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Regent investigates health care
By Angie Brunkow
Staff Reporter
Concern about possible problems
with health care at UNL has
inspired an NU regent to in
vestigate the University Health Cen
ter.
NU Regent Rosemary Skrupa said
she is not convinced that health care
at the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln is satisfactory, partially because
students who go to the University
Health Center often are put on a wait
ing list and don’t receive immediate
treatment.
Skrupa said many new students
haven’t had a chance to establish
medical contacts in Lincoln. These
students depend on the health center
to fulfill most of their medical needs,
she said.
If a student is sick, they shouldn’t
be put on a waiting list.”
According to Kunle Ojikutu, di
rector of the University Health Cen
ter, students should never have to
wait more than a day or two to get into
the health center.
“When students call, if it’s no
emergency, they have to wait until
we have an opening,” Ojikutu said.
The health center has two types of
clinics — general and specialty.
General cases can be taken right away
or at the soonest opening. Specialty
cases, such as those dealing with ortho
pedics, gynecology and dermatology,
could have a longer wail depending
on the condition.
Specialty appointments are more
difficult to make because the doctor
trained in that speciality only comes
into the clinic once a week.
In most cases, students talk to the
information nurse to determine if the
situation is an emergency or not. If
the situation is not an emergency,
students may have to wait for the next
available appointment.
“Some are not happy to wait, but if
we have true emergencies ... those
always come first,” said Rosemary
Thorpe, nurse supervisor.
Students who think their problem
is more serious have other options,
Thorpe said.
“For those with acute illness and
no appointment, we give them the
option of after-hours service,” she
said.
Ojikutu said health center officials
constantly try to improve the appoint
ment system.
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ASUN meeting
to address issue
of racial affairs
By Adeana Leftin
Staft Reporter
After a year of debate, sit-ins, walk-outs
and court cases, ASUN, in its last meeting
of the year, again will address the issue
of a racial affairs committee.
Teachers College Sen. Steve Thomlison,
one of the sponsors of the bylaw change that
would create the subcommittee, said he real-**
iz.es the idea isn’t “universally loved,” but said
it’s a step forward.
“I hope that they (senators) realize that
we’ve got to get something in place,” Thomli
son said.
He said it is important to get the committee
passed this year to save lime next fall, enabling
ASUN to deal with racial issues.
A suggestion was made to review the sub
committees next year and sec if they were
working and what changes needed to be made,
Thomlison said.
“Maybe this isn’t going to be the final way
used to address this, but at least it’s a start,” he
said.
Thomlison said he was “cautiously optimis
tic” that the bylaw would pass the senate.
“It’s important that the senate not spend its
lime debating structure,” he said, “but rather
spend its time addressing the issues.”
Thomlison said it was ironic that minority
students were the I" rst to request a committee
and have yet to get one.
ASUN in December established a racial
affairs subcommittee after many students push
ing for it conducted a sit-in at the ASUN office.
In February, the University of Ncbraska
Lincoln Student Court declared the committee
unconstitutional because it set quotas for ap
pointment.
One month later, senators introduced Icgis
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UNL students Marianna Ashey, right, Rowena Sherman, center, and Lisa Weems lead the “Take Back the Night”
march Friday from the Nebraska Onion to the Culture Center.
March against violence sparks some heckling
By Lisa Donovan
Senior Reporter
About 100 marchers protesting vio
lence against women on Friday at
the University of Nebraska-Line )ln
were greeted by some critical onlookers.
Protesters’ chants of "Stop rape now”
and “No means no” were countered with
screams of “Shut up, shut up” from a frater
nity house.
The march was part of “Take Back the
Night” — the final program in a week-long
scries of events for Violence Against Women
Awareness Week.
Marchers headed north and south be
tween Vine and R streets on 16lh Street
while the comments continued.
As the protesters headed west on R Street,
one man yelled from a fraternity house,
“What is it with this rape shit?”
Marchers chanted “Stop date rape,” and
a man hung out another fraternity house
window and asked, “When was the last time
you had a date?”
See RALLY on 5
The death toll from Fri
day's tornadoes falls as
bodies are identified. Page
3.
Dead Week should be
buried, columnist says.
Page 4.
A Shakespearean
scholar applauds the poet’s
i use of the English lan
guage Page 7.
Surprise inside! See
supplement.
INDEX
Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports 8
A&E 11
Classifieds 13
The saga of “Canvasback" Bob Nelson, above, kick
boxer and writer, comes to a sudden conclusion.
Pages.
ASUN president appoints lobbyist
to tackle student-related concerns
By Adeana Leftin
Staff Reporter
A SUN President Andy Massey has ap
pointed a lobbyist to ensure that student
concerns arc both seen and heard at the
Nebraska Legislature.
Alisa Miller, former Association of Stu
dents of the University of Nebraska journalism
senator, said effective lobbying occurs when
state senators “see you a lot, not just to com
plain.”
Miller still awaits senate approval of her
appointment, bulalready has made some plans.
She said she and Government Liaison
Committee Chair Andrew Sigcrson would
continue following the development of the
UNL Beadle Center issue.
The Nebraska Legislature’s Appropriations
Committee tentatively approved allocating $5 •
m i I lion from the cigarette tax for the center, but
the legislation still must pass on the senate
floor and be signed by Gov. Ben Nelson.
“We have to keep the pressure on,” Miller
said.
Another issue Miller said she would con
centrate on is the Nebraska Coordinating
Commission for Poslsecondary Education.
She said ASUN and GLC still hope a student
will be appointed to the strengthened commis
sion, but “there’s a big possibility that won’t
happen.”
If a student isn’t appointed. Miller said,
student leaders will wait until the commission
is on its feet and then start pushing for a student
advisory board.
Miller said she also wants to work to get
state senators to sponsor bills on issues that
ASUN and GLC are interested in.
ASUN will discuss Miller’s appointment at
its Wednesday meeting.
