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Daily Nebraskan photo
Pat Sward reaches for information at the UNL information booth, located just
north of the Nebraska Union. New Student Orientation hosts like Lane
Handke, seated behind the booth, are available to answer questions and give
directions.
Booth helps new students
The booth has information for all the
support services that are offered on the
UNL campus.
Information includes shuttlebus
schedules, football and basketball
calendars, UNL child care" hours, and
answers to other questions students
often ask, Rhoten said.
The most frequent question in the
first two days has been where buildings
are, Rhoten said.
If you can't figure out the abbrevia
tions for campus buildings or need to
know when the first home football
game is, go to the UNL information
booth located north of the Nebraska
Union.
The coordinator for new student
orientation, Sandi Rhoten, said the
booth opened Sunday and will be open
the first week of classes. She said they
answered questions from over 1 ,000 stu
dents in the first two days.
Crowded halls prompt plans
for health center expansion
By Patty Pryor
After 10 years of discussion but "no
real momentum, the University Health
Center is bringing in a consulting firm this
fall to explore renovation and expansion
possibilities, said Steve Blom, health center
administrator.
The center, built in 1959 to serve
10,000 students, is now using hallways and
laboratories for waiting rooms, Bloom said,
and some services have been forced to
share office space.
"There were only 6,000 to 7,000 stu
dents then (in 1959), he said, "and the
estimates for future enrollment proved not
to be accurate.
Along with increased enrollment, the
center's expanded services have added to
the overcrowding problem, he said.
Both the allergy and dermatology
departments are open 40 hours each week,
and the addition of more specialists has
meant a need for more clinic rooms, Blom
said.
Over the years, he added, there has been
a remarkable increase in health education
services, resulting in a greatly expanded
counseling department.
The center is doing everything possible
to use the existing space, Blom said, but
the efforts often result in inadequate or
inefficient service.
For example, he said, the acute illness
service, which treats more immediate cases,
is in the basement and has only the
corridor for a waiting area.
The restrooms equipped for the handi
capped are also in the basement, he said,
and the women's restroom on the first
floor is just barely usable.
"There are 10 clinic rooms, Blom said,
"only one or two of which are adequate
for doctor-patient care.
"We ought to be looking at about 14 to
16 clinic rooms, he said.
However, the most important casualty
of the space shortage, Blom said, is the
patient's right to privacy.
Too many health center patients are
denied this right, he said, when they must
make an appointment at the open front
desk or wait on the floor in the hallway for
treatment.
"Our patients need to be treated with
more dignity.
Physical improvements in the building
would also result in much better use of the
doctors time, Blom said.
The center has had to turn down or
delay appointments on some days simply
because there was no place to treat the
patient, he said.
The shortage of space also requires more
time for rearrangement of schedules and
office space.
"We spend a fairly inordinate amount of
time meeting and planning around the
limitations of the building, he said.
The health center staff has no specific
consulting firm in mind yet, Blom said. He
will be working with the Student Health
Center Board and Dr. Richard Armstrong,
vice chancellor for student affairs, on
recommendations for the job.
Blom said he foresees no substantial in
crease in student fees for any possible re
novation or expansion.
If a plan is proposed by the firm, it
would first have to be approved by the
Central Plarining Committee. Next, it
would go before ASUN's Committee for
Fees Allocation," and finally, to the NU
Board of Regents for passage.
"It seems to me that if we're going to be
a viable service, we need to create an
adequate building, Blom said. "I'm con
vinced that physical changes have to occur
to optimize services and still minimize
costs."
UNL official says much cheating left unreported
By Jim Garrett
An October 1980 article in U.S. News
and World Reports said "a study among
men at the University of Nebraska found
as many as 60 percent said they were will
ing to cheat if under severe pressure to do ,
well."
Delores Simpson-Kirkland, assistant to
the dean of students, said UNL officials
could not find the source of the article, but
she said that doesnt make it untrue.
There were 11 reported cases of dis
honesty during the 1980-81 school year,
10 in the second semester. Simpson-Kirkland
said that number may represent only
the tip of the problem.
"For a school of this size, it may not be
epidemic in proportions, but it is a serious
situation," she said.
