Mondale
By DAVID ESPO
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK Walter F. Mondale won
New York's presidential primary election
last night, trouncing Sen. Gary Hart and
regaining command in his quest for the
Democratic nomination for the White
House.
The richest and most bitterly contested
contest to date wasn't even close. Hart
acidly appraised his defeat by saying that
Mondale "got me down to his level" in the
campaign debate. "He won't do that again,"
he vowed.
"We had a very good day today in New
York," Mondale said with satisfaction.
"Apparently we did well across the board."
Mondale was polling 48 percent of the vote,
to Hart's 31 percent. The Rev. Jesse
Jackson had an overwhelming black vote
and was running third at 18 percent.
Hart all but conceded defeat and said he
would contest the later primaries with a
more positive campaign style.
Based on polling-place interviews, the
television networks said Hart was in a
closer-than-expected contest for second
place with the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Jackson was polling exceptionally well in
New York City, apparently winning about 80
percent of the black vote.
Mondale was leading for 151 national
convention delegates. Hart led for 83 and
Jackson 18. The former vice president
began the day with 728.25 delegates to 440
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nitiative is key in job hunting, expert says
Editor's Note: This is the final
article in a three-part series
focusing on the job availability for
the Class of 1984. Today's story will
look at the University's
contribution to the work force.
By ALICE RUDOLPH
Collegian Staff Writer
"Initiative" is the key word for
any student looking for a job this
year, said an assistant director of
the University's Career
Development and Placement
Center.
James P. Bucher, who is in
charge of placement services, said
no student can afford to sit back
and wait for employers to knock on
the door, regardless of the
visibility of job openings in a given
field.
James M. Slick, assistant
director of the center in charge of
career information systems, said
the
daily
claims largest slice of Big Apple pie
for Hart and 93.50 for Jackson. It takes 1,967
to win nomination.
"In New York, they (the Hart campaign)
spent maybe three times, maybe four times
as much money as we did," Mondale said.
"But Americans weren't looking at that.
Citizens of New York were asking that key
question (who would make a better
president) and I think that's why we won."
Hart said in advance that the New York
primary was not that crucial to his chances
for the nomination. But one aide, Frank
Mankiewicz, said a Mondale margin of 10
percentage points or more would be a
significant victory.
The former vice president was doing
considerably better than that.
With 73 percent of the vote in, it was:
• Mondale, 443,159 or 48 percent.
• Hart, 283,162, 31 percent.
• Jackson, 173,087, 19 percent.
Remaining votes were scattered among
Democratic dropouts.
Wisconsin Democrats held a "beauty
contest" primary yesterday, in advance of
next Saturday's caucuses when 78
convention delegates are at stake. With 32
percent of the vote in, Mondale and Hart
each had 43 percent of the vote.
NBC News said voter interviews indicated
Mondale was running strongly among
Democrats, but, "If Hart wins, it will be
because of his edge among Republican
voters voting in the Democratic primary."
Crossover votes are permitted in Wisconsin.
"President Reagan-Yes" was piling up 93
different students must use
different job search strategies. He
said students must know how to
prepare a resume and must have
an idea of the type of work they
want to do.
Students should seriously
consider whether they really like
the field in which they intend to
work, Slick said, and they should
also consider where they would like
to work. When students have a
specific geographic preference
they may be isolating themselves
from a major portion of the job
market, he said.
This academic year the most
visible job openings at the center
have been with public utilities,
retailers, chemical industries,
electronics industries and
government agencies, Bucher said
Although accounting and finance
openings have been consistently
strong, in sheer numbers, not as
many openings are found in these
fields as in the early 1980's, he
added. •
At the other end of the spectrum
are jobs with major oil
corporations and the agricultural
equipment field, which has been
hard hit for the past five years,
Buchei• said. Oil companies which
did conduct interviews on campus
were looking for employees for
their research and development
divisions, he stated. . _
In the field of education, Dante
V. Scalzi, the University's
olle • ian
percent of the vote in the Wisconsin GOP
Primary. "Reagan-No" had 7 percent. -
There was no GOP ballot in New York.
