively
used the existing 26,000 square feet in the
center. For example, the laboratory, lo
cated on all three floors, has converted
hallways into extra lab space.
While walking through the health cen
ter, one sees medical records stored on
shelves in the hallway and a coffee ma
chine in a closet.
"I think we've put out an excellent
product," he said, "we have been success
ful in using creative means to accomo
date our needs."
When built, UNL's health center was
the largest in the Big Eight, he said. But
the other universities were right proj
ecting more than 10,000 students, he said.
Now, six Big Eight Schools have heath
centers larger than UNL's. The health
center at Kansas University, for example,
has 90,000 square feet three times the
size of UNL's, he said.
He said he doesn't plan to ask for
90,000 square feet, but additions or im
provements in UNL's health center are
needed.
These changes have been talked about
within the staff for ten years, and now
it's time to get a consulting firm in to
talk about them, he said.
If a consulting firm says there is a
need for expansion or renovation, the
plans will have to be first approved by
the Central Planning Committee, Doran
Matzke, ASUNs first vice-president,
said. Then, since student fees would be
used, (about 50 percent of student fees go
to the Health Center) a proposal would
go before the Committee on Fees and Al
location, an ASUN subcommittee. As a
final step, the regents would have to ap
prove money for expansion or renovation,
Matzke said.
Winterim
trips
scheduled
BY LORl MERRYMAN
Six winterim trips for December 26 to January 10
have been announced by the Flights and Study Tours of
fice, and, depending on the tour, will offer language and
culture studies, job contacts, field experience or group
traveling.
The tours, sponsored by UNL's Division of Continu
ing Studies and International Educational Services, have
been scheduled to run during the Christmas break.
Students in advertising and economics will take an in
depth look at their fields of study.
Economic students in a study tour taught by Dr. H. C.
Gupta and Dr. T- W, Roesler of the College of Business
Administration will study and compare the economies of
Great Britain, France and Germany, said Christy Joy,
assistant international educational services course coor
dinator. Yhile paying attention, to problems of the American
dollar, students will look at reasons for the great eco
nomic advance of the three economies studied.
The economics tour, costing $1,550 to $1,650, includes
visits with government agencies, multinational corpora
tions, financial institutions and international agencies,
plus free time to tour London, faris, puesseldorf and
Frankfurt, Joy said.
For the 10th year, Prof. Albert Book will take stu
dents to London, to study social and economic implica
tions and effects pf advertising and marketing policies.
The advertising trip is geared to help students solve
questions and problems ir policy formulation, in interna
tional advertising.
UNL students taking the advertising winterim previ
ously have made valuable joh contacts and' insights on
career choices, Joy said.
While on the trip advertising students, visiting Lon
don only, will hear daily presentations on advertising by
media, agencies, advertisers, clients, research organiza
tions and related service organiations.
The advertising winterim, not including tuition, will
cost about $1,025 to $1,100.
While economics and advertising students are in Eu
rope and England, UNL agriculture students Will study
crops and livestock in Australia, New Zealand and Ha
waii. Joy said complete information on the agriculture trip,
such as cost, are not yet completed.
Students on the other four winterim trips will study
literature and language.
Winterim, study tours for three credit hours in lan
guage will leave for France and Germany. Students will
also study literature and drama in a study tour travelling
in England.
For the lpth year students, with Prof. Peter Rein
kordt and Prof. Anthony Jung, will study culture and vo
cabulary in Germany. The tour,- for German majors,
minors or students with basic German classes wanting to
improve knowlege of German, includes three to four
hours pf class per day, trips to castles, museums, galleries
and operas.
The approximate cost for the German tour, including
tuition, is $1,375 to $1,450.
French professors f rans Amelincks and Karen Soukup
wilj emphasize oral and cultural approaches to the
French language. Students will stay with French families
for four days of he tour.
Joy said the approximate cost of the French winterim
trip is $1,361 to $1,450, including tuition.
A non-credit European tour for students wanting to
travel but ayoid making individual travel arrangements
will tour Munich, Italy and the Swiss Alps. Approximate
cost for the tour is $1,369 to $1,450.
yhile touring England, students with Dr. Glen New
kirk will study English drama, history and literature by
seeing plays and visiting sites in England. Places stu
dents will tour include London, Canterbury, Stratford-on-Avon,
Stonehenge, Salisbury, Dover, Bath, Faver
sham and Warwick Castle.
Approximate cost for the Literary England tour is
$1,415 to $1,495, including tuition.
