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By Judi Nygren
With UNLsummer graduation nearing, graduates
will soqii be trekking through town, looking for jobs.
According to Fred Wendel, acting director of
UNL's Career Placement Office, graduates who use
the office's services have a better chance of finding a
job than graduates who search for jobs on their own.
For example, Wendel said, Teachers College gradu
ates who use the office have a 75 percent placement
rate as compared to a 7 to 10 percent placement
rate among graduates who seek teaching jobs in
dependently. Graduates who use the office can take advantage
of a library filled with job-related books and counse
lors. The counselors line up interviews with the 250
to 300 companies that visit UNL in the fall, winter
and spring, Wendel said. The office also helps grad
uates perfect interviewing techniques. Some of the
techniques counselors help graduates with are
poise, self-confidence and vitality, Wendel said.
"The sharp students who have self-confidence
and are able to sell themselves in an interview are
the ones who get the jobs," he said.
Graduates who are willing to move out of the area
and have past job experience also have high place
ment rates, he said.
While personal attributes help land jobs, Wendel
said, the job market itself plays a role in placement
rates. Currently, the highest placement rates are
among engineering and business administration
graduates. The lowest placement rate is among
journalism graduates, he said. But the job market
changes so quickly, Wendel said, that in five years a
new area will open and another area will tighten up.
Whether a chosen field has a high or low place
ment rate, Wendel said, summer graduates have a
tougher time finding work immediately than spring
graduates do. Because most companies make recruit
ing decisions in the spring, he said "summer gradu
ates must work a little harder and be more patient."
If a summer graduate has problems finding a job,
other options exist. Wendel said many colleges have
placement programs for their graduates. Some of
the colleges include engineering, law, journalism,
agriculture and geology.
No matter what program UNL graduates use,
Wendel said, they have- a good chance of landing a
job over graduates from other states.
"Whether it's business or education, employers
like the UNL product," he said. They are dependable
and they are not afraid to work."
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Program to help fund
8 UNL research teams
David TroubaDsSIy Ntbrsskan
A broken ch&ir sits in a nook ofBessey Hall waiting to be discarded.
Roaches snag renovation
ByHi&sWsibel
After surviving 68 years of UNL
students, Bessey Hall is receiving its
first major facelift since its construct
ion in 1916. The $2.3 million project
will lea ve little of the original build
ing first used for the study of life
sciences.
"It will be completely gutted," said
John Amend, assistant to the direc
tor of UNL's Physical Plant. "But we
will maintain some of it, including
the old stairways."
According to Amend, the building
wil receive all new lighting, new
flooring and many new walls and
ceilings.
Builders IncYeceived the bid for
' general, mechanical, electrical and
elevator reconstruction cf Bessey
Hall. So far, the contractors said
they have run into few difficulties.
"Our biggest problem is the cock
roaches," said Paul Hensen, con
struction superintendent. "Some of
them are up to two and a half inches
"long."
Bessey Hall is scheduled to re
open in September 1985, housing
the departments of anthropology
and geology, Amend said.
"I'm elated," said Samuel Treves,
' chairman of the geology depart
ment. "We will be able to improve
the quality of our labs and instruc
tion with more room."
Amenii said that most of the space
the geology department vacates in
Morrill Hail might be taken over by
the museum.
However, Treves said the fourth
floor will retain some space for the
geology department because of the
special electronic equipment that is
housed there.
By Jana Dahlman Bouma
A $25,000 program is helping fund
eight UNL research teams to develop
research proposals, according to Nor
man Rosenberg, assistant to the Vice
Chanceller for Research & Graduate
Studies.
The Sponsored Projects Develop
ment Program is providing funds to
researchers in the College of Arts and
Sciences, the College of Engineering
and Technology, Teachers College, and
the Institute of Agriculture and Natu
ral Resources. The program was deve
loped by Earl Freise, Vice Chancellor
. for Research and Graduate Studies
and Rosenberg.
According to Rosenberg, the funds
will also help researchers to seekfund
ing from federal agencies and private
organizations for their proposals.
Researchers in the environmental
programs department in the Institute
of Agriculture and Natural Resources
received $1 ,000 from the development
program. Research associate Edward
Vitzthum said the funds will be used to
seek external grants to develop educa
tional and resource materials. The mat
erials would be used by health, safety
and law enforcement officials who
must deal with pesticide accidents.
Assistant Professor Richard Petosa
said he received close to $2,000 from
the program. The money provided
Petosa's salary while he applied to the
William T. Grant Faculty Scholar Pro
gram to fund a five-year study of the
impact of stress and coping strategies
on adolescents.
Other departments whose faculty mem
bers received grants included physics,
political science, modern languages
and literature, mechanical engineer
ing, and electrical engineering.
20 of AAUP members
vote in national election
By JcdiNygren
Election preparations had been go
ing on for months for the American
Association of University Professors'
election. Candidates had been hashed
over and the two parties had been
plagued by turmoil throughout the
ordeal. It appeared to be a typical elec
tion year, but one thing set the 1984
election apart from the rest: hardly
anybody voted.
In the AAUP's recent national elec
tion, 80 percent of the members, divid
ed on the question of using AAUP as a
collective bargaining unit, withheld
their votes. Ballots for the biennial
election were mailed to about 49,000
faculty members nationwide. By the
end of the two-month election, about
10,000 votes had trickled backto nation
al headquarters. The majority favored
the non-collective bargaining party
over the collective bargaining party.
Linda Pratt, the UNL AAUP presi
dent, said voter apathy resulted from a
Iack of interaction between national
leaders and faculty members. The lack
of contact between the two groups
made faculty members feel distanced
from the hub of AAUP, she said.
"It's like a whole other world to
them," Pratt said.
. "But worse than voter apathy," Pratt
said, was the landslide victory for the
non-collective bargaining party.
"I think it's unfortunate that the
election was lopsided on either side,"
she said. "It was not a healthy election."
Because of the unequal representa
tion, conflicts that have plagued AAUP
for many years have deepened, she
said. Leaders are bickering over con
trol, rather than examining AAUP's
stands and goals, she said.
"Leadership is not working well
together," Pratt said. "I think it's going
to leave leadership in conflict over how
to resolve problems."
The misrepresentation problem
could be resolved if voters would do
away with straight tickets, Pratt said,
adding that she prefers to vote for
candidates of both sides. Misrepresen
tation also could be avoided, she said,
if the two parties could reconcile their
differences and work as one.
But until the two parties reconcile
their differences, AAUP must work
with today's problems. One of AAUP's
problems is the yearning by many
members to return to the "old days"
when AAUP was a defender of aca
demic freedom ana did not get involv
ed in collective bargaining," Pratt said.
If the view continues to grow, Pratt
said, AAUP could cease to exist.
"If AAUP dropped its collective bar
gaining, AAUP would cease to exist
because 60 percent of its members are
involved in bargaining."
Hie 1984 officers are Paul Walter cf
Skidmore College, president; Henry
Eiason of Tulane University, first vice
president; June Pollack of California
State University ct Fulkrton, second
vice 'president; Morris Mendelson cf
the University of Pennsylvania's Whar
ton School, secretary-treasurer.