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Warped
by Scott McQi
continued from page 1)
In an interview granted to
,vsweek magazine last Friday
1 to be published in the issue
ching newsstands this week,
igan said he was motivated to
i for a second term by “the
ire to finish what I think is
1 started.”
He said that while there is a
>d start on economic recovery
wants “to set the stage for real
jotiations with the Soviet Un-
, leading to peace in the
rid.”
In the interview, he took his
angest swipe yet at Walter
•ndale, the front-runner for
: Democratic presidential
nination.
“I think he has tried to be all
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AT&T OFFICIAL
TO SPEAK AT
BUSINESS CAREER FAIR
BANQUET
J.A. “Gus” Blanchard
Telephone customers are
already feeling the impacts of
the government-forced break
up of the Bell System which
became effective this year. In
some cases rates may have in
creased, in others decreased.
Access charges are up for de
bate, quality of service and re
newed competition in the in
dustry are points of discus
sion.
But a major impact of the
reorganization of America’s
major phone networks will be
among the millions of em
ployees of the phone com
panies themselves, according
to Mr. John A. Blanchard,
Vice President of the Mid
western Region of AT&T
Long Lines.
Mr. Blanchard will address
an audience of students, facul
ty and staff members, and rep
resentatives of more than sixty
other companies at the Fifth
Annual Business Career Fair
Banquet on Wednesday, Feb
ruary 1st.
Mr. Blanchard commented
that it is one thing to restruc
ture several billion dollars of
assets and millions of items of
equipment and facilities, but it
is quite something else to reor
ganize a 100-year-old com
pany with thousands of em
ployees.
It is really kind of like
breaking up a very large fami
ly relationship, he said. Blan
chard has titled his address,
“Managing the Human Side
of Corporate Divorce.”
The company accepted the
court-mandated break-up two
years ago, and already there
are many examples of reas
signments that disrupt long-
established human relation
ships, he said. Some of those
experiences have proven to be
comical, many others painful
and heartbreaking.
Mr. Blanchard believes that
this effect of the change in the
telephone system is as signifi
cant as any of the other results.
Mr. Blanchard began his
Bell System career with
AT&T Long Lines in June,
1965, in Washington, D.C.
He has held various positions
in the Marketing, Operations,
Engineering and Personnel
Departments, and was Mar
keting Director-Data Services
at Long Lines Headquarters in
New Jersey. He has held his
present position as Vice Presi
dent-Midwestern Region in
Kansas City, Missouri, since
1981.
He served in the U.S.
Army, 1965-1968, and
attained the rank of First
Lieutenant.
Blanchard received his
B.A. degree from Princeton
University in 1965, his M.S.
degree from M.I.T. in 1978,
and attended the Wharton
Graduate School in 1979. He
is a member of the Chamber of
Commrce of Greater Kansas
City, Missouri, the Civic
Council of Kansas City, Mis
souri and is involved in Alum
ni activities for Princeton Uni
versity. He served as Presi
dent, Princeton University
Class of 1965, form 1975-
1980. He and his wife, Mary,
with their two children, reside
in Overland Park, Kansas.
An audience of over 700
people are expected for the 7
p.m. banquet in MSC Banquet
Rooms 224-226. A feature of
the program will be the pre
sentation of 80 business stu
dents.
Sponsored by the College
of Business Administration’s
Business Student Counil, the
Banquet allows students to
have dinner with companies
of their choice by signing up in
advance at the ticket table in
Blocker. Banquet tickets are
still on sale today at $5.00 per
person in the first floor lobby
of the Blocker Building.
Over sixty companies will
be participating in this 1984
Career Fair, with corporate
booths set up for student visits
in the hallways and lobbys of
the Blocker Building on
Wednesday, February 1st and
Thursday, February 2nd. Stu
dents of all classifications and
majors are welcomed to visit
the booths between 8:30am
and 4:30pm.
Published by The Business Student Council, College of Business Administration
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things to all people and I think
he’s made more promises than
probably can possibly be kept
oecause as soon as he keeps one
promise he’s made it’s impossi
ble to keep another that he’s
made to someone else,” Reagan
said.
“One thing that’s been called
to my attention is that we prob
ably wouldn’t have a military de
fense for our country if we cut
what he wanted to cut,” Reagan
said of Mondale.
