Changes to occur in career center
By Brandon Loomis
Staff Reponer
Although several hundred cor
porations interview University of
Nebraska-Lincoln students, not
enough students are getting jobs,
the director of the Career Planning
and Placement Center said.
LaiTy Routh, who became direc
tor this semester, said lack of stu
dent knowledge about the center is
preventing the center from placing
as many students as he would like.
‘‘A lot of students don’t even
know we exist,” he said.
The center, Nebraska Union
230, lists current job openings
across the country and arranges job
interviews for U NL students. Routh
said the center lists about 400,000
jobs each year.
The center also keeps informa
tion on job requirements, inter
viewing and resume techniques.
Routh said he wants to make
students more aware of these serv
ices and to eliminate hassles in
volved in getting employment as
sistance.
‘‘Right now students have to
come to us,” Routh said. “I want us
to be taking the information out to
where the students are.”
Routh said he wants to establish
a student career guide program.
Student guides would research job
openings at the center and take the
information back to departments
where they are enrolled, he said.
At Northern Iowa University,
where Routh directed a placement
office before coming to UNL, a
similar program enabled that uni
versity to place nearly 100 percent
of students looking for jobs, he said.
Routh said he also plans to mail
newsletters and announce when
companies are interviewing on
campus in the Daily Nebraskan.
In addition to improving aware
ness of the center, Routh said, he
wants to make the center more
convenient for busy students to use.
He said large amounts of paper
work and research keep students
from using the center.
'it’s asking a lot to have seniors
look for jobs while taking heavy
class loads,” he said.
Routh said he is working on a
project with the Nebraska Alumni
Association toget alumni across the
country to help find jobs for gradu
ates.
He said he will consider install
ing a computer system that would
allow students to sign up for inter
views from any computer on cam
pus and therefore eliminate most
paperwork.
“There are enough hassles in
employment,” he said. “We don’t
need to add to them.”
Routh also wants to bring more
companies to UNL for interviews.
Routh said his involvement on
the the Board of Governors for
College Placement puts him in
contact with large corporations,
improving chances they will inter
view at UNL. The 14-membcr
group establishes college recruiting
policies throughout the country.
Coca-Cola, which until recently
hired only students in Georgia, and
Koch Industries, a diversified en
ergy corporation and the second
largest privately owned company in
the United States, have interviewed
on campus this semester. Routh
said he expects Hershcy’s Choco
late to interview in May.
Book-theft trial date set for ex-University Press employee
rrom Staff Reports
The Lancaster County Court has
set an April 4 trial dale for Walter
Bradford, a former University of
Nebraska Press employee charged
with book theft.
Bradford was arraigned March 2
and pleaded not guilty to one charge
of misdemeanor theft.
William Kelly and Bradley
Purcell,both former University Press
employees, also are charged with
book thcll trom University Press.
Kelly’s preliminary hearing has
been set for March 24 in Lancaster
County Court. He ischargcd with two
counts of Class III felonious theft. At
the hearing, the county will decide if
it has enough evidence to lake the
case to district court, said Jan Sharpe,
deputy county attorney.
Kelly pleaded not guilty when he
was arraigned Feb. 29.
Charges of one count each of
Class III and IV felonious theft
against Purcell were dropped under
the pretrial diversion program,
Sharpe said.
The pretrial diversion program, a
county program for first-timeoffend
ers, will drop charges if the offender
agrees to meet certain conditions
which include restitution and some
times community work, Sharpe said.
Two of the former employees
were arrested Feb. 15 and a third was
arrested Feb. 17 by University of
Nebraska-Lincoln police.
Jump rope teams to raise money tor tight against heart disease
Students can jump at the chance to
help fellow Nebraskans with heart
disease today by raising money for
the Nebraska Heart Association.
Members of the Tau Chapter of
Phi Epsilon Kappa Physical Educa
tion Fraternity are sponsoring the
annual Jump Rope For Heart
Teams of six or less will jump for
two hours. The jumpers can switch as
often as they want, as long as the rope
keeps turning for the two hours.
Jumpers and affluent pledgers
should pick up pledge sheets in 232
Mabel Lee Hall.
Video and forum will deal with minorities
From Staff Reports
The Afrikan Peoples Union will
sponsor a video and forum tonight
that will address the problems of
recruiting and retaining minority
students on campus.
The program, “Black by Popular
Demand,” is scheduled for 7 p.m. at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Cultural Center, 333 N. 14th St.
APU president Terry Goods said
the video was produced by Iowa S late
University students John and Tho
mas Furgerson. He said the video
addresses problems ISU is having
with recruiting and retaining minor
ity students and faculty.
A forum will follow the video.
Students and faculty can discuss
problems UNL has with minority
recruitment.
The list of panel members was not
complete Monday night, but the fol
lowing will be present: Sen. Ernie
Chambers of Omaha, Vice Chancel
lor for Student Affairs James Grie
sen, Vice Chancellor for Academic
Affairs Robert Furgason, two stu
dents and a faculty member.
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