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Easter Seal official speaks at RHA meeting! By Mindy L. Leiter Staff Reporter The Easter Seal Society needs help in raising funds to help children and disabled adults, a Nebraska represen tative for the society said at RHA’s Sunday meeting. Martha Cham berlain, director of development for Nebraska Easter Seal, gave the Res idence Hall Asso | ciation members -I ideas of ways they could help the society further its cause. The Easter Seal Society, which will celebrate its 75th anniversary in 1994, provides services to children and adults with disabilities to help them become independent, she said. The society purchases hearing aids, wheelchairs, crutches and walkers for disabled people, Chamberlain said. The Easter Seal Society donates wheelchairs to families, even if they aren’t technically needy, she said. “We give equipment to anyone who needs it,” she said. Chamberlain said insurance and government programs did not always cover the costs of expensive services for the disabled. Karen Jones, mother of the Ne braska Easter Seal Ambassador child, Nicole, said she needed the society’s help when her daughter was injured in a car crash. The one-car crash that occurred in 1985, killed Jones’ husband and left her youngest daughter, N icolc, a para plegic. A lew years after the accident, Jones’ insurance company dropped Nicole from the family policy. Jones said noother insurance com pany would sell her a policy that covered Nicole, so she was left with the bills for the expensive care N icole needed. The costs of Nicole’s care were burdensome, she said. Nicole’s wheel chair costs thousands of dollars. Nicole also uses a body brace to support her spine that costs from $ 1,200 to $ 1,600. Jones said the Easter Seal Society absorbed some of the costs of caring for her daughter by providing the equipment Nicole needed. “I don’t know what we would have done without Easter Seals,” she said. Jones said Camp Easter Seal, which is supported by Nebraska Easter Seal, also helped hcrdaughterbecome more independent. The camp, which is lo cated in Milford, is open during the summer. Chamberlain said counselors at Camp Easter Seal helped give dis- i abled children and adults an opportu nity to challenge themselves. i ..i i i.r ■ — — — — — — — — — — n WET T-SHIRT CON I EST Every Monday 10:30 p.m. 1823 "O' Street NO COVER i-— Police Report-1 Beginning midnight Sunday 9:56 a.m. — Hit-and-run accident, Sandoz Residence Hall parking lot $300. 10:13 a.m.—Fence knocked down, Behlen Physics Laboratory, $25. 1:06 p.m.—Purse stolen, Hamilton Hall, $50. 9:31 p.m. — Bike stolen, Manter Hall, $425. 11:42 p.m. — Cash stolen from wallet. Avery Hall, $5. Beginning midnight Monday 11:32 a.m. — Stereo stolen from car, East Campus Loop, $200 loss, $100 damage. 11:43 a.m.—Wallet stolen, Mabel Lee Hall, $10. 3:50 p.m.—Trespassing, Campus Recreation Center, case cleared with one arrest. Regents Continued from Page 1 Thceommission’s review ofUNL’s programs has been costly for UN L, he said. From July 1, 1992, to June 1, Spanier said, 3,000 hours of UNL staff time were spent responding to the commission’s quest ions. That time would be better spent working on university concerns, he said. “It is not a good investment of energyoneitherendof these requests,” he said. “We have to pull (staff members) off the projects that they’re working on to do these things, and that’s not what those people arc hired to do,” Spanier said. “We have very creative people who arc bogged down filling out reports.” Spanier said the commission had slowed change because of the paper work. Millikcn said central administra tion staff also spent long hours re sponding to the commission. But pa perwork time was not his major com plaint against the commission. “We’re concerned about arc the kinds of information they’re after, not the staff work,” Millikcn said. “We need to know what they’re looking for.” Peter Claussen of Hastings, chair man of the State College Board of Trustees, said negativism and fight ing words would not change the com mission’s role. “It’s not going to be productive for the state of Nebraska if this were to be reduced to become a head-to-head - 44 We have very cre ative people who are bogged down filling out reports. —Spanier UNL chancellor -*f — conflict,” Clausscn said. “Wc don’t want that.” John Moore of Sidney, chairman of the higher education council, agreed. Moore said he wanted to cooperate with the coordinating commission to elicit positive change. “If wc reduce disagreements, then we can hope for better governing,” Moore said. The council wants to redefine the coordinating commission’s role by amending the state laws regulating the commission. The council’s proposals for change include: •Confining the coordinating com mission to setting guidelines instead of implementing specific policies, most noticeably in enrollment and admission standards. •Restricting the amount of budget information institutions must submit to new and expanded request items only. •Prohibiting the commission from dictating in-depth academic program reviews. •Prohibiting the commission from changing a governing board’s deci sion on capital construction projects. ■ positions include: managing editor, associate news editor, sports editor, wire editor, senior reporters, copy desk chief, night news editor, photo chief, assistant photo chief, art director, cartoonist, supplements editor, Sower editor and columnist. 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