Stress: the disease of the '80s
University students today have less inhibi
tions but suffer more stress than the previous
generation, says Dr. William Kirtner, director of
the University Counseling Center.
Where university students were once too in
hibited, the pendulum now has swung and
children are being raised with too few constraints
placed on them, says Kirtner, who has worked at
five universities.
"Parents are placing too much reliance on the
child for its own development," he says, adding
that he would prefer a "golden mean"
somewhere between the extremes.
So even though today's students are less in
hibited, they're no less likely to be spared emo
tional challenges.
• In fact, just being part of the "university pro
cess" seems to create depression and anxiety in
students whether they're part of the class of '54 or
'84, he says.
But help is available at the counseling center,
which provides a staff of professional
psychologists with doctoral degrees in counseling
or clinical psychology as well as advanced doc
toral and masters students in the same fields.
Besides individual counseling, the center of
fers group counseling, career planning, crisis
counseling, couple therapy, an outreach program
and a testing service.
The counseling center is located on the se
cond floor of the student health center, its phone
number is 686-3227.
Porkers grace calendar
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play football and they look awful
in bikinis, but the pigs in a new
pig calendar could bring home
some bacon for a photographer
here.
Unlike similar spreads on the
"Men of Nebraska" and "Women
of Nebraska," the "Pigs of
Nebraska" calendar, created by
Firth photographer Eric Byorth,
doesn't have people sitting
poolside with water glistening on
their bodies or standing beside a
10-speed bicycle wearing the
latest in preppie fashions.
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environment:
Miss September has her bottom
planted firmly in some dirt. And
the twins of August are rooting
joyously in thick, gooey mud.
The April entry glances pro
vocatively at the camera, muddy
snout and all.
Miss July is caught napping by a
wire fence.
"I was getting in a rut,” explains
the 30-year-old Byorth. He said
recently he did the calendar
because he was "looking for a way
to stay creative."
Honors College
seeks excellence
By Melissa Martin
Of Ihr fmeriW
The University Honors College,
one of only 12 in the nation, avoid
ed publicity in its younger days
out of fear the rest of the Universi
ty would accuse it of "elitism."
Today, the Honors College uses
its high-quality program on a
public education campus as a
defense to elitism, says Alan Kim
ball, the program's director for
the past six years.
"Our goal is quality that is not
inferior to anywhere in the
world," he says.
Kimball says the Honors College
wants to "exhaust all areas of the
University," and not just exist as a
secluded world on campus.
The Honors College is located
on the third floor of Chapman
Hall, the former 1939 home
economics office. The kitchenette
and cozy fireplace in the seminar
room are still part of the building.
"Good students committed to
and identified with studies" make
up the main ingredient in the "ex
tra high level" of education the
Honors College offers, Kimball
says.
Honors College students, who
average about 15 students to each
professor in the classroom, are
not ashamed of being dedicated
to studies and this "spills over to
everything a good student does,
from athletics to having a beer on
a Friday," Kimball says.
Even though the Honors Col
lege maintains three resident
faculty members hired from a na
tional search of more than 100 ap
plicants, the college still relies on
more than 35 of the 1000 Universi
ty professors Kimball describes as
"excellent."
The Honors College resident
professors are active, successful
and publishing scholars, Kimball
says.
"They are outstanding people
committed to teaching," he says.
Kimball defines the academic
goals as a "high level challenge in
eight different areas of study."
Partly influenced by well
rounded classical Creek educa
tion, the Honors College caters to
the student serious about learning
and not just concerned with get
ting a job after graduation.
More than 400 students are
enrolled in the Honors College —
almost breaking the record of 460
in the mid '60s, the director says.
"I'm confident within a couple
of years the Honors College will
have roughly 500," he says.
After completing the four-year
honors program which includes a
thesis and an oral examination,
students will have a solid, com
prehensive transcript behind
them which shows they've done
well in their studies.
Kimball, who does not consider
himself an administrator, says he
is fulfilling his teaching ex
j>erience by meeting the frighten
ed students entering the program
and watching them grow.
"This is the rewarding part of
the job."