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UNL Weightlifting Club
Presents Mr. & Ms. Collegian
Body-Building Championships
. April 24,1993
City Union Ballroom
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2:00 Pre-judging - $1 admission
7:00 Show
$3 w/student I.D. $5 non-student
Michelle Paulman/DN
Jess Hansen, a UNL graduate, shows off a Russian doll of Bill Clinton with former presidents
inside. Hansen, who spent nine months in Russia on an internship, said Russians congratu
lated him when Clinton won the election because of “the peaceful change of power.”
UNL grad experiences Russia
Internship gives
business major
new perspective
By Becky Bee her
Staff Reporter
Jess Hansen, who graduated from
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
last May, says he appreciates having
ice in his pop.
Hansen recently returned from a
trip where if he wanted iced drinks, he
had to scrape the ice off the ground.
Hansen traveled to Russia for an
internship in international business.
He served as an intermediary between
a Russian business firm and potential
Western partners.
Hansen said warm pop was not the
only difference he noticed between
Russia and the United States.
Hansen lived in Moscow for nine
months. During that time he observed
the different social, economic and
government influences on Russian life.
Hansen said his reasons for going
to Russia were varied. He was there
because of his internship, but his pri
mary reason for going was to observe
the social and business environment
of Russia.
“This is the economists’ last fron
tier,” he said. “Russia is changing
from a socialist to a market economy,
and it is very fascinating to observe
this while it happens.”
Businesses come and go in Russia
as a result of the dynamic business
environment, he said. In fact, the com
pany that Hansen worked for. Broker
House,closed and moved to the United
States.
The business closed a month be
fore Hansen was to return home, leav
ing him with no job.
This gave Hansen a chance to dis
cover the Russian soul. He said the
people were very pessimistic.
“Their history is as black as coal,”
he said. “There has never been a time
in their history when they had it good.
They went from one crisis to another.
“They weren’t jolly when I got
there and their moods went from tad
to worse while I was there.”
Hansen said the mood of the Rus
sian people was a result of broken
promises.
“They feel Yeltsin failed them. He
didn’t deliver one thing he prom
ised,” Hansen said, “But it is not all
his fault.”
Hansen said the Russian people
saw Parliament and Yeltsin in a ,
struggle for power. They did not see
any accomplishments coming from |
this struggle. - ,
“The people are apathetic and don ’ i
care anymore,” he said.
Hansen said a strong leader was
needed in Russia to carry out reforms
successfully and keep the country to
gether.
He said the April 25 referendum
might be the catalyst for the emer
gence of a strong leader. The referen
dum will offer the Russian people a
chance to rate Yeltsin’s job.
“If this vote goes for Yeltsin,”
Hansen said, “he will emerge as a
strong leader to push reforms for
ward.”
Hansen said if Russia did not get a
strong leader, Russia could break apart
and the question of power would be
confused even more.
Hansen said Russians respected
the smooth transition of power that
took place in the United States.
“I actually had Russians come up
and congratulate me when Clinton
became president,” he said. “It wasn ’t
because Clinton won the election but
because of the peaceful change of
power.”
“We have a constitution that works,
and we live in a stable democracy,”
Hansen said.
Hansen said he appreciated the
jemocracy he lived in. Thisapprecia
ion and his experiences in Russia
lave made Hansen thankful for more
han handy ice, he said.
Battery-operated car, efficient
lighting featured at ecoloev fair
By Matthew Grant
Staff Reporter
Visions of whai the future might be
like could be seen at an “eco-fair” to
celebrate Earth Day 1993 outside of
the Nebraska Union Thursday.
The fair’s theme was “Stand Up
For What You Stand On.” It was
sponsored by Ecology Now and the
Environmental Resource Center at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
At booths set up around Broyhill
Fountain, students saw demonstra
tions of new inventions, picked up
leaflets, ate “not”dogs and listened to
three local bands.
A 1980 Pontiac modified to run on
20 batteries was one of the fair’s main
showpieces. The car, developed by
Paul Wood, costs 1 cent per mile to
run and can be driven at speeds of up
to65 miles per hour for between 20 to
40 miles, said Galen Wray, chairman
of the Earth Day planning committee.
“The electric car was amazing,”
said Jeff Vincent, a sophomore broad
casting major who attended the fair.
“It didn’t make any noise at all.”
Wood converted the car to run on
batteries himself, Wray said. Wood
has two electrically powered cars to
sell, Wray said. The price: $9,000.
Another invention for the environ
ment was on display at the Ecology
Now booth. Energy-efficient lighting
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People should consider
the environment In
their dally actions.
— Wray
chairman of the Earth Day
planning committee
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>s a project being developed by Jeff
JjWert, * UNL student, said Kim
berly Haskett at the booth.
The lights that were on display use
zr Percent less energy than standard
lights and last 10 limes longer, Haskett
saul Asa result, they are soon going
to be installed in the union, she said.
nJ/JJJf lhc Purpose of Earth
uay and the fair was to raise general
awareness of the environment in
people’s lives.
“People should consider the envi
ronment m their daily actions/’ Wray
• He said students should get in
volved in recycling projects or donate
. Nebraska Vegetarian Soci
ety booth traditional meatdishespre
^red with a meat substitute were on
,S0C,Clyr wanlcd 10 show
people that, even for those who love
the taste of meat in foods such as hot
dogs or sloppy joes, there arc substi
tutes available, Ken Gobber, a mem
ber of the society, said.
The “not” dog was sold for $1.
Gobber said many people tried
them and that he had noticed more
interested in vegetarian foods even
among non-vegetarians recently.
Cutting down on meal consump
tion would benefit the health of the
planet as well as the individual, Gobber
said, as large areas of land are being
destroyed through grazing when they
could be used to grow crops.
“We need to change emphasis on
farms to grow more grains for people
instead of growing grains for ani
mals," he said.
■ Other organizations with booths at
the fair were UNL Outdoor Adven
ture, the Environmental Resource
Center, Nebraskans for Peace, the
UNL Wildlife Club and Citizen Ac
tion.
Citizen Action provides jobs na
tionwide for college students to work
on legislative campaigns for recy
cling, wind and solar energy and safe
drinking water, said Wall Bleich, the
executive director of Lincoln’s Citi
zen Action chapter.
“We get about 50 percent of our
summer employees from students,”
Bleich said. “This is a way to gel in
direct contact with them.
“Plus, we believe in Earth Day.”
