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Informal interviews:
it ? s about time
Potential employers say they want to see “the real you. ”
But an interview room, with its formica-topped barriers
and best-clothes-only atmosphere, is not the best place.
Tomorrow students and industry representatives will
have a chance to meet informally, without the pressure,
during Professional Career Planning in Agriculture Day.
Although it is aimed at the students who make up the
largest college of agriculture in the country, PC PA Day
could benefit anyone willing to explore career oppor
tunities.
More than 60 corporations and government agencies will
have representatives from 2 to 5 p.m. in the main ballroom
of the Memorial Student Center. And chances are they
need more than agricultural economists.
Some of the groups expected are Union Carbide, Ralston
Purina, Dupont, the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Peace
Corps.
The program tomorrow, sponsored by the College of
Agriculture and several other University and student
groups may be the “first annual.”
If it is, it will mark a welcome change from job interviews
where both the student and the employer hide behind
three-piece suits.
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By ARNOLD SAWISLAK
United Press International
WASHINGTON — It isn’t just Jimmy
Carter who the public holds in low es
teem. It’s the whole federal government.
The Advisory Commission on Inter
governmental Relations says for the first
time since it began polling the public in
1972, people feel they are getting the most
for their tax money from local, rather than
federal, government.
The commission has been sponsoring
opinion surveys about public attitudes to
ward government for eight years and in
each of them — even after the Watergate
scandal was exposed — the federal gov
ernment has been rated above both states
and localities as the best value.
But in May of 1979, according to the
cross section of 2,022 people polled by
Opinion Research Corp., 33 percent of the
public rated local government as its best
bargain. Federal government got a 29 per
cent rating and state government 22 per
cent.
That was a one year increase of 7 per
cent for local government and a 6 point
drop for federal government. Compared to
1972, federal government was down 10
points and local government was up 7 per
cent.
The poll also asked, “Which do you
think is the worst tax — that is, the least
fair?” and the replies gave another indica
tor of public disaffection with Washington.
The federal income tax was rated least
fair, getting 37 percent compared to 27
percent for the local property tax, 15 per
cent for the state sales tax and 8 percent
for the state income tax.
That was a remarkable turnaround: just
a year ago, the local property tax led the
federal income tax in unpopularity, 32 to
30, and back in 1972, the local property tax
had a 45-19 lead.
There may be a special reason for some
of the shift in tax attitudes. The far West,
where the anti-property tax Proposition 13
came to flower in 1978, recorded a radical
change of mind. In 1978, 44 percent of
westerners rated the property tax as the
worst, with 23 percent putting the finger
on the federal income tax.
One year later, after the upheaval that
forced property tax cuts in California and
elsewhere, 45 percent of those surveyed in
the West disliked the federal levy least
and disfavor for the property tax had drop
ped to 24 percent. During the same time
none of the other three regions in the sur
vey increased its dislike of the federal in
come tax by more than 5 percent.
These are interesting figures when con
sidered alongside the approval ratings
President Carter has been getting in pub
lic opinion polls.
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government and the income tax he :r j c jty ” said
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — It isn’t often a
layman has an opportunity to contribute to
the advancement of science, so don’t miss
out on this one.
All you need to participate are eight
six-packs of beer, each a different brand,
and a set of pitch pipes.
Groundwork for the experiment was
laid recently by a group of researchers in
Denmark. They discovered that beer
tastes best when drunk to the accompani
ment of a certain musical note, which dif
fers from beer to beer.
As to whether they accidentally stum
bled upon that information or consciously
were seeking such enlightment, I cannot
say. Nor were several other vital details
provided in the dispatch I read.
Presumably, however, they were using
Danish beer. Which means further inves
tigation is necessary to ascertain which
tones bring out the best taste in which
American beers.
This is where you, a layman whose sci
entific curiosity, or thirst, has been whet
ted, come in.
Once you have assembled the labora
tory equipment listed above, invite six
friends to assist you. Hand each a bottle or
can of beer and have them take a sip while
you sound Middle C on the pitch pipe.
During the next sip, sound your D. And
so on up the scale.
After each note and sip, your assistants
should indicate on a chart you have
provided how the taste compared with
other sips.
By the time you have completed the oc
tave, you should have identified the note
that goes best with that particular brand.
Now open another six-pack and repeat.
Much scientific research tends to be
iterative and tedious. As the experiment
progresses, you may find your assistants
becoming rather slipshod and unheeding
of scientific exactitudes.
By the time you reach the fourth or fifth
brand, you may find when you sound your
G that the sippers will go “hmmmmmm”
in pitch with the pipe and then break into
a chorus of “The Whiffenpoof Song.” In
six-part harmony.
Any such deviation definitely is unscien
tific and has no place in an experiment of
this sort.
To restore order, call a 15-minute
break. Make a pot of coffee and refill the
peanut bowl. Once the singing has sub-
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all-night pizza parlor, collect
and tabulate the results.
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will enable you to derive the
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Letters
What is a college newspaper good for,
if not to inform students of kick-off time
Editor:
No wonder only nine out of ten puppies
prefer the Batt! Am I wrong in assuming
that it is the function of a major college
newspaper to supply information about
that college that, for example, the Dallas
Morning News won’t deem newsworthy?
I didn’t find anything about the deadline
for the College Poetry Review in the
DMN, but I was Lucky enough to read
about kick-off time for last Saturdays’ romp
over Penn State. Heck, you could have
slipped gametime in the ‘What’s Up’ col
umn, under Saturday, between the
Biomedical Science Foundation Picnic and
the Very important meeting of the Pakis
tan Club. Or maybe, Mark Patterson
could have mentioned gametime in his ar
ticle ABOUT the game.
Tell you what, I will even give you a
hint! Our next football game is against
Memphis State, at Memphis State.
— David Lethe, ’81
Let’s stay healthy
Editor:
I didn’t want to write this letter until I
found out exactly why the weight room at
DeWare has been closed to students. The
excuse is really disappointing.
In the past this weight room has been
overcrowded with students trying to stay
healthy and physically fit. Now I find out
that to staying healthy and physically fit is
just for the holier than Thou athletes and
not for us lowly students.
I thought it was foolish last year when
the athletic department kept 45-pound
iron weights chained up so the students
would not damage or steal them (Ha! Fig
ure that one out). At least then we still had
the rest of the weight room.
This is a major University with over
31,000 students and with the cash we’re
paying we ought to have a well equipped
weight room. I wouldn’t even mind paying
a few extra dollars for the upkeep as long
as we had a place to work out. Let’sk
for staying healthy people!
—Larry Chase:
Lost and found
Editor:
I found a gold necklace (chain) infr
Sbisa on Wednesday, Sept. 19. Ifan 1
thinks this might be theirs, call 846#
come by my office, Teague 211.
— Terry Woo:
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