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Tuesday, August 13, 1985
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 84 No. 175
Weather: Very pleasant is the outlook for this week as
unseasonably cool conditions will prevail. Today will be partly
cloudy and mild with a high of 78 (25C). Fair and cool tonight
with a low of 56 (1 3C). Much the same can be expected again
for Wednesday and Thursday with highs in the upper 70s to
lower 80s (26C), lows in the upper 50s (14C).
Barb BrandaThe Nebraskan
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By Deb Pederson
Senior Reporter
Saturday's UNL summer graduates
are facing one of the best job market
situations in the last three or four
years, Career Planning and Placement
Center Director Gerry Phaneuf said
Monday. But graduating in the summer
is neither an advantage nor a dis
advantage. Career opportunities are equally
available throughout the year, Phaneuf
said. While more openings occur in the
early summer months, more students
graduate then so the ratio of competi
tion remains about the same, he said.
Students who are mobile and have a
clear idea of their abilities and what
they want to do fare best, Phaneuf said.
According to a College Placement
Council report, the federal budget
deficit, the huge trade imbalance, dis
appointing profits and conflicting fore
casts by economists combined together
to turn what might have been a boom
college recruiting year into one that
was good but fell short of expectations.
The number of companies recruiting
By Fred Groenke
Special to The Nebraskan
Ah, summer.
A time for sunshine, swimsuits ...
and school? For approxLmately 10,000
UNL students, summertime is a
time for just that: summer school.
Why do these students attend
school during a season that most
spend on vacation?
Their reasons vary, but most agree
that the length of the sessions and
size of classes are more helpful than
regular semester classes.
In an iriarml survey cf about 40
summer students, most agreed also
that they enjoy focusing on just one
or two subjects.
"They give you more time to gr,t
into the sutjDct3," said Kirk Kicks,
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at UNL has jumped from 180 last year to
240 this spring, he said. Over 20,000
openings were posted in job bulletins
and advertisements. Almost 1,000 inter
views a week will be held this fall in the
placement center, Phaneuf said.
But most companies rely on contacts
and people sending in resumes rather
than college recruiting, Phaneuf said.
"The career opportunities are there,"
Phaneuf said. "Employers are looking
for people who are committed and have
a sense of direction."
The College Placement Council re
port, based on data collected between
Sept. 1, 1984 and June 7, 1985, from 187
placement offices at 163 participating
colleges and universities, indicated
engineering disciplines fared best, with
nearly all recording gains. Among the
other disciplines, some did slightly
better and others slightly worse than
last year.
Liberal arts graduates recorded an
above-average pay increase of 6.4 per
cent, bringing the average yearly salary
to $18,540, College Placement Council
manager Judith O'Flynn Kayser said.
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"You can concentrate on one or
two subjects."
Greg Morgan, a graduate student
with a secondary education degree,
said he agrees with Kicks.
"It's kind of nice spending more
time on cr.e class," he said. "It's a
icfc more intense, and it's easier to
grp the material."
Although most students questi
oned said they liked the length of
summer classes, not all classes
were without their drawbacks,
"Sometimes the homework load
cn g:i r rtty bad,' Chris Seramier,
a junior &rt and advertising major,
sdl "I tcck summer school because
i work during the school year, and I
wanted to lessen my class load in
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Andy Martinez, a professional diamond cutter from New York,
previously cut diamond. Sartor Hamann Jewelry held the first
the state last weekend in the Gateway Mall.
said, "you're crammed with home
work every night. Two summer class
es are about as bad as the regular
semester."
Still, only having one or two
classes to contend with lets Bill
Bolmeier learn and remember more
than when he's got a full load of
classes.
"I feel I've been able to retain
more things for a longer period of
time. I tend to lose things over the
course of the regular semester," he
said.
Senior broadcasting major Julie
Snyder said you get more for your
educational dollar because of the
size of summer classes.
"I think you leam more in summer
classes," she sdd. "The classes are
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Why do they choose to die?
By Gene Gentrup
News Editor
Suicides are increasing at a rapid
rate across the country, and according
to the latest figures a "major problem"
exists in the 19-24 age group nation
wide, according to an official of UNL's
Mental Health Center.
Karen Kelly, head of UNL's Mental
Health Department and a clinical psy
chologist at the University Health Cen
ter, said 600 students visited UNL's
mental health clinic last year, some of
whom have attempted suicide and oth
ers who have strongly contemplated
such an act.
Kelly said depression was the most
common reason students visited the
clinic. Their depression resulted from a
number of reasons including an inabil
ity to find a career identity, separation
from family, development of a relation
ship, and pressure to live up to college
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seem to get a lot more discussion
and not all lecture."
Morgan said that he thought the
smaller classes "give you a little
more individualization."
The reasons for taking summer
classes are as varied as the students
themselves. They range from trying
to graduate in three years to trying
to graduate in four after changing
majors twice ...
Said one young woman, in too
much of a hurry to stop and give her
name: "I'm a graduate student I go
to school all the time
The most interesting reason was
probably that of Kristi Klsine, a jun
ior political science mrjor from
Orsnd UtevA,
Neither Kelly or Lt. Joe Wehner of
the UNL Police Dept. were aware of any
reported campus suicides in the past
year, but Kelly said the report is a bit
"distorted" because many suicides
attempted among college students
occur at home during school vacations
like Thanksgiving, Christmas and spring
breaks, she said.
Statistics from the American Asso
ciation of Suicidology in Denver show
that nationwide in 1860, 764 or 7.1 per
100,000 people in the 19-24 age group
committed suicide. In 1980 that number
more than doubled to 3,442 or 16.1 per
100,000.
According to information compiled
in part through the Readers' Digest
College Resources Program, psycholo
gists say the concrete reason behind
suicide remains elusive. Psychoanalyst
Sigmund Freud suggested that suicide
is anger toward a lost love object
turned back on the self. Others suggest
suicide may be linked to depression
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Andrea HoyThe Nebraskan
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diamond cutting exhibition in
"I took summer classes for the
first time this summer," she said,
"because I need to find myself. I felt
like 1 wasn't growing as a person
when I would go home for the
summer and live with my parents,"
, The enrollment figures for this
summer's sessions which weren't
immediately available are expected
to be similar to last year's figures.
The summer of 1984 saw 2,525 stu
dents enrolled in the three-week
pre-session, 785 in the eight-week
session, 7,251 in the first five-week
session and 4,882 in the second five
weeks.
Many students take classes in
more than one session, so UNL offi
cials cannot easily determine an
exact number of total students,
but this did not explain why patients
often kill themselves after depression
has lifted. Biologists talk of chemical
imbalance in the brain. Sociologists
have looked for a "lack of connecting"
such as family breakdown. Some clergy
cite erosion of faith. Yet no single the
ory has surfaced that could explain all
forms of suicidal behavior.
Without a true remedy for suicidal
acts, psychologists and clinical spe
cialists have suggested identifying
warning signs from possible victims.
Suicidal talk, moodiness, turning ex
cessively to a diary, failure in school
and philosophical preoccupation with
death are just some of the warning
signs people should be aware of, said
John Mack, a psychiatrist at the Cam
bridge Hospital in Cambridge, Mass.
The most reliable predictor of suicide
risk is a previous suicide attempt,
Mack said. Between 30 to 40 percent of
suicides have tried before.
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