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Business interns go overseas
By Dorothy Pritchard
Staff Reporter
Jonas Olsson said he came to the
United States from Sweden to "gain
some international understanding" and
improve his English. At UNL, where he
is interning in business, he has had
opportunities to do both.
Olsson's internship was arranged by
the International Association of Stu
dents in Economics and Business Man
agement (AIESEC), a 2-year-old busi
ness organization at UNL that has sent
five of its 25 members overseas on bus
iness internships.
Olsson worked for the Nebraska Bus
iness Development Center and the
International Affairs office. He now
works in the NU president's office on a
committee that is planning the instal
lation of a $1.5 million software pack
age at NU. He leaves in June.
Jill Fujan, president of the UNL
chapter, said AIESEC (eye-sec) is the
largest non-profit, student-run organi
zation in the world. Sixty-two countries
have AIESEC chapters, and 64 chapters
are in the United States.
Fujan said the group's goals are two
fold. On the local level, members try to
get hands-on experience in their majors.
On an international level, they partici
pate in an internship exchange pro
gram. Exchanges occur four times a
year and are based on a direct match
between countries. If Lincoln compan
ies hire four foreign students as interns,
four American students can apply for
internships abroad.
Fujan said the group is sending its
sixth intern abroad this summer. Todd
Tolly, a UNL business graduate who is
working on a Spanish degree, will leave
in June for an advertising and market
ing internship in Mexico.
In the two years tht AIESEC has
been at UNL, Lincoln companies have
hired interns from Amsterdam, South
Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Switzerland
and Australia. Maryke Vanden Berg from
Amsterdam took an internship at
National Bank of Commerce, working
in the international department as well
as in the auditing and loan analysis
departments. The manager of the inter
national department, Paul Warfield,
said he was pleased with the program
and his department will take more
interns as job openings become avail
able. Warfield said participation in the
exchange program helped one member
of UNL's AIESEC chapter to go abroad
as well as helping NBC.
"The bank definitely has an interest
in international services," he said.
Olsson, who graduated from the Uni
versity of Lolund in Sweden with a
degree in international business, said
he enjoyed his experience in America
and would recommend AIESEC to others.
"It's a great opportunity for getting
abroad," he said. America needs to get
more internationalized not just to
learn the language, but to get exposure
to other cultures."
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programs offered by the People's City
Mission, the executive director said.
Steve Janovec said the $1.3 million
building will allow mission officials to
expand mental health, job labor pool,
mother's ministry, long-term parent sup
port groups and volunteer programs.
Ribbon-cutting ceremonies for the
new building at 110 Q St. were Satur
day. The mission's family shelter and
men's shelter programs were moved
from the old 124 S. Ninth St. location
on Jan. 30.
The new brick building measures
almost 22,000 square feet and includes
a dining room, kitchen, residential
level, and chapel. $1 million of the
building's cost was raised through
pledges by local businesses, founda
tions and citizens, Janovec said. The
rest came as "sweat equity" volun
ter labor and supervision.
Janovec said the mission also received
"good prices" and donated materials
from the building's contractors and
subcontractors.
The mission provides crisis emer
gency service, shelter, food and clo
thing. The mission works closely with
Lincoln's social services, hospitals, law
enforcement officials, county health
commission and churches, Janovec said.
Janovec said the new building will
have a cost advantage over the old one
because it meets all building codes
and is energy efficient. Utility costs
will be about the same as those in the
old mission building, he said, although
the new building is "twice the size" of
the old one.
Finding a new site for the mission
was a problem, Janovec said.
"We met with a lot of neighborhood
opposition," he said.
The mission board approved finding
a new location in 1981, but the site
wasn't found until 1984.
Former Lincoln Mayor Helen Boosa
lis's task force helped find the new
mission site. The criteria for finding a
new location were that the site had to
be within a mile of downtown Lincoln,
had to be accessible for pedestrian,
automobile and rail transportation, it
had to be affordable less than
$100,000 for 1 to 2 acres of land and it
could not stand out visibly.
"Once we found the site, we had
tremendous community support,"
Janovec said.
The mission has an 80-year history of
serving Uncolnites' "physical and evan
gelistic" needs, Janovec said. The non
denominational mission was started by
a group of local church leaders. It had
been located on Ninth Street since
1909, Janovec said.
The mission was moved because the
old site was. overcrowded and aged,
Janovec said. The old building is now
used for storage and is for sale.
The People's City Mission is the only
agency that provides Lincoln's home
less with temporary shelter. The mis
sion serves almost 10,000 men, women
and children a year. People who need
food, shelter or clothing may stay at the
mission for less than a week, Janovec
said.
Because the mission has been relo
cated, its renewal and restoration pro
gram will include women, Janovec said.
Officials also are consdering starting a
new program for youth from broken
homes.