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CBA extends hand to comrades
Professors travel
to Russia to run
market programs
By Paula Lavigne
Staff Reporter _
Enemy was the word associated
with the former Soviet Union during
the Cold War. Now the word is com
rade.
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln’s College of Business Adminis
tration is doing its part to make that
word a reality.
Ron Hampton, a marketing profes
sor at UNL, said the college has been
trying toeducate citizensof the former
Soviet Union on the principles of a
market economy through about 17
conferences and programs. The Sovi
et Union’s economy collapsed with
the fall of the Communist Party in
1991.
“We are providing aid through
educational programs and joint pro
grams in agriculture and business,” he
said. “We are not just giving them
dollars. We are making dollars avail
able for programs that train them to
enter a market economy.”
Hampton said the programs edu
cated Russian students andprofessors
and, at the same time, provided UNL
students with a chance to interact with
markets outside the United States.
“You look at the business world
not only as national market, but as an
international market,” Hampton said.
“Our students need to understand what
is happening around the world.
“Most of the major corporations in
this country today that would hire our
students are international.”
Hampton said the Russian students’
goals were similar to those of U.S.
students since the Russians had yet to
be exposed to market economics.
“They are very hungry for training
and understanding in the area of free
enterprise,” he said.
The majority of the programs in
volve student or professor exchanges.
UNL professors travel to Russia and
the former Soviet Republics to direct
conferences on American business
perspectives.
The conferences are sponsored by
the United States Information Agen
cy and often hosted by the Moscow
International Business School and
Moscow State University.
Hampton said one of the college’s
most successful conferences, “How
to Start and Run a Business School,”
drew national attention. Hundreds of
professors and thousands of diplo
mats and government officials attend
ed the conference, he said.
“If Boris Yeltsin would have had
time, he would’ve been there too,”
Hampton said.
Aside from the conferences, the
college has had a hand in student
exchange programs.
Craig MacPhee, an economics pro
fessor, said that for the past three
years groups of UNL students trav
eled to the Soviet Union to study.
“It was a real experience for them,”
MacPhee said. “They learn how dif
ferent cultures behave and are able to
appreciate the differences.”
In exchange, UNL sponsors a grad
uate student from the area through the
Edmund Muskie Fellowship.
The university also is involved in
other exchanges and programs.
A professor from St. Petersburg
University is visiting UNL through
another scholarship. A UNL academ
ic team traveled to Bishkek,
Kyrgyzstan, toobserve their universi
ty system.
UNL also is involved in an effort to
send 10,000 textbooks to Russia and
adjoining states at no cost. /'
MacPhee said he was impressed
during his visit to Russia by the des
perate condition of the nation and the
work that needed to be done there.
“What strikes you immediately
from the plane is just how poorly run
and poorly contracted the nation is,”
he said. “A lot of fields are not culti
vated. The runway is lined with planes
cannibalized for parts.”
MacPhee saia the programs and
conferences gave the devastated coun
tries hope for the future.
“The big advantage of these pro
grams is if you want to change the
system, you must be able to teach the
young people about the new system,"
he said. “In economics and business
they had practically nothing. They
only studied Marx and Lenin.
“We are improving the education
of the next generation of students.” he
said. “We’re helping them to acquire
all the knowledge we’ve amassed in
the 70 years we were closed off from
them.”
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said.
Augstums said many other U.S.
universities required foreign students
to pay insurance through their tuition
statement bills.
“A lot of students think that it is
unfair but it isn’t,” Augstums said.
“People don’t know the medical ex
penses, and the immigration depart
ment requires foreign students to be
financially responsible for them
selves.”
Augstums said the University
Health Center offers the lowest insur
ance rates, but students can buy health
insurance from other companies as
long as the policy meets university
requirements.
If students choose to buy a private
policy, they must take it to the health
center for a waiver, Augstums said.
Students can pay $ 15 per semester for
medical repatriation and evacuation
if their private insurance policy does
not offer those options, she said.
“This is meant for the protection of
students,” Augstums said.
Dennison Bhola, a doctoral stu
dent at the department of educational
psychology, said he did not under
stand why foreign students were be
ing treated differently by being forced
to have insurance.
“This implies I am not intelligent
enough to make my own decision,”
said Bhola, who is from Trinidad.
“My freedom of choice has been de
nied.”
Bhola said he had not been in
formed about the mandatory insur
ance, and he wondered what role in
ternational student organizations
played in the decision-making pro
cess.
Yuko Ishida, an athletic training
student from Japan, said she thought
she was being forced to pay for the
insurance.
Cheow Teong Oh, an electrical
engineering major student from Ma
laysia, said the decision could be both
good and bad.
“Basically, every student should
buy the insurance since it is meant for
personal safety,” Oh said. “But the
cost of the insurance is too high for
students.”
Augstums said she would like to
see a mandatory insurance require
ment for all students.
For now, however, the rule starts
with international students. Ameri
can students, Augstums said, usually
are insured under their parents’ plans,
while international students have no
family in the United States.