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The North Texas Daily
Tuesday, November 23,1982
North Texas State University, Denton, Texas
66th Year No. 49
Photo by SAL SESSA
ORIGINAL SUN—Pauline Vera, Houston freshman, football game. Tulsa defeated NT 38-20 Saturday
studies during the afternoon heat of the NT-Tulsa See related story page 6.
Job referrals decrease
Career office experiences worst semester
fly DEBBIE CORDELL
Staff Writer
Because of high unemployment and a tight
job market, the NT Career Planning and Place-
ment Service is experiencing its worst semes-
ter for interviews and referrals, Dr. John
Brooks, service director, said Monday.
“I’ve been with the placement office 32
years and I’ve never seen a year like this yet,"
Brooks said. “It's a rough employment situa-
tion and it’s nationwide, it's not just at NTSU.”
As a result, graduating seniors are encour-
aged to contact the service and start a place-
ment file so the office can refer students to
available jobs and employers to prospective
employees, he said.
Last fall 240 employers conducted on-
campus interviews compared to 107 this se-
mester. "That is nearly 50 percent difference
and that’s bad.
“They (students) can’t change the economy,
so a student today needs to have every means
of employment and that means this office,"
Brooks said. “It takes 35 minutes to register,
and what have they got to lose ’ Not one sin-
gle thing.”
ALTHOUGH FIGURES for this semester
arc not yet available, the number is down sub-
stantially for the number of employers listing
full-time positions with the service, he said.
During the 1981-82 school year. 587 employ-
ers listed 1,354 full-time positions with the
office. Graduating students and alumni who
are registered with the service are notified by
mail of these positions as they arc received.
“I started noticing it (unemployment effects)
last November, seeing things tightening," he
said. “This school year we have really seen
it tighten. It is frightening what is happening
out there. The in-migration of college gradu-
ates from other stales is giving our graduates
more competition and makes finding the job
that much tougher.
"When the market is tight, the students need
more help. I didn't worry as much about stu-
dents not coming in when the market was gixxl
and they could walk out and get a job. A
student didn't need as much help as now . I’m
not sure the average student knows the mar-
ket is where it is right now."
ALTHOUGH THE on-campus interview
bulletin generally lists businesses and indus-
tries looking for majors in the high-demand
areas of accounting, business information sys-
tems and computer science, the service has
many listings for social science and humani-
ties majors.
In fact, Brooks said, only 40 percent of
the jobs listed with the service come from on-
campus interviews while 45 percent come from
job listings. Another 15 percent come from
employers receiving placement files from the
service of the active candidates and then
contacting those in whom there interested in
interviewing.
“I openly admit if I were a student and
read the interview bulletin I would think there
is no way we can help them, but we can But
if a student is not registered we can't send his
File. If graduating students do not register with
us. w'e have no way of knowing who they are
or what type of job they are seeking.
“A good thing about having a placement
file is the fact that the file can be activated at
any time in the future. Seldom a week passes
that some employer does not call and w ant to
check on one of our graduates Without a
placement file we cannot answer the employ-
er’s guestions."
THIS SEMESTER, students have stood in
line hours before the office opens at 8 a m.
to sign up on the on-campus interview sched-
ules, which allow 14 students per schedule.
Brooks said placement offices at various uni-
versities and colleges have reported students
staying overnight to be the first in line to get
a chance to sign the interview schedule
This is the situation at UT-Austin, where
Brooks said he was told a student placed a
note beside the interview schedule offering his
two 40-yard line tickets to the UT-Austin vs.
Oklahoma University football game for a spot
on the schedule.
To alleviate the lines and increase efficien-
cy, the service will implement a pre-selection
system next fall for students seeking positions
in all fields other than education. Education
is not a problem because there are more jobs
than graduates, he said.
Through the new system, students will sign
a list that will be submitted to a particular
employer, along with students’ data sheets,
transcripts and resumes. The employer will
notify the office of which students he wishes
to interview, instead of the first come first
serve procedure used now.
About 40 percent of the graduating class is
registered with the office, but 45 percent are
already working full-time, he said.
