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Student group working toward new health and wellness center
Determining that the time has come for a state-of-the-art health and wellness center, students formed a volunteer committee this summer to work for the approval of an additional $19 per semester added to the medical services fee to build such a facility.
"There is no question that we have an excellent health and wellness staff," says Bonita Jacobs, vice president for student development. However, she acknowledges that the current facility, opened in 1958 when the university had less than 7,000 students, is falling behind the needs of a campus of more than 30,000 students — even though it has been periodically updated as much as existing structures will allow.
Lacy Burgess, senior business major and chair of the student committee, says the committee's objective now is to collect the more than 750 petition signatures needed to put consideration of the new health and wellness center — and the funds to finance it — on the Student Government Association's Homecoming ballot in October. If a majority of students vote "yes," the university will move the measure on to the UNT Board of Regents.
Jacobs says if all goes according to plan the new health and wellness facility will open in Fall 2006.
Jacobs and Reginald Bond, executive director of the Student Health and Wellness Center, are working to find an optical clinic and a dental clinic willing to lease space in the new facility. If they are successful, those operations would be available to faculty and staff.
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BY RODDY WOLPER |
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