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Employment offices unite By Michael Ho Staff Reporter A consolidation of offices at the Career Planning and Placement Cen ter means less trudging for students and less phone tag for employers, an official said. All three employment offices now are in the Nebraska Union. The stu dent part-time employment office is at 236 Nebraska Union, the intern ship office is in Room 345 and the career planning office is in Room 230. The internship office was moved from the Administration Building this summer, said Larry Routh, director of career planning and placement. The student job board has been in the union for a year. “We’re pretty excited,” Routh said. Now, the offices are “not operating as islands,” he said, “but as a team.” Before the move, some students dropped by the wrong ofllce and ended up making the trek from the union to the Administration Building. Now, it’s just a trip up the stairs. Routh said a new computer net work would be installed to allow the three offices to trade infonnation more easily. Students also will benefit, he said, because the computers will be able to quickly show them lists of available jobs. Part-time job lists will be com puterized first, he said, and full-time lists will be coming later. The Career Day program also is being expanded. A special Technical Career Day is being added for science and engineering students, Routh said. It will be Sept. 19, the day before the regular Career Day. Routh said his offices serve stu dents in all colleges -- even those that may have their own in-house place ment, such as journalism and engi neering. The center’s attempts to provide something for everyone has caused long waits for some students in past years, he said. The center added a4 ‘counselor on call” last year to help ease the wait for students who just need quick help, like information on drafting a res ume, Routh said. “Students said sometimes they had to wait a long time for an appoint ment with someone from our staff,” he said. The new counselor is avail able from 1 to 4 p.m. Monday, Wednes day and Friday. Students can drop in without an appointment. An East Campus office also is in the works, Routh said, but it may not be in place until later this semester. “Our goal is to start over there in October on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons,” he said. “We’re using existing staff. It’s not an easy situ ation.” unJbriftLn_ I College poetry contest offers cash and publication International Publications, a Los Angeles-based publishing company, is sponsoring a national college poetry contest. The contest is open to all IJ.S. college and university students. Cash prizes will goto the top five poems. Winning entries and other authors’ entries that are selected for publi cation will appear in “American Collegiate Poets,” a collection of contemporary poetry written by college men and women. The first-place entry will re ceive $100, second-place, $50; thiid place, $25; and $20 will go to the fourth-place and fifth-place entries. All entries must be original and unpublished. Poems previously printed in student publications are acceptable. All entries must be typed, double spaced, on one side of the page only. Each poem must be on a separate sheet. The name, address and college of the student must be written in the upper left-hand cor ner of the sheet. The name and address also must appear on the envelope. Although there are no restric tions on form or theme, poems cannot exceed 14 lines. Entries will not be returned. There is an initial $3 registra tion fee for the first entry and a $1 fee for each additional poem. All entries must be postmarked not later than Oct 31, and sent to International Publications, P.O. Box 44044-L, Los Angeles, Calif., 90044. r • Pizza Bakery Davfd Fshleson/Daily Nebraskan Renovation in the Nebraska Union has moved the women’s rest room that was near the Harvest ^ Room to the main lounge area. An extended dining area has been installed in its place. Renovations Continued from Page 1 by adding two stalls to the original six, Swanson said. The restaurant setup is the same as before except for the addition of the pasta bar, which opened in April. Other renovations included changing the men’s restroom to add more stor age shelves, to remove the large in dustrial sink and to make some stalls more accessible to the handicapped. The UNL Dairy Store was converted into the Pizza Bakery. The project went smoothly, in cluding the removal of some asbestos when the dairy store was converted, Swanson said. The asbestos remain ing in the union has been encapsu lated, or covered, and is not a health hazard, he said. The response to the renovations has been good so far, and people 3 seemed to be surprised at the newly | opened Fast Break, Swanson said. Some people had been concerned when the construction began that it would lake space from the main lounge, he said. Since the restroom renovation was finished, people who had complained during the construction have called back with only positive remarks, Swanson said. World figures to speak at Lied From Staff Reports Internationally known authors and diplomats will visit the University of Nebraska-Lincoln this year in the 1990 91 E. N. Thompson Forum on World Issues. Carlos Fucntes, award-winning author of works like “The Old Gringo” and a past Mexican ambassador to France, will open the series at 3:30 p.m., Oct. 4, in the Lied Center for Performing Arts. He will discuss the problems and challenges in U.S. Mexican relations. Nicolas Salgo, President Bush’s special negotiator for property issues, will deliver the second forum address at 3:30 p.m., Nov. 15, in the Lied Center. Salgo will discuss prospects for capitalism in Eastern Europe. He served as U.S. ambassador to his native Hungary from 1983 to 1986 and, more recently, headed the Slate Depart ment negotiations in the reported bugging of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Makaziwc “Maki” Mandela will deliver the first spring semester ad dress, “Apartheid and the Future of South Africa,’’ at 3:30 p.m., Feb. 12, in the Lied Center. The oldest daugh ter of Nelson Mandela, she holds degrees in social work and sociology from African universities and has studied sociology and women’s stud ies as a Fulbright Scholar at the Uni- j versity of Massachusetts in Amherst. -• Alfred Kingon, former ambassa-1 dor to the European Economic Com munity, will close the 1990-91 forum with his April 18 address on “Europe 1992.’’ Kingon, who has served as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treas ury and Assistant Secretary of Com merce for International Economic Policy, also will speak at 3:30 p.m. in the Lied Center. All addresses arc free to the pub lic. The forum on world issues is ! suppoitcd by grants from the Cooper Foundation and is sponsored by UNL under the direction of the Institute for International Studies. Formerly, the Coopcr-UNL Forum on World Is sues, the series was renamed at the end of the 1989-90 season in honor of E.N. “Jack” Thompson, immediate past president of the Cooper Founda tion and a forum founder. 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