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Relax business majors; job prospects are plentiful Editors Note: This article is part of a series on the job-market success of University graduates. By MARIAN GREEN Ol the Emerald If you’re an economics or a business major, relax — there’s probably a job waiting for you when you graduate. That’s the consensus view of James Tattersall, economics department head, and Paul Swadener, assistant dean of business administration for un dergraduate affairs. A good job market is part of the attraction of economics, says Tattersall. ‘‘And I think students are interested in the serious national and interna tional problems facing our country. People want to under stand them even if they can’t solve them.” Economic department enroll ment increased 15 percent this year, Tattersall says. Last year’s enrollment increased too, he adds. Tattersall attributes the in crease to a new attitude among students. ‘‘They’re trying to be more discriminating about majors and want to get one that gives good employment opportunities.” Another reason for economic department enrollment in creases is the "increasing range of social applications” for economics. “As people become aware of that, they become more inter ested in economics,” Tattersall says. Economics majors specialize in a variety of areas, including the environment, health, trade and international market econ omics. These and other specialities help economics majors find jobs in federal, state and local governments, trade unions and environmental or ganizations, Tattersall says. But teaching is one area where undergraduates have difficulties finding a job. "We do have some (under graduate) people who are going to be public school teachers,” Tattersall says. But he advises students who want to teach in a community college or university to earn at least a master's degree and probably a doctorate degree. About half of the economic undergraduates plan to do graduate work, Tattersall says. Graduate students often go into accounting, business man agement and law school, he adds. Like the economics depart ment, the business college places a lot of its students in government jobs, Swadener says. But students also find jobs in a myriad of business firms. The college offers degrees in management, finance, market ing, and accounting, among others. Firms visit campuses nation wide to interview prospective employees, Swadener says. At the University, firm representa tives interview many business majors through the Career Planning and Placement Center. Usually, the firms can be classified into two areas, Swadener says. Some firms put prospective employees in "formal training programs” and decide after a period of time what job they’re suited for. Other firms look to fill a specific job opening. Either way, Swadener says the college of business provides the kind of education business employers are looking for. Business employers “want a person who can work with peo ple and communicate through speech and writing,” he says. "That’s the essence of anyth ing.” Swadener says students who major in journalism, English, sociology and similar majors often are hired by firms because they have those communication skills. Specialized training for busi ness majors is outdated, he says. For instance, the business college no longer offers an in surance program because the companies “can do a much better job than us" in explaining . insurance contracts and policies. "They want you to do it ex actly the way the company does it,” he says. But Swadener is quick to add that the college still provides practical models and termin ology of the business world. Photo gallery to open Sunday; former prof's work to be shown A new photo gallery will open in the EMU Lobby Sunday with selected works by the late pho tographer Bernard Freemesser, a former University professor. A year in the planning, the gallery is the annual visual arts project of the Cultural Forum. Forum visual arts coordinator Jill Gordon says the Freemesser exhibit will run until spring term. Photography shows by various members of the University com munity will follow the Freemesser exhibit. Originally proposed by student Dave Sklenar last winter, the gallery will give members of the University com munity an opportunity to display their work in a formal setting, Gordon says. “The gallery is open to the University community as a whole, with emphasis on having students use it. But we are flexi ble,” she says. 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I Gordon says Freemesser’s photographs were chosen to begin the series because of their prominence, and because Freemesser taught at the University Before his death in 1977, the nationally-recognized Freemesser taught art and news photography for more than 20 years. The exhibit will open with a reception on Sunday at 2 p.m. Students and others who would like to have their photo graphs displayed should submit a portfolio of work to the forum on a date that will be announced later this term. People seeking further infor mation should contact the Cul tural Forum Office in Suite 2 EMU. Douglas Hofstadter Photo by Doug Fick Prize-winning author returns to University Pulitzer prize-winning author and physicist Douglas Hof stadter returned to his alma mater Monday to intrigue about 400 University students and faculty members with a guest lecture on "Magic Cubes.” Hofstadter, who earned a physics Ph D. at the University in 1975, devoted most of his hour-long talk to demonstrating a Rubiks Cube, a mathematical toy named after the Hungarian mathematician who invented it. Marketed in America under the name "Magic Cube,” the modest looking but highly com plex toy is "one of the most vivid ways to approach abstract problems of modern algebra,” Hofstadter said. Each of the cube's six faces is divided into nine colored squares, and each face rotates independently of the others. According to Hofstadter, the cube’s structure allows for "ap proximately 40 billion billion” different color patterns. Hofstadter said the cube originally was invented as a “problem-solving model” for architecture students. Solving the cube involves re turning all the colors back to their original place on the cube. Hofstadter told the University audience it took him more than 50 hours during the course of a year to solve it. The toy apparently is becom ing popular. Last Christmas it was the biggest seller for the Ideal Toy Manufacturing Com pany, Hofstadter said. 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