Historian to speak
on retracing steps
of fugitive slaves
By Kasey Kerber
Staff Reporter
Anthony Cohen, a historian who
walked 1,000 miles through the Deep
South to retrace the Underground Rail
-—__— road, will talk about
his experiences to
night at 7 in the Ne
braska Union’s Cen
tennial Room.
Cohen, 32,
made the 1,000 mile
journey in just over
two months. He trans
ported himself in a
wooden box from
Philadelphia to New
York City in a 26-hour
trip as slave Henry Brown once aid.
Cohen will come to the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln as part of the Student
Involvement’s Leadership Institute. His
speech will be titled “Silhouette of a
Leader” and will provide “an insight for
motivation and personal leadership.”
Denise Cradick, assistant director of
student organizations and leadership de
velopment for Student Involvement, said
she hopes Cohen’s visit will provide a new
sense of awareness about the Underground
Railroad.
“Students will learn a historical as
pect about the Underground Railroad they
otherwise might not have,” Cradick said.
The Leadership Institute will begin to
night at 7 at the Centennial Room in
side the Nebraska Union. The cost is $7
for the general public and $2 for students,
staff and faculty with an ID.
Health Aides dedicate themselves
to helping more than just students
AIDES from page 1
But despite her many hours of training, she
wondered if she could keep her composure in a
real emergency situation.
Last September, her question was answered.
The right prescription
It was Saturday night, and Mcgee was go
ing to a fraternity party. When she arrived, para
medics were helping an “extremely intoxicated”
woman having what they suspected was a re
action to prescribed medicine.
Mcgee and another aide went upstairs to
assist another woman who was intoxicated and
hyperventilating. Mcgee called the paramed
ics upstairs, but the woman refused help out of
fear her parents would find out she was drink
ing.
I was untated because she was so worried
about getting kicked out of school and losing
her scholarship, instead of thinking about her
health,” Mcgee said.
The paramedics eventually left, but Mcgee
called them back an hour later because the
woman began hyperventilating, shaking and
drifting in and out of consciousness, but still
refused help.
The only thing Mcgee said she could do was
to spend most of the night watching after the
woman and hope for the best.
“If I wasn’t in the Health Aide Program I
would have been really scared, but the training
helped me not to be,” she said. “I learned how
to stay calm in bad situations.”
Most reported cases aren’t as extreme as
Mcgee’s. Health aides usually care for minor
injuries such as sprained ankles and sore
throats, but they are prepared for the serious
situations, Mcgee said.
“Health aides are not doctors or counselors,
but a link to professionals,” Karen Weed, Co
ordinator of the Health Aide Program and com
munity health nurse said.
'Draining time
Students can apply to be a health aide at the
beginning of their sophomore year through the
University Health Center.
First-year health aides train for two days at
the start of fall semester to become certified in
First Aid and CPR. They must attend two-se
mester public health course for credit and co
ordinate health-related programs in their liv
ing units.
When students complete their first year, they
can continue in the program as a second-year
health aide or as a health aide coordinator, who
are First Aid and CPR instructors who orga
nize meetings, social activities and perform
administrative duties.
There is at least one health aide in every
residence hall, and many in greek houses on
campus. The program’s goal is to have a health
aide on every residence hall floor and in every
greek unit, Weed said.
First-year health aides are paid $ 11 a week,
and second-year coordinators are paid $12.65
a week.
“We are not in the program for the money,”
Jayne Miller, second-year health aide said. “I
do it because I like to help people and make
new friendships.”
Being a health aide is a very big time com
mitment, Margaret Pavelka, health educator
and retired registered nurse said.
“You have to be committed 24 hours, seven
days a week, for one entire year,” she said. “You
really have to enjoy helping others.”
Although health aides are a student re
source, they are here to help anyone in need,
Weed said.
Second-year health aide Joshua Levy was
walking to class one afternoon when he noticed
an elderly woman lying on the ground.
As he ran over to help her, the two men
who had hit her with their bikes quickly rode
away. With his mini First Aid kit in his back
pack, Levy cleaned the woman’s scrapes and
bruises and took her to the health center.
A week later, the woman called the health
center to compliment him for his actions, Levy
said.
“When people appreciate your help it makes
the job very rewarding,” Levy said.
Weed said the program also is successful
because coordinators really care about the
health aides and become a part of their per
sonal lives.
