Internship Office underfunded, understaffed
By Eric Pfanner
Staff Reporter _
The new coordinator of the Internship and
Cooperative Education Office said her major
challenge will be closing the gap between the
number of students w ho apply for internships
and the number w ho are accepted.
Marcia Phelps, w ho replaced Millie Katz as
coordinator Jan. 3, said 900 students applied
for internships in 1987. She said 700 of those
were placed in jobs.
It is difficult to place this many students, she
said, with an office that is “small, understaffed
and underfunded.”
The office employs three full-time staff
people and one administrative assistant, Phelps
said.
But, she said, besides needing extra fund
ing, she does not think the internship office
needs a major overhaul.
“It (the office) only needs to be streamlined
and made more efficient," Phelps said.
Several grants are available to help more
students find internships, she said. Phelps said
she hopes the internship office will not have to
start charging students for its services.
Not only can internships help a student get a
job, Phelps said, but they also help confirm a
student’s interests.
Students should come to the Internship ami
Cooperative Education Office during their
sophomore year to “get a focus’’ and leant
about what kinds of internships are available
she said.
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Nebraska professor granted
English instruction fellowship
By Larry Peirce
Senior Reporter
Larry Andrews wanted to go to
England in the spring of 1990, but
only for a few daysj
Instead, he’ll
be there for 10
weeks, as visiting
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tion. While he’s
there he’ll work
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sity of London professor and well
known language specialist, he said.
Andrews, a professor of curricu
lum and instruction and English at
the University of Nebraska-Lineoln,
wrote to Stubbs last summer and
suggested they meet for “two or
three days" next spring, while An
drews is on leave from UNL.
Stubbs went a few steps further
and on his recommendation, An
drews was named visiting fellow, he
said.
“To be invited by him is quite a
surprise and quite an honor,’’ An
drews said.
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Andrews will join a research
group in March 1990 to observe
classrooms in London and Central
England. The group will study ways
to help elementary and secondary
students learn to read, write and
speak better, he said.
“My teaching is going to be so
invigorated by all this experience,
and my own research and writing
will be helped. It will be a great
benefit to my students,” he said. “I
feel like a 12-ycar-old at Christ
mas.”
Language study receives differ
ent attention in England than it docs
in the United States, he said.
“In this country, when we study
language in classrooms, we tend to
look at it as a very formal object. And
when people use this ... their use is
cither right or wrong,” he said.
Andrews said Stubbs leads a trend
in which language’s more informal
and personal uses arc studied. Differ
ent meanings emerge from a variety
of contexts, lie said, and not just from
language’s single formal context.
“You and I spend most of our day
in informal exchanges of language,
but nobody ever examines that,” he
said.
The language is taught differently
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in England than in the United Stales,
he said. Classrooms have a more
informal manner, with more talking
allowed.
“There is more writing for differ
ent kinds of purposes, instead of just
writing to the teacher who can read it
and grade it,” he said.
In England, students learn to write
for themselves, as well as for other
students and their parents.
The goal of such writing, he said,
is to help people become more spon
taneous and precise at using lan
guage.
Andrews doesn't know yet what
his teaching duties will be, hut said
Stubbs likely w ill make use*of his
specially -- the study of teaching
English and reading in secondary
schools. He also will Like w ith him
his research experience in vocabu
lary development and reading com
prehension.
Stubbs is “a very prolific
scholar” in linguistics and has an
international reputation, he said.
Andrews sent Stubbs a letter. Ins
resume and descriptions of his lan
guage research work at UNL.
“I don’t know what there is in my
record that he finds attractive, I’m
just happy that he found it,” he said.
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Senior Reporter
A national trend of more job offers
with higher starting salaries for col
lege graduates applies to University
of Ncbraska-Lincoln 1989 graduates,
said Larry Routh, director of UNL’s
Career Planning and Placement Of
fice.
A study done at Michigan Slate
University’s placement office pre
dicts a bright future for new gradu
ates. In a survey of 739 business,
industry, government and education
employers shows a 3.4 percent hiring
increase for graduates with bachelor
degrees in 1989. It also shows a salary
increase of 3 percent for new employ
ees, which is typical, Routh said.
“I would say that the national
trends apply here in the sense that
national employers come here,”
Routh said.
Companies such as Hewlett-Pack
ard, General Dynamics, or Texas
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going looffcr UNL graduates more or
less money than they would oiler to
graduates from Illinois or Stanford,
he said. Major companies have a set
salary schedule for entry-level em
ployees, he said.
The national trend might not apply
for local companies that don’t recruit
nationally, he said.
“They may set their salaries based
on what their personal recruiting
experience is,’’ he said.
Many people think only corpora
tions recruit at UNL. he said.
“A lot of people (from UNL) go to
work for federal, stale and county
governments, and for non-profit or
ganizations,’’ he said.
Routh said he sees two trends in
job availability for new graduates —
the expansion of the economy and
low unemployment. Both continue to
benefit college graduates, he said.
Another trend, however, could
hurt employment chances within ccr
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Some employers arc striving to he
more efficient and more competitive,
he said. By “downsizing,” they re
duce the number of middle-manage
ment employees, and may hire fewer
new employees, he said.
Roulh said one Fortune MX) com
pany that recruits at UNL has indi
cated it won’t be hiring as many
people, even though its business is
expanding, because it is going
through consolidation, and will re
duce the number of middle and enuy
level employees.
Roulh said there isn’t any one
career area that seems to be attracting
more employers than another.
“There seems to be pretty good
across-the-board hiring,’ he said. “1
can’t say that any one occupational
classification is really down in com
parison with previous years.”
rrojessor works to develop instrument
By Brad Rundquist
Staff Reporter
A University of Nebraska-Lincoln
biology professor is working to refine
an instrument that could help scien
tists identify factors that cause ge
netic and hereditary diseases.
John Brumbaugh said the instru
ment is able to identify the sequence
of components which make up hu
man genes. If all these components
could be mapped, scientists would
have a data bank that would help
them understand the underlying
causes of some forms of cancer and
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heart disease, he said.
Genes are made of deoxyribonu
cleic acid (DNA) and are found on the
chromosomes in human cells. DNA
is composed of four bases. Brum
baugh said the instrument will map
these four bases and their sequence.
The mapping is done with fluores
cent dyes and a laser analyzes data
from DNA samples broken down by
electrophoresis, a process that uses an'
electric current to separate the DNA
into smaller pieces.
The findings could be used for
agriculture as well, Brumbaugh said
He said that disease resistant and
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higher yielding crops could be devel
oped more easily.
Brumbaugh is working with Li
Cor Inc. of Lincoln, to produce an
instrument that could be marketed.
Li-Cor has given UNL $210,000 in
support of the project as well as
equipment and manpower, Brum
baugh said. He estimated the total
cost of the project at $1 million.
He said the Li-Cor machine will
not be ready for commercial use for
about a year. Applied Biosystems,
DuPont and EG&G Inc., also are
working on similar research, Brum
baugh said.
Number comparison
may not be accurate
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current statistics can be accurately
compared to the 1983 numbers. In
the past few years, she said, the cen
ter has adopted a new system of keep
ing track of center usage.
Also, in the past the center spon
sored a counseling service which no
longer exists. The larger numbers
may have resulted from that service.