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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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