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.”
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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
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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
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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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