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Huth Michslecki and UNL's telecomiaimications system
UNL operators handle calls
for students, government
Voters now
signing up
The League of Women
Voters will conduct voter
registration drives at the
following sites today: the
recreation center, 1225 F
St., noon to 2:30 p.m. and
the Centrum, downtown,
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Registration drive sites
on Wednesday will be the
Goodyear plant, 4021 N.
56th St., 6:30 a.m. to 8:30
a.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
and the Commodity Dis
tribution building of the
Naval Reserve Center,
1625 N. 10th St., 9 am. to
noon.
The Naval Reserve Cen
ter also will be the site of
a drive from 1 1:30 a.m. to
2:30 p.m. Thursday.
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THE NEBRASKA UNION AND
FAST UNION ARE NOW
ACCEPTING OFFICE SPACE
APPLICATIONS FOR THE
ACADEMIC YEAR 1984193a
Applications are available in Suita 220,
City Union, and the Administrative office
in the East Union. All recognized student
organizations are welcome to apply for
space.
The applications must ba returned to Suite
220, City Union, by 5:00 p.m. Friday,
April 6, 1934 for your organization to ba
considered. Any questions should ba
directed to the Operations Committee of
the Nebraska Union Board.
By Jcdi Nynren registration, dropadd,
grades or financial aid.
UNL's Telecommuni- Michalecki said the ser
cations Center has changed vice brings "UNL as close
from a horse and buggy as the phone" to all Neb
to a Cadillac, the center's raska residents.
director said.
Ruth Michalecki said the
advances were made by
changing from manual cord
telephone administrative
Because technology is
always advancing, Micha
lecki said she thinks the
center will offer more ser
vices in the future. She
authority from the phys- said she hopes each resi
ical plant to the business dence hall room soon will
and finance department
and moving from 14th
and R streets to Nebraska
Hall.
Since she began as a
cord-board operator 26
years ago, Michalecki said,
UNL's communication
system has grown from
2,000 telephones to 10,000.
Much of the growth oc
curred eight years ago
when UNL installed phones
in every residence hall
room, she said. Before this,
Michalecki said, each hall
floor shared a phone from
which students could re
ceive, but not make, calls.
The number of calls the
center receives also
has grown, she said. The
center handles approxi
mately 85,000 calls every
month.
Government calls con
tribute to the load, she
said. The state joined the
center. eight years ago,
and the city and county
linked up more than two
years ago, Michalecki said.
"What are the hours of
the city dump?" is the
most common government
related question operators
receive, Michalecki said.
Along with answering
government calls, the oper
ators monitor fire, secur
ity and temperature a
larms throughout campus.
UNL's institute of Agri
culture and Natural Re
sources depends on the
operators to watch for
lighting and temperature
changes in its experimen
tal plants.
Operators also assist an
agriculture rneterologist
to monitor water depth
and quality through phone
wires dropped into wells.
The center's teleconfe
rencing enables top execu
tives to talk to UNL classes
over the phone, disabled
students to hear lectures
without visiting campus
and UNL officials to attend
meetings without leaving
their desks, Michalecki said
People outside Lincoln
also benefit from the cen
ter's services, Michalecki
said. Out-state people can
call the center's toll-free
number and get answers
to questions about tuition,
be equipped with a com
puter linked to the cen
ter. The computers would
enable students to attend
classes in their own rooms,
she said.
For the immediate future,
Michalecki said, the cen
ter has proposed cennec
ting students' long distance
services to the center's
existing network, but the
Department of Adminis
trative Services said the
link-up would be illegal.
If the center is able to
legally hook the two sys
tems together, Michalecki
said, students would save
20 to 25 percent on their
long distance bills.
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