UPC winds up budget requests to C FA
By David G. Young
Staff Reporter
Despite a surplus of more than $5,000 in last
year's budget, the University Program Coun
cil American Minority Council requested a
2.56 percent increase in student fees Tuesday
night.
AMC asked the Committee for Fees Alloca
tion for S18,271 in student fees, or 44 cents per
student per semester. The 1989-90 request is
$455 higher than funding received by AMC
this year.
Candace Howard, president of AMC, said
the slight increase is necessary to obtain addi
tional speakers for several AMC subcommit
tCCi>.
CFA members expressed concern over the
$5,445 surplus which AMC accumulated last
year. How ard said this surplus w'as the result of
a number of structural problems within AMC.
One ol these problems w'as the existence of
vacancies in subcommittee chairperson posi
tions.
“1 get very' upset,” CFA member Keith
Malo said. ”1 don’t understand in my heart
why this committee wasn’t restructured earlier
and why you have all this money — it just
boggles my mind.”
Ed Munoz, chairman for Chicano Special
Events and Chicano Entertainment, said AMC
could not be restructured because of a vacancy
in the position of coordinator for AMC. A task
force currently is being organized to study
restructuring possibilities, he said.
Part of this restructuring will include com
bining Chicano Entertainment with Chicano
Special Events and Black Entertainment with
Black Special Events, Munoz said. Part of the
reason for this effort is to prevent the periodic
vacancies in the committee chairperson posi
tions, he said.
Maio said: “Here I see four people control
ling all this money. I am curious to know why
you can’t get chair(persons>.”
Tim Moore, program coordinator for Cam
pus Activities and Programs, said these vacan
cies reflect a campus problem where a small
number of minorities hold positions on several
minority committees.
UPC-East and two remaining organizations
within UPC-City also presented student fee
requests. UPC-East requested $22,301 in stu
dent fees, or 54 cents per student per semester.
This is a 10.91 percent increase from this year.
UPC-City requested $59,317, or $1.43 per
student per semester. This is an increase of
13.75 percent. UPC’s overall request for stu
dent fees amounts to $183,238, or $4.39 per
student per semester. This is a 17.87 percent
increase from this year.
UPC is a Fund A organization. Student fees
paid out of Fund A are refundable upon re
quest, while Fund B fees cannot be refunded.
Al Schaben/Daiiy Nebraskan
Bryan Peterson, a sophomore criminal justice major, checks out his throat in UNL's self-help
cold clinic.
Vacation germs increase sickness
By Jerry Guenther
Staff Reporter
Calling the University of Nc
braska-Lincoln a “hot-bed ol
germs,” Dr. Gerald Fletschli of the
University Health Center blamed
many of the recent student illnesses
on germs contracted during winter
break.
Flcischli, medical director at the
health center, said although he
doesn’t have exact figures on the
number of students who have been
treated for cold and flu symptoms at
the health center this January, he has
noticed there’s been an increase from
previous months.
Flcischli said many students pick
up “exotic germs” while vacation
ing. It takes a couple of weeks for
those germs to spread throughout the
UNL community, he said.
As a result, Flcischli said, the in
crease in illnesses at UNL since break
probably has come Ironi germs lhal
students contracted during winter
vacation and passed on to others.
Similar occurrences happen after
spring and summer breaks, he said.
Flcischli also said the increase in
colds and flus every January can be
attributed to the cold weather.
Cold weather seems to keep
people indoors and closer together,
thus increasing the chances for germs
to spread, he said.
Although there are hundreds of
viruses which cause colds and flus,
Flcischli said people can help prevent
their spread by covering their mouths
when coughing or sneezing.
Coughing and sneezing releases
particles containing germs that can
fly onto other people, he said.
Some of the. common symptoms
of colds and flus include nasal con
gestion, watery eyes, fevers, slight
coughs and aches and pains, he said.
Flcischli said students can help
prevent winter illnesses by wasning
their hands before they cat, not shar
ing drinking glasses, not chewing on
their fingernails or pencils, and by
getting plenty of rest and eating good
nutritious meals.
“The older I gel, the more I found
out that what they told you in kinder
garten is true,” Flcischli said.
Flcischli said the health center
offers a cold clinic where students
can conduct a self-assessment to de
termine if their illnesses warrant
professional attention.
During the self-assessment, Flcis
chli said, students check themselves
for such things as fevers and sore
throats.
If students are suffering from a
high fever, lung congestion, an ex
tremely sore throat or an unusual
presentation of symptoms, Flcischli
said they should come to the health
center.
Center aims to improve manufacturing
RESEARCH From Page 1
Also, Rqjurkar said, the center is
developing belter adaptive control
systems so machines used in manu
facturing could be able to adjust
themselves without human supervi
sion. x
“As for accomplishments, we
have improved the productivity of
one machine by almost 40 percent by
developing a belter adaptive control
system,” Rajurkar said, “and a
company in England is using some of
our research conclusions in bro
chures to sell equipment.
The research center is involved
with projects across the country and
Rajuricar said he hopes to eel more
research equipment from Washing
ton and Pennsylvania.
He said center officials also are
negotiating with the National Sci
ence Foundation and the National
Center for Manufacturing Science for
funding of more new equipment
Rajurkar said he hopes the center
will provide learning opportunities in
the emerging field of non-traditional
manufacturing to faculty and stu
dents of UNL and also to practicing
engineers and scientists.
The laboratory is located in the
Waller Scott Engineering Center.
The research center is organized
within the Industrial and Manage
ment Systems Engineering Depart
ments with participation from the
College of Engineering and Technol
ogy
Historical society’s support to speed burials
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Pcregoy praised Baack tor his
involvement with the measure, which
was discussed in a Government, Mili
tary and Veterans Affairs Committee
hearing last week, AP said.
Hanson made a practical decision,
Chambers said, because support for
the bill is too widespread for any
opposition to interfere.
“Mr. Hanson, being a pragmatist,
saw the handwriting on the wall,” he
said. ”He saw that the bill was going
to pass with or without his support.”
AP reported that Hanson said his
decision to compromise was based on
a letter he received from the widow of
former Head Chief of the Nebraska
Pawnees, Garland Blaine. Blaine’s
“eloquent and convincing’’ letter
explaining her husband’s beliefs
about Pawnee burial traditions influ
enced Hanson, the report said.
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I Talks & Topics to host forum on financial aid
The Ihiiversity Program Council’s Talks & Topics Committee
I begins its Wednesday open forums today at 1:30 pjn. in the main
■ lounge of the Nebraska Union.
This week’s topic is financial aid. John Beacon, interim director erf
I the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid, will be available to
i answer questions and hear comments from students during the forum.
On Feb. 8, faculty salaries will be discussed.
I Booth named distinguished sociology professor
Alan Booth, professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska
I Lincoln, was named College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished
I Professor of Sociology early this month at the NU Board of Regents
■ meeting.
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I UNL professors awarded science fellowships
Two University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors have been elected
I Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Theo Sonderegger, psychology professor, and Lowell Moser, agron
I omy professor, were among 316 individuals to receive such recognition
I for4 'efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applica
I lions,” during the association's recent meeting in San Francisco.
Sonderegger has been with UNL since 1976; and Moser since 1970.
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