Support center
finds new home
By Mike Doke
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The University Counseling
Center is on the move — to the
second floor of the Student
Health Center
In early April the center will
move from its current location in
Room 311 Susan Campbell Hall,
into the abandoned — and
remodeled — student Infirmary
The infirmary was closed last
year when health center of
ficials decided it wasn't being
used enough to warrent fund
ing
“We are moving primarily for
the location,” says Bill Kirtner,
director of the center "We are
not becoming part of the health
center, and we do not want that
stigma We are simply trying to
become more accessible to
students '
The counseling center is a
state-supported program that
offers a variety of services to
students
Students suffer from many
emotional problems, says Lee
Doppelt, a graduate student
who interns at the center as a
counselor
"We see distress over school,
problems with peers," Dopplet
says Counselors meet with
students on a one-to-one basis
or in group therapy
The counseling center also
includes the crisis center, a
telephone contact service that
operates during the evening
hours and on weekends for
students who need immediate
help
Five full-time professionals
along with four interns make up
the center s staff Each provides
from 10 to 25 hours of clinical
help each week
Budget cuts have stopped the
center from hiring any more
professional help, Kirtner says
If someone leaves a job,
someone else cannot be hired
as a replacement
"It is a Catch-22 situation,"
Kirtner says "As the economy
gets worse, things get worse for
students."
Kirtner says there is often a
waiting list for many of the
center's programs and that in
terested students should con
tact the center soon.
All counseling services are
confidential, Kirtner says, ad
ding that "any student who
comes to us should feel no em
barrassment ”
The counseling center
provides the following services:
• Individual and couple
counseling regarding personal
and academic concerns, career
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choices, problems in relation
ships and premarital coun
seling
• Therapy groups that help
the student achieve personal
growth and deal with personal
problems
• Groups that focus on self
concept as it is related to weight
control
• Groups that discuss the
physical and psychological
aspects of genital herpes.
• Anti-stress groups for in
dividuals who would like to
identify what is causing stress in
their lives and find techniques
for coping with pressure
• Testing The center coor
dinates most of the national
testing programs such as the
College Entrance Examination
Boards, the Graduate Record
Examinations and the Miller
Analogy Test
The counseling center, open
Monday through Friday 8 a m to
5 p m and the crisis center,
open whenever the counseling
center is closed, can both be
reached at 686-4488
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Payne to fill IFC position
Reversing an earlier decision, the Student
University Affairs Board (SUAB) Friday ap
proved an appointment to the Incidental Fee
Committee.
In a unanimous 7-0 vote, Robert Payne was
approved to fill the IFC position left vacant by
Pam Jordan s resignation last Monday. The
vote reversed a Wednesday rejection of Payne,
4-1, with three abstentions.
Payne's experience as an IFC administrative
assistant for more than two months familiar
ized him with ASUO-funded organizations
although he didn’t make decisions, Payne said
before the vote Friday.
Only three people at the University are
qualified for the IFC opening, ASUO Pres. Rich
Wilkins said on behalf of Payne.
"Two are on my staff and I'm not going to
give them up, so it is only logical that, being an
administrative assistant, Robert is the best
person for getting the job done,” Wilkins
explained.
Wilkins said he did not attend the Wednes
day meeting because of a time commitments
and because no problems had arisen with past
appointments.
Any other appointee would probably be
awed by the IFC situation, IFC Chairer Karsten
Rasmussen said. Payne represents a
"tremendous advantage” because his late
arrival into the budget process will ensure
objectivity, he said.
“He is less likely to be awed by us personally
and less likely to be awed by the process,”
Rasmussen said.
Alan Contreras, acting ASUO vice president
of program administration, said he also had
only two months involvement in ASUO when he
was selected to an IFC position.
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