1984_03 The Daily Collegian March 1984

              (5    March 14,1984
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Job outlook good
PRINCETON, N.J. (College Press
Service) — Thc job outlook for engineering and other technical majors appears to
be "much more optimistic" than just a few
months ago, a newly-released study of
recruiting    trends    says.
"Last year people were much more cautious," recalls'Res Christoffersson, spokeswoman for Peterson's Guides, which
just completed its survey of engineering,
science and-computer jobs for 1984.
Engineering job offers — once the fastest growing and most highly paid of all
job Fields — dropped a whopping SO percent last spring, according to the Scientific
Manpower Commission.
The decline wss due primarily to the
recession, end because new grsds were
taking the first offers they got instead of
waiting for better offers to come along,
analysts say.
Things look more promising for this
spring's technical grsds, however.
Of the 334 firms responding to Peterson's survey, 3f percent plan to hire more
graduates in 1984 than in the previous
year. A year ago, only 24 percent of the
respondents planned an increase in hiring.
But competition is likely to be keen,
Christoffersson points out.
Seventy-two percent of the employers
surveyed this year have tightened requirements for new employees. More than over
half intend to make fewer campus visits,
and 34 percent say they won't make as
many job offers to this year's grads.
Moreover, 23 percent don. plan to
increase starting salaries for the class of
"84, and27 percent have set higher standards for job candidates, the survey reveals.
Of the 66 disciplines surveyed, planetary and space science majors are the
least-requested grads by employers, fol-
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The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), is offering the
opportunity to work overseas this summer
as volunteers on service projects aimed at
helping local communities. Free room
and board help to keep participation costs
minimal.
Although work camps have been operating in many parts of the world for more
than 30 yean, they are still a relatively new
concept in the Unites States. They attract
young people from all over the world,
providing them with the chance to live and
work together on a wide range of projects.
Except for a modest program fee of
$ 100, there is no cost other than the airfare
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Work camps, usually two, three or four
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for placements in Germany; language requirements apply in France and Spain.
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said. "Students need to be thinking about
what they want. Do they want something
in Fresno or out of town? Do they want
somelhing career related or something
general?"
DeRuosi doesn't see much of a difference in the job seeking techniques of
summer and part-time employment.
"In fact, seeking part lime and summer
employment means gaining experience
for when students graduate," said DeRuosi, who believes it offers students
opportunities to target employers. He
urges students to pay attention in the
application process, and to learn the art of
persistence.
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magazine. Agitator. His comments about
the publications leave no doubts about
what he thinks about them.
"Thc average Russian family has no
toilet paper," Pronin said. "This is why the
circulation of Pravda is so big. Its better
than leaves."
He points to the small publication.
Agitator, and translates a few of the passages-. He said that il is all propaganda,
rather than news.
"Their press doesnl inform people," he
said. "Their press is only out to educate
their people in the ways of'
When you talk propaganda
try il has derogatory terms, but in Ihe
Soviet Union il is a science. They have
propaganda schools."
"In this country we watched how the
Soviets walked out of Geneva," he said
waving  the  magazine.  "According to
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area, and Ihey hope to put together a slide
show to let others see Ihe beauty of the
area that may become an energy source
for Ihe San Joaquin Valley.
"Most people don't know what's
happening. They don't really know what a
treasure is being lost," Chesemore said.,
"once we divert the water, we will destroy
the stream as we know it today."
He said the visual impact of the show
would help people to decide whether this
is a worthwhile tradeoff or not.
The area, Chesemore said, is readily
accessible to the public, not just backpackers.   "This   is  what   makes  it  so
Some of the lands in .the. proposed
project area are privately owned. That
raises an important question, he said. "II
you technically own a natural resource
what kind of responsibility to the general .
public do you have to protect the
resource?  You   have  a  moral   respon-
"A lot of people don't think that way."
said Laurindine. "To Ihem, it's all dollars
Chesemore said there is only a small
amount of these resources left so perhaps
they're too valuable to destroy.
"There's a ",i?eable amount of money to .
be made by developers, but how much is it
worth to see a waterfall? That's difficult to
put a price on. They're either worth nothing
or they're priceless," Chesemore said.
For ihe developers, "the bookkeeping
gets much simpler," he said.
Agitator; Americans walked away from
the negotiations. There is only one communist paper and they tell you anything
they want."
Pronin said he doesn't see any big
changes occurring in the Soviet Union
under President Konstantin Chernenko.
Pronin said that Chernenko served onthe
editorial board ot Agitator aad was one of '
Leonid Brezhnev's closest friends.
Pronin said a visit to the United States
could change Chernenko's outlook and
perspective on life and could also improve
'A record player in the black
market would cost 500 rubles,
three months' wages for a
Soviet worker.' __    .
 —Pronin   .
relations between the two superpowers,
"If I was Reagan, I would invite Chernenko to the Olympics next year — take
him to Disneyland — let him see some real
American life and he will start melting,"
he said. "This, I think, would give Reagan
a tremendous advantage in terms of poli-
Pronin said he believes that after Nikita
Khnisc hev, the Soviet U nion's leader from
1958to 1964, visited the United States and
saw the strength of its economy, he was
never the same.
Pronin cited an example of the failure
of the Soviet system he saw when he was in
Poland.
"I witnessed with my own eyes Soviet,
tourists stopping their bus in front of a
Polish store, a luggage store, and picking
up 25 suitcases," he said. "They would go
to Poland just to buy 25 pairs of shoes.
Why? Because it was like going 10 another
planet to ihem. It wasn't available to them
in the Soviet Union."
He said the only way to get anything in
the Soviet Union was through the black
"A record player in the black market
would cost 500 rubles, three months wages
or a Spy. t.worker," he.sajd. . _ . _,
Pronin teaches four classes at CSUF,
with a total enrollment of over 200 siu-
Woodward Village
7753 N. First
Fresno, Calif. 93710
(next to Vons)
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Dr. Atax-pdor Pronin
dents'. He teaches classes in Russian Propaganda: War. Peace, and 'Revolution in
Russian film; Russian Heritage;and, Russian Literature in Translation.
Pronin said he has a unique vantage
point in describing events, because he was
"If 1 discuss World War U, then I talk
from two points-of view: Here's how it
.really was; and; here, the way people
today see it from researching and writing
books." he said. .  . ■
Pronin takes pride that he is the only
graduate from Georgetown University teaching on campus. He said he speaks several languages including Russian, Polish,
German, French, and Bulgarian. "I'm still
trying to learn English." he said jokingly.
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