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Paper helps students connect By JafT Randall Staff Reporter For many students, finding friends, study groups and dates can be a difficult experience. Campus Connections is designed to make this a little easier. Founded by Chi Phi Fraternity’s house mother, C.J. Hanson. Cam pus Connections is a personal ad vertisement paper written by and for students. Hanson is the paper's editor-in-chief. “Wc really want to help people connect,” she said, “and wc think we can accomplish this through our publication.” Hanson graduated from the Uni versity of Nebraska-Lincoln last year, and she said her time on cam pus taught her a lot about what students want. “I kept hearing people complain ing because they couldn't find friends with similar interests, they couldn't get work experience and they couldn't find jobs,” she said. “With Campus Connections, we can hopefully provide all of these ' things.” A regular staff of five students puts the paper together, and several others work on smaller tasks or fill in for regular staffers who are too busy, Hanson said. “The students really are work ing together well,” she said, “and they’re learning at the same time.” Campus Connections is pub I ished every six weeks and is handed . out by students around campus, Hanson said. In the future, Hanson foresees expansion in the benefits the paper will provide. ‘TII be gone in three years, but I hope our paper can keep going un der someone else,” she said. “I also want to see a scholarship set up in the paper's name, so we can help students on even more levels.” Students can place ads at a cost of $5 by calling Hanson at the Cam pus Connections offices in the Chi Phi house. School’s grads catch primary care bug By Laura King Staff Reporter UNMC consistently graduates a larger percentage of primary care doc tors compared to other medical schools, said a UNMC program direc tor. Dr. David O'Dell, director of the primary carcand family medicine resi dency program, said in general 75 percent of all medical students be come specialists. However, he said, about half of the University of Ne braska Medical Center graduates will become general practitioners. A recent national survey of medi cal schools indicated the schools have the power to influence doctors to be come general practitioners. Many poli ticians cite the large number of spe cialists as a factor driving up the cost of health care. O' Dell credited the high number of “Students are more attracted to an area they can get their hands around. ” ■ DAVID O’DELL Director of UNMC’s primary care and residency program general practitioner graduates to UNMC’s history of emphasizing pri mary careand a new program that puts first-year students into primary care clinics. The program is part of a major curriculum reform that went into ef fect in 1992. The reform contributed to the ef fort to familiarize students with pri mary care and family medicine, he said. Although UNMC students sec mostly specialty cases, the students arc exposed to more general proce dures. But Nebraska’s sparse population also encourages students to become primary care providers, he said. More family medicine and general practi tioners are needed in Nebraska be cause smaller communities need gen eral practitioners and may not be able to support full-time specialists, he said. The recent overload of specialists have put general practitioners in de mand around the country. O’Dell said. Some areas provide primary care doc tors with lucrative packages to entice more medical students to the field, he said. But O’Dell said many factors lured students to specialize. General practitioners arc paid fees for their services, whereas specialists arc paid a set salary. General practi tioncrs also have an unstructured lifestyle, compared to the normality of a specialist’s schedule. O'Dell said Another reason for the interest in specialty medicine is that students fo cus on only one area. General practi tioners need to be knowledgeable in all areas of medicine. “Students arc more attracted to an area they can get their hands around,” O'Dell said. One of the keys to fostering more primary care doctors is exposing stu dents early to primary care role mod els. O'Dell said. To train general practitioners, O’Dell said UNMC taught students to deal with uncertainty and to develop problem-solving skills. “If students arc trained to be prob lem solvers rather than focusing on one technical area, they will be more well-rounded, more personable doc tors,” O’Dell said. EARN EXTRA MONEY ASSIST MEDICAL RESEARCH Harris currently has many studies available for men and women age 19-80. If you are available to stay at Harris’ Lincoln facility on the weekend or during the week, you could earn up to $1,000 For more information on how you can earn extra money by participating in a medically supervised study at Harris, call 474-PAYS today. Harris testing pays! BE PART OF THE CURE HARRIS 621 Rose Street Lincoln, NE 68502 Selective Service Registration. li lt's Quick. It's Easy. Ana It's The law.'lw^ EARN EXTRA MONEY MEN & WOMEN If you are age 19-50 and available to stay at Harris’ Lincoln facility on the weekend or dur ing the week, you could earn up to $1,000. For more information on how you can earn extra money by participating in a medically super vised study at Harris, call 474-PAYS today. Harris testing pays! BE PART OF THI CURE HARRIS I 621 Rose Street Lincoln, NE 68502 4 X 4 _.__ l_ i. "v. - ■ UNL libraries to brief senate on cutbacks By Brian Sharp Senior Reporter The Academic Senate will be briefed today on a “losing battle” be ing fought by the UNL libraries. Fred Choobineh, president of the senate, said the senate asked Kent Hendrickson, dean of libraries, to present a battle plan because the li brary might have to eliminate 1,500 periodical titles totaling $350,000. “The people in the libraries are doing the best they can with the re -sources they have,” Choobineh said. “Unfortu nately, they don't II have the rc sources. Inflation SENATE isbasicallyeating * them up.” Hendrickson said inflation on jour nals. newspapers and other periodi cals had been around 13 percent for the past eight years. The library bud get has only been increasing by five percent during that time. This will be the fourth time in the seven years that libraries have had to cut titles. Hendrickson said. The last cut came in 1992. Hendrickson said the other three cuts had totaled $550,000. “It’s not a budget cut, nobody is taking anything away from us.... It’s just we can’t keep up.” Hendrickson said library officials would work with departmentsand fac ulty on campus over the next seven months to determine what titles would be eliminated. The university would not cancel the subscriptions until 19%, he said. “There's going to be a lot of dis agreement on what should go and what shouldn't go,” he said. “With what we’ve cut already ... it becomes very difficult. There's nothing left that isn ' t important to somebody" Hendrickson said UNL was not alone; libraries across the country faced the same problem. UNL will try to case the effects of the cuts by im proving access to materials at other off-campus locations and libraries. Choobinch said UNL libraries should be better. Faculty members know the importance of the library, he said, and need to show their support for the library in future budget re quests. “(Library officials) arc fighting a losing battle.” Choobinch said. “How long can they continue to lose the battle before it’s a lost cause?” Hendrickson said this year’s cut should be the last for at least another three years—then again, the ax could swing again in two years. In other business, the senate will hear from Del Weed, manager of en vironmental health and safety, about complying with Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards on waste disposal. ISO Continued from Page 1 Babsubramanian. an electoral com mittee member, to discuss voter veri fication. At that meeting, Park said he asked what kind of identification should be used at the election to verify voters whose names were on the checklist. But, he said, Wendorff confirmed the checklist was the only ofTicial iden tification necessary to prove voter authorization. Shahin took the case to the student court. Earlier this semester, he re signed his membership in ASUN for reasons unrelated to the case ISO President Boon Lee Lim, who retained his position as a result of the court's decision, also was an ASUN member. Lim currentlv is an ASUN graduate senator and chairman of the international student's committee. Lim would not comment on Park's allegations that the court was biased Gricsen said the court was not bi ased because it acted independently of ASUN. Except for appointing the justices, ASUN has no control over the court, he said.