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. ”
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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.
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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.
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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.
