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Friday, April 1, 1933
Daily Nebraskan
By Lauri Hopple
'Tin here talking to you because I'd like to save you
from my mistakes,' Glenda Ahhaitty, a Cherokee Indian,
aid during her lecture. Wednesday in the Nebraska Union
Rostrum. The lecture was sponsored by the Nebraska
Native American Student Congress and the UPC Special
Events Committee.
About 40 people attended the free lecture, most of
whom were high school students attending NNASC's
second annual spring conference for Native Americans.
Ahhaitty, now working for the Rockwell International
Corp., said her mistake was not going to school.
Although she graduated from high school and took 55
college credit hours, Ahhaitty dropped out when her
parents moved from California, where she had been
attending college. Later, after marriage, four children and
15 years on an assembly line packing Dixie cups to
support her family, Ahhaitty joined Rockwell.
Aldiaitty said her job with Rockwell International
started as a fluke. She entered Rockwell as a file clerk.
Through enthusiasm, hard work and her college ere Jits,
Ahhaitty said, she received promotions and raises that
enabled her to return to school.
"I will probably always be going to school," Ahhaitty
said, "because there is just so much to learn."
Ahhaitty stressed hard work as one way to be
successful.
"When I counsel young people (through her job with
Rockwell), I tell them nobody will do it for you, you
have to do it for yourself," she said.
Ahhaitty presented a slide show of successful Indian
employees at Rockwell, again stressing hard work and
education.
Robert Crippen was one of Ahhaitty's examples of a
success. Crippen was an astronaut on the space shuttle
Columbia's maiden voyage.
Ahhaitty said only 1 percent of Rockwell's 15,000
workers in her division are Native Americans. Sixty -five
percent of the employees are engineers and only one is
an Indian woman.
Along with a college education, Ahhaitty stressed
vocational education (typing, shorthand and drafting,
for example) to be used as a cushion for getting a job if
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you are married and have a family a lot of those decisions
jren't yours anymore," she said.
Ahhaitty encouraged the audience to look into
Rockwell International's' training programs for prospective
;ngincers. She said experience gained through these
summer programs could make the difference when
applying for a job.
Ahhaitty said her division has developed special
programs for Native Americans to help them with their
education and employment. She works primarily with
young people.
"I do tours, in-service training with parents and I
work with school districts," she said.
She developed Rockwell International's vocational
exposure program, which was funded as the first Summer
Youth Employment Program to a private industry by
Los Angeles County.
Alihailty has been with Rockwell International for
10 years.
"It's very exciting to be working where the future
is being made," she said.
CAP Dkecim Qoaimmi 1 geSs hwy
By Lori Sullivan
How do you become involved in the multimillion
dollar nationwide campus activity program business? In
Sara Boatman's case, it was "totally by accident."
During her first nine years of teaching, she was often
involved with campus activity events, Boatman said. She
became familiar with the organization and management
needed for such events. Then one thing lead to the next,
and she joined the Campus Activities and Programs office
in 1974. She is now director of the office.
Boatman was elected this year's chairwoman of the
National Association for Campus Activities in February.
She explained that NACA is a national version of the
CAP office here. The organization has members from
1,000 colleges and associate members in the professional
promotion business.
Members exchange ideas and information, and NACA
publishs a monthly magazine that explains how to co
ordinate various types of events, she said. The organizat
ion has a lot of volunteers, she said , "probably because we
woik so much with student activity volunteers."
Locally, the CAP office helps more than 250 diffeient
student groups organize events from beginning to end.
The Journey concert, scheduled for Wednesday, was
planned with the help of the CAP office. Many other
concerts, film presentations, speakers and art displays
are planned by the office as well, Boatman said.
Within a three-week period this year, Boatman said
her office coordinated the Walpurgisnacht festival, the
Nebraska Model United Nations program and the Big
Eight Conference on Black Student Government.
"When one is doing programming for a community of
25,000 citizens, it gets busy," Boatman said, referring
to the combined population of East and City campuses.
Student tee allocations are used for the CAP office
budget and the non-profit events that the office coordinates.
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MARCH 31-THURSDAY
Workshop: Personal and Professional Relationships
9 00 a.m.-12:00 noon
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Workshop: Career Development: How To Make Yourself Marketable
2:00 p.m. -5 CO p.m.
Presenters : John Holmes, Tony Cervantes
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Zapatos Alegres in Rostrum
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Movie: "Boulevard Nights" in Rostrum
8 30 p.m.
Admission: $1.00
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The CAP office is a valuable resource to students
Boatman said. Students can learn how to contact per
formers, speakers or artists through directories and
contacts the office can provide.
In addition to sponsoring events, the CAP office
provides services to ethnic minority students, non-traditional
students and new UNL students, along with many
other programs.
Nearly every major college campus has an office that
handles student activities, Boatman said. Some student
groups may only need 15 minutes of CAP office assist
ance to plan an event, while other groups planning large
events, like the Nebraska Model United Nations program,
may need a year to plan the activity.
"The reason that this office has become so important
is that we are now involved with events that take doens
of staff members, thousands of dollars and legal quest
ions - it's becoming a very complicated business," Boat
man said .
Boatman said the most complex event she remembers
was a symposium called "Power and Conspiracy in Amer
ica", which was presented in the late 1970s. The program
involved more than 50 speakers and 30 small lectures.
She said that a more recent large event was the Big
Light Conference on Black Student Government in
February. Coordination always becomes more difficult
with events that go beyond the campus, she said.
The CAP office helped the students plan the event,
write grant proposals and organize fund-raisers to meet
the $30,000 goal that they had set, she said.
Her work through the office is an extension of teach
ing, she said. The CAP office has a staff of 50 people,
and 35 of them are students. Dozens of students who
work in the office or in student organizations who have
used the office to learn about managing activities use
those skills to get jobs, she said.
"There are a lot of ways for a teacher to continue to
teach besides being in a classroom," Boatman said.
For now, she is doing both. In addition to directing
the CAP office, she teaches in the UNL Speech Commun
ication Department.
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