Victory was dramatic evidence that
Mondale had completed a comeback in the
Democratic fight and an indication that
Hart's "new ideas" candidacy faces
difficulty in the weeks ahead.
"I wouldn't go so far as to say you can rule
him (Hart) out," said Gov. Mario Cuomo, a
Mondale supporter. But "it's going to be
much more difficult from here on in for Sen.
Hart."
Only three weeks ago Hart's candidacy
was on a roll, winning several early
primaries and caucuses.
But Mondale quit campaigning as a
serenely confident front-runner and became
the aggressor in the race, moving on to
defeat Hart in the Illinois primary two
weeks ago and taking aim in New York
Hart said New York was not that critical
to his chances for the nomination, and he
already was looking ahead to Pennsylvania.
But New York is the kind of state that a
Democrat must carry to defeat President
Reagan next fall, and the Mondale victory
would blunt Hart's claim that only he can
capture the White House for the Democrats
Mondale himself said the New York
primary was critical to his own chances.
"If we lose, we're in trouble. But if we
win, they're going to have to make a pretty
good grab at our coattails to catch up," was
his assessment.
Hart said Pennsylvania is less critical of
educational placement officer, said
University graduates have always
done very well in the job market.
Scalzi said that 75 to 80 percent of
education graduates who seek jobs
find jobs.
Jeff Garis, a counselor at the
placement center, said to increase
interviews for liberal arts students
this semester, the center had a
special interview day for those
students Feb. 2. This program was
the first of its kind for liberal arts
students at the University. -
The liberal arts interview day,
which was a more concentrated
program run separately from the
regular on-campus recruiting
program, attracted 98 liberal arts
students and 17 interviewers from
12 different companies, Garis said.
Companies which attended
included AT&T, Xerox, Radio
Shack and Traveler's Insurance
Co.
The interview day generated
about 212 interviews for the
students, which is about the same
number of interviews that went to
liberal arts students during the
entire fall semester, Garis said.
"We don't have to be nearly as
aggressive in attracting
engineering firms," Bucher
commented, adding however, that
the liberal arts interview day was a
good sign that employers are
interested in hiring liberal arts
students.
"Recruiters are willing to pay to
talk to liberal arts students," he
said. "It's just tougher to get them
here."
Although recruiting activity has
fallen off nationwide in the past few
years, Garis said, liberal arts has
remained stable in proportion.
Liberal arts curricula are
changing, he said, and liberal arts
graduates are becoming more
sophisticated in their goals. Also,
employers are realizing that good
managers need to be good
communicators, an area in which
liberal arts students are
traditiOnally strong, he added
The placement center has
received extremely positive
evaluations'about the program
from the employers who
interviewed the liberal arts
students, Garis said. About 30
percent of the students interviewed
were invited by the companies for
second interviews, he added.
The switch from the term system
to the semester system makes it
difficult to determine now whether
more employers are conducting
interviews at the University,
Bucher said.
In the 1982-83 school year, 783
employers interviewed students on
campus. In Fall semester 1983, 437
employers interviewed on campus,
and Bucher said the placement
center has had much activity this
spring. But the center will have no
figures until this summer as to
whether the recruiting activity was
his "new ideas" candidacy and
demonstrated with an afternoon of
campaigning and fund raising in
Philadelphia that . he already is looking
ahead.
Well before the voting, Jackson declared,
"We've already won. We've won our self
respect."
New York became the costliest week of
the campaign, as well as one of the most
intense.
Mondale said Hart was outspending him
by a margin of 3-1, and aides to the Colorado
senator said expenditures for television
commercials for the week could reach $1
million.
Mondale, forced by a federal spending
limit to conserve funds for the primaries
and caucuses still ahead, relied heavily on
labor support and backing from Gov. Mario
Cuomo and New York Mayor Ed Koch to
guide his campaign.
