INTERNSHIPS
Students find ways to gain experience
The University brims with oppor
tunities when it comes to student in
ternships. Not only can students beef
up their resumes, internships give
crucial on-the-job experience many
employers look for when hiring.
From architectural firms to govern
mental agencies, the variety and
number of potential internships is
limited only by the students who seek
them.
Students often come into the Career
Planning and Placement Center office
saying they want off-campus intern
ships, says Debbie Chereck, a career
counselor. Chereck sends the
students to potential employers where
the internships can be arranged the
businesses and the interns.
Though the road to establishing an
internship appears clear, students
have to remember the ball is in their
court. Motivation, determination and a
willingness to do a little footwork are
musts for setting up an internship.
Once internships are set up,
students and faculty advisors decide
how many credits they will receive.
Banks, investment firms and retail
stores are some internships students
created in the past. And sometimes
these evolve into part-time jobs,
Chereck says.
Although the process of developing
internships themselves does frighten
away some students, those with per
sistence and motivation usually find
what they want, she says.
If students would rather have on
campus internships, the paraprofes
sional program offers ways to receive
credit by working in many University
offices, says Gregg Lobisser, assistant
director of student development.
Like the off-campus internships,
students identify where they want to
work and then set up the internships
with faculty advisors and their
supervisors.
About 100 students are working in
campus offices this term, including
those who coordinate the on-campus
internship program. But the potential
for three times as many campus intern
ships exists if students create them,
Lobisser says.
A booklet explaining the paraprofes
sional program in detail is available in
Room 364 Oregon Hall.
Since 1969, nearly 20,000 University
students have worked in local schools,
recreation centers and human service
agencies through the ESCAPE (Every
Student Caring About Personalized
Education) field studies program.
Tutoring students of all ages,
counseling the elderly and teaching
handicapped children to swim are only
a few of the jobs available to 1,200 stu
dent volunteers who participate in the
program each year.
Students can earn up to five credits
per term by enrolling in the program
during registration at the beginning of
each term.
Similiar internships exist in the
human services field, which are spon
sored by the University Community Ac
tion program. They generally attract
gerontology, health education and
counseling students, but those from
all majors (except business) are
eligible.
Some 36 students work in Eugene
and 15 travel to Portland work for nine
month internships worth 38 credits in
the human services department. In
terested students should apply im
mediately in rooms 109 or 115 Hen
dricks Hall.
This term 38 student journalists are
interning at newspapers, magazines,
advertising and public relations firms
and radio and television stations local
ly and around the country.
Student interns do everything from
re-writing wire copy to in-field
reporting.
Those looking for journalism or
telecommunication internships should
write, call, or visit potential employers.
Bulletin boards in Allen Hail advertise
openings, but students should keep
their ears and eyes open year-round, as
positions vanish quickly. Journalism
majors can earn a maximum 3-credit
hours for internships.
The law school’s Externship pro
gram offers law students close super
vision by supervising attornies in non
profit agencies, such as the Attorney
General’s office in Salem and public in
terest law firms.
Fourth, fifth and sixth-semester law
students can earn 12 credit hours for
working 16 weeks full-time the entire
semester. See Kathy Stoner in the ad
ministration office for more details.
For more art-oriented internships,
fourth and fifth-year architecture
students can wol'k in about 18 local
firms and do everything from design
development to public relations.
About 50 students participate in the
program yearly, which offers three
credits for working 10 hours on the site
and attending a weekly seminar. Pro
gram information is posted outside the
Architecture office on Lawrence Hall’s
second floor.
The above information does not
represent all the internships available
to University students. If you don’t see
what you want, inquire within depart
mental offices. Or better yet, try and
develop your own internship.
by Joan Herman
Students practice politics in state captital
By Michele Matassa
Of ttw Emerald
Scattered through the help wanted
ads of the Emerald, the Eugene
Register-Guard and the Oregonian are
the words “experience necessary.”
During these days of recession,
when young, “green" graduates face
stiff competition in the job market, ex
perience counts. Applicants are plen
tiful and openings are rare, so
employers can afford to be choosy.
Since 1977, the University has pro
vided students a chance to get on-the
job training working with the state
Legislature.
The internships can be arranged on a
Tuesday-Thursday or Monday
Wednesday-Friday basis and students
earn between six and 12 credits based
on time spent with legislators in
Salem.
The correlation between legislative
internships and success in the job
market is “unbelievably high, into the
ninety-fifth percentile," says Carol
Johansen, coordinator of the Universi
ty program.
“A phenomenal number of students
do get jobs from the Legislature,"
working as paid legislative aides or
committee administrators, Johansen
says.
She often writes recommendation
letters for interns seeking future jobs
at the capitol, other government agen
cies or law school, she says.
Once students are matched with
available legislators for internships,
they usually commute to Salem, where
they monitor bills, follow committees,
deal with constituents and write
testimony for legislators.
This session, 33 University students
are participating in the program, a
decrease from 55 interns in the 1981
session, Johansen says.
Although the University has a larger
program than other state colleges and
universities, fewer students are par
ticipating because of the program’s
price tag, she says.
‘‘It’s a very costly program »or
students because they pay tuition plus
transportation up there and there is no
reimbursement," she says.
But the experience is worth the cost,
Johansen says.
"The real world deals with com
petencies not credentials,” Johansen
says.
“If they are really interested in the
political process in high gear, I try to
match them with a committee or
legislator who works in high gear,”
Johansen says.
Unfortunately, not all legislators pro
vide this opportunity for students.
Johansen doesn’t recognize a
strong trend in the type of legislators
who put students to work but says
many freshmen interns don’t know the
program exists until it’s too late.
The legislators often don’t find out
"how valuable students are” until they
“get up there and see three interns run
ning the office like clockwork,”
Johansen says.
Sen. Margie Hendriksen, D-Eugene,
has a total of seven interns this ses
sion — three of whom are on her per
sonal staff — more than any other
legislator.
Johansen says this is probably
oecausu she has a “tremendous net
working system for doing her cam
paigns. Also, she’s very issue-oriented
and people respond to those issues."
Sheila Schain, an intern with Hen
driksen, agrees that legislators who
use interns seem to be more “activists,
go-getter types who have more pro
jects going."
Schain, ASUO budget director for
the outgoing administration and a
political science major, says the intern
ship has given her valuable experience
in dealing with people and acting
professionally.
“So many students don’t interact
with anybody besides professors and
other students during their college
career," Schain says.
"My goal is to combine my ex
perience with budgeting and my new
found interest in the Legislature and
the government,” says Schain, who is
looking toward either law school or a
career in budgeting and the
Legislature.
Fred Christ, a 1982 graduate of the
University, if already putting his intern
ship experience to work.
A former intern for Hendriksen,
Christ is now a paid legislative aide for
Rep. Tom Mason, D-Portland.
Christ had a legislative career in
mind when he went to work for
Hendriksen.
“Margie just gave me a couple pro
jects and let me run with them. She
was a very good boss,” he says.
As a University law professor and a
Eugene lawyei, Hendriksen says the
experience is very helpful for students
because they "get to understand the
legislative process and meet peop'e in
volved in the legislative process."
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