NEWS The Michigan Daily - Thursday,,March 31, 2005 - 3A ON CAMPUS Philharmonic Orchestra to hold concert tonight The University Philharmonic Orches- tra will hold a concert tonight at 8 p.m. at the McIntosh Theatre of the School of Music. Conducted by Robert Boardman, the program will include musical pieces by Hayden, Mendelssohn and Bartok. For more information, visit www.music. umich.edu. Theatre dept to perform comic production The "Hot L Baltimore," a theatre department production directed by Andrea Frye, will begin its run with an opening performance tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Trueblood Theatre of the Frieze Building. The "Hot L Baltimore" tells the comedic tale of a run-down hotel and its residents. Tickets are $15 for general admission or $9 for students and may be purchased from the Michigan League Ticket Office. There will also be shows on April 1 to 3 and April 7 to 10. Conor O'Neill's to raise money for cancer awareness Conor O'Neill's will be hosting a fundraiser for Cancer Awareness Week 2005 today. As part of Restaurant Day, 15 percent of patrons' bills will be donated to Cancer Awareness charities if they bring in a "University Students Against Cancer" flier. Conor O'Neill's is located on Main Street and is open from 11:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. CRIME NOTES Mcard reported stolen from laundry room A caller reported to the Department of Public Safety that an Mcard was stolen Tuesday evening while left unat- tended in the Mary Markley Residence Hall laundry room. There are currently no suspects. Subject injures hand, refuses to give details A subject was treated for a minor hand injury at the University Hospital Medical Room on Tuesday, according to DPS. The subject refused to give details on how and where the injury occurred. Trespassers ask for money, sleep in Angell Hall There were allegedly two non-Uni- versity affiliates trespassing in Angell Hall on Tuesday. A caller reported to DPS that one nonaffiliate was in the lobby asking for money. A second caller reported to DPS that another nonaffili- ate was sleeping in the Fishbowl area. THIS DAY In Daily History Gunman opens fire on city from downtown home I* March 31, 1982 - A lone gunman, who barricaded himself in a downtown house and opened fire onto First Street with a .22-caliber rifle, was apprehend- ed by the Ann Arbor Police Department late last night after an exchange of fire with a police sniper. The 26-year-old man first began firing from the house at 314 N. First St. onto the 300-block of the street at 7 p.m. The police officer who first arrived at the scene was pinned down by fire while other officers and sheriff's depu- ties arrived and surrounded the house, police said. Liberal arts majors qualify for variety ofjobs By Pauline Lewis For the Daily Every student graduating with a degree in the humanities has been confronted with the dreaded question: "What are you going to do with that?" Students often worry about their majors because they are under the impression that their careers and the rest of their lives will be decided by their degrees. But graduating seniors may discover that their undergraduate majors have little to do with their marketability. The National Association of Colleges and Employers has released a compilation of the top 20 skills that employers seek in job candidates. Ranked number one was verbal and written communication skills, while grade point aver- age was number 18. It is also standard for most employers to have a G.P.A minimum of between 2.5 and 3.0. The University's Career Center corroborates NACE's emphasis on students who are skilled in communication and critical thinking. "Well over 85 percent of all of our employers are looking at all majors," said Lynne Sebille- White, assistant director in Recruitment Ser- vices. Because liberal arts class work does not directly apply to most jobs, she said, it is impor- tant for graduates to demonstrate to employers that the abilities they developed in college can be transferred into the workplace. Adam Valentine, who is majoring in commu- nication studies and English, is one LSA senior who has been successful in his job search. With a past internship at an advertising company pro- viding him a fallback for a possible job, he is hoping for a position at a financial corporation on the East Coast. "I was fortunate because (the advertising company) wanted me to come back," Valentine said. "If you get a good internship, you can relax and really screen for a good company." But not all seniors are having an easy time finding a job with their liberal arts degrees. Dan Zitnick, majoring in political science and Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish and Islamic Studies, has decided to stay in school for another year partially due to his inability to find work. "I applied to five or six jobs, and I didn't get any responses back." Despite this lack of feedback, Zitnick praised the governmental website, www.usajobs.gov, for facilitating his