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By Pam Deleery
Reporter
A recent survey by the College
Placement Council shows a healthy
increase in salaries for liberal arts
graduates.
The council surveyed liberal arts
graduates from around the country
with a bachelor’s degree only.
According to the survey, the largest
increase in salary is for humanities
graduates.
Among the 660 surveyed, the av
erage starting salary increased 10.1
percent to $19,296.
Social science and economics
graduates’ average salaries in
creased 8 percent. The average
starting salary for the 743 surveyed
in social science was $19,980.
Among the 797 surveyed in eco
nomics, the average starting salary
was $22,404.
Deborah McCleary, spokeswo
man for the council, expects this
upward trend to continue, even if it
just keeps up with the council’s ex
pected 4.25 percent increase in in
flation.
e giving
ral arts
attention to liberal arts graduates
because of their broad-based edu
cation and because they have the
ability to take a variety of thoughts
and apply creative analysis,” McCl
eary said.
She added that liberal arts stu
dents themselves are becoming
broader-minded about the kinds of
jobs they believe they are suited for.
The council’s survey results par
allel results of a 30-year study done
by American Telephone & Tele
graph Co.
AT&T’s study concluded that
■ humanities and social science grad
uates had the best overall perfor
mance on the job.
A recent report in Fortune mag
azine said that 38 percent of today’s
chief executive officers majored in
liberal arts, and, according to the
New York Times, nine of the top 13
executives for International Busi
ness Machines Corp. are liberal arts
majors.
According to a study by North
western University, those numbers
should be increasing. The study
shows that many major companies
plan to increase hiring of liberal
arts graduates by an estimated 20
percent in 1986.
The University of Texas Career
Center reported that liberal arts
majors have more variety in job
choice than specialized graduates
and are likely to have developed
skills that are indispensable in many
areas of work. Once on the job,
graduates can develop more spe
cialized, marketable skills through
on-the-job training and internships,
the center reported.
Ghousia Baig, an employee at the
Texas A&M Placement Center,
agreed that liberal arts graduates
are beginning to find jobs more eas
ily.
The placement center’s salary
listings were not as high as those re
ported by the survey, though.
Placement center figures showed
the average salary for economics
graduates to be $16,848, 15 percent
below that of the council’s survey.
Psychology and sociology grad-
Commercial ties with Mexico
create jobs, Clements says
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — For
mer Gov. Bill Clements, noting
the importance of Mexico to U.S.
businesses, said Monday that
stronger ties with Mexico would
mean more jobs for Texans.
Clements, elaborating on one
part of his six-point jobs plan,
continued to blame his Demo
cratic opponent, Gov. Mark
White, for the state’s “economic
deterioration.”
A temporary sales tax passed
by a special legislative session to
deal with the state’s budget deficit
would mean more suffering for
retailers on both sides of the bor
der, Clements said.
“Greater commercial ties will
mean more jobs and economic
growth on both sides of our bor
der,” Clements said in a speech to
the Texas Association of Broad
casters.
White will address the broad
casters group today.
Clements said Texas needs to
work with the federal govern
ment to establish trade zones. He
also said the twin-plant concept
would expand job opportunities
in Mexico and the United States.
In the twin-plant concept,
products are manufactured in
plants in U.S. border cities, then
are shipped for assembly to their
sister plants in Mexican border
towns. The finished products are
marketed on either side.
“We must have a continuing
sense of our awareness of mutual
ity of interests with Mexico,”
Clements said.
Clements said when he was in
office he began a series of meet
ings with governors from the
northern Mexican states and sug
gested they need to meet again to
work on reducing trade barriers
and on illegal immigration.
Clements said he opposed the
immigration bill because its em
ployer sanctions and amnesty re
strictions would hurt Texas.
“Much of our past is tied to
Mexico, historically, culturally,
socially, but so too is our future,”
Clements said.
“We can either work to im
prove that future on both sides of
the border or settle uncomfor
tably into old ways that have too
frequently led to suffering for
both Texans and Mexicans,” he
said.
