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rciyc o Condoms Continued from Page 1 were losing money,” she said. “I think we were breaking even because most people were honest and put in their dime.” The fish-bowl system showed a demand for condoms, she said, with about 88,000 taken from the bowl from 1988 to 1991. “The condoms in the vending machines have been selling quite rapidly although it is a more expen sive way to buy them,” she said. The request from the RHA en hancement committee was in response to a growing concern about sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS and preg nancy, Turner said. The committee members thought vending machines would be effective because the machines are close to where students live, she said. The health center looks at the idea from a health standpoint, Turner said. “There has to be a means of protec tion for the members of the popula tion who choose to be sexually ac tive,” she said. Turner said she thought dispensing condoms should be done in an inof fensive way. “Discretion is important, and so is access in this day and age,” she said. Doug Zatechka, UNL housing director, said he hasn’t heard com ments about the response to condom vending in the residence halls. “I’ve heard a few jokes about it, but that’s about all,” he said. Many schools have put condoms in residence hall vending machines, Zatechka said. “We have a lot of medical people, such as the surgeon general, who advocate having condoms available,” he said. According to 1990 state health reports, only 14 percent of people who visited 26 HIV/AIDS testing sites in Nebraska used condoms on a regu lar basis. Twenty-eight percent of high school and college students said they never used condoms and 38 percent reported they sometimes used condoms, ac cording to state health reports. ASUN features disabilities event j Wheelchair Wednesday to put senators in different perspective By Adeana Left in Senior Reporter Next month, some ASUN senators will put themselves in somebody else’s wheelchair. Wheelchair Wednesday will begin at 8 a.m. on Oct. 23. The event, which will feature a speaker yet to |, ? ^ , * % < £ be announced, is WmM&m \ sponsored by the ASUN Students with Disabilities subcommittee. The Association of Students of the University of Nebraska senators will divide into six groups for the event. Members of each group will be placed in a wheelchair and asked to perform a specific task in order to increase their awareness of wheel chair accessibility problems on cam pus. University of Nebraska-Lincoln administrators and deans as well all the members of the Nebraska Legislature and other ^tereprae tatives, including Sen. Bob Kerrey, " - / think sometimes we take for granted the relative ease with which we can get around campus. This is a good way to really see firsthand.. • the challenges they have. ASUN senator --ff - also have been invited to attend the event Teachers College Sen. Trent Steele said that since the first meeting of the subcommittee, members have been working on a method to increase the awareness of daily challenges faced by students with disabilities. “I think sometimes we take for granted the relative ease with which we can get around campus,” he said “This is a good way to really see first hand ... die challenges they have.” In other business, AS UN senators began thinking about some of the problems they will be addressing at the Fourth Annual Cultural Diversity Retreat. Keith Parker, assistant professor of sociology and a member of the Racial Pluralism Action Team, ex plained to the senators the differences between prejudice and discrimina tion. Prejudice, he said, is a thought. “But when we put that prejudice into action, then we are engaging in discrimination.” Scholarship Continued from Page 1 provides students with a list of na tional private scholarships, Unger said. The center also has scholarship reference books that have an exten sive listing of scholarships and their requirements, she said. Unger said one of the center’s three staff members is always available to help students. Some scholarship matching com panies guarantee a refund if they fail to send a list with the stipulated number of scholarships, and some companies even guarantee a match, Beacon said. The wording on these guarantees i is such that it is often difficult to get a I refund, he said. Students must prove ■ they have applied for and been re: H jected by every scholarship on their ■ list. This becomes a problem if doe | dates have passed by the time stu dents gel their lists, he said. Josey Vierra, director of research and developmental National College Service, a scholarship matching company based in Gaithersburg, Md., agreed that scholarship companies offering a money-back guarantee usually make it'dirficult for students to get a refund. “The money-back guarantees are basically a marketing tool to get people to use their company," Vicrra said. “Our company guarantees that our lists are up-to-date, accurate and meet the student’s eligibility requirements, but it is loo difficult to guarantee a processing fee.” Vierra said the National College Service specializes in leasing infor mation to high schools and other scholarship information programs rather than marketing individual stu dents. All employees at the service who are involved in the matching process have had financial aid training, yi erra said, but that isn’t the case with all scholarship matching companies. “There are a lot of scams out there, she said. “Students have to be very careful about who they choose. Beacon said some reliable compa nies in the business are there to serve the student. But if the company charges anything more than $30 for its serv ices, he said he recommends seeking help elsewhere. Steve Vasa, a counselor at Lincoln High School, said he recommends that students use the free rcs0.lJlT1 and scholarship services a^lat) through the school’s scholarship Pr ' gram and the Education Planm g Center. Vasa said he has heard complaints about scholarship-matching comp nies from students. “The majority of students who pay these companies have wailed,„fee the last minute and think paying will save them,” Vasa said. . 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