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Placement center opens for liberal arts majors
By Leslie Kendrick
Students majoring in humanities often have ample
qualifications for jobs but don't know how to get them,
according to UNL officials.
Bonnie M. Brown, assistant to the dean of the College
Photo by Ole Gronli
The new career information center for students in
the college of Arts and Sciences is open in the Ne
braska Union. Bonnie M. Brown, left, assistant
to the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and
Jan Haun, a center adviser are in the center, room
225 L
Program places
students as interns
from union office
By Tricia Waters
A UNL service that places students in internships has a
new office in the Nebraska Union.
The Office of Experiential Education has expanded its
office from Oldfather 1218 to include room 225G in the
Nebraska Union. The union office's hours are Monday,
9:30 a.m. through 12:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 1 through 4
p.m. and Friday, 8:15 through 1 1:15 ajn.
Millie Katz, experiential education coordinator has two
interns working for her, helping place students in intern
ships. Maureen Roen and Deb Keaschall work in the union
information office and the Oldfather Hall referral office.
The internships offer students a chance to get work
experience in their career fields or in areas they have a
strong interest in, Keaschall said. Because certain skills are
required for the work, junior, senior or graduate status
is necessary, she said.
Interns may assist a staff member, do work similar to a
regular staff member or complete a research project.
The interns work 10 to 20 hours a week, usually for
three hours of credit. They have a faculty sponsor who re
quires that they Vrite a paper or keep a journal of their
work experience.
Depending on the resources of the agency or organiza
tion that hires the intern, the student may receive a sti-.
pend, Keaschall said. However, most interns receive only
college credit and work experience, she said.
"An internship looks good on a resume, Keaschall
said. "It lets the student explore his interests and career
plans.
Some of the many work activities available are re
search in art galleries and museums, work in law offices or
state senators offices, physical therapy work in hospitals
and crisis counseling.
National internships offer work in cities such as Wash
ington, D.C. and London. The Experiential Education
workers have also placed interns in summer work in their
hometowns, such as Norfolk and Grand Island.
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of Arts and Sciences, said many humanities majors don't
know how to educate themselves to get good jobs and go
through longer, interview processses than do students in
other departments.
"Our general impression is that people (majors in
humanities) are more qualified than they realize, Brown
said.
Brown said although it is hard for humanities majors to
get jobs in fields such as teaching, there is a great demand
for students specializing in liberal arts in other areas,
especially in government jobs.
There is an academic work crunch,' Brown said. "It
is a very competitive event. However, I feel it will open up
very soon. There are fewer students going to graduate
school.
Brown said students majoring in humanities have
trouble getting jobs because they have not been trained to
go through interviews and write letters describing their
reasons for wanting a specific job.
To help alleviate this problem, a career information
center for students in the College of Arts and Sciences has
been established, Brown said.
Jan Haun, adviser for the service, said the program
serves as a clearinghouse for career information. Haun
said the- service refers students to other career services
such as Career Counseling in Seaton Hall, the Career
Planning and Placement program and to individual
advisers.
The service's office is located on the second floor of
the Nebraska Union, 225 L.
Brown said the idea for the program came from a task
force formed by Arts and Sciences Dean Max Larsen a
year and a half ago. The task force was created to investi
gate career advising in the arts and sciences college.
Brown said most liberal arts students have difficulty
selling themsleves to potential employers. The students
have a hard time assessing the skills they have gained
through a liberal arts degree, she said.
Brown said when an employer asks a liberal arts major
why he should hire him the student will be less articulate
about his abilities.
"Often times our students say 'Gee, I don't know. I
worked at McDonald's and I was a history major,
Brown said.
Brown said the service is gaining support among the
faculty. She said more advisers are making files of career
choices or investigating internships or listing skills gained
through specific majors.
Brown said she would like to see more students make
career decisions earlier in college. Both she and Haun en
courage arts and sciences students to use the office.
Haun said there are ideas for additional services such as
workshops in persuasion skills and interviewing. Haun said
some alumni have expressed interest in talking with stu
dents about their experiences in different careers.
Haun said with enough demand, any ideas for addition
al services would be used.
Sen. Wesely to ask ASUN's
support for cooler museum
State Sen. Don Wesely and James Gunnerson, director
of the University of Nebraska State Museum, will ask the
ASUN Senate to support a legislative bill seeking $1.5
million for installation of an air conditioning system in
Morrill Hall.
Wesely authored the bill requesting state aid to control
the climatic conditions in the hall, which would slow
skeletal and exhibit deterioration.
Temperature and humidity variations in the building
are causing bones to crack and are seriously damaging
several other museum exhibits, Gunnerson said.
Wesely will address the senate at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday
in the Nebraska Union. He will seek the support of univer
sity students and lobbyists of the Government Liaison
Committee, said ASUN Sen. Fran Grabowski.
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These onlookers are enjoying some warm Nebraska weather while watching the National Jet Ski Championship.
The competition was at Holmes Lake Saturday and Sunday. See Page 9.
Students wait to buy parking permits
Campus parking permits went quickly this year, keep
ing with tradition.
Parking areas one and two, surrounding residence halls,
are sold out, said UNL police Sgt. Mylo Bushing.
The waiting list for area one parking lists 110 people,
and 37 for area two parking, he said.
Students are not the only ones with parking problems,
though. Faculty member parking in areas 12, 15 and 16 is
sold out, he said.
Bushing said the number of requests for permits this
year is about the same as last year;
"Many kids, for some reason or another, decide against
using their parking permit after purchasing it. So now
what we have to figure out is how many violators are
occupying those empty spaces." The same amount of
parking space is available now as last year, Bushing said.
Bushing said there are constant requests to build new
parking lots.
"First of all you need money to not only build these
new lots, but also to maintain them, he said. "When the
price for a parking permit remains stable, this is hard to
do."
He said the only places left to build new lots would be
so far from campus that he's not sure students or faculty
members would be interested.
mM monday
High on the Hog: Professors disagree whether the use of
antibiotics in animal feed promotes bacteria that can
be passed on to humans .Page 6
So Close: Nebraska's last minute chances fell through as
the Cornhusker football team dropped its season open
er to Iowa Saturday 10-7 Page 8
Getting Kinky in ICC: The Kinks, one of the last British
Invasion bands from the 60s, performed this weekend
in Kansas City. .Page 10
