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Detox Continued from Page 1 said some of the people UNL police transport are panhandlers. One client was selling condoms to students, he said. “For some (clients) we are home.. .. It’s safe... and they’re taken care of,” Thompson said. “In a sense our staff becomes missing parents, miss ing friends.” Bushing said that when people are picked up they are placed in hand cuffs. Record checks are run on all those picked up; those with warrants are taken to jail. v After being checked into Com husker Place, the intoxicated person is given a breath test. In September, the average breath alcohol content level was .218 for those in protective custody; a B AC level of. 10 is consid ered legally intoxicated in Nebraska. Individuals in protective custody are placed in one of two rooms with bolted doors. One room contains several beds, and the other, a day room, has cable television and a bath room. Two private, bolted rooms are used to separate people brought to the center’ because of fighting, Thompson said. Protective custody clients arc held until they are sober or a responsible party picks them up; they can only stay for 24 hours. To gel the attention of staff mem bers, protective custody clients must pound on the door. A trained staff is on duty 24 hours a day with a doctor on can. Protective custody was created in 1979 to decriminalize public intoxi l cation; prior to 1979, people publicly intoxicated were taken to jail. From 1979 until 1983, when Comhusker Place was established, intoxicated people were taken to a corrections facility. Thompson said Comhusker Place was created to offer the clients a so cial, medical setting. A nurse who asked not to be iden tified said, “(Being a nurse at Com husker Place) is satisfying. I feel al coholism is a disease.. . .The alco holic has health problems that are unique and needs special considera tion. It is personally challenging.” 1 hompson said tnat aitnougn some people, while intoxicated, are ver bally abusive to the staff, the clients usually apologize when they become sober. However, the nurse said she doesn’t “see (verbal abuse) as much as the non-medical staff does.” “I don’t know if this is because they arc appreciative (of our help) or are mellowed out,” the nurse said. Protective custody is “preferable because it’s better to be brought here rather than go through the court proc ess,” Thompson said. “The people picked up don’t re ceive a police record and aren’t ar rested,” he said. Counselors provide one hour of counseling to those in protective custody and make referrals to clinics, Thompson said. Many people are repeat clients, he said, because they cannot afford other treatment centers in Lincoln. Protective custody is free. How ever, Comhusker Ptace charges for its extended-care program and the voluntary detoxification program on -1 a sliding fee scale based on income. Comhusker Place is financed by the city, county and state, Thompson said. To qualify for the extended-care program, the client must have been admitted to a detoxification center six times, completed a short-term alcohol in-patient treatment program and be chemical-free at the lime of admission. Most of the clients are homeless or have low incomes without insurance to cover the costs of the referrals made in Lincoln. The lowest treat ment available in Lincoln is $7,000 for 30 days. Comhusker Place also offers a voluntary detoxification service in which clients can admit themselves to the center for three to five days and receive counseling and treatment. Besides receiving counseling while in voluntary admission, the clients play games, read books or watch tele vision. 2000 Continued from Page 1 Romer suggested the business concepts of “quality control” and “quality circles” as a means to im prove education. He called education “the most important business of the nation.” Nebraska State Sen. Jessie Ras mussen of Omaha said the problem with the analogy of education as a business is that schools are expected to produce as a business but are not allowed to function as one. “ it We are trying to help young people to dis cover their purpose in life to help them under stand their world. Kerrey U.S. senator -99 - Structural barriers exist in the way money flows, Rasmussen said. Romer said that improving educa tion is not only an economic neces sity but a moral one. Robert Coles, a professor of psy chiatry and medical humanities at Harvard Medical School, also spoke on the importance of the moral aspect of education. “The accumulation of facts that is untethered to moral life is, at best, an ironic parody of what we value in life, and at worst, it is utterly dangerous,” Coles warned, using the example that Hitler’s top henchman had a doctor ate in comparative literature. “We need to share courtesy, thoughtfulness and respect,” he said, adding that these are parts of educa tion that “gel lost in concentrating too hard on techniques.” Kerrey agreed. “Values matter,” he said. “We arc trying to help young people to dis cover their purpose in life, to help them understand their world.” Kerrey said he and other elected officials are committed to taking some of the conference’s educational im- i provement ideas and putting them V into action. 