“I love the program so much that I treat the
students like my own children,” Weed said.
Many students become health aides to learn
more about a health profession as they work
toward a health-related degree. However, a pre
health major is not a requirement to become a.
health aide, Weed said.
Joseph Hermsen, staff physician at the Uni
versity Health Center, was a health aide at UNL
in 1971 and 1972.
Hermsen was a pre-med major and thought
the program would help him decide if he
wanted to be a doctor.
“Being a health aide really reinforced my
ideas about becoming a doctor,” Hermsen said.
“It was a great opportunity to learn about health,
while helping students and the health center.”
Health aide applications are available until
Friday at Community Health Education, lower
level, Room 12, in the University Health Cen
ter.
Residents get cable
at veterans home
GRAND ISLAND (AP)—What’s
the difference between military veter
ans and state prisoners in Nebraska?
Ask George Jasen.
The World War II veteran will say
prisoners get to channel surf, veter
ans don’t.
“Who says crime doesn’t pay?”
Jasen asked. “The state prison, if you
want something, they’ll get it.”
Not so in the Nebraska Veterans
Home in Grand Island, where Jasen,
80, waged a 10-year fight to get MTV.
His struggle has finally ended and he
and his military cohorts are in surfin’
heaven, snagging baseball games and
ancient reruns.
“I like the ‘Streets of San Fran
cisco,”’ said 80-year-old Jack
Flannigan, a World War II veteran
from Beaver Crossing.
The veterans home had trouble af
fording cable television, Nancy
Klimek, the home’s recreation coor
dinator, said. Earlier this year, the
home worked out a five-year contract
with American Telecasting.
“They made it affordable, and they
put it in as a priority to get it done,”
Klimek said.
The $14,000 will come out of the
home’s operating budget.
“I think it was a need that should
have been met much longer ago,” she
said. “A lot of our members aren’t able
to pursue recreational activities that
require them to cover long distances,
unless assisted.”
Basic cable with 14 channels is
available in all areas of each building
for the home’s 330 members. If resi
dents want extended cable, they must
come up with the bucks or wage an
other campaign.
First, however, they better settle a
brewing battle over the remote con
trol in the lounge area.
All veterans know it’s important
not to wage war on two fronts. ,
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Assault
A parking enforcement officer
was hit Saturday afternoon by a car
that was driven by a University of
Nebraska-Lincoln fraternity mem
ber, a police sergeant said Monday
morning.
Lincoln Police Sgt. Ann
Heermann said Officer Clay
Millicen wrote a ticket for a car that
was parked between the sidewalk
and street on the city right of way.
As Millicen was putting the
ticket on the car, Jeffery Hastings,
a junior business major from
Scottsbluff, came out of the Sigma
Alpha Epsilon fraternity house,
635 N. 16th St. As Hastings got
in his car, Millicen discovered that
the car should be impounded for
unpaid tickets, and he told the stu
dent that his car was to be towed.
Millicen reported that Hastings
started the car and hit him with it,
then drove away. Millicen was not
injured in the assault.
Hastings was ticketed within
the hour for third-degree assault
and reckless driving, Heermann
said.
Assault
A man and a woman were at
tacked by three pit bulls Saturday
afternoon on the Holmes dog run
near South 70th Street.
Matthew Harris, 22, and An
gela Schneider, 21, were taken to
Saint Elizabeth Community Health
Center for bites and scratches after
the attack.
Harris told police that he had
been warned by another man that
there were three pit bulls on the
track biting other dogs. The man
told Harris that at least two dogs
had been bitten and that one had
to be taken to a veterinarian for
treatment, Heermann said.
While Harris and Schneider
were waiting, the pit bulls, owned
by Schuyler Tafoia, 19, 4717
Baldwin Ave., came up to a fenced
area and bit Harris’ dog, Heermann
said. Harris kicked at the dog,
Tafoia became upset and let the
dogs loose.
One of the dogs jumped up and
clamped down on Harris’ left arm
while another bit him on the left
breast, Heermann said. Schneider
then tried to help, but was attacked
by all three dogs.
As Harris was being loaded into
an ambulance to be taken to the
hospital, Heermann said, he said
something threatening to Tafoia,
who then reported that to police.
No citations were issued in the
exchange of words, but Heermann
said animal control will handle any
charges that stem from the pit bulls.
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