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for women debated Women’s Caucus says Moeser’s efforts not enough to bring real change to UNL. By Erin Schulte Senior Reporter UNL administrators are taking steps toward making sure women at UNL are treated well, but some faculty members think more needs to be done. At the Academic Senate meeting Tuesday, Chancellor James Moeser announced a plan to conduct a second round of scrutiny of the cli mate for women athletes at UNL. But he also said women wouldn’t be coming to UNL if they thought we didn’t have a trouble-free athletic department. Afterward, the Faculty Women’s Caucus met and complained that the chancellor, despite his efforts, should better understand women’s struggles. James Ford, associate professor of English and president-elect of the Academic Senate, expressed disappointment with Moeser’s atti tude concerning die treatment of women athletes. Fond said poor treatment of women at UNL was brought into the spotlight last year during die Lawrence Phillips incident, which Ford said the university handled poorly. Phillips, a former Comhusker running back, faced misdemeanor assault and trespassing charges stemming from an incident last year in which he broke into teammate Scott Frost’s apartment and assaulted his ex-girlfriend, Kate McEwen. Phillips pleaded no contest to the charges last year and settled a civil lawsuit out of court with McEwen in late September of this year. - A consultant was hired last year by NU Ath letic Director Bill Byrne to scrutinize the ath letic department for problems. “Letting Phillips back on the field damaged Please see WOMEN on 6 If Iluifl m Inmimr ■I I IKnl a INHimiUI Students hope to promote campus diversity By Erin Gibson StaffReporter .a.. ■ ■ — , ■ ■ ■ ——— On Saturday, they found common ground on which to stand. By Sunday, they had poured a foundation on which every member of the UNL community could stand. About 70 University of Nebraska-Lincoht students kicked off a year of building campus unity last weekend during a retreat in Aurora. The students worked to move past their own stereotypes and committed themselves to pro moting a collective cultural awareness on cam pus. . ; This awareness is often lacking in die UNL faculty, administration and curriculum, they said. John Harris, coordinator of the retreat, said an education lacking in cultural diversity is a disservice. “We have to ask ourselves, are we about - teaching people to make a living, or helping them learn how to live in a challenging, diverse soci ety?*’Harris said. He stud Jthe reheat challenged participants with the reality of^what UNL could be — a uni fied campus that welcomes students horn all walks of life. ' “As Martin Luther King said, We all came over on different ships, bid we’re in the same boat now,”’ Hams said. Tagi Adams, a senior women’s studies ma jor, said participants represented most of the stu dent body and a wide range of student interests. She said the retreat was about unity, and working to fight discrimination on all fronts, not just racial discrimination. “I really believe that any type of discrimina tion feeds on other discrimination,” Adams said. Students must therefore work to dissolve all stereetypes and prejudice, whether based on race, sex or sexual preference, in order to ^Sgr*—•—j.'f— --—/.1: ■,—■— Please see DIVERSITY oil 6 Student creates fragrance line, image for both sexes Soott Beuhn/DN IfICHAEL MALCOM, freshman marketing major, displays a bottle of his fragrance, Loqu&tion. By Erin Schulte Senior Reporter It’s a part-tune business most teen-agers don’t go poking their noses into. The fragrance industry comes out with bil lions of bottles of perfume and cologne every year, and even celebrities like Cher have failed at attempts to market their own lines. But Michael Malcom, a UNL freshman, is convinced his concoction, Loqu&tion (pro nounced ’location’’), will be one fragrance that succeeds. Starting a fragrance line requires a lot more thought and money than starting up something like a lemonade stand. But Malcom, a market ing major from McCook, has beenobsessed with creating his own fragrance for years- And last year, he started pursuing it as a business, he said. I’m fascinated with the industry,” Malcom said. “When I first put my nose into it, I knew nothing. I just had the idea of having my own fragrance in my head.” It wasn’t just about creating a new scent, he said. >• • ,;:g ' >‘TtVmoie about the image of a fragrance,” Malcom said. ”It’s fun doing the formula,Jmt took the idea andrm with it—straight •• It’s more about the image of a fragrance. It’s fun doing the formula, but it’s more fun to create an image.” Michael Malcom freshman marketing major - * hired the chemist to whip up two different fra grances, and picked the one he liked bettor to tweak until he got the scent he wanted. That scent, which, Malcom wanted to have a light green color and an herbal spice undertone suit able for men and women, was Loqu&km. _i. Malcom’s chemist reworked the fragrance six times. Then it was time to design the bottle and box. Malcom saidhe was referred to Santo Fareri, . a designer for SRF Design in New York City who eroded the design for the Nautica bottle and helped with the Guess? fragrance line. J: Farm saidhe was impressed by the initia sive field to gettoto,” Fareri said. ‘Tie seems to It s not cheap to hire an image specialist like Fared. Some designers make up to six figures working on designs for cosmetics companies, Fared said. But sometimes, he said, they’ll help out industry newcomera by ehargmgjaslittle as $2,500. ForLoqu&ion, Fared designed the logo on thebotde (which Malcom had already picked out) and the box. Fees are so high because the designs, unlike some facets of advertising, stick around for a long time, Fared said. The cost of hiring a designer to establish an identity for a fragrance line is a drop in the bucket compared to total start-up costs. Malcom said he’s spent tens of thousands of doDara launching his product His family is help
