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
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Students hope to promote campus diversity
By Erin Gibson
StaffReporter
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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
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Student creates fragrance line, image for both sexes
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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
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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
