Page 97 - ThePhoenix1981-82

January '21, 1982 Page 3 Watertower leaks . Employment hopes Temperance contemplated good for grads Corey N. Mann to believe, but true. He picked up his Harrison house wine and cheese CPS Shingleton says litIe Maryland General Assembly Rexible Flyer, dusted of! the snow parties, I can't believe met. it is The employment outlook for 1982 "The meoet will be high on any ccoveneo last week for a session that and said, "Wow, ice is nell." Wnat are fair at all. I can hardly imagine graduates, depending on field of thing relating to high technology. and will result in definite stances by you doing out jere. Corey?" Western Maryland with no one at the study and geographic location, will low on disciplines such as natural members of the state raw- making I told him tnat I was kind of split tap, Man, when I came nere for a tour either be ''very good. 'or very, very resources, fisheries and wildlife. and community, This is only because it is about the proposed drinking age bill. as a prospective freshman someone bad," according to preliminary find- arts and letters," Shingleton explains an election year and senators will He said notning. just walked towards tried to sell me a chance 01'1 a case ings from a Michigan State University Chemical engineers with lour-year finally be committing themselves to bts house, I followed tun in silence 01 beer-but then again, how much of study on recruitment trends. degrees will earn around $26,000 tangible platforms. The piece of legis- and put his sled under the porch my tuition money goes for the unnec- The annual study foresees that their first year out of school. Shingle- lation that will most affect us as wtlile he made cortee essary mending of ecotoi related chemical engineers will command the ton predicts. while lowly education students is perhaps, the motion that We sat down in his living room and wrongdoings highest salaries among graduates majors will scurry after jobs oHering - is designed to raise the drinking age put Patton on his Betamax "I never did any of that; I never this spring, wtlile education mejors yearly salaries 01 around $13.000 from 18 to 2t. This is a bill which has "It is like this Dean. People die drove drunk. It looks like ren gonna will probably draw the lowest salaries Other studies, however, claim the snowballed support tor the last Sev- everyday on the highways because of suffe,-damn, a victim of circum- . and experience the hardest time teaching job market will improve by eral years, because of its success in drunk drivers-I mean of!icial esti- stance. Dean it is time for someone to finding jobs. the mid-eighties other states. At first, I did not know mates say that one in ten drivers on a put a check on these alcohol privi- ''This will be a very unique year, Location will make a big olfterence exactly how 10 take this news wtlen I Friday or Saturday night is at least lege abusers, but how can the state unlike we've ever had before," re- in whether or not grads find' employ- read 01 it last Monday, so I took a walk impaired-a potential murder or sui- start here-blame it on us. Then I ports John D. Shingleton, director of ment this spring, Shingleton points out onto the frozen golf course. look- cide looking for a place to happen." thought that it doesn't war!< that way MSU's placement service, wtlich con- out. ing into the orange and gr~n neon "Yep," he said and again, because 01 a few, the ducts the study. "There is a very high "The merset in the midwest is in some lights of Baughers, I sat down in the "But wait,~ I said. "If the law passes man on the street is going to bear..,the demand for jobs disciplines dryil')g up," according to Shingleton, snow and began to lt1ink. (I do that a it could be the final chop in the big burden. And it is almost too late to do and geographic areas, and a very "while the southwest and sunbett lot since someone stole the tape tree' that was once our campus social anything about it" low demand in certain other disci- areas look. very good" deck out of my car). life." After a long silence Mo spoke; plines and locations. We're seeing Ahhough the job prospects lor "look. out below," I heard as a "Timber," said Wray "Corey, aren't you 21 yet?" "Yea," I vast extremes in hiring practices. liberal arts meers in general will be dark, torpedo-like mass ejrost .hit I replied, "That would mean no said. "I had forgotten that there for a Everything either went up or went less than rosy, Shingleton believes me. Some kid on a sled, He gained more big ten kegger beer blasts, no while" down " that good planning and preparation speed and hit a bench. I ran over to more cocktail parties, no more. " A I left his house still undecided as to On the up side are such disciplines wi!! net most graduates a job this see if he was alright and much to my lump came to my throat, "TECH" my stance on the issue, but I knew as computer science, engineering, summer surprise it was Dean Mowbray. Hard A gleam came to his eye. No more for sure that, before the week was out accounting, marketing, and trenscor- ''J:he mar!