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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 93 16:57:29 CDT

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Subject: LCnet News-Release(10/29/93)

Subject: LCnet_News102993

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			TABLE OF CONTENTS
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	1. A Letter from LCnet Reader
	2. Comment on the Reader's Letter
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1. A Letter from LCnet Reader
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>From [email-masked]  Sat Oct 23 01:06:20 1993
Subject: CSPA Affect on job-finding
To: [email-masked]

LCnet Editors:

   Following is my recent job-finding experience. I'd like to share it with
everyone who came after 04/11/1990.

   My major is in computer engineering, which is said, and I am told too, to 
be a major very easy to find a job. It seemed so before because every Chinese 
student who graduated from my group found a job. It was not too difficult.
Even someone got two or three job offers. Some of their job offers came from 
large companies.   
 
   This year it is my turn. But it turns out to be very difficult for me. 
One reason is the bad economy in US. But last year the economy was bad too. 
Another reason, more important to me, is the CSPA. OK, you can see why.

   There is this middle-size company, which I sent a resume. I am quite sure 
they will interview me, if I am lucky enough, they will hire me, because my 
background closely matches to their requirements. Sure, I got a telephone call 
from a technical guy from that company ( a group manager where I applied the 
position) and he interviewed me through telephone. I felt he was pretty 
satisfied with my background and said he would ask their personal manager to 
contact me to arrange a visit-company interview (This company is in another 
state so they will pay for my travel expenses of the interview) and other 
non-technical things. After one or two days, a lady who is a personal manager
called me. I was very glad since I had known she would arrange me to visit 
their company for the further interview. Oh, if I had passed this interview, 
I would be one of engineers in this company.

   However, the first question she asked me was if I was authorized to work in
US and asked me to tell her what my visa status was. I was not too surprised 
and told her I was a F-1 student. But to my surprise was that she asked me: 
"Did you come to the United States before the deadline defined by the new 
immigration law for Chinese Students?" What? If I heard clearly, did she 
really refer to the CSPA and did she really know that? So I asked her if she 
was referring to the CSPA and after confirmed I told her: "No, I am not 
covered by that". 

   After a while (I did not know what she did at that time, maybe talked with
somebody), she said: "I am very sorry. We can not further interview you". 
After I asked her why, she said: "At present, it is really difficult to 
sponsor a Chinese student to change the visa status, so our company's new 
policy is we can not hire F-1 student any more even though we DID before". 
Oh, Jesus. I knew the CSPA will affect us, but I did not realize it would 
happen so fast. I also wondered how an American company knew this so well and 
so quickly. 

   Another example is the Digital Equipment Company. They do not hire Chinese
students with F-1 visa any more, but before they did. I can not say that is
also the CSPA's effect. But who knows.

   If you are hunting or going to hunt for a job in today's so tight job 
market, I am sure you will meet this kind of things that happened to me. 
So, what does the CSPA affect us? When you experience, you will know.

WH

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2. Comment on the Reader's Letter 
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   After being shocked by the above job hunting experience, believing it or 
not, we should realize one thing: it's the time for our late comers to unite
together and take an action!

   All of our fellow students are hoping CSPA will not have a bad effect on 
our future. But as the unhappy experience of the person who wrote the above
letter indicates, the CSPA already begins to show its effect on late comers.
It begins so fast, much faster than we late comers expected. Who knows how 
much it will affect us in the future?

   While dreaming about CSPA does not hurt our late comers, while dreaming
about the harm of CSPA will become less and less as economy becomes better 
and better, we should be realistic and wake up right now. We should unite 
together and control our lives in our own hands, because this is the United 
States. If you can't let your voice heard by the people, you have to just 
accept all the unfairness you will encounter.

   We hope that every late-come fellow student will get a job easily after
finishing their studies. However, we have to prepare for the drawback of CSPA. 
When the CSPA shows its prejudice on late comers, if every victimized late 
comer fights for the unfairness he/she experiences individually, we can gain
nothing at the end. But if all of us join together, it will be a different 
story. For instance, after 1 or 2 years, our net has more than 10,000 readers.
When we take action, our voice will be much much louder and we late comers' 
strength will be much much more powerful. If we unite together, we will hold 
our lives in our OWN hands and change our fate. The pass of CSPA just showed 
this.

   To act earlier is much better than later. Dear friends, please pass the
information to your friends, please be patient to tell your friends and fellow
students what the situation is. Let them join the LCnet. Unite as many our 
fellow students as you can. Contribute a little now, everyone will get 
pay-offs in the future!

   Unite! We late comers!

HR

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