Women’s Center confronts tough issues
By Sean McCarthy
Staff Reporter
Providing both educational and
counseling services to students, the
Women’s Center has become a cor
nerstone for informing the campus
community on women’s issues.
The center is located on the third
floor of the Nebraska Union and spe
cializes in informing and confronting
such issues as sexual harassment, ac
quaintance rape and assaults towards
women.
The Women’sCenterstafTincludcs
a program assistant, a counseling co
ordinator, a volunteer coordinator, a
project assistant and volunteers. The
center’s director is Judith Kriss.
“We operate on a very informal
basis,” Volunteer Coordinator Amie
Haggar said, “but we work cohesively
as a team.”
Information on women’s topics is
available at the center. Educational
videos and pamphlets covering such
topics as abusive relationships and
date rape are the main sources of
information. A new computerized li
brary has also been added to the cen
ter.
Referrals to other outreach groups
are also available at the Women’s
Center. Some of the programs the
Women’s Center is associated with
are: the Rape/Spouse Abuse Crisis
Center, the Sexual Harassment As
sault Rape Prevention Center and
Planned Parenthood.
Staffed with 10 professional and
peer counselors, the Women’s Center
provides free counseling to those in
need. The staff is also able to provide
referrals to anyone in need of further
assistance.
“Our education and counseling
services are open to both women and
men,” Haggar said, “but it does seem
a bit exclusive.”
The Women’s Center handles con
fidentiality with the same priority as
other departments around campus. The
confidentiality is especially important
with the short-term counseling ser
vices the center provides, Haggar said.
. To play an active role on campus,
the Women’s Center sponsors and
provides support for special events.
One of the events the Women’s Center
sponsors is Women’s Week. Tenta
tively set for spring, the event includes
several educational programs. The
University Program Council also as
sists with this event.
The Women’s Center also spon
sors the “No Limits” conference with
the Women’s Study Group. The event,
also set for spring, includes panels,
paper presentations and poetry read
ings.
“Women’s health will be one of the
issues targeted during Women ’ s Week
and throughout the year,” Haggar said.
While the Women’s Center pro
vides support to anyone in need of
assistance, it is important to tell peo
ple that you don’t nave to seek coun
seling at the center, Haggar said.
“People come here to hang out, to
study, to get resources for a paper, or
to watch TV,” Haggar said.
The motto for the Women’s Center
is “About women for everyone.” In
stead of pursuing a special target au
dience such as incoming students, the
center tries to cover their entire audi
ence with equal care, Haggar said.
“The center is more than an of
fice,” Haggar said, “it’s about people,
regardless of gender or race.”
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Hitting books hits wallet
By Marcia Veiiey
Staff Reporter
At the beginning of each semester,
students go streaming into the book
stores with schedules in hand, prepar
ing to spend money on what is a
legendary big college expense: text
books.
Students who will be looking for
the books that are cheaper will find
that the prices at both bookstores are
very similar, said Brian Rundquist,
textbook manager at University Book
store.
“Our used books are priced at 75
percent of the new price, so it’s basi
cally a 25 percent discount,” he said.
Scott Nicholson, textbook manag
er at Nebraska Bookstore agreed.
“We try to get as many used books
as we can, so the cost won’t be so high
for books,” he said.
The highest cost that hits the stu
dent pocketbook comes from the cost
of new books, and managers at both
bookstores say that not much can be
done about it. Rundquist said the price
that students pay is the publisher’s
retail price.
“Tne total price of a new book
includes royalties, publishing costs,
shipping, and so on,” he said. “We
don’t mark them up at all.”
Both bookstores have services that
students can use in order to make the
book-buying process easier. At Uni
versity Bookstore, students are able to
use their student ID’s to charge books.
Dan Smith, who oversees the charge
accounts, explained the process. •
“If the student is under 21, we need
the signature of a parent or legal guard
ian as a cosigner. 1 f the student is older
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long as the balance is paid within 30
days, there’s no problem. We really
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for them,” Nicholson said. “The de
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the books when they return to buy
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