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Volume 58, No.35
Tuesday, February 23, 1982
Phone 284-4401
Xerox Teaches Students
About Corporate World
By TRISHA SINDLER
News Writer
Bridging the gap between the college and corporate worlds is a transition to which many university graduates find difficult to- adjust. But with the help of a three-day business seminar offered by the Xerox Corporation, 12 of UM's most promising business students had the opportunity to get a first hand glance into the business environment.
The seminar, which lasted Thursday through Saturday, was held at UM and included topics such as time management, career planning, effective presentation and group dynamics.
Presentations were given by Xerox associates from the Miami area and from the regional office in Atlanta.
Marlene Williams, an Information Systems Division (ISD) sales planning manager for Xerox explained the background and objectives of the seminar.
“Three years ago, Xerox surveyed college students to find out about their knowledge of various corporations,” she said. "They were familiar with Xerox, but didn't know what the company was all about. So, we began holding these seminars as a community service to give students a better understanding of what the corporate world is really like.
“We also do this as part of our public relations,” she added. “Xerox prides itself on being a people-oriented company.”
Williams, who hires, trains and recruits Xerox personnel In Miami, is building closer relations between UM and Xerox. Last November, she introduced highlights of the seminar to Dr. Carl McKenry, acting dean
of the business school, and was "delighted at his receptive response.”
Linda Steckley, director of the alumni association, helped coordinate nominees for the seminar. Participants were selected on the basis of their grade point averages and professor recommendations.
Three weeks ago, Xerox gave a general aptitude test to the students, basically the same test given to those seeking Xerox sales positions.
Williams said that this type of seminar, free for the students, would cost business executives anywhere from $350 to $400 on the open market.
Lee Burgess, manager of Xerox Management Training in Rochester, New York, was flown in to observe the seminar format and student reaction.
“I came here primarily to audit the program and to ensure that future programs are current with the needs of colleges and universities,” Burgess said. “If more emphasis is needed in certain areas and I sense that, I want to make sure that the seminars address those needs."
Burgess noted that the seminar is unique in that many of its elements are actual parts of the programs now used to train Xerox’s own managers. He also pointed out the reciprocal nature of the program.
“The program gives us exposure to students and, more importantly, lets them see the needs and expectations of our corportation. By getting an inside view into the tools companies use to hire, students have the opportunity to decide whether or not they want a certain
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Miami HurricanefTONl WHITEl.Y
Pitching at a softball game between the honor students and the faculty and administrators Saturday at Mark Light Field was President Tad Foote. The students won the seven-inning game by the score of 17-3.
Diplomat Discusses Israel
Xerox Representative Teaches A^Workshop At 1 he Seminar
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By MARY CRONIN
Head News Writer
Esther Herlitz, former Israeli ambassador to Denmark, career diplomat, and scholar-in-residence at Hillel, answered a wide variety of questions in an interview Thursday, ranging from what it is like to be a woman in the diplomatic corps to the problems in the Middle East.
Her diplomatic interests began during World War II when she served in the British army.
“I was in Jerusalem, which was at that time Palestine under British mandate, and many of us volunteered for the British army, seeing as war against Hitler was our war," Herlitz said.
After her army stint she applied-for a school of diplomacy that was beginning. The new school accepted 25 people out of 500 applicants and she was one of them.
“They took 20 men and five women, which is something I think they decided in advance. They wanted to have women quite deliberately. They had a lot of foresight," she said.
But despite the "foresight” they possessed, the Jewish and British foreign service administrators had difficulty in placing Herlitz because she was a women.
“I remember I once asked for a promotion and the director of personnel said to me, ‘You are a problem to us. Can we ever make you an ambassador?’ And, of course, in the end they did,” she said.
“But I think that much has changed on that score, too. I mean, I was a real rare thing when I be-I
came an ambassador. Now we have many more women ambassadors than we had then,” she added.
Eventually she was sent to Denmark as Israel's second woman ambassador, the first being Golda Meir. Denmark was chosen as her post, she said, “because it was a country where women have no problem operating.”
Although Herlitz has spent 25 years in civil service and has been twice a member of the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, she said entering politics is still the biggest problem for Israeli women.
“Politics seems to be the last bastion of the men, and it is very, very difficult to break in. You really have to assert yourself all of the time while you are in,” said Herlitz.
In answering questions about the Palestinian problem and terrorism, Herlitz first stated that she is a "dove”, and does not believe in violence as a way to solve problems.
She said this throughout her answers, especially when talking of America's current policies in the Middle East.
“1 think, generally speaking, that foreign policy which is to such an extent the selling of military sophisticated hardware is a dangerous foreign policy. 1 can see some of the reasons for it,” she said. “Of course, it keeps the American industry going."
"There is at the present moment, I think, a highly dangerous arms race in the Middle East; Europe, the United States, and the Soviet Union are all competing to sell arms.”
United States policy, she said, bothers the Israeli government very much.
“It does bother us. It is a very strange foreign policy. It is that which the Russians are doing, and you can’t compete with the Russians by playing their game; you can compete if you play a different game.
“The U.S. should be standing for different things altogether, for economic, technical and social development," she said.
But Israel, Herlitz said, also has other worries at the moment, such as maintaining relations with Egypt and removing the last Israeli settlers from the Sinai. On both issues she is optimistic.
