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University THURSDAY November 18, tf+ 2004 ICE: BG Hockey prepares for their AM SHOWERS upcoming game against 11 Kill 64 I.OVV47 Wayne State; PAGE 6 www.bgnews.com ent student press VOLUME 99 ISSUE 69 Employers praise job outlook By Justin Pope according to a new survey from Dame in South Bend, lnd., inter IH( ASSOCIATED PRESS National Association of CoUeges views are up roughly 30 percent BOSTON (AP) — The recover- and Employers. Seven out of 10 and the school had to step in, ing economy and looming retire- employers said they expected requiring recruiters to allow stu- ment of the baby boomers are to increase salary offers to new dents to mull job offers until at making this a very good year to college grads, according to the least Nov. 24. For the first time be a college senior looking for a survey released late last week, since the dot.com boom, com- job after graduation. Recruiters, with an average increase of 3.7 petition was fierce enough that career counselors and students percent. companies were pushing stu- say the fall recruiting season has Four in five employers called dents for immediate decisions been the most active since the the job market for new grads on their offers. dot.com boom. good, very good or excellent; last Don Brezinski, executive Accountants are again find- yeat fewer than two in five did. director of corporate relations at ing increased demand for their Michigan State's College Bentley. said "we're seeing com- services but theirs is just one of Employment Research Institute panies that, instead of looking several hot fields. Technology will release a report Thursday to hire one or two, have open- companies, investment banks that director Phil Gardner said ings of a dozen. It's when you and consulting firms appear to will show overall campus hiring have the big companies going be picking up the pace, as do is up as much as 20 percent this really deep, then you know you're some defense contractors and year, depending on the region. hitting stride with employment even smaller businesses that Experts say hiring still isn't recovery." haven't traditionally recruited on approaching the intensity of Experts say companies are campus. the late 1990s. A population hiring to handle new work but "I haven't been to school in boom among college students also making up for years of the last three weeks because of has tightened competition, and conservatism. my Interview schedule,'' said employers remain gun-shy about We've seen employers that Eric Golden, a senior at Bcntley big bonuses. have ait back the last few years College, a business-oriented Some engineers are still hav- looking around the office saying, school in the Boston suburb "1 ing a tough time, in pan because We've got this new work. Who's Waltham. He feels lucky to be so much manufacturing has going to do the job?" said Lee graduating this year. moved offshore. And many busi- Svete, Notre Dame's director of Friends with similar cre- nesses, notably financial services, career services. dentials who graduated earlier learned to get by with leaner si.ills Accounting remains one often ended up taking positions during the downturn. of the best backgrounds to that weren't their top choices There is clear momentum. have for a job-hunting senior. "just to have a job," Golden At California State University. PriceWaterhouseCoopers plans said, lie's been juggling about .1 I ullerton, the number of com- to hire about 3,100 people off dozen Interviews with compa- panies at a fall career fair was up II s. college campuses this year, nies including money managers, about 40 percent from last year up almost 19 percent from last Investment hanks and General at the University of Florida the year. Ernst & Young, another Electric number of recruiting companies big accounting firm, plans to College hiring is expected to is up as much as 15 percent Ctiitose Suzuki tPPncto Increase l3percentovei last year, And at flu- University of Notre COLLEGE, PAGE 2 COLLEGE SENIORS: Bentley College senior Eric Golden poses for photos at the college in Waltham, Mass. POOLDSTATTHEPUB Bomber drives into US convoy By Katarina Kratovac in south-central parts of the city IKE ASSOC AIED PRESS as U.S. Marines hunted remain- BAGHDAD. Iraq — A suicide ing fighters. In the northern lolan attacker drove his bomb-laden neighborhood. U.S. Marines car into a U.S. convoy during fought insurgents wiio officers fighting Wednesday in a north- said had sneaked back into the ern town, where hospital officials