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and students can communicate with 2,000
computer libraries across the country.
The program changed some of the students’
lives, he said.
The Neb*SAT network, run by Nebraska
Educational Television, also is exciting, Ker
rey said, because it enables schools to teach
programs that originated out of state.
The best example of distance learning is a
Japanese language program through NETV
and the Satellite Educational Resources Con
sortium, which allows students to learn a lan
guage their schools did not have the resources
to provide. '
Nebraska has the lead in several technologi
cal advances in classroom technology, Kerrey
said.
If a public institution could be established to
tell parents and teachers how to make current
technological advances work for them, he said,
Nebraska could stay at the head of the pack.
“My vision is of every school and home
having access to large amounts of usable infor
mation . . . and the schools becoming the
centers of complex, creative learning,” he said.
On other issues, Kerrey said that during a
recent trip to the former Soviet Union, he
learned a lot about the problems the former
Soviet republics were facing.
Right now, he said, Russians have more
questions than they can possibly answer.
For economic and strategic reasons, he said,
the United States should not miss the opportu
nity to help the new nations.
Exchanges between the former Soviet re
publics and the United States should involve
less government to government and more aid to
businesses, young people and the environment,
Kerrey said.
“Dollar to dollar, there’s nothing better than
a personal exchange,” he said.
Kerrey said he was optimistic about the
future of the former Soviet republics.
Michelle Paulman/DN
Bob Kerrey (center) tours UNL’s Food Processing Center with an entourage of administrators and press Friday.
Kerrey was sampling breadsticks being made at the center.
Jobs scarce, official says
Internships easier
to find for students
By Kristine Long
Staff Reporter
With less than two weeks until graduation,
many seniors still are scanning the want ads
and sending out resumes in hopes of finding a
job.
Although economists may say the recession
is over, Larry Roulh, director of Career Plan
ning and Placement, said the recession had not
ended as far as job availability was concerned.
“In every recession the employment lags,”
he said.
Companies wait until they see actual im
provements in the economy before they begin
hiring again, Roulh said. And that strategy has
made this one of the most competitive years in
the job market, he said.
Defense and military cutbacks, coupled with
layoffs in other big industries, has caused the
job market lobe more competitive, Roulh said.
People who have been working for years now
arc competing with college graduates for jobs.
Shawn Burnham, a graduating senior, agreed.
“There’s definitely a job shortage,” she said.
“When the recession hit, it flooded the job
market with people who had years of experi
ence.”
Burnham, an international affairs and po
litical science major, said she was lucky. She
has a job wailing for her in Arizona after
graduation.
gel a job, Routh said, but now the market is
competitive in every field.
But he said students with agri-business degrees
were having more luck than others. Being
located in the Midwest probably has helped
agri-business majors, he said.
Although he could not say for sure, Routh
said he thought the job market would be slightly
better bv next year.
But sne said many of her friends were not so
lucky.
Many students arc having problems finding
jobs, Burnham said, so they have opted to
attend graduate school or get an internship.
Alisa Miller, a senior broadcasting major,
said she decided to lake the internship route.
“The market is really light now, so it’s
easier to get an internship,” she said.
Miller said she was looking for a specialized
internship or part-time job that would help her
get into graduate school.
Pat Jilck, also a senior broadcasting major,
said he had been searching for a job for about
two months and had had a few job offers.
Jilck said that from what he had heard on the
news, the job market was lousy. But he said
well-qualified students were not having prob
lems finding jobs.
“People who have been preparing them
selves while in college arc being snatched up,”
he said.
Students who have had internships or ca
reer-oriented jobs have an advantage in the job
market, Jilck said.
Routh agreed.
In the past, if students had college degrees
and could sign their names, they could easily
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him that people at UNL wouldn’t object to
change.
“I was fairly confident that most of the
changes I’ve made in the five months I’ve been
here, I didn’t feel they were high-risk deci
sions,” he said. “My information and my own
clinical judgment was that the campus would
be supportive.”
Another reason his changes have been well
received, Spanier said, is that he has spent a lot
of time talking to pepple about them. He has
been working 100-hour weeks since he started
in November—with a good deal of those hours
going into communication, he said.
Spanier has tried to meet with studentgroups
at least once a week, has taught three classes
and has visited about 20 cities in Nebraska,
given about 250 speeches and gone to about
four lunches and three dinners a week.
He also has a computer-message file on
which anyone — even students -— can send
him messages. He reads and replies to mes
sages between meetings and phone calls, he
said.
But one of the best ways Spanier can com
municatc, he said, is through the media.
“I’m trying to be very accessible to the
media,” he said.
“You can’t talk to 25,000 students and6,000
employees each day, but if you arc accessible
to die media. . . . Then people out there are
going to gel a pretty good idea of what you are
doing and saying.” •
After five months as chancellor, Spanier
said he liked his job.
“What 1 found is that my expectations have
been exceeded,” he said. “What I’ve found is
that within the state of Nebraska and within the
university, people arc very eager to have the
chancellor step forward as a leader — to pro
mote leadership, to set forth a vision.
“Most people come into a university chan
cellorship, and generally everyone talks about
wanting a leader,” he said. “But the moment
they try, they get squashed.
“I haven’t found that here.”
The cooperation that people at UNL have
shown has allowed Spanier to have a produc
tive first year, he said. '
Still, Spanier said he was just gelling started.
“I think we’vc accomplished a lot, but we’ve
only scratched the surface,” he said. “There’s a
tremendous amount of work yet to do—a long
agenda ahead of us.”
Student arrested for threats, sun
Prom Staff Reports
A 19-year-old University of Ncbraska
Lincoln student was arrested early Saturday
after allegedly threatening another student
with a gun after a party near 10th and K
streets.
Sgt. Robert Kubicek of the Lincoln Po
lice Department said an officer was driving
on K Street at 2:43 a.m. when he saw 15
people in the front yard of an apartment
building.
The officer saw that one member of the
crowd “appeared agitated and made a rush
ing-typc movement” toward another man.
After seeing that the man was carrying a
small-caliber, semi-automatic weapon, the
officer ordered the man to stop and pul
down the gun. Instead, the man ran away.
The man later was arrested in an alley be
tween 10th and lllh streets. _/
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