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monday, december 1, 1975 page 12 daily nebraskan By Terri Wfflson While UNL senior students flood the job market with resumes to law firms via costly mass mailings, many say they are on their own because the College of Law placement program is virtually iile. There is "little movement in job place ment this time of year and senior morale is low," according to David L. Shaneyfelt, assistant dean of the College of Law and placement coordinator. A Student Bar Association Placement Committee survey completed within the last few weeks indicated that 54 of 56 junior law students are discouraged about their chances of securing an adequate job after graduation. The survey also said that 59 of the 86 juniors are not familiar with the job place ment services provided by UNL's Law School. Most not familiar with placement While 52 of 131 freshmen indicated they have no opinion about their chances of getting a good job after graduation, 49 of 131 said they were discouraged and 118 said they are not familiar with the job placement services at the school. Student unfamiliarity with the place ment program is not surprising, according to the two-man Placement Services Com mittee, since the school does little more than post job notices on a bulletin board and sometimes make a "few" calls for job hunting law graduates. What is surprising, say Ed Sands and Steve Mercure, junior law students investigating the possibility of an active law college placement program, is that the ochool has kept no files or records of past UNL law grads and their job place ments, making the success rate of UNL law grads is difficult to measure. The committee is planning to contact and survey alumni from the last three years to obtain their records and start what is called a useful file of contacts for other grads seeking employment. Mercure said the committee wants to contact UNL law grads from the past 20 years, first on a small scale-about 50 to 100 alumni-and divide these into geographical areas and en courage them to hire UNL law college grads. Lack of funds A lack of funds is the reason for the absence of an active placement program at the Law School, Mercure said. While Shaneyfelt works on what students describe as an "ad hoc" basis for place ment, he said, they are concerned because Shaneyfelt steps down as Assistant Dean at the end of this semester leaving no one to help with placement. While Mercure and Sands said they have worked with Shaney felt the last six weeks on the start of what they expect to be a year-long fact-gathering study, the two said they are receiving help from UNL's Union Placement Director Frank Hallgren. They also are writing for help to the ' National Association of Law School Directors. "UNL is at a disadvantage without a placement program," said Mercure. After sending placement questionnaires to 16 Midwestern law schools, Mercure and Sands have received only four responses. The qeustionnaires indicate that other schools have active placement programs which solicit interviews from firms, coor porations and government agencies, Mercure said, with someone working as a full-time placement director. Money is allocated through the law colleges' budgets, he said. Creighton Law School, among the four with an active placement program weakens the possibility for UNL students to be hired in the already tight and competitive field of law, Sands said. "Nebraska alone puts out 150 potential lawyers a year," he said. "We need a better program and a person with professional expertise to run placement. Law College needs a separate facility rooms and offices set aside for placement as other schools have." Job market tight The U.S. Department of Labor has predicted that there will be about 20,000 law job openings within the next year, but about 38,000 law graduates will be looking for jobs, Sands said. He said the committee will seek funds from the Fees Allocation Board to get the placement program started and later ask the Nebraska Bar Association and the NU Administration for more financing. He said it also would appeal to the NU Board of Regents and the Legislature, hoping to convince them of the need for a law place ment program. What would an active placement pro gram do for the law student? According to Sands and Mercure it would attract campus interviewers from both regional and national law firms to UNL. While Mercure said that the UNL College of Law is a good school, both he and Sands said that students are taught law theory, but no course exists to teach stu dents practical application of law tech niques. However, they cited the mock in terviews held this semester as being help ful to law students. Sands said that a placement program also would coordinate both summer clerk ing jobs and placement posts for law stu dents. Alternatives to law practice Mercure said he would like to see more counseling of students, especially among undergraduates." A placement program, he suggested, "might direct them to other areas - there are other choices besides practicing law - such as government agencies." Sands said most students, especially underclassmen, do not know how to fill out a resume. While Shaneyfelt said that only 50 per cent of the nation's law graduates actually practice law, he agreed that students need to realize what he termed other possibili ties of graduating with a law degree. He said he has learned that local firms will have about 10 openings this year. . Mercure said a placement office, "would give students a chance to sell themselves." In defense of the program, Mercure said that the schools' program "should equal the $3 million building" encompassing law college activity. Top students hard to place Senior class President Susan Carlson agreed that the job situation looks "bleak" right now, adding that law students in the top of the class are finding it tough to be placed. Carlson, one of 40 to 45 December graduates, said many firms will not be hir ing until spring. "Students on law review, students with good grades," are still not pkced, she said, and some law students are spending $400 or $500 on trips to other cities seeking jobs. She said she has spend abour $40 mail ing resumes. For those who don't do their own typing, charges range from 50 to 80 cents a letter. "When a student sends out hundreds of letters, it gets to be costly," she' said. "Not to mention that postage rates have gone up to 13 cents." Carlson said she thinks an active place ment program could tell students which firms need employes, therefore cutting costs of job hunting techniques. NETV ads help wont dte game viewers Although they are not competing with commercial tele vision stations, the Nebraska Educational Television Net work (NETV) uses advertising to promote their programs, Ruthanna Russel, NETV Information director said. "We haven't begun to reach as many viewers as we should," Russel said. She added that although some Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) programs fared well In the Nielsen Television Ratings, NETV has no interest in them. Advertising for NETV programs is directed to special groups who have an interest in a particular program, according to Russel. "We cooperate with other state agencies as widely as possible," she said. "The agencies will include information about our programming in their mailings to their members and state employes." Russel said an example of this was the program "Aviation Weather," designed for pilots. The Nebraska Aeronautics Institute gives information about this program to interested people Russet believes if a group knows about a special inicickl program, it may initiate an interest in other NETV offerings. Russel said a complete listing of NETV programs offered are mailed weekly to state newspapers and TV Guide along with program highlights. The Nebraskans for Public Television (NPTV) also pub lishes Choice magazine, monthly for its members and the media, Russel said. Russel said that no state tax money can be used for ad vertising. Development of new programs on NETV is supported by state tax funds. NPTV donates what Russel called "a limited amount" of money each year towards advertising for local shows. In addition, Russel said, PBS sends some money fcr regional promotion of national programs, Russel added that this has only been done in the past two years. Russel said an extensive promotion campaign is under way for an NETV produced program "Anyone for Tenny son" to be shown in January over most nationally-affiliated PBS stations. The program will feature the works of Alfred Tennyson produced as dramas with personalities such as Claire Bloom, Cyril Ritchard, and Ruby Dee. Russel said NETV should be called a service rather than a network. "We try to offer the best of PBS and special programs of interest to Nebraskans," she said. 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