The president expressed an
interest in debating nis Demo
cratic opponent in the fall cam
paign but said it is too early to
talk about the mechanics of such
a debate.
Reaction to Reagan’s ex
pected announcement divided
along party lines.
House Speaker Thomas
O’Neill attacked Reagan for
“escalating the arms race” and
having “divided our country be
tween rich and poor.”
“He has not been fair and the
people know it,” O’Neill said in a
written statement. “The Amer
ican people will reject four more
years of danger, four more years
of pain.”
Senate Republican leader
Howard Baker, who had been
considered a possible candidate
had Reagan not run, said he was
pleased with Reagan’s decision
and added: “He has clearly
earned the right to finish the job
he began over three years ago,
and I pledge my whole-hearted
support for that effort.”
In his announcement speech,
Reagan said that, by winning
approval for major increases in
defense spending, “we have res
tored credible deterrence and
can confidently seek a secure a
lasting peace as well as a reduc
tion in arms.”
He concluded by saying:
“This historic room and the
presidency belong to you. It is
your right and responsibility ev
ery four years to give someone
temporary custody of this office
and of the institution of the pres
idency.
“You so honored me and I
am grateful — grateful and
roud of what, together, we
ave accomplished.
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“I’m basically embarrassed by
Reagan’s foreign policy,” he
said.
Anderson said that many
Americans don’t understand the
Soviets or their lifestyles.
“There’s parts of Russia
where you see horse-drawn
carts,” he said, “where life is in
the 19th century. They’re scared
to death of our technology.
They couldn’t believe it when we
went to the moon only seven or
eight years after we said we
would.”
Robertson called the arms
talks conflict a classic case of a
superpower confrontation.
“They’ll back themselves into a
corner over pride,” he said.
“That leads to fewer options and
an ultimate show of force.”
“The condition of Soviet-
American relations is the most
important problem facing the
world right now,” Robertson
said. He said that there are many
world problems of immediate
importance such as famine and
poverty, but that the status of
Soviet-American relations is the
most important in light of the
possible long-term consequ
ences of the inability of the su
perpowers to work together :
“Soviet pride is wounded
said. “The Soviets have coot]
far to back down, evenifs
might have an opportunitjl
get short-term concession!:
making the first move. It'sl'
high a price, if you think ail
Third World opinion.
don’t want other counlriel
think Reagan’s blusteriiil
true."
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DeKALB, Ill. — At the “best
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they still put on their rubber
knee boots one foot at a time and
trudge through muddy fields to
where a fence needs repairing
or a ditch needs unplugging.
And even though they are
computerized and have been
recognized as operating FarmF-
utures Magazine’s Best Man
aged Farm of 1983, Johnson
family members work their De-
Kalb County farm with the same
vigor and efficiency they’ve had
for the last 19 years.
The video terminal, compu
ter keyboard and daily price
graphs adorning Bob Johnson’s
central office may be getting all
the glory for the award. It’s true
they made the Johnson’s elabo
rate record-keeping manage
able and allowed cost-projecting
for years into the future.
But as Bob’s father, Laverne
Johnson said, “If all you can do is
run a computer, you won’t make
money on a farm. I still haven’t
seen a computer that can repair
equipment.”
But he has seen the computer.
Television news crews from Chi
cago and Rockford were making
appointments to get videotape
of the whole Johnson farm part
nership, Laverne Johnson and
his sons, Bob and James, and his
daughter, Peggy Pate, in front
of the computer.
Time Magazine photo
graphers posed Bob Johnson
with the computer a hundred
different ways, and even had
him haul it out to the hog barn
for a photo that was never used.
But what Bob Johnson wants
to emphasize is that a computer
didn’t make his farm successful.
It is just one of many tools a suc
cessful farmer needs to not only
raise a good crop or produce
quality livestock, but to market
them successfully.
“It’s a different era of agricul
ture,” Bob Johnson said. “When
things were steadier, prices
didn’t vary as much. There is so
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much money now, moving
quickly, you need a tooltofc
track of it.”
But the basic principlest
still the same: produce asche
ly as possible without affect
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A few taps on a compua jweek t
keyboard will not maintaincj .killed
buildings, Laverne John%moret]
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opportunities. night.
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If you are qualified, we offer a spectrum
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