,Monday, Decembers, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
Internship positions still available
Internship possibilities
More information on the following
internships is available in Adminis
tration Building 121 in the Internship
Office;
Health Education and Safety, Health
Research and Analysis, Marketing, Man
agement, Business Education, law-related,
legislative and government ser-
mitt i -ima
Career Corner
vice as well as film and telecommuni
cations, strategic planning research,
writing and others.
Social services
Len Foster from the Nebraska De
partment of Social Services will be
making an hour-long presentation to
interested human services and liberal
arts students on Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 1
p.m. in the Nebraska Union.
Foster will discuss the department
and t he social-service positions includ
ing lawyers, auditors, accountants, and
nurses, as well as the regularly open
positions as case worker and protective
service worker.
Foster will explain the state ap
plication procedures plus those differ
ences in the private sector.
After his presentation, Foster will be
available to answer questions.
Networking
Don't wait until you're ready to
graduate to start marketing yourself.
Those who land top-quality positions
with the least difficulty are those who
market themselves on an ongoing basis
through on t he job and outside organi
zational activities, co-workers, other
students, friends, relatives and profes
sionals in their field. Building a net
work of contacts is one of the most
effective methods of job hunting since
less than 20 percent of all job openings
are advertised.
Letter
Student criticizes DN
Once again the readers of the
Daily Nebraskan will be exposed to
the rantings of an irate, misquoted
student. Little of what I actually
said to the Committee for Fees Allo
cation on Thursday managed to sur
vive. On Friday, nearly all of the
drastically oversimplified versions
of my statements were presented as
direct quotations ("CFA hears both
sides. . .," DN, Dec. 5).
Although I did mention to the
CFA that I had not planned to
attend its meeting and that the
Thursday Jim Rogers column had
spurred me to change my decision, I
did not express this sentiment in
any fashion remotely resembling
the sentence which appeared as a
direct quotation. The purpose for
my testimony was to convey to the
members of the CFA that there Is
support from heterosexuals on cam
pus for a gaylesbian programming
council under the University Pro
gram Council.
Furthermore, 1 did not say that
the attitude held by Rogers is com
mon. In fact, I said it was a bit
extreme. A careful reading of Rog
er's Thursday column seems to sug
gest that he believes in an absolute
truth and an absolute morality in
which God or Nature says that
homosexuality is wrong. I did say
that lesser forms of homophobia are
prevalent on this campus and that
the proposed council could help to
increase tolerance, which 1 see as
one of the most important functions
of higher education.
I am especially offended by the
final two alleged quotations. They
are such distortions of my actual
comments that they approach com
plete fabrication. I did not say, "I
learned recently that William S.
Burroughs, who's supposedly the
speaker of this generation, is gay."
Anyone familiar with this author
will realize that I said William S.
Burroughs, who has been referred to
as the Mark Twain of our genera
tion, was a bisexual.
Finally, I did not say, "I think this
committee should realize that there
happen to be intelligent people who
are gay." This makes me look even
more simple and stupid than I actu
ally am. I said that the proposed
UPC gaylesbian programming coun
cil had the opportunity to make
students aware of the fact that
there are intelligent, creative peo
ple in the world who happen to be
homosexual.
Thank you for the opportunity to
clarify the record.
Gary W. Longsine
sophomore
international affairseconomics
Sales hype has tranquil effect
GOODMAN from Page 4
months old and a full-fledged pheno
menon reaching 24 hours a day into 20
million homes, selling $350 million
worth of goods on 20 programs. It has
become the new American mall, the
bargain basement, the catalog.
Tonight the "entertainment" is as
compelling as an auction, as folksy as a
call-in show. Other channels may focus
on a Washington storyline too far
fetched for an espionage novel. But
here the plot is straightforward: supply
and demand, buy and sell.
Even the choices viewers are asked
to make when they call in, the opinions
they can form, are simple ones: "What
do you think of these glasses, Joan?"
"They're very pretty, Dori." "You cer
tainly have good taste! A couple of
toots for you, Joan! Toot! Toot!"
I am not buying this evenirg, al
though as a first-timer, I might be able
to get a couple of horn toots for myself
and maybe one for my husband. I am
just screen shopping. But the pheno
menon turns my assumptions about
television upside down. After decades
as avowed enemies of network com
mercials, Americans have turned 24
hour commercials into the hottest new
trend on the tube.
The president of one of these com
panies says, "This is what all the Mar
shall McLuhans of the world have been
waiting for: two-way interactive TV." I
am not sure about that. But there is
surely a message in this medium.
The world of the shopping channels
is a diverting, as fancifully reassuring,
as that of a family sitcom, with its
half-hour problems. Here is a cornuco
pia of goodies that can be mine with a
mere flick of the credit card at the
other end of a toll-free number.
It promises not only instant access
to the good life, but control of it. Like
advertisements shuffled between the
pages of a news story, the shopping
channels beam forth a steady portrait
of a functioning society, of wellness, in
the daily chronicle of troubles.
I am most struck by this image
because the news during this holiday
season rolls like a grenade across
Washington, exploiting the sense of
' normalcy. But here in the video mar
ketplace, the system is working. The
citizen who cannot control politics,
who has precious little decision-making
power over what happens in a base
ment office in the White House, is
- empowered as a consumer. A consumer
who can decide instantly whether to
buy or reject a glass vase, a pencil
sharpener, an answering machine. For
all of the sales hype, the overall effect
is tranquil, indeed, tranquilizing.
Suddenly the television emcee
announces that if I dial quickly, I can
have five pastel-colored calculators for
only $25. What can be wrong with the
world when you can still buy five calcu
lators for $25? What?
1S8S, The Boston Globe Newspaper
CompanyWashington
Post Writers Group
Goodman is a Pulitzer prize-winning
columnist for the Boston Globe.
Graduates and alumni
Alumni, December, May and August
graduates It's never too late to reg
ister with the Career Planning and
Placement Center. Stop by the office t o
obtain registration materials or attend
a January orientation session. The
orientation sessions show what the
Career Planning and Placement Center
can offer job hunters and how to regis
ter with the cent er.
During January, orientation sessions
will be daily, Tuesday through Thurs
day. Check the Nebraska Union sche
dule for room location and meeting
times.
Career Tip
During one's career, the quality of
training one receives on the first job
can be far more important than how
much it pays. Consider the training
programs offered, as well as the skills
developed through a wide range of
work assignments. These are less obvious
benefits that one should not overlook
when deciding which job to take, such
as opportunities to move up the career
ladder, health and life insurance, dif
ferent management styles, and the
availability of prospective mentors to
help you develop your career.
Career Planning & Placement
Center
239 Nebraska Union
472-3145
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