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If you're in a student organization, this is yowr conference! H O Student rgamzation 8:30 a. m. - noon Conference East Union REGISTER TODAY Office for Student Involvement f 200 Nebraska Union 300 East Union or call 472-2454 Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy! Attendance at this conference fulfills the ASUN requirement for student organizations to attend a fall orientation. Sponsored by the Office for Student Involvement <£ ASUN FOR JUNIOR NURSING STUDENTS A NURSING EXPERIENCE AT MAYO FOUNDATION HOSPITALS - ROCHESTER, MN Here is your opportunity to work at Mayo Medical Center for the summer. Summer III is a paid, supervised hospital work experience at Saint Marys Hospital and Rochester Methodist Hospital, both part of Mayo Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota. You are eligible for Summer III after your junior year of a four year baccalaureate nursing program. It includes experience on medical and surgical nursing units or in operating rooms. Application Deadline: December 1, 1993. ► For more information contact: Mayo Medical Center Nursing Recruitment PO. Box 6057 Rochester, Minnesota 55903 1-800-247-8590 Mayo Foundation is an affirmative action and equal opportunity educator and employer A smoke-free institution. Free depression screening offered By Melissa Dunne Staff Reporter Feelings of hopelessness, continu al exhaustion and lack of motivation may sound like common student com plaints. Some students also tend to ignore changes in sleep patterns, appetite or sources of pleasure. But if such symptoms persist, Ruth Few, education coordinator for men tal health services at Lincoln General Hospital, said the reason might be more than just the blues. She also said there was a way to find out. Today, Lincoln General Hospital will participate in National Depres sion Screening Day. Two free depres sion screenings will be offered at 2 and 6 p.m. Those interested should call Lincoln General Hospital to reg ister. “We all feel blue or down and might use the word ‘depressed’ for those feelings,” Few said. But Few said individuals suffering from clinical depression often dis played more symptoms and experi enced those symptoms for extended periods of time. Depression is an illness experi enced by more than 15 million people a year, Few said. “Often people don’t know there is help,” she said. Dr. Bob Portnoy, department head of Counseling and Psychological Ser Tour Cue Stop ©usker Shop. •sweatshirts, T-shirts, tanks •shorts, sweat pants • flags •clocks, coolers •shot glasses, mugs •hats, hats, hats •pens, pencils, playing cards •picture frames •keychains, pennants •more sweatshirts •glasses, can coolers * •Big Red babywear •nightshirts, boxers •laundry bags •foam Big Red hands & hats •Big Red Everything City Campus Union Lower Level Monday thru Thursday 8:00 - 5:30 Friday 8:00 - 5:00 Game Saturday 9:00 - 5:00 vices at the University Health Center, said screenings were important be cause many students thought depres sion only happened to others. Because depression often begins early in adult life, Portnoy said, col lege students are extremely vulnera ble. This vulnerability is enhanced by stress and difficult decisions, he said. Portnoy said he had seen a number of students whose “academic careers have gone down the tubes,” because they did not realize they were clini cally depressed. However, Portnoy said once de pression was detected, it could be treated relatively effectively in a short time. — Continued from Page 1 “Some students even came in and said this was the first time they were here,” she said. But Fillicz said she was surprised by the number of faculty and staff members who d idn ’ t know they could use health center services. ' The fair also featured educational materials and video stations on eating patterns, drug and alcohol use, stress, women’shealth and physical therapy. Several community health exhib its, such as Students Taking a New Direction and the Eastern Ambulance Service, featured promotional mate rials and information. Dustin Donner, STAND treasurer, said the Health Fair was beneficial to his organization. “You get a lot of people down here,” he said. “You can get them interested and get them to come to meetings.” Fair participants were required to register and complete a form assess ing their opinions about the event. These evaluations will be used to determine whether the fair should become an annual event, Filliez said. Fillicz said the remarks made about the fair were positive. “It went off with very few hitches. I think it was extremely successful today,” she said. “I’d like to see it become an annual event.” ASUN Continued from Page 1 request of individual instructors and departments. This year every department was asked to asses its own fees, he said. During the processes, BrinkerhofT said the administration discovered fees were “way out of line" and that some departments were using their operat ing budgets to pay for instructional items. BrinkerhofT said he was opposed to this system because many depart ments* operating budgets already were strapped for money, using operating budgets to pay for laboratory materi als takes money away from other de partmental needs, he said. Oxley said he was not opposed to laboratory fees, but would like the administration to consider student opinion before future changes were made. ah they nave lo do is listen and we’d be glad to give them our opin ion,” Oxley said. In other business, ASUN senators passed their second resolution oppos ing the creation of a landscaped area to replace the parking lot north of the Nebraska Union. Senators had passed a similar res olution to oppose the green space, but the resolution was vetoed by ASUN President Keith Benes. Benes said he vetoed the previous resolution be cause safety and costs concerns of el iminating the lot were not addressed in the bill. Benes said he opposed the green space proposal. In addition to passing the resolu tion, senators also started circulating a petition opposing the green space. Arts ana Sciences Sen. Deb Silhacck and Speaker of the Senate Brian Kubik started a petition Mon day opposing Chancellor Graham Spanier s green space proposal. Silhacek said she currently had more than 1,000 signatures.