Simpson-Kirkland said few dishonesty
cases are reported, possibly because faculty
members view the judicial procedures
taken against cheaters as lengthy and time
consuming.
Simpson-Kirkland said the office of the
dean of students doesn't see the problem in
the same way.
She said one aspect of the problem is an
increased level of tolerance for cheating in
the entire student body.
Simpson-Kirkland said the low rate of re
ported cheating may also stem from a
tolerance of cheating by the faculty.
Disciplinary measures can range from an
instructor failing the student on the assign
ment, test or course to expulsion from the
university.
Simpson-Kirkland said most cheating
problems are handled between the indivi
dual professor and student. But, she said, if
a student is dissatisfied with the outcome,
he or she can appeal the professor's
decision to the department grade appeals
committee and to the grade appeals com
mittee of the college.
She said most appeals do not progress to
this level.
Instructors also may report a student
directly to the University Judicial Board, a
group of five students appointed by ASUN
and four faculty members appointed by
the Faculty Senate.
The board evaluates a case under three
categories-plagiarism, cheating and test
stealing. Cheating usually involves the use
of crib notes during an exam, eaves
dropping or a substitute taking the
exam, she said.
If a student steals a test but doesn't use
it, the case is handled as theft of UNL
property and not cheating. But if the
stolen test is used, charges of theft and
cheating are brought against the student.
If the student is found innocent, charges
are dropped, but if guilt is proven, dis
ciplinary action is assessed, according to
severity of offense.
A student may receive a university
warning, which denotes the student's guilt,
or a student may receive probation, which
. restricts him or her from holding elective
office for one year and possible restitution
if there were property damages.
Action noted and taken against a stu
dent does not become part of his or her
permanent record but goes into a counsel
ing and misconduct file, which is destroyed
at graduation or five years after each
offense, Simpson-Kirkland said.
But if a student quits school, the file
may be available to employers if the stu
dent agrees to release the file as a condition
of employment.
Simpson-Kirkland said the most severe
forms of discipline are suspension and ex
pulsion. Suspension ranges from a semester
to one year. Expulsion results in perman
ent severence between the university and
the student.
There is no notation of the expulsion on
the record, she said. UNL can be legally
sued for including such information on a
transcript, she added.
Simpson-Kirkland said competition for
high grades can force some students to
panic and to resort to cheating, rather than
to seek legal methods of help such as
tutors, instructor assistance or dropping
the class.
Drivers test skills after drinking
By Hollie Wieland
Imagine drinking the alcohol beverages of your choice
until the point of total intoxication and then jumping in
someone else's car to drive around a bunch of silly orange
pylons.
Sound like a fun way to spend a Monday afternoon?
Now imagine getting paid to do it.
Monday afternoon, six volunteers did just that at
Lincoln East High School driving range as a demonstration
of the effects of alcohol on a person's coordination and
judgment behind the wheel.
The demonstration, sponsored by the Nebraska Office
of Highway Safety, involved a series of tests participants
took throughout the afternoon at various levels of in
toxication. ,
Driving ability was measured with two tests. One in
volved a reaction meter that measured the time lapse be
tween the flash of a red light and participant's braking
action. Tug second test required participants to drive
through a course marked by orange pylons.
The course involved weaving in and out of pylons, both
forward and backward; a series- of land changes; a parallel
park, and a reverse into an imaginary garage marked by
pylons.
The tests were run by participants before consuming
any alcohol, and periodically after drinking several drinks
of their choice until they reached 0.10 of 1 percent blood
alcohol content, the limit marking legal presumption of"
being under the influence of alcohol.
Although there were no accidents, the test results
suggested alcohol did impair driving abilities.
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National Recognition: UNL human development pro
fessor is recognized for work with handicapped peo
ple . . . ....... ........... Page 6
Heavy Metal: Chuck Lieurance reviews the film created by
the makers of Heavy Metal magazine. ....... Page 9
Flying High: Iowa Football Coach Hayden Fry hopes he
has his Hawkeyes on the right track as they prepare for
the Sept. 12 season opener against Nebraska . . Page 1 1