Dean of students Joe Stewart, who is in
charge the Student Employment Office and
works with Cooperative Education, said Mon-
day that the number of part-time jobs has sta-
bilized while the cuts in financial aid has led
more students to seek part-time jobs.
As a result the office is concentrating its
efforts on finding part-time, off-eampus em-
ployment, he said.
The Career Planning and Placement Serv-
ice, the Dean of Students Office and Student
Employment are open from 8 a m. to 5 p.m.
on the third floor of the University Union.
Reagan gives approval
to dense-pack for MX
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Reagan proposed
Monday to deploy the huge MX missile in a string of
Wyoming silos, then invited the Soviet Union to take sev-
eral joint steps to abate fears of an accidental nuclear
war.
"It still takes weapons to prevent war,” Reagan said
of his option for the so-called dense-pack deployment of
the MX, a missile he rechristened “the Peacekeeper “
But he declared that the United States wants deep cuts in
the world’s arsenal.
The president proposed that the superpowers begin that
process with a concerted attempt to preclude the possibil-
ity of accidental conflict. On that score, he proposed they
tell each other in advance of plans to test intercontinental
missiles or launch major military exercises, and suggested
"a broad-ranging exchange of basic data about our nu-
clear forces.”
In his nationally televised speech, Reagan said he hoped
to “remove surprise and uncertainty at the sudden appear-
ance of such missiles on the warning screens of the two
countries.”
Center faces crisis
And in support of his proposal to exchange informa-
tion about nuclear forces, Reagan said, "The more one
side knows about what the other side is doing, the less
room there is for surprise and miscalculation.”
“We would prefer that the Soviets dismantle SS-18s in
their intercontinental ballistic missiles rather than we build
more holes,” Reagan said in a written statement about
his MX decision. “But we can accommodate either and
maintain stability.”
The long-awaited MX decision, which faces a doubtful
future in Congress, would have the United States deploy
its first new intercontinental missile in 20 years.
But in his arms control speech Monday evening, Reagan
signaled the Kremlin leadership that the United States would
prefer reduction of nuclear arsenals to participation in a
dangerous and expensive arms race.
“The United States wants deep cuts in the world’s ar-
senal of weapons,” Reagan said, but he insisted the So-
viet Union won’t bargain seriously unless its leaders are
convinced the United States is determined to modernize
its nuclear force.
Deficit threatens shelter
By LAURIE GRIFFIN
Staff Writer
The Denton Area Crisis Center will
close down in January if it is unable to
get funds enough to operate until July,
the end of its fiscal year. Roland Harvey,
center director, said.
“We haven't made an official an-
nouncement yet. That will be done in
the middle of December if we are una-
ble to get the funding we need," Harvey
said.
The crisis center houses runaways, teen-
agers who would otherwise be in jail and
children from abusive homes. If the cen-
ter closes, some of the children will be
accepted by other agencies, but most will
end up in bad home environments and
on the streets. Harvey said.
"The sad thing is that there is a tre-
mendous shortage of services like ours,
and there is an ever increasing need for
this kind of program in the United
States,” he said. "We are one of 12 such
programs in Texas, and we get calls from
all over the state asking us to take kids
in.”
The center will need a guarantee of at
least $35,000 in funding before it will
be able to stay open, Harvey said.
“We’ve gotten some support from in-
dividuals and local agencies, but we’re
at the point where we need a significant
amount of funding to stay open.”
Beginning July 1. the federal govern-
ment will double the amount of funding
for shelters such as the crisis center, but
the center will never see those funds if
it cannot stay open until then, he said
"If we could make it until July we
would be OK It would be nice to be
able to operate without having to strug-
gle to get by,” he said. "It's frustrating
to have worked so long lor this, and then
when the end of the tunnel is just barely
in sight, we may not be able to make
it.”
Health and Human Services—a pro-
gram that helps fund youth centers in dif-
ferent parts of the United States—gives
the center grants, which constitute most
of the center’s funding. Harvey said.
The center also gets funding from the
Texas Department of Human Resources,
the Texas Youth Council and Denton
County. The center has been under con-
tract with Denton County and received
$1,000 a month, but that funding will
halt as of Jan. I, Harvey said.
