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February 27, 1987
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 86 No. 112
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Handcrafts
help markets
and educate
By Merry Hayes
Staff Reporter
A woman in Bangladesh kneels on a
dirt floor making greeting cards out of
wheat straw. Her tools are crude, but
her hands are skillful. The purchase of
10 of these cards may sustain her
another day.
She is one of the many refugees,
handicapped and low-income individ
uals whose survival depends on the
American market.
Lincoln's Helping Hands Handcrafts
is helping keep her and her craft alive
by retailing her products.
Helping Hands is a non-profit store,
staffed by volunteers that sells the
crafts by artisans in 45 developing
countries and regions in the United
States. The store sold more than
$500,000 worth of goods last year.
Helping Hands sells handcrafted
wooden items from India, Kenya, Thai
land, Taiwan, Haiti, the West Bank and
Ecuador.
Gary Jones, one of the original seven
who began Helping Hands in 1981, said
the best-selling items are brass, baskets
and jewelry. He said the brass, which is
made in India, is cheaper and better
than brass sold in other Lincoln stores.
Most of the baskets are woven in the
Philippines and the jewelry is made in
Chile, India, Bethlehem, Korea and
Costa Rica.
Some rarities that are sold include
ancient needlework designs by Hmong
refugees and Mola designs based on
the traditional dress of Cuna women in
Panama.
Helping Hands buys the products
from two marketing outlets: Self Help
a Mennonite Central Committee pro
gram, and SERRV, a Church of the
Brethren organization.
Self Help and SERRV pay the craft
makers a price that covers time, labor
and materials. Helping Hands' price,
about twice what the artisan receives,
covers shipping, warehouse and over
head costs.
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Susie Arth and Mike Dinges, both students at Pius X High
School, take time out to examine some of the merchandise
made in Third World countries at Helping Hands.
Self Help and SERRV buy only from
those whose main income comes from
the crafts and who cannot find another
market for their goods. Helping Hands
also buys some crafts directly from
Navajo fndians and Hmong refugees in
the United States who are on welfare.
Jones said the effort helps ensure
the craftsmakers a fair price for their
products and keeps traditional artistic
skills alive. He said the descendants of
the builders of the Taj Mahal are now
making soapstone crafts using the
same techniques. Without a market
the craft would die out.
Jones said Helping Hands tries to
educate people about the conditions in
Third World countries.
An information card about the Phi
lippines that comes with teak ele
phants from that country said, "Th
average woman must work 20 minutes
to earn enough money to buy one egg."
Jones said Helping Hands tries to
be person- and not product-oriented.
"We try to get across to staff and
customers that a person made this," he
said. "If we only sell products, then
we're going to fail. We have to communicate."
Not free but
cheap
By Stew Magnuson
Senior Reporter
The bad news is that UNL's Free
University is not free. The good news is
it only costs $1 for UNL students and $2
for non-students to register. Perhaps
Free University's name should be
changed to "Cheap University."
"We have to cover the cost of print
ing material and advertising," said Tim
Moore, program coordinator for the
Campus Activities and Programs office.
"We get some support from student
fees, but it's not nearly enough."
For one thin dollar participants
can still take a wide variety of courses
ranging from the practical Basic Bicy
cle Maintenance to Tarot Reading or a
Soul Travel Workshop.
More than 200 people took part in
Free University last semester, Moore
said. And two courses, Tarot Reading
and Basic CPR already have filled up
this semester.
All the courses are held on or near
City Campus on evenings or weekends.
Today is the final day for registration at
a booth in the Nebraska Union lobby or
in room 200, the CAP office, in the
union.
Open courses include:
"The Selective Eye Art and Crea
tivity in Our Lives," "Financial Plan
ning and Asset Management," "Kar
ate," "Evaluating Current Events
Making Sense of The News," "Judo,"
'"Hands On' Chiropractic," "Basic Bicy
cle Maintenance," "Proper Care of the
Dog and Cat," "Protecting Yourself
Against Investment Fraud," "From O
Street to Wall Street And Back Again,"
"Money Mangement in Retirement
Years," "Soul Travel Workshop," "Home
Schooling The 'Hows and Whys' "
and "Wilhelm Reich: The Holistic Tra
diton in the West."
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CBA does its business
beneath a cloud of cuts
By Jen Deselms
Senior Reporter
Although some departmental chair
men in the College of Business
Administration describe the uni
versity's tight budget as a dark cloud,
Dean Gary Schwendiman sees a bright
future.
The college, which includes five
departments and the Bureau of Busi
ness Research and offers seven under
graduate degree programs, ranks in the
top 10 percent of the 500 four-year bus
iness programs at colleges and univer
sities across the nation, Schwendiman
said.