1 Protective custody rooms have a single bed on the floor for individuals who are brought to the Cornhusker Place detoxi fication center intoxicated and potentially harmful to them selves or others. I I€T -, ———— The Computing Resource Center is offering a free microcomputer seminar to UNL students. The seminar will feature an introduction to SuperPaint for the Macintosh. Lab Location Dates Times SuperPaint for Macintosh * Andrews Monday, October 28 1:30 to 3:00 fep FREE DELIVERY" ^ 474-3248 { | ^ Not Valid With Any Othar Odor | I j 474-3248 J ^£~--VVTmCOUPON___® Education Continued from Page 1 Bui, Kerrey said, equally impor tant arc the 50 percent of Americans who instead of attending college move directly into the work force from high school. “This question of connecting to higher education is awfully impor tant,” he said, “but connecting it to the work force is equally important.” David Horn beck, an education adviser to the National Center on Education and the Economy and the Business Roundtable, said he thinks higher education was not covered in the plan because it is in better shape than primary and secondary educa tion. “In fact,” he said, “higher educa tion is going to get in worse shape unless we deal with elementary and secondary schools because the young people who are going into colleges and universities arc not going to be prepared to do the work needed at the university level.” Hornbcck said higher education reform is also important, however. “If the question is, ‘Should we have in one form or another a higher education America 2000?’, I think that would be entirely appropriate, he said. “I don’t know that it is necessarily or appropriately part of the same thing. But I think that both arc terribly important.” weignt Continued from Page 1 says amino acid pills work,” Lehr said. Healthy dieting docs not include deprivation, she said, but healthy food choices and a commitment to those choices. For healthy dieting, 50 to 60 per cent of caloric intake should be car bohydrates, including grain products, and vegetables and fruits, which pro vide a good energy source, Lehr said. Protein-rich foods such as meal, eggs, fish, poultry, dried beans and nuts should make up 12 to 15 percent of calorie intake, Lehr said, and not more than 30 percent of all calorics should c6mc from fats. Exercise is also an important part of weight loss, she said. Muscle tissue instead of body fat is often lost when dieting occurs without exercise, she said. In extreme cases, tissues like those of the heart can be lost if weight is lost without exercise, Lehr said. Lehr said the University Health Center helps an increasing number of students with nutrition and weight loss concerns. Individual counseling is offered without charge to students who pay student fees, and 10-week weight control group sessions arc available for $25, Lehr said. Health center programs stress gix>d nutrition, exercise and behavior modification, she said. Netvraskan Editor Jana Pedersen 472- 1766 Opinion Page Editor & Wire Editor Eric Planner Copy Desk Editor Paul Domeler Sports Editor Nick Hytrek Assistant Sports Editor Chuck Green Arts & Entertain ment Editor John Payne Diversions Editor Bryan Peterson Photo Chief Shaun Sartln Night News Editors Chris Hoptensperger Cindy Kimbrough Alan Phelps Dionne Searcey Art Director Brian Shelllto General Manager DanShattll Production Manager Katherine Pollcky Advertising Manager Todd Sears Sales Manager Eric Krtngel Classified Ad Manager Annette Sueper Publications Board Chairman BlllVobelda 476-2855 Professional Adviser Don Walton 473- 7301 Postmaster: Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan. Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St.,Lincoln. NE 68586-0448 Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, NE. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1981 DAILY NEBRASKAN Psychology fair to be held at Wesleyan 1 he study of the human mind and behavior will be on display Nov. 7-8 at Nebraska Wesleyan University’s Psychology Fair IX. More than 30 exhibits and demonstrations will be set up throughout the Smith-CurtisClass room-Administration Building on Nov. 7. These hands-on exhibits will cover subjects such as the study of sleep and dreaming, lie detec tion, perceptual illusions and the effect of delayed feedback on speech. Science graduate fellowships available Graduate fellowships are avail able for entering and first-year graduate students majoring in sci ence disciplines and interested in pursuing research careers in areas pertaining to global change *P°?*?rcd by to u s- Depart k ?! ?fFrlergy and administered by Oak Ridge Associated Univcr c\nh ,lruGraduatcFel,owshipfor Globa! Change Program includes full payment of tuition and fees at a DOE-approved institution, a SI,200 monthly stipend and a three month practicum assignment at a DOE facility or research facility associated with the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences. For applications or more infor mation, contact Sandra Beaulieu, Graduate Fellowships in Global Change Program, Oak Ridge As sociated Universities, Science/ Engineering Education Division, P.O. Box 117, Oak Ridge, Tenn. 37831-0117.