Pilgrims journey to top of Mount Cristo Rey
EL PASO (AP) — A small paper sack clutched in her
Hand, 100-year-old Mauvicia Paez hobbled down a
;<lusty trail that hundreds of thousands of people have
[walked to the peak of Mount Cristo Rey.
Inside the sack were aspirin and other remedies that
|so far, she said, she has not needed.
“God gives me life and health,” said Paez, who has
climbed the mountain every year since 1970 to give
Ithanks for her long life.
Her latest trip was one that about 10,000 others
Imade Sunday to the statue of Jesus, which stretches
|more than 40 feet into the sky from a base of solid rock.
They came to celebrate the 53rd annual feast day of
Christ procession.
Beside Paez was her granddaughter, Maria de Jesus
p. Acosta.
Acosta has made the pilgrimage since 1964, when a
nephew in the service was assigned to a tour of duty in
Vietnam. She had come to pray for his safety. The
nephew returned.
The pilgrimages began in 1933, when Pope Pius XI
called for special observances of the 19th centennial of
Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection.
Parishioners of San Jose de Cristo Rey quickly began
work on the winding road to the summit, and by March
1934, a metal cross had been placed at the mountain
top.
The next year, a larger, more permanent cross was
erected, and succeeding pilgrimages drew larger and
larger crowds.
In 1938, Spanish sculptor Urbizi Soler was commis
sioned to build the statue at a cost of more than $60,000
raised by the Diocese of El Paso. The statue looks over
Texas, New Mexico and the Mexican state of Chihua
hua.
First lighted in 1983, the statue now is lighted only on
special occasions.
uates’ average salaries were listed as
$18,216 and $15,888, respectively,
17 percent below the salary listed
on the survey. No listing was avail
able for humanities.
Patricia Burk, assistant to the
dean of liberal arts, said that one
reason for A&M’s lower averages is
because a lot of A&M’s liberal arts
majors haven’t used the placement
center in the past. But because in
creasing liberal arts graduates have
been using the placement center,
A&M’s average salary should in
crease, she said.
“Life After Liberal Arts”, a book
let based on a survey of 2,000 col
lege alumni, reported that 91 per
cent of the participants,
representing a variety of profes
sions, would recommend liberal
arts to students considering careers
in their same fields. Most of the sur
vey participants are working in ca
reers that have no obvious connec
tion with their undergraduate
majors or even their first full-time
jobs, the survey said.
White says
Clements was
bad leader
LIBERTY (AP) — Gov. Mark
White, stepping up his attack on
Republican Bill Clements, charged
Monday that the former governor
had his chance, but failed the lead
ership test.
The Democratic incumbent said
he has proven that he can battle for
the state’s interests in Washington
when Clements could not.
Campaigning through a string of
East Texas towns, White said two
national controversies proved he is
a tougher fighter than was Clem
ents.
White said he was able to win
Texas some $500 million in roy
alties from Outer Continental Shelf
oil wells, when Clements had been
reduced to pleading unsuccessfully
for less money.
White also said that as attorney
general he fought in court to void
the federal windfall profits tax on
oil ancj gas. But Clements failed to
use his influence with President
Reagan to keep the federal govern
ment from appealing a court vic
tory White had won, he said.
White said he even fought with a
Democratic president, Jimmy Car
ter, over the windfall profits tax.
But despite a lower-court victory
Texas won, Clements refused to
challenge the Reagan administra
tion’s later decision to appeal.
“We got the judgment saying it
was unconstitutional,” White said.
“I turned to then-Gov. Clements,
who had such a ‘great’ relationship
with the Republican administration
and asked him to appeal to them
not to appeal the case. He couldn’t
get anything done.”
The Association of
Former
Students
*1876'
Fall Senior
Induction Banquet
Monday fie Tuesday, November 10 fie 11,1986
6:30 p.m.
MSC room 224
All December graduates are invited to attend. Complimentary tickets|
will be .available as long as they last November 3-5 in the
lobby of the Forsyth Alumni Center.
This is your invitation to attend the formal induction of all Class of
'86 graduates.
TICKETS GIVEN ON FIRST COME-FIRST SERVED BASIS
Postoak
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Come in and pick up an Owen’s Special - a
dozen carnations wrapped for $5, arranged
for $10.
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