jobsearch. "The way they had it set up made it pretty easy. I made a profile and posted my resume, and they updated me when- ever jobs in my area were available." Seniors with degrees in humanities often feel pressure from their families who have concerns on their ability to find work. Cumi Ikeda, a graduating senior majoring in English literature and Japanese Studies, said that while her mother supports her, some of her family worries about her career opportunities. "My Japanese skills might be marketable, but my grandfather defi- nitely worries because I want to pursue English literature," she said. Ikeda has found a job for the fall in Louisi- ana with Teach for America, an organization that places recent college graduates in under- privileged schools as teachers for two years. Programs like Teach for America and the Peace Corps are often popular for graduating seniors who plan on going to graduate school. "A lot of people are planning on going to more school and have the luxury to do some- thing for a bit that's not a 9-to-5," said Courtney Skiles, a graduating senior with a double major in political science and English who is planning on attending law school after participating in the Peace Corps. Graduate schools also become a more tempt- ing alternative to the job market when the state of the economy is poor. "When the economy is down, it is always a good idea to stash away some good education," said Mike Belzer, an associate professor of urban and labor studies at Wayne State University. But with the economy picking up after recent setbacks, Belzer suggested that now might be a good time to take a break from schooling. "Now is a great time to get out in the job mar- ket," Belzer said. "The economy is bumping along OK now; use your time wisely." According to NACE, employers are planning on hiring more graduates - and at higher sal- aries - this year than they did last year. And Belzer is confident that these employers will be more interested in students' qualifications rather than their majors. "My hunch is that you need to have learned how to read, write, to think analytically," he said. "You will have gained what you need to have gained to raise your human capital." A temporarily improving economy and employers eager to hire graduates is good news, but many seniors in the liberal arts still face dif- ficulties finding a job after graduation. Kelli Klumpp, majoring in AAPTIS and seek- ing employment in the State Department, said that she wasn't alone in her inability to find a job. "I can't think of any of my friends, who aren't in the B-school, who have found work." DRB Continued from page 1A has made no moves to incorporate restrictions in its code of conduct that would inhibit Ris and Gra- ham from participating in the final decision. Instead, Stafford said he believes Coca-Cola Campaign members may be misinterpreting the debates and taking disagreement as an effort to remove them from the board. "It's a pretty complex subject so it's an equal opportunity to express yourself and an equal opportunity to have people disagree with you," Stafford said. "This is the way it is when you have a committee at the University talking about rule-making." Graham said that although she understands the anxiety over possible exclusion of herself and Ris from the final vote, said she does not feel targeted. "I don't think anyone is trying to silence anyone. I don't really think that I'm targeted; I think that everything that's going on with the conflict of interest is in the best interest of the DRB; they're just trying to make sure that the board is credible and looks credible. If a deci- sion is passed on Coca-Cola, it's going to be huge and it's going to be scrutinized, so we have to make sure that any decision we make is made responsibly," she said. While Graham is committed to ensuring that the DRB is neutral, she is cautious that the questions surrounding herself and Ris might lead to overly restrictive guidelines. "I don't think I was targeted, but there were sug- gestions about the conflict of interest that I was uncomfortable with," she said. "There should be nothing (in the DRB guidelines) about disallow- ing someone from a student organization from the DRB or anything that says a member of a com- plaining organization cannot be on the review board. A conflict of interest clause is good as long as it's not too restrictive." Kristin McRay, LSA senior and Coke Cam- paign member, said she agrees that everyone will have some form of conflict with the issue at hand and that she was under the assumption that the University felt the same way. "Historically, this has never been seen as a conflict of interest by the administration. I was on the Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights last year and my membership with SOLE was never seen as a problem; the information that I received as a student I passed on to the committee," McRay said. McRay added that everyone is entitled to his own political opinions. "The concern on the DRB is about remaining