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UNL Chancellor Graham %>anier tests his strength in the physical therapy department at the University Health
Center during the Health Center Fair Wednesday. Spaniers strength ranked excellent for his age group.
Health fair attracts 700 visitors
• Event may be
repeated yearly
By Paula Lavigne
Staff Reporter
Cholesterol screenings, immuniza
tions, and bran muffins were among
the many services and displays of
fered Wednesday at the University Health
Fair.
About 700 people attended the day-long
event that featured services and exhibits on
every floor of the University Health Center.
Peggy Fillicz, administrative secretary
of the health center, said she was pleased
with the overall turnout.
“We were really surprised,” she said.
“We had quite a few faculty and staff, but the
majority was students and we were just
delighted.”
Freshman Chris Rierson said he came to
the fair to have his cholesterol level checked
because his father had a high one. He said he
was surprised by the overall attendance.
“I didn’t think there would be as many
people as there were,” Rierson, a general
studies major, said. “It’s good to sec that
people want to see what they’ve got here.”
Fill icz said the fair’s most popular servic
es were the blood pressure checks and the
various laboratory exams, including choles
terol tests.
Melissa Caudle, a freshman pre-nursing
major, said she came to the fair out of
curiosity and also to have her blood pressure
examined.
“I came to learn more about what’s here,”
she said. “It just gives you an idea of what’s
offered. I think the center is pretty good for
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It went off with very few
hitches ... I’d like to see it
become an annual event.
— Filliez, health center secretary
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the number of people they run through the
services.”
Other services offered at the fair included
Slucose testing, skin exams, allergy exams,
iabetes checks and physical therapy assess
ments.
Filliez said the fair was organized mainly
to heighten awareness of tne services of
fered at the health center. _
See FAIR on 6
ASUN delays
bill opposing
higher lab fees
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By Becky Becher
Staff Reporter
A SUN delayed voting on a bill Wednes
day night asking state senators to reduce
laboratory fees pending student input.
The bill asked the Government Liaison Com
mittee to lobby the Legislature to recognize the
“extra burden” increased laboratory fees placed
on students and asking senators to reduce the
increases. Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska senators delayed taking a
stand on the issue until the bill was reworded to
encourage administrators to gather student in
put about the issue.
Laooratory ice increases *
were approved during the
last legislative session and
took effect this semester.
State senators approved new
lab fees for 181 classes and
increased 83 existing fees.
Graduate Sen. David
Oxley said the bill oppos
ing lee increases wasn t ready 10dc considered.
“We’re not eliminating it,”Oxley said ofthc
bill. “We’re changing it and going ahead with
the issue.”
Oxley said he was disturbed by increases in
laboratory fees because they added to the cost
of education. Laboratory fees arc paid in addi
tion to regular tuition.
He said ASITN needed to encourage the
administration to seek student input on future
fee changes.
David Brinkerhoff, associate vice chancel
lor for academic affairs, said students paid
laboratory fees to cover the cost of “consum
able, instructional items” used in the class
room.
Brinkerhoff said beakers used in chemistry
classes and frogs dissected in biology classes
were examples of such items.
Charging laboratory fees is a better option
than including the lab costs in tuition,
Brinkerhoff said. Some students do not take
laboratory courses, he said, and it would be
unfair to ask those students to pay for such
items.
He said fees were a mechanism to localize
the cost of laboratory materials. By charging
laboratory fces. hc said, only the students who
use the materials will pay for them.
Brinkerhoff said inflation forced the admin
istration to reassess the fees. In the past, he said,
fees were changed unsystematically at the
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Talk of UNL parking garage is hypothetical, official says
By Jan Calinger
Staff Reporter
UNL has identified three possi
ble sites for a parking garage
on campus, but that doesn't
mean one will be built, a university
official said.
Paul Carlson, interim business
manager for the University ofNebras
ka-Lincoln, said the sites chosen —
west of Memorial Stadium, at 14th
and Holdregc streets, and 19th and
Vine streets — were only potential
sites.
“If and when one would be built,
these are possible sites,” he said.
Carlson said no one at UNL. was
pushing for a parking garage, mainly
because of the cost.
Most support for a garage comes
from faculty, staff and commuter stu
dents, Carlson said. But the potential
cost of getting a parking spot in the
garage probably would deter students
from ever narking there, he said.
“I would think some commuter
students would enjoy parking in a
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I don't think students
will want to pay for it.
—Carlson
UNL business manager
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garage,” he said. “But I don’t think
students living in the residence halls
and the greck houses would want to
spend $500 or $600 a year, unless you
subsidize it somehow.
“I don’t think students will want to
pay for it,” he said.
The main concern regarding the
parking garage is whether it would
make enough money to pay for itself,
Carlson said. In order to do that, the
garage would need to be located where
it would be used by visitors.
“You’ve got to get it in a place
where you get some visitor traffic,”
he said.
Carlson said a decision on whether
to build a parking garage would be
made as soon as he finished a parking
study, which he started in August at
Chancellor Graham Spanier’s request.
“We’re working on a total parking
plan,” he said. “When we finish, hope
fully we’ll have some better guide
lines.”
The parking study should be fin
ished early next year, he said.
Meanwhile, Carlson said he hadn ’ t
heard any major comments for or
against a possible garage.
“The few comments I’ve heard
aren’t wrapped in a mandate cither
way,” he said.
Nelson reveals his plan to get tough on youth violence
Proposal includes
panel, workshops
By Steve Smith
Senior Reporter
Gov. Ben Nelson unveiled a
three-pronged plan to com
bat youth violence in Nebras
ka on Wednesday.
The plan includes the creation of a
panel ot young advisers and the allot
ment of hundreds of thousands of
< dollars in prevention funds.
Nelson's announcement came on
the heels of the August Governor’s
Youth and Violence Conference in
Omaha, which U.S. AttorncyGcncral
Janet Reno attended.
“We need to be talking about what
we can do to solve this problem,”
Nelson said during his weekly press
conference at the state capitol. “It’s
time for something to be done.”
Nelson said his actions were mere
ly the start of curbing youth violence
across the state.
“It’s the first step, not the last
word,” he said.
The governor’s three-pronged plan
included:
• designating grant money for
Nebraska community efforts to de
velop and implement youth violence
prevention programs;
• planning a series of youth vio
lence workshops across Nebraska;
• and forming the Governor’s
Youth Advisory Council, which would
consist of 23 high school and junior
high school students with diverse
backgrounds.
Nelson said the Youth Advisory
Council, which will meet four times a
year and report directly to Nelson,
would “gel down to business” by Dec.
31. Nelson introduced the appointed
members of the council Wednesday.
The council included students from
across the state who have been affect
ed either directly or indirectly with
violence at home or school, he said..
Nelson said the state had set aside
about $389,500 to help Nebraska
towns and cities address immediate
problems and prevention program
needs.
The funds are merely the “lubrica
tion” to get the plan going, Nelson
said.
“Solving the problem is not a mat
ter of money, it’s how creative we
are,” he said. “If we sit back and wait
for government to do it, we’ll find
there’s not enough money to fix any
thing.”
Nelson said his plan of action
wasn't a quick fix.
“The problem didn’t get here over
night, and we won’t recover over
night,” he said. “We’re not going to
hear the William Tell Overture and
see a white knight with the solution.
It’s just not that simple."