1989_02 The Daily Collegian February 1989

              The Daily Collegian
Friday. February 3, 1080
JOBS
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of Maryland senior Maurice Boissiere of
his job search. "Right now I'm looking at
company profiles. I'm interviewing
them."
The companies feel it, loo.
"We will be offering jobs to people
who know they are, going to be in yeat
demand," conceded Sally Odie, recruiting
manager for IBM. "We have to offer jobs
that are challenging and interesting."
Deborah DeBow of Eastern Wash¬
ington University's Placement Office also
found "there's more competition (for
students), so companies are getting more
aggressive. They're buying ads in student
publications and coming into the office to
strategize more with the (placement)
director."
Observers attribute the scramble for
students to corporate concern that there
won't be enough grads to hire in the
future.
A recent U.S. Labor Dept. study pre¬
dicted one million fewer young people
will enter the job market during the next
decade than during the 1970s.
"We are doing everything we can to
prepare for the shrinking labor market,"
said Trudy Marotta of the Marriott Corp.
Victor Lindq uist of North western added
companies are also hiring because the
companies themselves expect to prosper.
Sixty-one percent of the firms NU
surveyed thought they'd be more prof.
itabie in 1989 than they were in 1988.
"Corporate America is confident the
economy will remain strong despite con¬
cerns by so-called experts about the vol¬
atile stock market, the deficit, trade
balance, megamergers and the increased
competition in the marketplace," Lind-
quist said.
His report closely followed an early
December survey of 14,000 employers by
Manpower, Inc., a temporary employ-
ment services company.
Twenty-two percent of the companies
expected to add to their workforces 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. work¬
force, we expected to see a slowing down
c>f job formation."
The boom is better for some students
than others.
"Engineering, accounting and health
professions are our most sought-after
graduates," said DeBow, while Linn-
Benton's Aschoff finds clerical, nursing
Students face drug tests
GoOegc Ptess Service
More students will have to pass one
more lest—this time a drag test—
before starting their careers after grad¬
uation, new studies of the job market
for this spring's grads irvdicate
The drug user, once on the payroll,
becomes a very, very costly I iab U iry to
the employer,' explained Victor Lind-
quist, author of Northwestern Univer-
siry's Urxkjiist-Ettlicoa Report, which
showed 47 percent of the companies
luring on the nation's campuses this
year test job applicants for drug use,
Another seven percent of the em¬
ployers Lindquist Surveyed said they
expected to start drag toting during
1989.
About 32 percent of the companies
asked by Michigan State University's
Annual Recruiting Survey, also re¬
leased in late December, now make
prospective employees take drug tests.
Twenty-seven percent of the firms
asked last year imposed drug tests.
By contrast, only 14 percent of the
companies made students prove they
don't abuse alcohol and 3 percent re¬
quired arjplicaots to take AIDS tests.
Sixty-four percent of the coroparues
contacted by Michigan State, however.
said they bad no plans to implement
drug testing in the near future.
and automotive students in high demand.
Michigan State researchers said elec¬
trical engineering majors will be in the
greatest demand, followed by marketing
and sales, financial administration, mech¬
anical engineering and computer science
majors.
The Northwestern survey found that
technical grads will make the most mon¬
ey. Engineering majors can expect to care
$30,600, up from $29,856 in 1988.
Chemistry   majors   should   get   the
second-highest starling salaries—$28,488
—op S.l 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 Northeast, the Southeast and the
North Central states. The South Central
stales and the Northwest will offer the
fewest new jobs.
LEAR
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eyes being gouged out.
In what was an inevitable irony, the
wrongly accused Edgar and, by this time,
the wretched and insane Lear are
struggling to survive in the forest in
stormy weather.
Lear winds up at the dwelling of his
daughter who was the model of selfless
love, Cordelia. Cordelia, putting aside her
hurt feelings at being shunned by her
father, attempted to heal him back to
health.