The former vice president was
relentlessly aggressive, using.virtually
every forum to attack Hart on civil rights,
Israel, arms control, oil taxes and other
issues.
Hart attacked Mondale on Central
America, running a television commercial
that said the former vice president
supported a policy of using American troops
as "bargaining chips" in that region.
Hart cooled his rhetoric later in the week,
after he and his aides decided the constant
battle with Mondale was hurting him.
U.S. sets sail to
calm eastern seas
By FRED S. HOFFMAN
AP Military Writer
WASHINGTON A U.S. Navy
delegation will meet with Soviet
admirals in - lifoXcoVcrrieiririiiiitli .
for discussions aimed at heading
off potentially explosive incidents
at sea between their powerful
navies, Defense Department
officials said yesterday.
High on the Moscow agenda will
be the incident Monday in which
the 37,000-ton Soviet carrier Minsk
fired eight signal flares at the
3,900-ton U.S. frigate Harold Holt
in the South China Sea.
The flares that struck the Holt
did not cause structural damage to
the frigate or injuries to its crew,
said these officials, who spoke
only on condition that they not be
identified.
Also to be discussed will be the
March 21 collision in the Sea of
Japan between a Soviet nuclear
powered attack submarine and the
U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk.
The collision caused minor
damage to the carrier but sent the
Soyiet submarine limping home to
Vladivostok at the end of a salvage
ship's towline.
actually better this year, he added.
The peak years for job recruiting
at the University were 1979-80,
1980-81 and 1981-82. In each of these
three years, 1,059 employers
visited the campus, Bucher said.
Then, in 1982-83 the number of
employers visiting dropped by
about 26 percent, he said.
According to a report by Slick on
post-graduation activities of 1982-
83 University graduates, the
economic recovery apparent in the
spring of 1983 "arrived too late to
appreciably improve the
employment situation for the 1982-
83 graduates."
Slick said national studies
indicate that last year's job market
for college graduates was the worst
in a decade.
Usually engineering majors
receive 43 to 47 percent of on
campus interviews, Bucher said.
Even after the overall drop in
interviews on campus, engineers
still received 47 percent of the
interviews.
However, Slick said not every
program's intent is to prepare
students for jobs immediately upon
graduation. For some programs,
such as some majors in science or
the liberal arts, graduate study
may be a higher purpose, he said,
whereas the purpose of
engineering programs, in general,
is to prepare students for the
working world.
Wednesday, April 4, 1984
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.1+ • 101".
In Novelmber, a minor collision
involving a U.S. destroyer and a
Soviet frigate took place in the
Arabian Sea.
The meeting in May had been
lelieduled for "some time under a
1972 U.S.-Soviet agreement
intended to end naval
confrontations between the two
countries. Under that accord,
senior U.S. and Soviet naval
officers meet every year,
alternating between Washington
and Moscow, in a process that
Navy Secretary John Lehman said
last June had worked very
successfully in reducing incidents
around the world.
The three incidents since
November have raised concerns in
some quarters that Soviet-
American political tensions might
be resulting in a return to the sort
of naval confrontations that
marked the Cold War years.
One factor that may contribute
to a resurgence of such incidents is
that each navy is shadowing the
other's maneuvers. Some U.S.
Navy officials noted that the
Soviet navy has become
increasingly active in the Pacific
in recent years.
Walter Mondale
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• As the University administra
tion attempts to comply with the
requirements of Title VI, minori
ty recruitment legislation, seve
ral University students are
playing an active role in the
planning process Page 3
• Sports Plus looks at the shin
ing performance of Penn State
bound Mike Peopos, who led the
Allentown Central Catholic Vi
kings to their first state basket
ball title Friday Page 11
• Carole King, the singer and
songwriter best known for her
album,"Tapestry," will be on
campus this evening to cam
paign in behalf of Democratic
presidential hopeful Gary Hart.
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