“There are committees working on transport, on telephones and roads, all kinds of things. You know the relationship between Egypt and Israel is almost normal. I found it fascinating that I got on an airplane at Tel Aviv airport and an hour later I landed in Cairo,” she said.
Diplomatic talks with the Egyptians concerning the Sinai "are going on all the time.” As for trouble spots such as the town of Rafi-ah, which will be split in half in April, the border lines will most likely be redrawn.
"This is happening to them for the second time. It happened to them once before at the end of the Sinai war when we gave them back their territory, that is, ¡inj 1956-57. They are in a real tough spot. They sit, like people always do, in strategic places because there is business on sitting on a main highway," Herlitz added.
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¡AFL-CIO Attacks Reagan Economic Plan
By HOWIE BURNS
and
DAISY M. OLIVERA
News Editor's Note: Writers I Bums and Oliver a were able to gain I access to the AFL-CIO Convention ■ in Bal Harbour through their intem-I ship with the ABC News Latin M American Bureau. Accompanied by I ABC cameramen, and, correspondit ents Barry Serafin and Barrie Duns-* more, they were able to observe the 1 convention proceedings from a 1 first-hand perspective not usually afforded collegiate journalists.
BAL HARBOUR — The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) held its annual convention this past week at the Sheraton Bal Harbour Hotel.
The theme of the week’s happenings was organized labor’s discontent with the cuts outlined In President Reagan’s budget proposals.
The first prominent speaker to make an appearance at the convention was Vice President George Bush, who spoke on Tuesday. Bush was the first of two important White House envoys to speak, and his reception was anything but gracious.
After Bush’s meeting with the delegates, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland emerged from the closed-door session proclaiming that he has "no conviction that the problem of inflation has been defeated,” adding that "the policies pursued by the administration in the economic field and the social field are far more destructive than those pur-• sued by conservative administrations of the past.”
Kirkland even went so fir as to call Reagan's economic policies “Jonestown economics,” alluding to the Reverend Jim Jones, the cult leader who masterminded the mass suicide in Guyana in 1979.
The media in attendance quickly jumped on Kirkland for an explanation of his terminology, to which he responded by labeling his statement as “just a little semantics.”
Kirkland went on to say that he thought the Reagan Administration “has sown the seeds of inflation the likes of which we haven’t seen.”
Wednesday was COPF. (Committee on Political Education) Day at the convention. At the press briefing, COPE’S leader Murray Seeger outlined the organization's response
Haig
to the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC).
NCPAC is the right-wing group that put out hit lists against Democratic congressmen and senators during the 1980 political races Besides aiding Reagan’s campaign for the presidency, NCPAC also played major roles in helping bring perennial Democratic stalwarts such as George McGovern (former senator
from South Dakota) and Frank Church (former senator from Idaho) to defeat.
COPE has upped its budget from $2.7 million to $3.5 million to counter NCPAC. Seeger said that the three main purposes of COPE are: 1) to sponsor television and radio programs presenting the labor point of view, 2) to facilitate a more comprehensive mode of polling to enable labor to better understand the feelings of the general public, and 3) to better utilize marketing techniques to ascertain exactly who and where the labor audience actually is.
Seeger later outlined COPE’S early line perceptions of the fall senatorial and gubenatorial races. COPE’s prognostications were considerably less optimistic than those outlined previously by other labor leaders.
Seeger broke the senatorial races down into three categories: 1) the “marginal” list, 2) the “watch" list, and 3) the list of incumbents who the group feels will win re-election.
Eleven states were grouped into the “marginal” list. These races are classified as being 50-50 — too close to call. Those states are California, Maine, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Ohio, Tennessee and West Virginia.
In this group, 10 of the seats are currently held by democrats, with one being occupied by a republican.
The “watch" list also consists of 11 state races. These states are: Arizona, Connecticut, Deleware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Virginia, Washington, and Utah.
This group currently has four democrats, six republicans and one independent occupying scats. Seeger conceeded that no conclusions can yet be formulated about these races.
The incumbents that COPE feels will win again are from Florida
(Democrat Lawton Chiles), Mississippi, Nebraska, Texas, Wisconsin, Hawaii, Indiana, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Wyoming.
This group features six democrats and five republicans currently holding positions.
Seeger said that it was “possible, but not probable" that the democrats would recapture the Senate. He said that the organization is for the time being counting on obtaining a net gain of five democratic seats.
In the battle for the House of Representatives, Seeger said that it was "probable” that the Democrats would pick up five seats. However, he noted that the conservatives
were liable to make headway in the House by virtue of 16 districts that have yet to have their fates decideu as a result of federal re-districting.
On Friday, Secretary of State Alexander Haig appeared at the convention. Earlier in the day, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward made public notes taken by people who were present at almost two dozen regular senior staff meetings held during the past year.
In these notes, Haig was alleged to have said the following:
On the Middle East: "Egypt will go back to [the | Arab world with I the] U.S. isolated as Israel’s sole defender.”
On British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington: “a duplicitous bastard."
On Poland: "We have evidence of Soviet involvement in all planning of Polish moves.”
On Reagan loyalists: “. . ,|We| need to educate the Jack Kemps of the world."
The above is merely a sampling of the Woodward report.
As can be expected, the story was a prime topic of conversation at the Friday press briefing amongst the media. However, Haig See Page 3/AFL-CIO