Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1976)
monday, January 26, 1976 daily nebraskan page 5 Student Y volunteers make friends! help convicts By Vireinia Broadv UNL student volunteers are finding new friends at the Nebraska Center for Women, a prison institution in York which houses women felons, said Kathy Smith, director of the Student Y. Through the People and Prisons Program, an organiza tion that started last semester and is sponsored by the Student Y, UNL students teach, help and learn from women inmates, she said. Each Saturday the volunteers go to York to teach crafts and sports to inmates who want to participate in the pro gram, Smith said. In return, volunteers learn about the inmates and many have become good friends. Volunteers have taught inmates yoga, macrame, de coupage, drawing, piano and guitar, said Candy Marshal, a junior criminal justice major from Elm Creek, who is in charge ot the reople ana rnsons program. Average age 20 The Nebraska Center for Women has 84 inmates from Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska and North Dakota. Ac cording to Marti Snider, administrative assistant for the center, the average inamte is 20 years-old. They range in age from 1 5 to women in their 40s. The center is more like a campus than a prison, she added. Each woman has her own room. Most of the women are there for such things as writing bad checks, forging checks and using false credit cards, Snider said. The center increasingly is getting women charged with more serious crimes, such as armed robbery, she added. 1 776 philosophy course offered The Philosophy of 1776, a new one hour course, is being offered for the first five weeks of this semester in the Philosophy Dept. Philosophy professor Robert Anderson, instructor of the mini-course, said that men like Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine usually are credited with developing the philosophy behind the Declaration of Independence, when actually the credit should go to John Locke, a 17th century English philosopher. The 17th pentury English civil war between Parliament and the king and how it influenced Locke's work as well as the effect of Locke's Second Treatise on the American Revolution will be studied, according to Anderson. The Bicentennial is one reason the course is offered, but Anderson said it could be continued next year, de pending on its popularity. " "Locke's Second Treatise continues to be the philo sophical foundation of our government," Anderson said. "We shouldn't have to wait until the Bicentennial year to read John Locke." This is the first year mini-courses have been offered by the Philosophy Dept. Five-week mini-sessions are held at different intervals during the semester and students can enroll anytime before class starts. Other Philosophy mini-courses include The Trials of Jesus and Socrates,. The Philosophy of Anarchism, Com munism vs. Religion and The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. The women serve terms which range from 90-day eval uations to life sentences, she said. : . Inmates are helped Marshal said she thinks the volunteers are helping the inmates, as many of them seldom get visitors. "They appreciate it to know someone cares enough to come out and visit," she said. "For us it's just one Satur day. For them it's the highlight of their week." Snider added: "The program lets students see what goes on in a correction?! unit and helps them to become aware of the problems of the inmates," she said. The program also gives prisoners something construc tive to do with their leisure time. Snider said, an impor tant aspect of rehabilitation. ' She said the program also will help the inmates face problems when they are released. People who care "The volunteers are helping residents see there are people who care and are concerned with them as individ uals," Snider said. They can serve as a friend to them when they need moral support, she added. Program chairman Marshal said that wroking with in mates has been a good experience. After working with and getting to know them, she said, she thought most of the inmates did not belong in the center. Sculptured Nails ? Kathryn g Do you have cracked, split, or bitten nails? " Then call Kathryn and find out about Nail A Sculpturing.... a professional process of build- (J ing an acrylic nail right onto your own natural V nail. A Call for appointment J 48th & A Randolph 1127 "F" f 483-1424 435-8351 P Hfiijjljlj ShhI A 1 WLJLJET wrnmi T.A L .... Wm MMtrrte4 Buy dinner - uwi mto one tree! of'r"ik v Cut tN coupon and tav th week at SI . m. mm R J0m mm ft f" mifFTuTf Hm v&J nil The new 120-page HP-21 Application Book a $10 value can be yours free if you buy an HP-21 now. Contains major sections on Statistics, Mathematics, Finance. Navigation, Surveying, Conversions. Gives you 50 valuable applications to help you get the most from your HP-21 Scientific Calculator. . The HP-21 puts incredible problem-solving power in your hands at the remarkably low price of only $100. You get: 32 prcprogrsmmod functions and operations. including rectanguiarpoiar cooramate conversion, regisie arithmetic, common log evaluation and trig functions in radians or degrees. TWo display options. You can select fixed decimal, the most commonly-used notation, or scientific notation. When a number is too large or too small for fixed decimal, the HP-21 automatically switches to scientific. RPN logic. The professional error-saving system, with 4-memory stack, lets you solve problems your way without . copying parentheses, worrying about hierarchies or restructuring beforehand. Uncompromising KP quaiu One reason Nobel Laureates, astronauts and 1 ,000,000 other professionals own and depend . on Hewlett-Packard calculators. Get your HP-21 today, complete with owner's handbook, battery pack, recharging unit and soft carrying case with handy belt loop at only $100. Take advantage of this special value on the HP-21 today. Offer good only between January 15 and March 15, 1978. . j Hirt - . . Ail if v -mmmf -1 ft f ' ) - I ft If 7(-t,l Co r- if Open 0-5, f.endi -Saturday DAVE WAND, A HEWLETT PACKARD FACTORY REPRE SENTATIVE WILL BE IN THE STORE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, MONDAY, JAN UARY, 28, FROM 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. 1135 R 432-0111 lt,.J I Ifcurf' I"-, W I i