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Show Feb. 21, 1975 Signpost Page 3 Student Help Center closes; new program opens Spring Gloria Ext. 228 Union Main Desk The Student Help Center, formerly the Campus Listening and Information Center (CLIC) is closing down this week. Chairman Larry Gillis said the reason for closing is "because our program does not conform to the needs of the studentbody on this campus." He added that he has "had a hard time keeping students (referring to his volunteers) interested in a program that isn't being used." He pointed out that students are not using the program. He said the center was only receiving a few calls a day. The Student Help Center Committee however, under the direction of Gillis will be starting a new program, "hopefully spring quarter." He said, "we're coming up with a new program I feel will fit the needs of the studentbody on this campus." Dr. James Kelley of the counseling department will be helping the volunteers with the new program. Gillis said, "The program will go better with more substantial backing behind it." He added "it will be more credible with the administration instead of the associated students behind it." The Student Help Center is under the auspices of Jeff '1 S v LARRY GILLIS, CHAIRMAN of the now defunct Student Help Center. (Photo by Dianne Sheldon) Hoskins, student services vice prseident, who said, "It's wasting students' money if they aren't using it." Hoskins said since the old program wasn't working, there was no justification for keeping it open, adding that he felt the new program would better suit the needs of Weber students. The new program will include buying a van that will be "brand new ... out in the mainstream, where people will bump into it without having to push through the mass hordes in the U.B." Gillis said that he didn't know for sure where it would be, "maybe on the dirt spot between the two sections of the U.B." Commenting about the fact that the new center will be located in a van he said "the good thing about it is that it will be mobile." The "Answer Van" as Gillis tentatively referred to it, will provide services similar to those provided by the Student Help Center. He said that he felt the new image that would come with starting all over again would help to get students to use the service. rami DANCE-A-TON for Muscular Dysfrophy ftb-W-omaP WHi sterol ifropeA |