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company with travel and bene
fits,” said University of Maryland
senior Maurice Boissiere of his
job search. “Right now I’m look
ing at company profiles. I’m
interviewing them.”
The companies feel it, too.
“We will be offering jobs to
people who know they are going
to be in great demand,” conceded
Sally Odle, recruiting manager
for IBM. “We have to offer jobs
that are challenging and interest
ing.”
Deborah DeBow of Eastern
Washington University’s Place
ment Office also found “there’s
more competition (for students,)
so companies are getting more
aggressive. They’re buying ads
in student publications and com
ing into the office to strategize
more with the (placement) direc
tor.”
Observers attribute the
scramble for students to corpo
rate concern that there won’t be
enough grads to hire in the future.
A recent U.S. Labor DepL
study predicted one million
fewer young people will enter the
job market during the next dec
ade than during the 1970s.
“We are doing everything we
can to prepare for the shrinking
labor market,” said Trudy Ma-
rotta of the Marriott Corp.
Victor Lindquist of North
western added companies also
are hiring because the companies
themselves expect to prosper.
Sixty-one percent of the firms
NU surveyed thought they’d be
more profitable in 1989 than they
were in 1988.
“Corporate America is confi
dent the economy will remain
strong despite concerns by so-
called experts about the volatile
stock market, the deficit, trade
balance, megamergers and the
increased competition in the mar
ketplace,” Lindquist said.
His report closely followed an
early December survey of 14,0(X)
employers by Manpower, Inc., a
temporary employment service
company
Twenty-two percent of the
AIDS-positive student sues university
A student kept out of dental
school because he tested positive
for the AIDS virus has sued
Washington University of St.
Louis for three million dollars in
damages.
David Bensinger, dean of
Washington’s dental school, dis
missed the student — referred to
in the suit as John Doe — in
August after finding out the stu
dent had tested positive for AIDS
antibodies in March or April,
1988, but had gone on to treat 27
patients at the campus clinic as
part of his studies anyway.
But Normal London, the dis
missed student’s attorney, argued
in the lawsuit filed in December
that his client legally is handi
capped, and that the dental
school’s action amounted to dis
crimination against a disabled
person.
While campus officials re
fused to comment on the suit,
school lawyer Peter Ruger con
tended they were all within their
rights to dismiss the student in the
name of protecting others from
the virus.
Protection efforts, meanwhile,
provoked arguments about mor
als at each schools:
Arizona State University dis
sidents collected more than 100
signatures on a petition to protest
a proposal to install a condom
machine in a campus dormitory.
The students said the machine
will promote sexual promiscuity
and increase students’ risk of get
ting AIDS.
“Condoms won’t solve these
problems,” said Sheila Barker,
one of the students leading the
petition drive. “These problems
are on the rise because some
people don’t have any morals.”
Placing condoms in campus
Proposed bill would tie
financial aid to service
Students would have to join
the military or do volunteer work
to get college financial aid if a
new bill introduced Jan. 6 be
comes law.
As expected. Sen. Sam Nunn
(D-Ga.) and Rep. Dave McCurdy
(D-Okla.) said they’d introduce
legislation that would phase out
all federal student aid programs
within five years, replacing them
with a deal in which students
would have to perform some
kind of “national service” in re
turn for aid.
McCurdy, in announcing the
measure, said it would enforce
the notion that “democracy is not
free.”
If the plan passes — both leg
islators expected Congress to
vote on it by early 1990 — stu
dents would have to serve one
year in a public service civilian
job like working in a nursing
home or hospital or two years in a
combat branch of the military.
Students who served in the
military would get a $25,000
grant at the end of their hitch.
Students who worked in civil
ian jobs would get a $10,(X)0
grant.
McCurdy hoped the plan
would “reinvigorate citizenship”
as an ideal that was first severely
damaged during the Vietnam
war. Then “the 1970s and early
1980s featured ‘me generations’
more interested in their own fi
nancial gain and getting BMWs
than serving their country.”
bathrooms could damage Grand
Valley State University’s reputa
tion, contended student Senator
Brian Sayers at a recent Senate
debate about the machines at the
Michigan campus.
“I don’t want condom ma
chines in my bathroom,” said
another Grand Valley student.
“What will my parents and
grandparents think when they
come to visit?”
The student senate at Appala
chian State University, however.
voted to install condom machines
in residence halls this term, mak
ing ASU the first university in
North Carolina to do so.
“There was a lot of concern of
the moral issue of the bill, but
with the amount of unwanted
pregnancy, this bill’s effects will
serve as a prevention method,”
said Jenny Novak, the bill’s
sponsor. “The student govern
ment in no way condones prom
iscuity. We’re just concerned
about students.”
Travel guide for students available
Students planning a trip
abroad wiU welcome the latest
edition of the Student Travel
Catalog, a free, 68-page guide to
special opportunities for travel,
study and work overseas avail
able to students that is published
annually by the Council on Inter
national Educational Exchange
(CIEE,) the largest student travel
organization in the world.
The 1989 catalog features in
formation on special air fares,
rail passes, low-cost accommo
dations, publications, insurance,
travel gear, tours and car rentals
as well as for passport, visa and
custom requirements.
The 1989 Student Travel
Catalog is available from CIEE,
Dept. 16, 205 E. 42nd St., New
York, N.Y. 10017. Telephone:
(212) 661-1414. There is a $1
cost for postage and handling.
companies expected to add to
their work forces during the first
three months of 1989, while 11
percent foresaw staff reductions.
“We were a bit surprised at the
hiring strength indicated by those
figures,” Manpower President
Mitchell Fromstein said. “After a
year in which three million new
jobs were added to the U.S.
workforce, we expected to see a
slowing down of job formation.”
The boom is better for some
students than others.
“Engineering, accounting and
health professions are our most
sought-after graduates,” said De-
Bow, while Linn-Benton’s
Aschoff finds clerical, nursing
and automotive students in high
demand.
Michigan State researchers
said electrical engineering ma
jors will be in the greatest de
mand, followed by marketing
and sales, financial administra
tion, mechanical engineering and
computer science majors.
The Northwestern survey
found that technical grads will
make the most money. Engineer
ing majors can expect to earn
$30,600, up from $29,856 in
1988.
Chemistry majors should get
the second-highest starting sala
ries — $28,488 — up 5.1 percent
from 1988.
But the biggest salary jump
will be in sales and marketing, up
8.8 percent to $25,560.
The Southwest, according to
the Michigan State report, will
offer 1989 graduates the most
new jobs, followed by the North
east, the Southeast and the North
Central states. The South Central
states and the Northwest will of
fer the fewest new jobs.
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