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Career - related seminars scheduled to begin tonight By Barb Tillman Suff Reporter Although some UNL students may think Career Information Pay ’89 is only for graduating seniors, they couldn’t be further from the truth, said a Career Planning & Placement representative. “Career Day is for all UNL students,’’ said Marcia Phelps, internship coordinator for Intern ship & Cooperative Education, a division of the Career Planning & Placement office. “Everyone needs to know that even if they aren’t graduating this year, employers may still need them through internships and co ops,’’ she said. Beginning today, a series of career-related seminars will take place in the Nebraska Union from 6 to 9 p.m. These seminars will focus on “Women in Manage ment,’’ “Labor Trends in Ne braska,’’ “What Employers Look For,” “Researching a Corpora tion,” “Management Training Programs” and “A Results-Ori ented Resume.” Thursday, UNL students are encouraged to go to the union Centennial Room and Ballroom to meet with employers who will be stationed in booths. The employers will answer questions about jobs. Career planning and placement professionals also will be on hand to talk with students. The day will conclude with a fashion show at 4 p.m. In past years, about 800 stu dents from U NL and other col leges in the slate participated in career day. “Career days in the past have always been pretty successful,” Phelpssaid. “We’veexpanded the activities this year, and I think it should be a good event.” “It’s gotten better every year,” said Larry Routh, director of Ca reer Planning and Placement. “Every year there arc more em ployers and a bigger variety of categories. CONFIDENTIAL from Page 1 Thomas M. Luker, a systems ana lyst with the registrar’s office at the University of Texas at Austin, said die problems with computer records is that more faculty members want access to them, making records more accessible to everyone. Askins said faculty members also may not know how to log off of computers with student records.leav ing the information on the screen for anybody to read. At UNL, nearly 1,000 advisers and dozens of offices have access to student records. Reid said that UNL operates on a “need to know’’ basis. Records can be accessed by those offices that need student information to do their jobs, he said. puucies reueci me ieaerai Buckley Amendment or “the bible of access to confidential records,” he said. The act defines what institutions can do with private records. Askins said that although un authorized intrusion into files is not common on smaller campuses, all colleges must take preventive steps to protect the privacy of student rec ords. Universities should establish committees that represent all campus departments with access to student records, Askins said. These commit tees should set confidentiality poli cies that will be sanctioned by the administration, she said. “With electronic records, your level of responsibility is far higher than your level of control,” she said. “An institutional approach to the security of records is essential.” Faculty and staff members must become familiar with security proce dures followed in registrars’ offices through training sessions, she said. Office workers usually have secret passwords to access student records, log off computers when they are not in use and keep computer screens from students’ view, Askins said. Luker said that training admini stration and faculty at large universi ties to know what information on sli dent records can be made public poses a problem. “At a university the size of ours, it is difficult to teach everyone what state and federal regulations apply to the release of student records,” as well as university policies, he said. Luker said about 50,000 students are enrolled at the University of Texas this year. “It’s a give-and-take situation,” he said. “Employees need access to data to do their job, but they need to be aware that this is confidential in- j formation, and its release needs to be ] regulated.” 1 io limn unapproveu cnaiigcs in student files, registrars should docu ment all changes and permit only a few university offices to update rec ords, Askins said. Most attempts to gain unlawful access and alter records are traced back to students, she said. Reid said UNL’s Registration and Records office reviews every change made to student files. Only four people in the records office are au thorized to update records, not includ ing Reid and the director of the office, Ted Pfeifer. Representatives of some universi ties say unauthorized records access is not a problem, even when files are easily accessible to students. David Ridenour, associate regis trar at Indiana State University, said a system formed in 1987 to give stu dents access to their records from two public terminals on campus generated no complaints of confidentiality vio lations. The records list a student’s finan cial aid information, current classes, accumulated hours and address but do not list grades. Requiring a student’s name and identification number to enter a file is enough safeguard to keep students from looking at each other’s records, he said. Ridenour said he has heard only good comments on the system from students and parents. He added that the system has improved the accu racy of student files and changed atti tudes about responsibility for them. Students are expected to check their files and notify the registrar of any necessary changes. The student becomes an equal partner in insuring the accuracy of his record, Ridenour said. Reid said UNL has not considered jsing this system and that he does not relieve the system could guarantee idequate security of student records. ASUN from Paoe 1 Currently, the maximum visitation allowed ' for under graduate housing is K hours, Vitek said. “A lot of students aredissat isfied with the current policy because they feel it’s too re strictive,” he said. “The com mon attitude is that the univer sity is acting like a parent to us.” If the bill passes, Vitek said, the Campus Life Committee would be responsible for gath ering information from as many people as possible about the current policy to determine what changes, if any, should be made. He said the committee would talk to university offi cials concerned with the issue, student assistants in the resi dence halls, fraternity and so rority presidents and any other students who want to give their opinions. Student opinion also could be gathered through random surveys or on-campus meet ings, he said. “(The Campus Life Com mittee) will need to look at all sides of the issue to lode at it in an unbiased way,” he said. Committee members also will research the history of the current policy to see why it was established in the first place, he said. The Campus Life Committee passed Vitek’s bill Tuesday by a 5-0 vote. ATHLETES from Page 1 ences in study habits. “For a female, the chances of participation in professional sports is almost nonexistent. Therefore she knows that she also has to concentrate on academics," O’Hanlon said. But men have greater expectations to become professional athletes, he said. “Even though very few male ath letes actually make it into profes sional sports after college, lots of them think they’re going to," he said. 4 ‘The motivation to do well might not be there because they believe they have less of a need to achieve aca demically." But both Osborn and Killion said the lack of a future in professional athletics for women is probably not the motivation for female athletes getting better grades. Killion said opportunities for women in professional athletics arc increasing and many female athletes also turn to coaching after gradu ation. O’Hanlon said that increased op portunities for female athletes alter college could be responsible for a steady decrease in the grade point average gap between male and fe male athletes. He said that when he first had to report athletes’ grade point averages to the NCAA several years ago, the difference between male and female averages was much greater than it is now. The gap between male and female athletes in the same sport also has declined, he said. A female tennis player and a male tennis player are more likely to have similar grade point averages than a female tennis player and a male in another sport, he said. 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