“The county voted not to renew our
contract, and gave us no reasons except
that we were part of its cutbacks in hu-
man services in general,” he said. “That
cut alone probably won’t make that much
difference, but it certainly was a signifi-
cant blow to us anyway."
Harvey said it will be difficult for the
center to shelter children from Denton
County after county funding expires. “If
a child is not under the TDHR or the
TYC, we will not be able to take him. "
Four full-time staff members, 14 Col-
lege Work Study students and 15 volun-
teers operate the center, which is open
24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The center could cut programming and
staff. Harvey said, but the center is al-
most operating at a minimum level now.
"Our major cost is staffing, and we only
have half the amount of full-time employ-
ees as most of the shelters around the
country,” he said. "That is almost un-
heard of for a facility such as ours."
Besides a youth shelter, the center op-
erates a 24-hour hotline as a community
service. Harvey said the center could close
the youth shelter and only operate the
hotline—a move he said he’d rather not
make. “We receive about 200 calls a
month on the hotline an* we could in-
crease that number with publicity, but it
(the hotline) is inadequately funded and
we could not feasibly operate it at a higher
level.”
If the center does not get the money it
needs, it will begin closing its doors in
January . It will take about a month to
close the center completely, Harvey said.
Center officials are considering possible
fund-raising activities and will sponsor
a raffle within in the next two weeks,
but, Harvey said, it will take much more
than fund-raising to pull the center out
of its crisis.
"This is kind of the last chance for
the community to pull it out of the fire
and keep our program alive," he said.
Photo Oy SAL SESSA
SPLASHDOWN—Alex Pantarotto. Denton freshman, refreshes himself af-
ter the two-mile Turkey Trot The run was Monday afternoon, and began at
the NT Golf Course._
Brik Pak
to bring
new jobs
Bv RALPH GAUER
Staff Writer
Completion of Bnk Pak Inc. 's $40 mil-
lion laminated paper plant in western
Denton, scheduled for April 1984, will
provide 200 new jobs in Denton, a com-
pany official said Tuesday.
The company is already considering
expansions of the facility which would
require additional workers, he said.
Corporate representatives and Denton
city officials broke ground Friday on a
52.6-acre tract of land north of Airport
Road, adjacent to the Peterbilt Motors
Co. plant.
Brik Pak aseptically seals liquids, in-
cluding milk and juices, in a process that
allows storage without refrigeration. The
Denton plant will produce the laminated
paper used in the aseptic packages.
Denton was chosin as the location for
the plant rather than other cities in the
United States in part because it offered
corporate officials a sizable job pool from
which to draw. Piper Ciilspanski of Brik
Pak said Tuesday.
More than 200 workers will be needed
when the plant opens in 1984. and com-
pany officials in Denton Friday said some
workers may be trained overseas to fa-
cilitate plant operation.
Company officials were also attracted
to Denton because it is close to Dallas,
the site of Brik Pak corporate headquar-
ters; the availability of rail line access;
the ease of travel along Interstate High-
way 35 to the north and south; and
Denton's position near the Dallas/Fort
Worth Airport.
Gilspanski said construction of the Bnk
Pak facility will take place in three phases
The first phase, now underway, includes
the development of roads, employee
parking, and loading facilities
The 210.000-square-foot facility will
require 15 acres of the total plot, and
tiiispanski said corporate officials will
expand the facility if sales of the com-
pany's aseptically packaged liquids require
it.
Aseptically packaged goods are tree
from disease causing and putrifying mi-
croorganisms, which arc removed during
the packaging process by sterilizing both
product and package as the liquids are
sealed inside the laminated paper cartons
Some asepticallv-sealed products are
now available in the United States, in-
cluding products offered by Ocean Spray.
Borden's. Hi-C and some dairies
Use of the asepticallv-sealed contain-
ers in Europe is far ahead of its accept-
ance in the United States.
Sealing liquids aseptically saves money
for packagers because liquids stored asep-
tically need not be refrigerated. Tetra Pak
claims a shelf life of six months lor its
aseptically packaged milk products.
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