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.
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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.
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