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FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1970
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
VOL. 93, NO. 91.
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Rag positions
open now . . .
How about you?
Because of the limited number of applica
tions, the Subcommittee on Publications has
postponed interviews for senior staff positions
with the fall Daily Nebraskan.
Any student wishing to apply for the posi
tion of editor, managing editor, news editor,
business manager or east campus editor is
invited to fill out an application in the Student
Activities Office on the third floor of the
Nebraska Union.
Applicants for the five senior staff posi
tions traditionally have come from any college
or department of the University.' '
The senior staff appoints their own junior
staffs and develops their own editorial and
business policies, consistent with professional
journalistic practice.
. Interviews of senior staff applicants will,
be held Thursday, May 7, between 8 and
11 a.m. in the Nebraska Union.
Interviews of student applicants for three
positions on the Subcommittee on Publications
will begin at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 7,
in the Nebraska Union. To be chosen are
one freshman, for a three-year term, one
sophomore, for a two-year term, and one
junior, for a one-year term.
Any student wishing to apply for a position
on the subcommittee may fill out an applica
tion in the Student Activities Office.
Application's for junior staff positions, such
as staff writers, copy editors and business
assistants and photographers are now being
taken in the Daily Nebraskan office. Junior
staffers will be selected later in May.
Varner reviews
fir$t days in office
by CAROL ANDERSON
Nabraikan lH Wrltar
Chancellor Durward Varner con
siders the fulfillment of the University's
responsibility to Nebraska's black
citizens one of the University's biggest
problem areas.
He says he Intends to back up his
pledge made last week to students at
predominantly black Omaha Tech High
School to scrape up tuition money for
anv black student who wishes to attend
UNO.
"I muke the flat guarantee that we
can get the money," said Varner, adding
he has no Idea how many blacks will
take him up on his offer.
"The distance between Omaha's Near
North Side and UNO is a hell of a
lot more than 36 blocks. It's years,"
the chancellor said.
Varner is confident he can meet his
committment of tuition money for blacks
because he says enough people recognize
the problem and many private founda
tions are interested in providing funds.
Another great problem for the
University is the library, according to
Varner who termed it "crucial, critical,
a crisis.,, The library's amount of study
space and acquisition of new books
is far below standards, he added.
Continued on Page 2
Into the fire:
The unemployed graduate
by BILL SMITHERMAN
Nabraskan Staff Writer
With graduation day approaching, University
of Nebraska graduating seniors who don't get
drafted still face an unpleasant fact they can't
find jobs.
University Director of Placement Frank M.
Hallgren said there are definitely less jobs available
now than there were a year ago. "A year ago
virtually any college graduate who wanted a job
could get one, unless he placed great restrictions
on what he would do or where he would go.
Now, its going to be almost impossible for students
to get just what they want."
A NUMBER of interviewers who normally come
to the University have cancelled their recruiting
trips. Hallgren said some interviewers normally
cancel their trips, but that about twice as many
have cancelled this year as last.
The softened job market reflects a general
slow-down in the economy and cuts in government
spending, he said. Industry is in the process of
adjusting to the slower economy and it is difficult
to say how long the period of readjustment may
be, he added.
Hallgren noted that the demand for Ph.D's
13 down significantly. He explained that this is
because the Ph.D. expects a higher salary and
more responsibility than someone less educated.
BECAUSE OF this, companies are becoming
wary of hiring highly educated people whose talents
they cannot use fully, he said.
"Demand for Ph.D.'s in science is particularly
down," he said. "A Ph.D. in science and the equip
ment to support his work can cost over $100,000
a year. This is more than companies are willing
to pay now."
Different departments seem to have different
situations ranging from an acute job lack to an
abundance of jobs.
R. NEALE COPPLE, Director of the School
of Journalism, said graduates of that school have
had very little difficulty getting jobs, unless they
wanted a job in a specific location.
Copple added that salaries for students
graduating from the Nebraska school seem to be
an average of $10-13 a week higher than the national
average.
"The demand is down some, but not much,"
he said. "At one time we had nine or ten possible
jobs listed with us for every graduate; now that
number has gone down to about five.
"PROSPECTS ARE bleak for graduates with
chemical engineering degrees seeking jobs this
year," Robert C. Larson, assistant professor of
chemistry said. "There is no question that spending
is down this year and thus so are employment
opportunities."
He said the main opportunities for chemical
engineers in the future will be the anti-pollution
question and the research it will bring.
Most graduates, "especially the good ones" will
be placed this year, but their choices will be
substantially less than in past years, he said.
. Continued on Page 9
'Innovative9 Comhusher
distributed May 18-23
Described by the editor as "very in
novative for Nebraska," the 1970 Corn
husker will be a "unique" two-volume
paperback yearbook.
Placed in a hard carrying case, the
revolutionary red, white and blue two
volume book will be distributed in the Ne
braska Union, according to editor Bob
Thacker.
"For the first time in Nebraska's his
tory we attempted to be objective in our
coverage of events," he said. A yearbook
ideally should preserve topics and issues
as well as the traditional records of in
dividuals and organizations, Thacker con
tinued. - The editor said that "with an innovative
book we were able to attract good writers
and artists and we did some very creative
things."
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The Sheldon scene: "Break
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Henslcr, featuring Amy, age
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one. Also this week, catch the
photographs of noted black pho
tographer, Roy DeCaraua.
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