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.
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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.
There is also less of a gap between
males and females in individual
sports than in team sports, he said.
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