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By ELIZABETH LYNCH ?
Carolina Life Editor
A tvDical dav in the life of a senior
at USC ? wake up, go to class,
eat three meals, go to the library M
and, by the way ... find a job with
career advancement that will utilize
the skills and information you jfl
have acquired from the 17 years
you've spent in school.
"I realized last night I was going J |
to graduate," English senior Joanne
Veatche said. "I knew all summer,
but somehow last night I said, 'Oh R
my goodness, I've got to get a v
job.'" Wgy jd ~
Students had a chance to make I
their niche in the working world at I
the Career Fair yesterday in the J
Russell House Ballroom.
"We had 92 companies or em- I
ployers participating. That incorporates
school districts, graduate I
schools and general government I
agencies and private employers," 1
Dr. Larry Salters, Interim Director I
of the Career Center at USC, said.
The purpose or the tair is to . v
give exposure to the employer and
to inform students of what the em- Toys R Us representative Jim
ployer is looking for," Salters said. Curtis.
"We encourage seniors to come to
do networking for future job facing graduating seniors incluc
searches. This is a good time to do finding a job suitable to their m;
information interviewing to find jors, determining what fields ai
out what employers are looking open and deciding whether the
for." should go to graduate school.
Marta Curgan, a manager for
Xerox, said interviewing is often "If students come in and are ui
done on campus. "We're very decided about a major or the fiel
open-minded when it comes to hir- they want to go into, we have a
ing. Fifty percent of our new em- reer counselors come in and tal
ployees are college graduates," she about their problems," she said,
said. Salters added that the center o
Beverly Johnson from the Ca- fers workshops on developing re
reer Center said some problems sume and interviewing skills, a
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By the Associated Press ?
WASHINGTON ? An independent study commission urged Cc
gress today not to impose anti-obscenity curbs on works subsidized
the National Endowment for the Arts.
It also called on the arts agency chairman, John Frohnmayer, to sci
a requirement that grant recipients sign a pledge not to use federal fur
to produce works that might be deemed obscene.
The bipartisan 12-member panel, established by Congress last fall, al
proposed overhauling the grant-making machinery of the endowment.
"Maintaining the principle of an open society requires all of us,
times, to put up with much we do not like, but the bargain has proved
the long run a good one," the commission said.
The House is to begin debate soon on legislative proposals to exte
the life of the embattled arts endowment with restrictions on the kinds
art that can receive federal funds.
The NEA has been buffeted for more than a year by criticism frc
conservative lawmakers and religious fundamentalists over its support 1
works that some regarded as pornographic or sacrilegious.
At the urging of Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., Congress amended t
endowment's current $171 million budget last fall to include a ban
support for works that "may be considered obscene," including homoei
tic and sadomasochistic images.
The commission unanimously urged Congress not to hobble the NI
with anti-obscenity restrictions and, in effect, to trust the endowm<
chairman to approve grants for works of artistic excellence that are i
obscene or otherwise illegal.
"Insuring the freedom of expression necessary to nourish the arts wh
bearing in mind limits of public understanding and tolerance requires i
usual wisdom, prudence and, most of all, common sense," said c
chairmen Leonard Garment, a Washington lawyer, and John Bradem
president of New York University.
At a news conference this morning, the study commission r'eco
mended diminishing the role of the NEA's "peer review panels," whi
select grant applications for approval, and also recommended giving tl
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Russell talks careers with personnel management seniors Michelle Caughn
le reer objectives and job search With the unemployment rate ris- y
i- techniques. ing to six percent, job hiring is p
re Even though the help is there, slowing down in all areas and get- a
;y many graduating seniors still have ting a job is an extremely competi- g
many anxieties and fears about tive process. a
finding a job. "My fear is not be- "People should not minimize
i- ing able to find a job or getting their qualifications if they can't get p
id into a job situation and not being one particular job. That person v
i- prepared for it," personal manage- may be one of six or eight equally o
Ik ment and insurance senior Peter qualified people applying for one ii
Vaught said. job," Dr. Don Swanson, director of v
f- "I'm having a hard time finding the Counseling and Human Deve- e
s- a company you can expand and lopment Center, said. T
i- grow with," added Vaught. "If you are rejected for a job, v
liders art funds
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out restrictions by Congress.
by With the aim of increasing the NEA's accountability to the tax-paying
public, the commission said the peer panels, consisting of outside artists
aP and arts managers, should be expanded to include "persons knowledge's
able about the arts but not earning their living in them."
The report declared that "obscenity is not protected speech" and that
's0 the NEA "is prohibited from funding the production of works which are
obscene or otherwise illegal." But the report said the endowment should
at stay out of the business of defining what is obscene, leaving that as a
in legal matter for the courts to decide.
Likewise, the panel unanimously opposed "legislative changes to imn(*
pose specific restrictions on the content of works of art supported by the
endowment."
The panel added, "Content restrictions may raise serious constitutional
)m issues, would be inherently ambiguous and would almost certainly inor
volve the endowment and the Department of Justice in costly and unproductive
lawsuits."
he The commission suggested that Congress instead1 approve a "preamon
ble" to legislation reauthorizing the NEA, which would declare that the
ro" arts "belong to all the people of the United States" and should foster
"mutual respect for the diverse beliefs and values of all persons and
^ groups."
The obscenity ban approved by Congress last fall was prompted by
10t criticism of past NEA support for exhibitions of works by photographer
Robert Mapplethorpe, which contained sexually graphic images, and by
1 e artist Andres Serrano, which some critics denounced as blasphemous.
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Career Fair
the employers were looking for at
KJ the Career Fair. "We're looking
f?r someone with leadership potential
and who is motivated to be
successful," Mike Hauss, management
training and developing manager
for .Spring Industries, Inc.,
said.
Ron Sayer, a personnel assistant
for Piggly Wiggly, agreed with
Hauss. "Piggly Wiggly is family
owned and we want to keep that
family type of feeling in the comgfv
pany," Sayer said.
Employers are also looking for
students who are willing to transfer
^ to a new location. "Many seniors
are interested in the Columbia
? ? h. area. That can be a hindrance. This
f i 'B is the one time a student's flexibility
is at its greatest. We strongly
encourage students to be open be
Julie Bouchiiion/The Gamecock Salters suggested that seniors
nan (left) and Michelle P^an g? to the Career Center,
research companies and participate
in informational interviewing,
ou should not reject yourself. A "You should research yourself,
erson shouldn't be afraid to make Question your strengths, where
change. You never know what's you want to be in five years, who
oing to be around the corner," he your heroes are and why this comdded.
pany should hire you," Salters
The Career Center has many said,
rograms available to help seniors
nth stress, Salters said. "We offer Joni Jett, a senior human reounselling
and, for dealing with source representative for CRS Sirlterviewing
stress, we offer mock tine Inc., said, "Don't be afraid to
ideos on video tape with employ- ask anything. This is iimportant bers
or the Career Center's staff, cause it deals with your future, and
"his enhances the student's inter- the only way to get knowledge is
iewing skills," Salters said. to ask questions and fc?e yourself."
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