Stress
Continued from Pape 1
ing, you better get your priorities
straight.
“We’re just young men, we’re just
playing a game.”
Jamar Johnson, a sophomore bas
ketball player, said he felt pressure
because of the scrutiny athletes were
subjected to.
“I think basically all of the athletes
here at the university — they kind of
live within a glass house,” he said.
“That’s a stress in itself, having to
worry about what other people think
Instruction
Continued from Page 1
tiative is more a matter of improving
teaching methods.
“My personal desire is that we’ll
see a real benefit for students in the
short term,” he said. “It’s not just for
the professional development of the
faculty.”
Wright said the additional resources,
however they were administered,
would expand faculty opportunity in
the area of instructional improvement
“It’s a marvelous opportunity,”
Wright said. “Just the presence of the
funds will raise morale, interest and
energy among faculty.”
The administration has not decided
how much money will be put into the
program, Griesen said, but funding
could be about $50,000.
Legislature
Continued from Page 1
Learning about cultural diversity
in college — as he did — is too late,
he said.
Andrew Sigerson, a junior eco
nomics major at UNL, said that uni
versity students had to deal with people
of different cultures whom they have
never encountered before.
“It’s unfortunate because it cre
ates a barrier between people,” Siger
son said.
Ernest Smith, a sophomore chemi
cal engineering major at UNL, said
the bill would help alleviate these
barriers by exposing children to di
versity at an early age. Smith is presi
dent of the African People’s Union at
UNL.
“On the collegiate level, we may
deal with a student four, maybe five
years at the undergraduate level,” Smith
said. The bill would give children in
kindergarten through 12th grade ac
cess to multiculluralism.
Chambers said a local school would
be given much leeway in implement
ing cultural diversity programs.
Schools either may integrate multic
ulluralism into current curriculum, or
teach it in separate lessons.
“Since black people, Asians, Na
tive Americans and Jews have been
systematically excluded, it may be
necessary to single them out,” he said.
Chambers also said schools needed
teachers from different backgrounds
to teach about cultural diversity.
Kubik agreed that having teachers
from different backgrounds was im
portant.
“I don’t think, really, anybody,
unless you are that specific race, are
qualified to teach about that race,”
Kubik said.
No one spoke in opposition to the
bill.
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of you.”
But those pressures are manage
able, he said.
“It comes with being an athlete —
you have to deal with it.
“Don’t blow it out of proportion,
but you have to deal with it,” Johnson
said.
Tom Haase, a senior quarterback,
said he also felt stress from his in
volvement in athletics. However, he
said he thought the advantages out
weighed the disadvantages.
“I don’t think it’s too bad,” he
said. “The biggest thing is just to get
adjusted and get into a routine.”
Haase compared adjusting to the
pressure of athletics to adjusting to a
new job.
“If you start out at a new job, you
have to get used to that as well,” he
said. “Somewhere down the line the
pressure becomes routine.”
Gary Gollner, a psychiatric social
worker for the University Health
Center, said he had counseled stu
dent-athletes since he started his job
10 years ago.
“Student-athletes seem to really
reflect the problems of the student
body in general,” he said. “If you
didn’t know the student’s background,
you couldn’t tell by the questions
they ask.”
The time student-athletes must
spend preparing for and playing sports
puts additional pressure on them, he
said, but that pressure is not unlike
the stress felt by students who must
work to pay for school.
“Compare incoming freshmen to
an incoming freshman-athlete and it’s
hard to see the difference,” he said.
“One (student) may be studying, one
may be working and one may be in
practice.”
And psychologically, a student
athlete’s problems are not different
from those of other students, he said.
Rick McNeese, a psychologist who
counsels student-athletes for the ath
letic department, agreed.
“I guess I see them (student-ath
letes) dealing with the the same kinds
of stressful events that any other col
lege student would,” he said. —
McNeese said the athletes he had
worked with usually were able to
handle the pressure of being expected
to achieve.
“Every once in a while, you find
an individual athlete who finds it more
difficult to deal with the public eye,
but that’s the exception.”
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