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r. Engineering, accounting fields head job, salary list By Bob Ralstan Engineering and accounting students will have something to smile about when spring graduation rolls around. Following a national trend, job offers and starting salaries for engineering and accounting graduates have risen significantly over the last year, according to Rogene McPherson, UNL placement assistent. McPherson attributed the rise in engineering job offers and salaries to a slightly lower enrollment and increased concern about solving society's technical problems. She also said she believed more engineers were being lured now because employment had stabilized after the cuts in the space program a few years ago. The College Placement Council, a national organization, reported the number of accounting job offers was still high, although town from last year's number one spot. In its annual report, the Placement Council aid the number of job offers to bachelor of -ngineering candidates jumped 83 per cent over (ast year. Engineers also lead the field in starting salaries. Chemical engineers topped the list at $962 a month, followed by electrical engineers at $931 and mechanical engineers at $927. Women engineering candidates averaged higher salaries than men, with $936 a month compared to men's $929 a month. However, for nine of the 14 employment categories, women's job offers were under the $718 average for humanities and social sciences majors, the lowest men's category. While the number of job offers for women was well under those for men's, according to the Placement Council, the percentage increases in salary averages were larger tor women. The four categories showing the largest increases in the number of job offers for women were engineering, health and medical services, accounting and auditing, and nonscientific research. The four top categories for job offers for men were mechanical and electrical engineering, followed by accounting and general business. Seminar examines foreign relations The Embassy of the Argentine Republic and the Institute for International Studies at UNL will cosponsor Oct. 4-5 a symposium on Argentine-United States relations during the Sixties. The conference will examine the cultural, economic and political relations of the two countries and offei projections for the future in a climate of intellectural frankness and honesty, according to Roberto Esquenazi-Mayo, director of the Institute for International Studies. Symposium sessions will begin Oct. 4 with the morning devoted to discussions of cultural relations. Donald A. Yates, Michigan State University; Juan Orrego-Salas, Indiana University; Jose Gomez-Sicre, head of the Division of Visual Arts, Organization of American States and Gregory Rabassa, City University of New York, will talk on the impact of the various arts in the two countries. Lois Pierce, UNL, will be chairperson ot the session. hi the afternoon, Arnaldo T. Musich, economic advisor to the Argentine president; James Theberge, Georgetown University; Robert J. Alexander, Rutgers University, and Luis B. Mey, University of Buenos Aires, will analyze economic relations between the two countries. Harish C. Gupta, UNL, will si.ive as chairperson. Topics will include trade relations, investments, banking and finance and international financial (i i i .j i ions t,.i I . ) the F riday morning session, political relations between Argentina and the United States will be evaluated. Disc . ion will include Argentina's position during the Dominican Crisis in 19G5, Argentina and the United States in the Oiginiatiou of American States and in the United Nations and Anjentine U.S. relations in 1962 63. Miguel Zavala Ortiz, Buenos Aires; David Jordan, University of Virginia; John H. Gilbert, University of North Carolina, and Carlos M. Muniz, Argentine embassy, will speak at the evaluation program. Chairperson will be Raul A. Fstrada Oyuela, Argentine cultural affairs secretary. I he final session, will be devoted to making piojections for the future. Peter H. Smith, Princeton University, will talk on economic prospects. James R. Scobie, Indiana University, will discuss the decade ahead from the perspective of the hei itages of higoyi.n, Peion and the Rousevelts. John N. Plank, University of Connecticut, will discuss the future roles of Aig .'iilina and the United States in the inter-Amci ican system. Melvin George, UNL, will be chairperson. Advance registration is necessary for those planning to attend the symposium. Registration forms can be obtained from the Institute for International Studies, Oklfather 1034. The sessions are free and open to the public. Concerts for travelers These coming concerts are within reasonable traveling distance for dedicated fans, and include jazz, blues and rock: Stan Kenton, Perry, Iowa, Oct. 9 Ken Hill & Co., Denver, Colo., Sept. 15 Muddy Waters, Stillwater, Okla., Oct. 26 Uriah Heep, Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 1 t.aith, Wind and Fire, Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 1 Dave limbeck, Manhattan, Kan., Sept. 22 New Riders of the Purple Sage, Boulder, Colo., bept. . JEANS f fjv UtlUNllllV lfeKf feKG"' IN CINCH rr v - . M. BACK PINWALE CORDUROY i COAT WIT H I TARTAN SLACKS 1 V $42 BUCKS AND MS. LEE IN FINWALE CORDUROY BAGGIE JACKET AND PANTS $25 BUCKS. IN THE GLASS MENAGERIE 12 &Q Street daily nebraskan page 9 Thursday, September 13, 1973