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■m T *| "g 73/46 ^ I ^BBk,r MB- I ■ ^BB ogB^fl^k I Today, cloudy with a chance I I M__^g V^^B * ^B 1 ^B ^B^^P showers, hriday, blustery H V ■ ■ H and colder a chance ^B| ^B ■ ^j^B H H the low - • Benefits of accreditation exceed cost, officials say By Wendy Navratil Senior Reporter The costs of accreditation may be high and its maintenance cumbersome, but UNL officials agree that the rewards outweigh the costs — even when budgets are tight. James Appleberry, president of the Ameri can Association of State Colleges and Univer sities in Washington, D.C., said many univer sity presidents are questioning the need for specialized agencies. “The issue is the proliferation of specialized accrediting agencies,” Appleberry said. “The question in the minds of many presidents is whether they are even needed if you have a good regional review agency and a good inter nal review.” The University of Nebraska-Lincoln cam pus has both specialized accreditation in many disciplines and institutional accreditation from the regional association. Specialized agencies, which operate inde pendently of regional accreditors, evaluate individual programs in everything from home economics to industrial technology. Accredi tation is voluntary. “Faculty members see an advantage to ac creditation,” said Marianne Phelps, senior as sociate at the Council on Postsecondary Ac creditation in Washington, D.C. “It’s a choice. They’re free to say no.” She added that proliferation isn’t the prob lem that people think it is. Of the 42 specialized agencies that the Council now recognizes, 30 were original members in 1975, she said. In 16 years, only 12 more have gained recognition. Some of those 12 accredit See ACCREDIT on 6 Thomas’ confirmation is supported by the Senate. Page 2. Phone thieves are arrested. Page 3. Sibling rivalry continues on volleyball court. Page 7. Nylons will stretch their talents to Lin coln. Page 9. INDEX Wire 2 Opinion 4 Sports 7 A&E 9 Classifieds 10 * . ■ ■— --—mb Staci McKee/DN From left, junior Heather Loseke, freshman Shane Tucker, senior Rob Broonfield and senior Heidi Putensen sit in the parking stall of UNL business manager Ray Coffey early Thursday morning. The students were protesting campus parking conditions. Students call protest productive By Adeana Leftin Senior Reporter Awake before the garbage collector and armed with doughnuts, hot choco late and a list of parking complaints, six AS UN senators camped in the business manager’s parking space Thursday to pro test parking problems. 1 TTie senators began the 2 1/2 hour vigil at 6 a.m. Ray Coffey, UNL business manager, and the Association of Students of the Univer sity of Nebraska-Lincoln senators agreed that, in spite of a shaky beginning, some positive ideas came out of the morning meeting. When Coffey arrived at 8:20 a.m., the three remaining senators were standing in his space surrounded by early-morning break fast leftovers. The senators didn’t move. Coffey did. Pulling into another parking space, he de clined the doughnut offered to him by Teach ers College Sen. Mike Kelly. ' * The senararir tow Coffey they had been calling his office for the past two weeks with no response until late Wednesday after noon. Coffey denied that he had received any messages from the senators. “I don’t appreciate being accused of... not returning the calls,” he said. Despite the confrontation, the senators did get to share their ideas. Coffey said the senators’ suggestion that University of Nebraska-Lincoln shuttle buses continue to run to remote parking lots after 10 p.m. was a “super idea.” He also said it might be possible to open the Oct. 15 Parking Advisory Board meet ing to students wno wanted to air com plaint*: A major concern of senators was changes in parking regulations from last year pub lished in the parking handbook, but not in the Daily Nebraskan, which has a larger audience, they said. College of Business Administration Sen. See PARK on 3 Selleck floor pushes for resignations By Michael Hannon Staff Reporter Residents of the 5300 floor of Selleck Quadrangle residence hall complex are threatening to take action unless the Selleck government executive board and ad viser resign. According to a letter to the Selleck Quad rangle executive board and adviser, the resi dents of the floor “will be forced to take other actions” unless the resignations occur. The letter.was signed “Residents of Selleck floor 5300.” Kurt Halvorson, a non-traditional electrical engineering major at the University of Ne braska-Lincoln and one of five delegates elected by the floor, said, “We don’t want to look like we’re running around threatening people,” but declined to comment on what future actions may be taken. Rob York, president of the Selleck Quad rangle government, said he was not worried about the pressure to resign. York, a senior biology and chemistry major, said he was working to increase graduate and non-traditional student representation within Selleck government by attempting to establish a committee consisting of graduate and non traditional students and himself. Doug Zatechka, director of housing, said, “I don’t think they (the executive board and ad viser) should even entertain the notion of re signing.” Zatechka said the charges of election im proprieties and financial irregularities were not substantiated. ‘‘I keep hearing about grievance after griev ance, but I’m having trouble finding them,” Zatechka said. York also said he had yet to see a list of complaints and is only able to hear of problems “through the grapevine.” Halvorson said the floor had prepared a list of grievances but declined to show them. According to the letter, Residence Hall See RHAon3 Doctor says UNL students victims of STDs Statistics reveal 30% of UHC patients infected with disease By Dionne Searcey Senior Editor Nearly one-third of students who visit the University Health Center at the Univer sity of Nebraska-Lincoln have sexually < related health problems, a doctor said Thurs day. Garland Bare, a physician at the health center, said that although UNL’s statistics are lower than other campuses oh the East and West coasts, about 30 percent of all students who visit the health center have sexually re lated health problems. Genital warts is the most common disease, Bare said. Although Nebraska doesn’t require doctors at the health center to keep statistics on this disease,he said that out of the 25 to 28 students he examines daily, six to eight will be treated for genital wans. In 1990,2,260 women who had pap smeais at the health center tested positive for ch lamydia, a disease that can cause infertility and tubal pregnancies. These women had no symp toms of the disease, Bare said. He predicted that 316 of the women who had pap smears at the health center in 1990 would develop cervi cal cancer. Doctois estimate that about 40 to 80 stu dents at UNL carry the HIV virus, he said. Students who have sexually transmitted diseases are more susceptible to the AIDS virus, Bare said. Many students don’t know that they carry sexually transmitted diseases, such as chlamydia, because they have no symptoms, Bare said. Men are more likely to have the burning and discharge symptoms of chlamydia than women, he said. The number of gonorrhea and syphilis cases have decreased, he said, because people are more likely to have painful symptoms of these diseases and see a doctor. But some students ignore symptoms and infect others, he said. “Students are still tending to be promiscu ous and not taking any precautions," Bare said. Even students who do use protection are not fully shielded, he said. Condoms are not “foolproof,” Bare said. Condoms often do not protect against pubic lice and genital warts, and other viruses can pass through or the condom can break, he said. “Abstinence is the only solution until com mitment, then monogamy thereafter,” he said. “Unfortunately many students look on ab stinence as a religious or moral issue. We have to realize it’s a very valid medical and social issue,” he said. A University Health Cent. - below statistics in one week's period , Total Students with > students sexually related Date examined problems Feb. 11 22 8 12 21 6 14 16 4 15 16 3 Source: Garland Bare, UHC physiotan Am* Dafrain/DN