Degree no guarantee of work for grads
WASHINGTON (AP) - Corporate
recruiters courted Gavin Sasson with
lavish parties and free transportation
when he graduated with an econom
ics degree in 1984. Now, about to
receive a master’s degree, Sasson is
being told, “Next time you’re in New
York, give us a call.”
Members of the Class of ’91, from
engineers to marketing majors to
budding young business executives,
are finding that a degree doesn’t
guarantee a job — especially in a
recession.
“We get a double whammy in
recession time, because fewer com
panies are coming to campus to re
cruit, but more students are coming in
for our services,” said Jack Rayman,
director of career development and
placement at Penn State University.
Since June, 1.6 million Americans
were added to the unemployment rolls
as the jobless rate grew from 5.3
percent to 6.5 percent.
“These people who got laid off
had college degrees, and now they’re
competing against the new college
grads,” said Patrick Schectz, director
of the Collegiate Employment Re
search Institute at Michigan State
University.
Scheetz recently completed a study
that found job offerings for college
graduates have declined by about 23
percent over the past two years.
“Even in engineering, where op
portunities have been quite bountiful,
the graduates have faced a difficult
time,” Sc'nectz said.
Rayman agreed that the job mar
ket is tighter for these “technocrat”
students.
“But when you say engineering is
soft, I don’t think you can catastro
phize too much,” he said. “Instead of
having 12 offers at a ioi of exotic
locations, they might have one or two
offers in a place where they don’t
necessarily want to be.”
Other students still hotly pursued
are those in health care fields, such as
nursing, pharmaceutical marketing or
hospital management, according to
career counselors and employment
experts.
Penn State has suffered a drop of
about 10 percent in on-campus re
cruitment this year, especially for
liberal arts students who might be
trying to break into the business world
through management training pro
grams or sales management positions,
Rayman said.
“They ’re having to take the search
to the employer... rather than having
the luxury of sitting here in Happy
Valley and having the recruiters come
to campus,” Rayman said.
Schools nationwide also are re
porting similar declines in recruiting.
At Georgetown University’s gradu
ate business program, career counsel
ors are advising upcoming graduates
to look beyond traditional Fortune
500 companies.
“We’re urging them to take a look
at non-profit companies and at com
panies that are not necessarily the
glamour industries, like waste man
agement,” said Steve Fleckenstein,
who counsels Georgetown’s MBA
students.
John Onto, an associate dean at
Georgetown’s graduate business
schooi, said, “The people with pow
erhouse resumes who have flexibility
are still very much in demand.”
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about kidnapping trial
MADISON (AP) - Joyce Culshall
said she wonders why she is not filled
with hatred as she sits daily in the
front row of a courtroom listening to
testimony against the man accused of
kidnapping her missing daughter.
“Why don’t I have what I think I
should have, this enormous animos
ity and hate, and wanting him to be in
pain for a year, daily, minute by
minute?” Culshall said.
But the woman who collected
enough signatures on a petition to
force a grand jury investigation that
led to the indictment of 27-year-old
David Phelps last year is determined
to let the judicial process run its course.
Police had questioned Phelps but
didn’t charge him.
Culshall said she counsels people
who have offered to lake action out
side the law, “You cannot do this. It
has to go through the judicial sys
tem.”
Phelps has pleaded innocent. His
trial began March 5, and is expected
to go to the jury Tuesday. If con
victed, he could be sentenced to life
in prison.
Jill Culshall, then 9, disappeared
Aug. 13, 1987. She was last seen
silting on the front porch of her baby
sitter’s home in nearby Norfolk, a
northeast Nebraska prairie city about
110 miles northwest of Omaha.
No memorial service has been held.
“I can’t do that. It would be like
giving up. I need to find her. I need to
bring her home,” Cutshall said, tears
welling in her eyes.
For now, she sits in the front row of
a room in Madison County District
Court intently listening to the some
times graphic details of Phelps’ trial.
Prosecution witness Larry Pcn
nybackcr testified he once heard Phelps
talk about what it would be like to
kidnap, rape and kill a child. Defense
witnesses have included two men who
said they were former homosexual
lovers of Phelps, now married and the
father of a daughter.
One of the men, Kcrmit Baumgart
ner, 64, of Lodi, Calif., testified that
he is an alcoholic who spent much of
his time drinking with Phelps.
In a videotaped statement played
in court, Phelps accused Baumgart
ner of participating in J ill’s abduction
and sexual molestation. Phelps has
said the statement was a lie coerced
by a private investigator.
Baumgartner has not been charged,
and has denied that he had anything to
do with the girl’s disappearance.
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