RHA to clarify its role
in spending floor funds
By Lesli Thorn
Staff Reporter
The Residence Hall Association’s
role in determining how floors' use
their funds must be decided, RHA
officers said Sunday.
“As student leaders, what kind of
community do we create?” asked Matt
Hammons, Cather Residence Hall
president. “Do we just hand out
money?”
Floor funds are
apportioned to the
halls from the
housing budget
each year to pro
mote floor unity
and a feeling of
community, Hammons said.
Peggy Horton, Pound Residence
Hall president, said the only housing
policy concerning floor fund usage
stales that common area damage in
the halls could be paid for with floor
funds.
Hammons added that floors have
purchased VCRs and food for resi
dents with floor funds, and in doing
so, did not return funds to the floor.
“Free food does not promote
community,” he said.
Because floor funds come from
housing, RHA needs to determine its
role in deciding floor fund usage,
Horton said.
“Do we need to change?” she asked.
“What is RHA’s role? If we have a
role, what stand will we take?”
But Giles Schildt, Harper Resi
dence Hall president, said, “We should
be leery of trying to make any sorts of
dictates to halls.”
“If the only way we give money is
with conditions, then we will have a
worse relationship with the halls,” he
said.
Schildt said the Harper-Schramm
Smith Residence Association discussed
this issue two years ago, but represen
tatives were concerned with deciding
what to do with funds, not restricting
funds.
Mike Lewis, RHA president, said
RHA shouldn’t try to answer ques
tions for which they don’t have the
answers.
He suggested RHA members dis
cuss the issue with local governments.
Diamond
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New Zealand, she can be found in
the classroom or behind a desk in
Morrill Hall.
As a curator of public programs
at Morrill Hall, her job includes
working on a project renovating
exhibits and expanding educational
programs for the museum. She also
teaches a graduate course in
museum studies.
Diamond said she wanted to
modernize and expand the mu
seum’s education programs so they
would help schools throughout
Nebraska.
For the next 15 years, she said, a
new exhibit hall would open every
other year in Morrill Hall.
Work on a new exhibit hall on
the “Age of Dinosaurs” will begin
next year, she said. The exhibit will
be a model for innovative technol
ogy for university museums around
the country, she said.
Diamond said she hoped to
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university research that relates to the natural
sciences, using techniques that reflect the latest
knowledge about how people learn.
Diamond
associate professor of museum studies
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involve the Teachers College, the
biology, physics, geology and
psychology departments, the
Institute for Agriculture and Natural
Resources and the University of
Nebraska Medical Center in the
museum’s expanded exhibits and
educational efforts.
“I believe that university
museums have been isolated from
resources of the university in the
past,” she said.
“I hope to make Morrill Hall a
place to learn about university
research that relates to the natural
sciences, using techniques that
reflect the latest knowledge about
how people learn.”
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Morrill Hall officially has been
designated to house a university
wide math, science and technology
demonstration center to open in
early 1993, she said.
For the next three years, Dia
mond and Bond will travel to New
Zealand to finish their research on
Kea parrots. They plan to write a
book on the bird’s behavior, she
said.
The two also plan to continue
their studies on the social behavior
of birds, she said, but they eventu
ally want to study a species of birds
in the United States.
“We want to stay in the U.S. for
a while,” she said.
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ganization” in 1991.
Through the program, university
employees receive discounts if they
go to physicians who arc participat
ing in the program, Clayton said.
The university also implemented
the “Prescription Drug Program” Jan.
1, Clayton said.
Instead of filing a claim for a pre
scription, employees can go to par
ticipating pharmacists and gel their
medications at a lower price, he said.
Because these programs arc new,
he said, figures showing their effec
tiveness arc not available yet.
In addition to these new programs,
Clayton said the university was stress
ing a wellness attitude to help em
ployees slay healthy.
Encouraging employees to use the
Campus Recreation Center and Uni
versity Health Center programs, such
as programs to stop smoking and
wcight-lossclinics.arc ways in which
the university is educating its em
ployees. he said.
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Both colleges require 36 hours of
graduate courses.
Bateman said students would
choose to go with either program for
different reasons.
“Students may choose Chadron
Slate because it requires fewer re
quirements and may better meet their
individual needs,” he said. “UNL may
be preferred for more analytical and
quantitative management training or
to receive their MBA from a different
school.
“This cooperative program draws
resources to focus on the needs of the
student,” Bateman said. “Hopefully
it will have an impact on their mana
gerial skills and have a positive effect
on important businesses in the Pan
handle.”
Bateman said he hoped students in
western Nebraska and eastern Wyo
ming would take advantage of the
higher education programs. He said
10 to 15 students expressed an inter
est in the first year.
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