Weber State University Student Newspapers | 1989-01-23 | Page 2

2 The Signpost - Monday, Jan- 23, 1989 Women's roles changing in society : 4 - :. : i 4 THE WEBER STATE COLLEGE Sound System and Jazz Ensemble delighted crowds Friday and Saturday nights with a variety of jazz and pop music in the Allred Theatre. Left to Right Lisa Handley, Shawn Satterthwaite, Alisa Yorgason. (The Signpost photo: Timari Guy) Jobs (cont'd from front page) volatile stock market, the deficit, trade balance, mega-mergers and the increased competition in the marketplace," Lindquist said. His report closely followed an early December survey of 14,000 employers by Manpower, Inc., a temporary employment services company. Twenty-two percent of the companies expected to add to their work forces during the first three months of 1989, while 1 1 percent foresaw staff reductions. "We were a bit surprised at the hiring strength indicated by those figures," Manpower President Mitchell Fromstein said. "After a year in which three million new jobs were added to the U.S. work force, we expected to see a slowing down of job formation." The boom is better for some students than others. "Engineering, accounting and health professions are our most sought-after graduates," said DeBow, while Linn- Benton's Aschoff finds clerical, nursing and automotive students in high demand. Michigan State researchers said electrical engineering majors will be in the greatest demand, followed by marketing and sales, financial administration, mechanical engineering and computer science majors. The Northwestern survey found that technical grads will make the most money. Engineering majors can expect to earn $30,600, up from $29,856 in 1988. Chemistry majors should get the second-highest starting salaries $28,488 up 5.1 percent from 1988. But the biggest salary jump will be in sales and marketing, up 8.8 percent to $25,560. The Southwest, according to the Michigan State report, will offer 1989 graduates the most new jobs, followed by the Northeast, the Southeast and the North Central states. The South Central states and the Northwest will offer the fewest new jobs. PHI KAPPA PHI GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS The Weber State College chapter of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society is inviting applications from outstanding senior students for a Graduate Fellowship for up to $6000 for first-year graduate or professional study. Fifty of these fellowships will be awarded nationwide. Thirty additional students will receive Honorable Mention Awards of $500. Each Phi Kappa Phi Chapter may nominate one student for these awards. Graduating seniors with outstanding academic and leadership records should contact: Deadline: 15 February 1989 Dr. Ronald L. Holt The Honors Program Library, Room 30 Phone: [phone] Spend this summer in Cambridge, ENGLAND! Slide Presentation February 1, 1989 Library 42, 2 p.m. Be a part of a 700-year tradition! If you're interested, contact: THE HONORS PROGRAM Room 30 Library Weber State College Phone [phone] Jill Titensor Managing Editor "The relationship between women and men today is in the throes of change," said Dr. Neila Seshachari, English Department, at the Centennial Honors Lecture last Thursday. "The revolution toward gender equality has already begun," she said. "Most people in our century are unaware that they are both actors and spectators in a period that may go down in the history of ideas as one of the most crucial phases in human psychic development," she said. She said we are in the midst of a revolution not one as drastic as the American Revolution of 1776 or the French Revolution of 1 789. But, "it is probably of more consequence because it has the potential to impact the entire human race." The move toward gender equality in the United States began with the first Women's Rights Movement, which began at Seneca Falls in 1848, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott as its architects, she said. "It's immediate goal was to achieve women's suffrage the right to vote for women but historically "suffrage" turned out to be only the beginning of a much larger demand by women." This demand was a restoration of full human rights domestic, legal, political, social, and every other "right" that male citizens in the U.S. enjoy as their birthright. Suffrage was attained in 1920 and the Equal Rights Amendment was introduced three years later. "The Equal Rights Amendmentto the U.S. Constitution, which to women seemed a natural sequel to voting rights, was first introduced in the Congress in 1923 and was subsequently introduced every single year until it passed in 1972 but eventually failed to be ratified by the required 38 states," Seshachari said. She said the interest in women's rights and the court battles that ensue, are "symptomatic of the psychological need and determination of women to gain equality with men." She outlined the theory of Jungian psychologist James Hillman "the Western European tradition has been stated (see WOMEN on page 3) nezvsSriefs Scholarship applications available for next year Scholarship applications are now available for the 1989 -1990 school year in the Scholarship Office, AD1 12. Students may apply for all three types of scholarship academic, activity and sponsor on the same form, however all requests for consideration for the scholarships must go through the Scholarship Office. If students are interested in activity scholarships alone, they have the option of returning their application directly to the awarding department. Application deadline is March' 1 for all academic and sponsor awards. Lip sync contest helps MS A trip to Daytona Beach, Fla. will be given to the winners of the Rock-A-Like lip sync contest sponsored by Students Against Multiple Sclerosis (SAMS). Winners will spend spring break at Daytona Beach and be featured on MTV. Free hot spiced cider and information about the contest, Multiple Sclerosis and SAMS will be available in the Lobby of the Union Building tomorrow at 10:30 a.m.