Housing staff
says ad blitz
helps bring
students back
By Steve Smith
Senior Editor
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In an attempt to bring mote stu
dents back to residence halls,
the University of Ncbraska
Lincoln’s housing department has
unleashed an unusually large adver
tising campaign along with offering
incentives for returning students.
The housing department is offer
ing various bonuses to keep current
residence hall students and to beef up
its ranks with uppcrclass students,
said Glen Schumann, assistant direc
tor of housing in charge of operations.
The bonuses include:
• a $ 1 OO-pcr-recruit bonus for resi
dence hall residents who recruit off
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Hillary Clinton
to speak at UNL
From Staff Reports
First lady Hillary Rodham
Clinton will speak at a health
care conference at the Uni
versity of Nebraska-Lincoln Friday,
the governor’s office confirmed late
Tuesday.
Kim Rohak, chief of staff to the
governor, said her office received
confirmation from the White House
that the first lady accepted her invita
tion to the Nebraska Health Care Con
ference.
Beth Gonzales, a press aid to Sen.
Bob Kerrey, D-Ncb., said from Wash
ington Tuesday that Clinton was ten
tatively scheduled to speak at 12:45
p.m. Friday.
The conference was originally
scheduled to be held in the Nebraska
Union, but was moved to Kimball
Hall.
Gov. Ben Nelson and Kerrey arc
co-chairmen of the conference, which
is titled: “Health Care in the 21st
Century: National Challenges, Ne
braska Solutions.”
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Stacie Rupprecht, a senior speech pathology major, listens as Nathan explains his project during a communication group
at the Speech-Language and Hearing Clinic Tuesday afternoon.
Clinic helps kids to communicate
By Jeff Zeleny
Senior Reporter
Making scarecrows out of con
J^/l struction paper, yam and
^ v ‘^gluc may look somewhat
juvenile foracollege studentactiv
ity, but for speech pathology ma
jors it’s an effective form of teach
ing.
In the Speech-Language and
Hearing clinic at the Barkley Me
morial Center, speech pathology
majors work with impaired pre
school-age children daily to im
Students work with children
prove thcircommunication skills.
Butmaking scarecrowsand other
crafts isn’t the primary focus of the
clinic, said Toni Morehouse,aclini
cal supervisor.
“Those things arc vehicles to
gel to the purpose,” she said. “The
whole idea is to make children
communicators.”
. The preschool children come
from area small-town school dis
tricts to utilize services available at
Barkley Center, on the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln’s East Cam
pus.
Beginning this summer, the
clinic will hopefully be filled by a
new group of students, Morehouse
said.
Children of UNL students, fac
ulty and staff, under the age of six,
that experience speech problems
will be offered eight weeks of
therapy by speech-pathology stu
dents in a clinic atmosphere, she
said.
Morehouse said Barkley Center
was targeting the group to benefit
both the children and the student
clinicians.
In any type of communication
disorder, early intervention is es
sential for treatment, Morehouse
said. The Barkley Center setting is
beneficial for patients because of
the interaction between the chil
dren.
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Academic Senate to reject peer group recommendations
By Angie Brunkow
Staff Haportar
The UNL Academic Senate passed a
resolution Tuesday to reject recommen
dations based on the university’s new
peer group.
The 12-member group was selected by the
Nebraska Coordinating Commission for
Postsecondary Education earlier this month
and differed from a group selected by the NU
Board of Regents.
Leo Chouinard, a member of academic
senate’s executive committee, said the peer
group included schools that were significantly
different from the University of Nebraska
Lincoln.
“They totally misunderstand the fundamen
tal nature of this institution,"
he said.
Also among the excculi vc
committee's concerns were
the exclusion of faculty in
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tutions from the Midwest to
the South and the use of misleading criteria in
selecting the group.
The resolution calls for a new peer group to
be developed from a coordinated effort which
includes input from faculty and the university’s
governing bodies.
In other business, the senate passed a resolu
tion which will require academic departments
to consider gender and cultural and ethnic
minorities when reviewing courses and their
titles and descriptions.
Richard Duncan, a law college senator, said
that while courses should be inclusive, regulat
ing courses infringed on the freedom of faculty
members.
“This is a serious threat to academic free
dom,” he said.
The resolution would have a “chilling ef
fect” on teachers, especially non tenured ones,
who would be on the lookout for the “speech
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police, he said.
But Chouinard said the department needed
to be able to point out insensitivity to women
and minorities that the faculty member might
overlook.
“I'm asking not that anyone crack a whip at
anyone, but there be some oversight,” he said.
In other business, Bill Byrne, UNL’salhlelic
director, said faculty and staff members’ foot
ball seats would be consolidated into a block in
East Memorial Stadium.
Byrne said all stadium seating was reorga
nized to deal with complaints about students
standing throughout the games.
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AoUJN meeting schedule rilled with senators orientation
By Andrea Kaser
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Student government members soon
will be able to write bills and get
legislation going, said AS UN presi
dent Keith Bcnes.
“Once we get the committee sys
tem down, we’ll be up and running
and be able to handle legislation,
Benes said. “There are ideas there,
and basically we just need to get the
committees going."
Kecenuy appointed manners or
the Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska’s six standing
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A Cl IM I choose their chair
HOUIl | men at tonight’s
meeting.
Senators also
will team how to
write bills as their
orientation contin
ues said,
will select
their adviser tonight. Benes said nc
was recommending James Griesen,
vice chancellor for student affairs,
who has served as the ASUN adviser
since October 1986.
Because of his position and expe
rience with student government,
Benes said recommending Griesen
was appropriate.
"He’s very in tune with student
affairs," Benes said.
At the last meeting, Griesen said
he hoped senators would select him to
me volunteer position again.
*‘I have a profound respect for stu
dent government and its role at this
university,” Griesen said.
Griesen told them he was able to
remain impartial in giving advice and
whatever information they might
need.
\“You’ll find I’m an unobtrusive
adviser,” he said.
Also as part of orientation, Benes
said, members of the Government
Liaison Committee will explain their
duties, members ot tnc OMicc tor
Student Involvement will givea team
builder exercise, and an attorney from
Student Legal Services will explain
the legal services offered there.
When students arc in trouble, Bcncs
said, they tend to find Student Legal
Services, but he added there were still
many who didn’t know ASUN pro
vided legal help through SLS, which
offers advice, court representation and
referrals.