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•jk T i Dailv i Nebraskan : WEATHER: Friday, cloudy and breezy with a 30 percent chance of showers, high 45-50 with S winds at 10-20 mph. Friday night, cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers, low in the mid 30. Saturday, partly cloudy, high in the low 40s. INDEX News Digest.2 Editorial.4 Sports.5 Arts & Entertainment.6 Classifieds.7 November 11, 1988 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 88 No. 54 Nebraskan The Vigilant Flame ri so nor 8 of war Thursday morning, will ba watched over until 7 a.m. today. Business students ban together in hopes of improving CBA By David Holloway Senior Reporter Over 225 University of Nebraska-Lin coln business students filled a confer ence room at Commercial Federal Bank Thursday night to help lobby for more money from the state Legislature to improve the College of Business Administration. Shcnncn Saltxman, president of the student advisory board, called the meeting a “rally of students,“asking for more student membership in the new Student Action committee. Saltxman said the purpose of the action committee is to have a liaison between CBA and the Legislature. “People don’t understand how powerful students are when it comes to making any pro sals,” Saltxman said. Il/man said he would like to see at least 6(000 to 8,000 letters sent to Gov. Kay Orr outlining the problems involved with the busi ness college. None of the 225 students responded when Saltxman asked for a show of hands to see who thought CBA met their standards of a good school. “People arc not getting the classes they want because there arc not enough professors or enough room for classes in the business col lege,” Saltxman said. Tim Trysla, senior business finance major, said CBA needs more professors, computers and classrooms. “We don’t want to have to study in the halls in between classes anymore,” Trysla said. Kim McAuliff, senior financing major, said five years ago the college had 68 professors and 3,300 students. This year there are 61 profes sors and 3,500 students, she said. McAuliff said if 30 professors would be added to the staff, the average would be 29 students to one teacher which is the normal capacity for a classroom. She said 30 percentof the faculty in CBA are graduate assistants. Mary Harding, director of special program ming in the dean’s office, said there is an excel lent staff a vai (able in CB A, but there i s not enough to meet the demand of the students. Trysla said the last time UNL received money from the Legislature, CBA was granted $60,000. He compared that to the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s business college which received $1.6 million. Salt/man said the student action council does not want to take away from UNO’s busi ness college, but only wishes to improve UNL’s business college. Salt/man said the student action committee will meet Thursday at 5:30 p.m. to discuss its plan of action. Universal banquet at UNL By Jamie Pitts Staff Reporter nhc University of Nebraska-Lincoln International Students Organization will host its 7th annual international banquet Sunday. The banquet will begin at 6 p.m. in the Centennial Room at the Nebraska Union. “There is no diversity of culture,” at UNL, said Amaar Hyder, social secretary of the group. “We hope this will make a change.” A buffet dinner with food from eight coun tries will begin at 6:30 p.m., Hyder said. During the banquet, trophies will be disu ib uted for the first lime from the International Student Athletic Committee’s Olympics in September, he said. After the banquet, Hyder said, there will be a fashion show and international dances. A Vietnamese band made up of UNL stu dents and alumni will play just before the dance, said Brendan Wong, another social secretary for the organization. KFRX radio station also is sponsoring the banquet. The dance will begin at 9 p.m., Hyder said. Hyder said he hopes to have 600 students and community members in attendance. About the same number attended the banquet last year, he said. Tickets arc $8 for adults and $4 for children 12 and under. Wong said about 220 tickets already have been sold at the booth in the Nebraska Union, which is 40 percent of last year’s ticket sales. Today tickets will be available at the City Union or by calling the International Educa tional Services office at 472-3264. “There is so much culture available to them (Americans), if only they would make an ef fort,’’ Wong said. “We arc bringing the world to them,” he said. “All they have to do is come.” Student psychologists offer personal counseling By Tom Koenig Staff Reporter Students, who need help with their problems, someone to talk to, or psychological advice, can take advantage of a cam pus program offered by profession ally trained students. Dr. Collie Conoley of the Educa tional Psychology Clinic says Uni versity of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate students, training in psychology, pro vide counseling for students and oth ers with personal and emotional prob Icms. The service is free for UNL stu dents and $ 10 to $20 for non -students, depending upon the experience of the psychologist. Conolcy said this semester, nine student psychologists are involved in the program. Next semester, he said, 14 to 18 students will be working. The service offers school and per sonal counseling psychologists. Clients can choose either, depending upon their needs, he said. The school psychologists arc pri marily for younger children who have been asked by their parents to attend the clinic. They deal primarily with problems concerning school and peer pressure. Counseling psychologists usually work with college students and older adults. Problems often confronted in these sessions arc: low self-confi dence, anxiety, poor relations with other students and parents, loneli ness, depression, career choices, par enting (if the student has a child) and marriage counseling. Conolcy said low self-esteem is the major reason students come to the center. When student psychologists hear the patients’ problems, they arc monitored by faculty. The faculty analyze tape recorded sessions with the patient, use two-way mirrors and have classroom discussions with the student psychologists to find out what they can do to help the patient. Conolcy said about 50 to 60 cases arc studied each school year. “Sometimes we have problems with clients but we try to know the patient well enough before we give any advice,” Conolcy said. “Some times the problems stem from student psychologists not knowing enough background on the person they are counseling.” Psychologists sometimes have a hard lime analyzing patients because this is not an exact science. But people usually arc very satisfied with the service, he said. The Educational Psychology Cen ter is located at 130 Bancroft Hall. Literacy Council makes reading easy , I By Shawn Schuldies Staff Reporter JL (though the Lincoln Liter acy Council is geared pri ^ marily toward helping people leant to read, it also helps some University of Nebraska-Lin coin students that can read. ’ Louis Poppc, director of the council’s headquarters, said UNL students that use the center usually need help with skills they didn’t learn in tnc past, or skills they want to acquire from the council’s Eng lish as a second language program. Six of the council’s lOOstudents attend UNL, she said. The council’s programs can help students on a more individual ized basis than UNL, Poppe said. The program has a ratio of one student to one tutor, she said, which Jlives the student and tutor more recdom to decide what hours to work together, she said. The pro gram is free, but the materials cost $15 to $20. UNL students also can become tutors, Poppe said. Anyone inter ested in tutoring must be willing to attend a 12-hour or 18-hour work shop. After the workshop, Poppe said, the person must be willing to tutor one hour a week for one year, she said. Anyone interested in becoming a tutor or getting help from the council should contact the Lincoln Literacy Center, 315 S. 9th St. The council is associated with an inter national group, she said, so a trained tutor can continue teaching in any place with a similar organi zation. The council is a nonprofit or ganization. rm 11 \ .. . bhe. b»j Wie^ ■rt'c |rt 'tbe heic^Kbo^S wt ggr~~i...