The quality of education remains
high despite the negative attitude pro
duced by budget cuts, Schwendiman
said. The college was one of the charter
members of the business-college na
tional accreditation association in 1916
and has maintained accreditation on
all levels, he said. The doctorate pro
gram at the business college is the 10th
largest in the nation with 1 50 students.
Schwendiman said he remains op
timistic. However, the main impact of a
tight budget has been to create nega
tive atmosphere and attitude, he said.
tunity to learn, he said. The franchise
studies program and an exchange pro
gram with Senshu University in Japan
are opportunities that sometimes are
overlooked, he said.
"Our overall objective is to prepate
our students in a way that makes them
competitive," Schwendiman said.
And the college seems to be suc
ceeding. Schwendiman said that in his
10 years as dean, he remembers only
two students co-ning into his office to
tell him that hey couldn't find a job.
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rhat it (overcoming the neg
ative attitude) takes is a lot
of refocusing to really see
things in their proper perspective,"
Schwendiman said.
Opportunities for students in the
college have improved, he said. The
college's ability to do a good job of
educating students and giving thera
opportunities is greater than ever before,
Schwendiman said. One of the exam
ples of greater opportunities for stu
dents is the donation of $50,000 a year
for 30 years by James C. and Jessie B.
Coe of Phoenix, Ariz. The donation has
helped pay for computer equipment.
"My greatest frustration is that you
can't project to the students ... all the
tremendous opportunities avauaoie to
them in the college," Schwendiman
said.
Students should take every oppor-
The greatest resource of the
college is the outstanding fac
ulty, he said. But Schwendi
man said he would like to hire 12 more
faculty members. Each semester, the
62 faculty members in the college serve
more than 3,000 students.
Faculty salaries is an area where
being tied to the state has caused diffi
culties, Schwendiman said.
"What we need really is freedom to
use our budget to compete in the
national market (for keeping and
recruiting faculty)," he said.
Schwendiman said that although
the college has maintained its educa
tional quality, it still has needs. In
December, the NU Board of Regents
' &pprwed a proposed $8.1 million reno
vation and construction project for the
college. But the project has not been
funded by the Legislature yet. Con
struction and renovation would add
new offices, classrooms and a link with
Love Library.
Schwendiman said the project is
important to the college. An increase
in faculty members also is needed so
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support the rec center at a Monday
night meeting, and the Residence
Hall Association and the Campus
Recreation Advisory Council in
endorsing the project.
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lenic Association, maybe that would support the rec center," he said.
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By Jen Deselms
Senior Reporter
A potpourri of well-dressed ASUN presidential
candidates with "Star Trek" hand salutes,
buttons, banter and a red plastic fish drew an
active audience of about 200 to the Crib in the
Nebraska Union Thursday.
Although laughter abounded, presidential
candidates Richard Burke, NUdeal; Greg Dynek,
AIM; Doug Jensen, FROG; Andy Pollock, Unite;
and 1st vice-presidential candidate Jeff Porter,
TREK; and Steven Showalter, HUGE, were mostly
serious about the race
The candidates agreed that changes could
improve the way ASUN serves and represents
students.
Dynek said the AIM Party represents students
because of the various places where the candi
dates live. AIM's senate candidates come from
the Greek system, residence hails and off cam
pus. Stressing communication and working on
issues that affect all students, such as grading
scales and videotaped classes, will improve the
student government, Dynek said.
Increased communication was also a priority
for the Unite, FROG and TREK parties.
Pollock said Unite plans to work more closely
with college advisory boards and student groups
to determine students' needs. Communication is
a two-way process, Pollock said. To make stu
dents more aware of ASUN projects, Unite would
improve the ASUN newsletter, he said.
Porter said TREK would make an effort to go
to the students by holding open forums in resi
dence halls, Greek houses and East Campus.
Jensen said FROG candidates would be
accessible because that's what their name
Friendly Reliable Organized Government
means.
Burke said NUdeal's active service shows its
ideas for increased ASUN involvment in student
needs. Burke said NUdeal has created, a match
ing scholarship service and is looking for a job
and internship program to involve students in
downtown redevelopment.
Showalter, red plastic fish strategically placed
in front of his microphone, said HUGE candi
dates' dynamic and charismatic personalities
would encourage students to become involved in
ASUN. Although the red fish was not mentioned
during the debate, Showalter said before the
debate that whales should be saved because
they are huge.
AIM, FROG, NUdeal and Unite supported a
student-regent vote. Candidates from these par
ties said a vote would increase student influence
on the Board of Regents.
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