city- by swimming across the said at least 10 Iraqis were killed Euphrates River. amid a wave of violence across Bullets snapped overhead, Iraq's Sunn! Arab heartland. and Iraqis collecting bodies of The increasing attacks and the dead ran for cover behind the U.S. military's offensive to walls and in buildings as Marines retiike the insurgent stronghold returned fire. After IS minutes of Fallujah have made November of fighting three insurgents were one of Iraq's bloodiest months. dead and one Marine was slightly According to an Associated injured in the hand, officers said. Press tally, the American death toll The rush of warplanes streak- in the war in Iraq surpassed 1,200 ing through the low-lying clouds with new Defense Department shook the city and blasts sent Identifications Tuesday night and smoke into the sky. The U.S. Wednesday. The total of 1,208 military said that airstrikes deaths included 1,204 identified Wednesday were concentrated in members of the U.S. military, southwestern Fallujah. destroy- three military civilians and one ing enemy positions. unidentified soldier reported to The U.S. military says it is fight- have died Tuesday in Balad. ing pockets of insurgents after lulie OiFnnco 8G News In Fallujah, heavy machine- BLACK SWAMP POOL: Kelly Claibourne, a senior at BGSU, plays a friendly game of pool last night in the Black Swamp Pub. gun fire and explosions rang out IRAQ. PAGE 2 Bicycle snatching a problem Dixon speaks about health crises By Jeff Weidman bike, I noticed it was gone and lems students face with bike By Zach Herman The talk, titled "Native history of Native American REPORTER I started to panic not knowing theft, Todson Inc. has provided a SENIOR REPORTER American Women and Health," life. She started by describing Imagine finishing class for the what to do." few simple precautions to keep On a campus where roughly one was part of the Brown Bag the lifestyle before first white day and walking out to the bike Today, bicycle theft on college your bike parked safely so that it of every 200 students is Native Lunch series of lectures spon- contact," painting a picture of rack to get your bike and go campuses is an ongoing prob- is still waiting for you when you American, according to the sored by the Women's Center an idyllic and prosperous exis home, only to find that your lem, according to Neal Todrys, are done with class. University FactBook, awareness Installments in the regular series tence forever shattered by the bike is not there anymore. This president of Todson Inc. which One way to deter thieves from of issues important to that group are casual affairs, with attendees arrival of English emigrants in is a story senior Hilary Gerber makes heavy duty bike locks, taking bikes is to make sure it is isdangerouslylow. Interpersonal encouraged to cat lunch as they America. remembers well. "Bikes are a popular and con- locked to the bike rack with a Communications Professor listen. The intrusion of Anglo- "I was so glad to be done for venient form of campus trans- secure lock that can't be picked. Lynda Dee Dixon worked to Dixon, member of the Saxons Into Native American the day and all I wanted to do portation, which makes them "Even if you'll be gone for just a change that Wednesday, pre- Cherokee Nation and "card-car- culture had far-reaching effects, was go home and relax." Gerber all too easy to swipe and resell," senting on health crises facing rying, real Indian," began the said. "When I went to get my Todrys said. Knowing die prob- BIKE, PAGE 2 Native American women. presentation with an extensive NATIVE AMERICANS. PAGE 2 FRIDAy FOUR-DAY FORECAST SATURDAY MONDAY The four-day forecast is taken Showers High:52 ^ML& Showers High:61' Partly High: 46' from vwather.com Low:46* Low:44' «*, Cloudy Low: 27' FOR ALL THE NEWS VISIT WWW.BGNEWS.COM 2 Thursday. November 18.2004 WWW.BGNEWS.COM JOINING TOGETHER Indians deal with Sears health situation past transgressions, but often the BG NEWS NATIVE AMERICANS, FROM PAGE 1 steps taken are inadequate and according to Dixon. White insulting to those they purport to BRIEFING setders introduced devastat- help. Dixon's primary example ing physical maladies into the was the Indian Health Service Malfunction causes nations, diseases that presented (IHS), a series of clinics and a challenge that relatively untest- hospitals devoted to providing false alarm ed Native American immune health care to Native Americans The Bowling Green lire systems proved ill-equipped to While perhaps noble in pur- Department responded fight.