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Mary Prue, a fourth-year student at the UNL nursing school
carries a protest sign and calls out for support of the nursing
school while walking down Vine Street toward Varner Hall.
Burnout difficult to pinpoint
enioritis can
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By Kip Fry
Staff Reporter
Does senioritis really exist? While
researchers at Michigan State Univer
sity say yes, two officials at UNL say
that such findings are too difficult to
prove for them to make any sense.
The Michigan State scholars have
determined that students, especially
seniors and graduate students, suffer
burnout, similar to the occupational
burnout job holders experience. Col
lege students may go through an iden
tical "lack of energy and spirit."
But the director of the UNL Health
Center said it is difficult to make such
a comparison.
We have seen a fair amount of people
with stress in their senior year, basi
cally because they are having to wake
some life decisions, Gerald Fleischli
said, "But it is not the same as the
burnout you find on the job."
"We have seen a fair
amount of people with
stress in their senior
year, basically because
they are having to make
some life decisions. "
Gerald Fleischli
Fleischli said that for burnout to
occur there has to be an absence of
change, which is not the case with stu
dents. This would make it difficult for
anybody to study this.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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By Gene Gentxnp
News Editor
Thirty-five nursing school suppor
ters, chanting "save our school" and
"save your college" marched from Fair
field Hall to Varner Hall Monday and
delivered over 7,000 petitions asking
the NU Board of Regents not to phase
out the Lincoln division of NU's school
of nursing.
NU President Ronald Roskens, who
greeted the supporters on the north
steps of Varner Hall, told them, "I will
do what you have asked me to do. I will
keep an open mind."
Roskens was referring to a request
by nursing school faculty and students,
to look for "viable alternatives" to Uni
versity of Nebraska Medical Center
Chancellor Charles Andrew's proposal
to phase-out UNL's division of the NU
nursing program.
Roskens commended the supporters
for their efforts to keep the nursing
program alive, but reminded them also
that the state legislature's $2.1 million
in budget cuts is a situation that must
be dealt with.
"We all know we have a very serious
Desna defends UNL
By Michael Hooper
Staff Reporter
Only if 225 less students were en
rolled in NU's College of Nursing would
the University of Nebraska Medical
Center receive additional funding
funding which would come from clos
ing its Lincoln program, NU's nursing
dean said Monday. Transferring tne
students to the Omaha division would
not save money, she said.
Speaking at a news conference,
Rosalee Yeaworth said, "the only way to
save money is if you don't serve the 225
students in Lincoln.
"We could not take those students
(at UNO) without hiring more faculty
in Omaha," she said.
Vera Williams, director of the UNL
Counseling Center, said that students
occasionally mirror these symptoms,
but it is not a big enough problem to
merit special help.
"Problems can arise when students
commit themselves to a large number
of activities," Williams said. "It can be
any combination of social, job-related
or school activities. If they do have
problems with stress, they need to cut
down on these activities."
Other symptoms may be that a stu
dent will become tired of studying,
and start chomping at the bit, accord
ing to Fleischli. Also, a close relation
ship gone away may be troublesome.
The best way to deal with stress, he
be chalk
Pianist 'sidetracked'
by bar-owning...Pagen
es petition
problem and we are kidding nobody,"
he said.
Mary Kolbe, an assistant professor in
the nursing school's Lincoln division
said over 7,000 signed petitions were
collected in just three days most
coming from the Lincoln area. Nursing
supporters organized petition drives on
the UNL campus and local shopping
areas, and nursing officials have toured
the state encouraging Nebraskans to
write their respective senators, regents
and NU administrators.
Donna Manstedt, an assistant in
structor at the UNL division who was
one of a few nursing faculty who met
with Roskens earlier in the day, said
Roskens told the group that the only
way out of the phase-out problem was
to gain legislative support for the
school.
"It's a value judgment," Manstedt
said. "You can argue, you can't argue,"
(over the nursing program's closing),
she said.
The NU Board of Regents public
hearing on proposals to close Medical
Center programs will begin at 9 a.m.
today in the Great Plains room of the
University of Nebraska Medical Cen
ter Chancellor Charles Andrews has
recommended phasing out the UNO
College of Pharmacy and the UNL
branch of the College of Nursing over a
four-year period to make-up $2.1 mil
lion in legislative budget cuts for the
school.
Yeaworth said the transfer of Lin
coln nursing students to the Omaha
division of the College of Nursing
would necessitate the addition of
faculty in Omaha equivalent to the
number currently employed in Lincoln.
Nursing students also fear that UNL's
nursing school would lose its accredi
tation before it is phased out in four
years, leaving them with the inability
to transfer credits to another accre
dited college.
The NU Board of Regents has sche
ed up to
said, is to identify the source of the
problem. If that can be done, the per
son needs to confront it in a realistic
fashion.
1 once talked to a stu
dent who wanted to go
to Detroit to become an
auto mechanic. "
Fleischli
I once talked to a student who
wanted to go to Detroit to become an
automechanic, Fleischli recalled. "He
hadn't applied yet, and I told him there
probably wouldn't be any jobs there.
Then he said he wanted to work in a
meat packing plant that had the same
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Nebraska East Union.
The morning session will be devoted
to the College of Pharmacy and the
afternoon session, which begins at 1:15
p.m., will be devoted to the College of
Nursing's Lincoln program.
After a round of meetings, Roskens
said last week that an effort to avoid
closing the UNL nursing program and
NU's College of Pharmacy in Omaha are
at a dead end.
"At the moment, there is nothing
looming as a viable alternative, (but)
we will continue to weigh one factor
against another until we've looked at
every option," Roskens said in a Lin
coln Sunday JournalStar story.
At Varner Hall Monday, nursing sup
porters said they supported last week's
UNMC faculty senate's approval of re
ducing faculty raises 50 percent in an
effort to save the two schools.
The proposal, which would cut a
Regents-approved pay raise from 2.87
percent to 1.43 percent would raise
$305,000 if all the nearly 600 faculty
agreed to the proposal.
Continued on Page 7
program
duled a public hearing on those prop
osals today at the east campus union.
Gov. Bob Kerrey said last week that
he supports Andrew's proposal. He said
NU must abandon whole programs or
else accept "increased mediocrity."
Yeaworth said she disagrees. To
close the nursing program at UNL
would decrease excellence in educa
tion and state health care, she said.
She said the UNL nursing program
not only serves undergraduates but
graduates as well. It serves those who
have their degree but want to learn the
latest developments in health care.
Yeaworth said she favors across-the-board
cuts rather than eliminating
programs.
stress
situation. Once he figured all that out,
he was able to take care of the situa
tion." Burnout may in part be caused by a
traumatic childhood, Williams said,
although there are many different fac
tors involved.
"Some students need to take a res
pite, at least temporarily, from school,"
he said, "and do something else."
Stress is one of the top seven reasons
students leave school, said Fleischli.
One of the functions of the health Cen
ter is to prevent people from leaving
school. Poor health can be caused by
stress, he said, and that in turn will
cause people to go elsewhere.
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