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Public Access Channel 14 Atheists: The Last Minority .Wed. 10:30 p.m. Fri. 10:00 a.m. "The Great Agnostic" .Tues. 4:00 p.m. Wed. 10:30 am ASSIST MEDICAL RESEARCH You can earn up to $1^000 by participating in a medical research study at Harris. Many studies . * are currently available. If you are in good medical condition and meet the criteria below, call us at 474-PAYS to find out more. ■ men and women ■ smokers and nonsmokers ■ 19 to 45 years old ■ availability: weekends and weekdays Harris testing pays. Call 474-PAYS today! BE PART OF THE CURE □ HARRIS 621 Rose Street Lincoln, NE 68502 . j . Damon Lee/DN Collie and Jane Conoley will soon take their psychology from the classroom to the airwaves. The two UNL educational psychology professors will be the hosts of a National Public Radio call-in series about relationships in April. Professors help couples talk it out By Matthew Waite Senior Reporter You won’t find Jane and Collie Conoley fighting it out. The two professors of educational psychology aren’t the type to scream and yell and throw coffee cups. They just talk to each other about their relationship. Now they will do it on the radio ai^d coach others. Nebraska Public Radio asked the husband-and-wife team to do a call in show in December about relation ships. It did well enough that they’ll be back to do a series this April. When asked what they would do if they disagreed on the air, the two just looked at each other and smiled as they sat on a couch in Jane’s office in Mabel Lee Hall. “I’d say, that’s an interesting point, Collie, here’s another perspective,” Jane said. “I don’t think we would vehemently disagree. “If we did disagree, we would want to model a good way for couples to get along.” On top of that, Collie said, psy chology was all experimental; people often have different methods to ac complish the same thing. The couple’s interests and training in relationships overlap. His interests are in family therapy and marriage counseling; she centers on child therapy. The two met while studying psy chology as graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin’s library. “Collie was going for a Coke and he invited me to go along,” Jane said, smiling at her husband once again. In their first show, the couple re ceived no calls for ten minutes, Jane said. After that, they took more than they could handle. They handled issues like what to do when one person has lost sexual inter est with the other, and what to do if the partners don’t love each other, but are secure with each other financially. The couple said they were jjust trying to give people better informa tion about relationships. “We’re not 1-800-dial-a-thera pist,” Jane said. “Some people get into bad relationships and don’t know that they can be happy.” “There’s a lot of people we feel that if they had better information, they wouldhave better relationships,” Collie said. With simple tips, such as better communication, fights could be avoided, Jane said. But even better communication doesn’t cure all. “It’s very tough to have a good relationship,” Jane said. “You have to attend to it with the same energy that you have with other things.” HOW TO GET STUFF CHEAPER. (WITHOUT POSING AS A SENIOR CITIZEN.) Check expiration dates. If it's going bad tomorrow, it’s probably on sale today Look for product flaws. A scratch or a missing button means bargain savings at the register. Go generic. Same as name brands, without the cartoon mascots. Buy in bulk with friends. Connect the leftover boxes to make a human Habitrail.® Use a Citibank Classic card. If you find out you didn’t pay the lowest price, Citibank Price Protection can pay you back up to $ 150* ♦Naturally, conditions and exclusions apply. Learn all about it when you become a cardmember.