Increase in lab fees ‘essential’
By Melanie Brandert
Staff Reporter ~
Students may notice a change in
lab fees when they receive their tu
ition statement next fall.
Laboratory fee increases for 1995
96 were approved last month for some
UNL colleges by the Vice Chancellor
for Academic Affairs’ Committee on
Lab Fees.
The College of Arts and Sciences
received most of the increases, with
the chemistry department raising lab
fees $5 in 13 courses and $ 10 in three
others. The School of Biological Sci
ences increased fees in two courses by
$5.
George Sturgeon, vice chairman of
the chemistry department, said lab
fee increases for chemistry courses
would be used to upgrade equipment
and pay for items such as beakers and
chemicals.
The department does not have the
resources to provide materials with
out the fees, he said.
“Revenue from lab fees
falls well short of
providing those services,
but we feel they are
essential. ”
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GORDON KARELS
Associate dean of the College of
Business Administration
“We’re still behind the eight-ball
on (resources),” Sturgeon said.
He said the department had up
graded a nuclear magnetic resonance,
which helped identify organic mol
ecules and is used by students in Or
ganic Chemistry 263 and 264. The
department also has purchased new
ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers.
Though the chemistry department
received an increase in lab fees last
year, Sturgeon said, there was nolrend
indicating that the department was
constantly raising fees.
David Brinkerhoff, an associate
vice chancellor for academic affairs,
said lab fee increases were common
for upper-level courses.
The committee also approved new
fees of $10 and $25 for nutrition,
consumer science and design courses
in the College of Human Resources
and Family Sciences.
Karen Craig, dean of the College
of Human Resources and Family Sci
ences, said the new fees would be used
for supplies, including materials that
could not be found in Lincoln.
“It’s easier for students if we keep
(supplies) here than for them to get it,”
she said.
Gordon Karels, an associate dean
of the College of Business Adminis
tration, said the college needed an
increase in lab fees to operate the Coe
Computer Center and a writing and
speech lab.
Women’s Week events
offer health and healing
By Becky Keasling
Staff Reporter
Raising awareness ofwomen’s lives
and health issues is the main goal of
this year’s Women’s Week, the
Women’s Center director said.
Judith Kriss said the theme of
“Women’s Health and Healing” would
generate much discussion and inter
est.
To kick off Women’s Week, the
first-annual Women’s Center Walk
and Run was held Sunday. The two
mile walk and run benefited the Rape/
Spouse Abuse Crisis Center.
The University Health Center also
is involved with the health-and-heal
ingtheme. It is sponsoring a Women’s
Health Issues Discussion by Dr. Mary
Lutz on Monday at 11:30 a.m. All
students, faculty and staff are invited
to give their opinions on the possibil
i ty of open ing a women ’ s heal th cl inic
at the health center.
Miss America 1995 Heather
Whitestone will also give a speech
Monday at 7:30 p.m. as part of the
events.
Her speech, “Anything is Possible,”
in the Nebraska Union will address
growing up as a deaf woman.
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the
Nebraska Union, Norma Swenson, co
director of the Boston Women’s
Health Book Collective, will present a
lecture and discussion on “Political
Organizing for Women’s Health
Care.” Swenson is also the co-author
of “Our Bodies, Ourselves.”
“Personally, I’m very excited for
the Norma Swenson lecture,” Kriss
said. “She has been a women’s health
care advocate since the 1950s.”
Throughout the week, various
events and presentations will be held
concerning different women’s health
topics.
Further information may be ob
tained from the Women’s Center.
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