In Lear's dying moments, he realized
the fruits of a rich and honest love that
was inside Cordelia. With feelings of
shame and disgust at himself for being
manipulated and abused, Lear died with a
broken heart at the hands of his uncaring
eldest daughters.
Cordelia was taken prisoner by Edmund
and hung while explaining it as a suicide.
Meanwhile, Edmond, displaying his
immense ego, took great pleasure in
witnessing Goneril poisoning her sister
Regan and than killing herself with both
believing that Edmond, equally desired by
both, acted out of jealously.
Edgar, now bated by his misguided
mortally   wounded   his   power
hungry brother.
The Shakespearean play was marked by
exceptional acting, particularly by Jeffrey
Church who masterfully portrayed the
cunning Edmond with a perfect
combination of malice and controlled
anger. He also switched gears with
excellent timing to play the maligned
Edgar.
Perhaps the most far reaching
peiformance came from Patti Love who
perfectly illustrated the polarity between
GorverirsseIf<entcrcdandgreedycharacter
to the sincere and loving Cordelia
Love's performance was at times
riviting as she punctuated Cordelia's
passion for her father while instantly
programming herself into the role of
jGoneriL Her role switching never was
never devoid of rxlievability.
Vivien Heilbron played Regan, but her
prize role was that of the. fool who
admonished Lear about the wrongness of
his judgments. The role appeared to be a
likeness of a humorous Jimmy Cricket
Bernard Lloyd portrayed King Lear with
heart-wrenching emotion.
Clifford Rose was controlled but
effective as The Earl of Gloucester.
The stage setting consisted of chairs
circularly arranged encompassing a gray
floor.
The Festival of Arts will continue
tonight with a Tom Sloppard performance
and conclude Saturday night with a second
King Lear showing
the
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in three performances only!
KING
LEAR
February 2
& 4,1989
STOPPARD
This Evening
February 3. 1989
General Admission: $8.00
8:00 p.m. in the John Wright Theatre
Inert arc a limited number o( free tickets for CSL.1-
students for each performance on a first come, first served
DEBATE
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tournament involving several teams from
two countries had been organized.
CSUFs Weise and Amey were among
other representatives who came from nine
other CSU campuses. Weise is a graduate
student majoring in speech commun¬
ication and Amey is a junior majoring
in political science.
They were accompanied by Jcanme
Conga! ton, coach and director of forensics
at CSUF and Bloom who served as bason
to the university and a judge.
The teams debated the proposition
"Resolved: That the U.N. should signif¬
icantly increase its assistance for the
development of the Third World"
The debates were conducted in English
where panels of three Chinese and two
U.S. university faculty judged each con¬
test.
To finish the debates^ two final rounds
were held. The first round consisted of the
best Chinese and U.S. teams. The second
and final round was the Friendship
Debate, where numbers were drawn to de¬
cide who would debate. There was no
judging in the Friendship Debate.
According to Bloom, "the Friendship
Debate epitomized the entire debates."
While separate awards were given to
the U.S. and the Chinese "to save face,"
they were structured so that the lop three
American and Chinese teams and top
three American and Chinese speakers were
awarded, according to Bloom.
According to all the participants, they
all felt that the tournament had cultivated
good relations. As Weise put it, "we went
to meet new friends and bridge something
that had never been bridged before."
The touman^nt was successful enough
that the Chinese have made overtures to
establish a student exchange program
with CSUF, said Bloom. She has also
been invited back to participaie in an inter-
aihural conference in the near future.
Plans are being made for a Chinese
delegation to come in February of 1990.
At that time, the Chinese will visit
various CSU campuses to debate, visit
argumentation classes, and participate in a
major tournament at CSU Northridge,
much tike the one held in Clriina.
The Sino-Ainerican debates demon¬
strated that an edirational act, tike
forensics, can help to establish and
strengthen international relations," said
Congalton. "We went over hoping that
academic debate could establish those ties,
and it did"
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