neutral, and that's misguided because everyone has a political opinion. To say that they have a conflict of interest because of a political opin- ion is trying to shut down that voice, which is hurting the DRB as a whole because they will be lacking information," she said. At the last meeting on Monday, the DRB reached a consensus that it would move forward past the debate over what constitutes a conflict of interest to concentrate more on the allega- tions brought against Coca-Cola. The DRB has been deliberating allegations of Coke's human rights violations in India and Colombia since last fall and is expected to make a decision by the end of this semester. In early March, DRB passed Phase I of the review process, which included more informal discussions, and it is now in Phase II, the for- mal deliberation stage. E3W Continued from page 1A complaints about the content of a stu- dent publication," Goodman said. UAC President Mark Hindelang said UAC has no plans to forcefully censor the Every Three Weekly, but that it has the authority to do so. "The UAC executive board has the right to tell the E3W not to print whatever we want," Hindelang said. "It's a choice that we make to leave it up to them." But Goodman said UAC, because its funding and authority are provid- ed by the University, has no right to censor a publication under its control or to cut funding for reasons related to content. "If (UAC) attempted such an action, there would be a very clear First Amendment claim on the part of the (Every Three Weekly's) staff," Goodman said. "They have no more ability to ignore the First Amendment than the University itself would." According to case law, including the 1969 U.S. Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District and the 2001 6th U.S. Court of Appeals case Kincaid v: Gibson, public schools cannot censor a student publication, reduce its funding or discipline its editors for the purpose of control- ling content. Under Tinker, censorship of stu- dent expression is legal only if school officials can prove that the expression would substantially dis- rupt school activities or invade the rights of others. According to SPLC, courts have also determined that student govern- ments - because their funding and authority come from the universities - have the same First Amendment obligations as the public universities themselves. UAC's position, Gibson said, is the same as that of a student government. When Stevenson initially con- tacted UAC, Ganz said Hindelang, president of UAC, asked her not to distribute the remaining copies of the issue and not to post three offending articles on the Every Three Week- ly's website. Ganz complied volun- tarily, she said, because few of the newspaper's on-campus readers use the website and because the initial distribution run had reached enough students. It is typical, she said, for The Every Three Weekly to distrib- ute only about two-thirds of the cop- ies it prints. Ganz said she would not want to work for the Every Three Weekly if the UAC executive board were to exert the control it says it has over the newspaper. "I don't think the E3W would be able to function if we couldn't pub- lish what we wanted to," she said. Miranda Covey, vice president of finance for UAC, said UAC would not want the Every Three Weekly to offend the University administration because it could threaten UAC's rela- tionship with the administration and the University Board of Regents. "(The administration) being con- cerned means it's not a good situation and we need to do something about it," Covey said. Goodman said that, by involving itself in discussions of a publication's content and seeking to placate the administration, the UAC executive board showed that its priorities are misplaced. "If they are not willing to stand up for the free expression rights of the student activities they fund, I think they're really failing in their respon- sibility," he said. JOBS Continued from page 1A historical average. Although the growing economy seems reassuring to seniors and juniors, Sebille- White still suggests that students start looking for jobs six to nine months before they are ready to work. And since every profession has a different recruiting strat- egy, Sebille-White also suggests students do research before they start searching for jobs. "It's important to understand recruit- ing strategies specific to your fields of interest and to build transferable skills and professional connections relevant to your focus areas," she added. Sebille-White said it is important to keep options open, adding that stu- dents should avoid applying to gradu- ate schools just because the economy is down. "We would not encourage students to use graduate or profes- sional school as their contingency plan. It is much more effective and productive for students to explore all options and make an informed deci- sion, understanding how an addition- al degree impacts their overall career plan," she said. 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