UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, December 6, 1994
SENATE: Hike proposed
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ate," Browning said. "I don't have the data to support the bill right now."
Browning said that pay raises for Senate's executive members were needed because there was a feeling in the Senate and in the campus community that Senate salaries were not where they should be.
"Salaries that people make here are below par compared to some other offices on campus," Browning said.
He also said that the student government positions at other comparable universities were higher.
The top Senate paid positions are the student body president, who receives $440 a month, and the senate treasurer, who also receives $440 a month. The salaries would be increased to
$455 a month, a 3.5 percent increase.
For both positions, the work requirement is 20 hours a week.
But Danny Kaiser, assistant dean of student life, said that Senate's officers actually made more an hour than most student hourly employees at the University of Kansas, who made $4.25 an hour.
"I've been aware of one student who made $7 an hour," Kaiser said.
But, he said, positions such as that were difficult to come by because they required a special skill.
The increase in the Senate's budget also is necessary to update Senate's computer system, said Bob Grunzinger, assistant treasurer.
"We're trying to bring ourselves up to the level of other departments on campus," Grunzinger said.
Students get job-hunt help
Placement Center pairs graduates with companies
By Shannon Newton Kansan staff writer
Kristin Cramer said she thought that the best way to find a job was to know someone.
Cramer, Flossmoor, ill, senior, said that she was not worried about finding a job after graduation because she already had two jobs lined up from previous summer internships.
"It's not what you know but rather who you know," she said.
Jim Henry, assistant director of the University Placement Center, said that students like Cramer were becoming exceptions to the rule. He said that he was concerned that students were becoming apathetic
"Students have not been coming in looking for help," he said. "It seems that they are just not interested in finding a job."
about the job hunt.
Henry said that he thought many graduating seniors saw the job market as too terrible to even concern themselves with looking for a job.
He said that one student came into the center looking for assistance, and the student said that his friends had not even started looking for a job.
"It kind of concerns me that students aren't looking for jobs because it should be concerning them," he said.
Henry said the numbers of students who came in looking for assistance was much lower than in past years.
"In the past we would have to turn students away from some of our workshops," he said. "Now I have to recruit people to look for jobs."
Kate Rison, training coordinator at Kinko's Copies, 904 Vernont St., said that she saw many students get discouraged when they came into the center.
"I sometimes see the same students come in and get 50 copies of their resumes weekly," she said. "When they keep getting rejection letters from potential jobs they have to start the process all over again."
Kirsten Wilcox, Hays senior, said that she was going to put off the job hunt by attending graduate school.
"I'm lucky that I don't have to send out resumes and cover letters yet," she said. "I only have to fill out applications."
Wilcox said that she was putting off the inevitable job hunt so that she could get more education to make her more qualified for a future job.
"I'll worry about finding a job in a couple of years," she said.
KU women win battle of GPA against men
Freshman year shows biggest gap
By David Wilson Kansan staff writer
For the past eight years, the grade point averages of the women at the University of Kansas have been higher than those of the men.
But not bv much.
According to statistics from the Office of Institutional Research and Planning, women had a grade point average of 2.94 for Spring 1993, while men had a grade point average of 2.79 for the same semester.
The two-tenths of a letter grade disparity shows up in every year of the
study. In Spring 1986, women had a grade point average of 2.82, while men had a grade point average of 2.67.
Carol Prentice, assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the difference was due to the fact that schools in which students overall had higher grade point averages, such as Social Welfare, also had higher enrollments of women.
By contrast, students at the School of Engineering, which has an enrollment of more than 80 percent men, often had lower grade point averages than students at other schools.
Carl Locke, dean of engineering,
said that higher standards at the
School of Engineering kept grade
point averages in check.
But academic standards notwithstanding, it would be silly to infer from the statistics that women on the Hill are smarter than men, administrators said.
"There are obviously differences across the schools," Prentice said. "It's probably insignificant."
James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, agreed, but acknowledged that freshman women may get better grades than freshman men.
"I would speculate that freshman men have a wider range of academic performance," he said. "Freshman males sometimes have more difficulty adjusting to the apparent freedom of college life."
In Spring 1993, freshman men had a grade point average of 2.43, compared to 2.63 for freshman women.
Otherwise, the differences between men and women probably have little meaning, Carothers said.
"These are such massive groups of people and such marginal differences," he said. "I'm not sure if it proves anything about one individual."
The statistics showed a slight rise in grades from the fall semester to the spring semester for the past eight years. Administrators attributed the rise to the attrition of less-capable students after the fall semester.
Graduate students had the highest grade point average in all eight years of the study. Their grades were higher than other students' by nearly a full letter grade.
Making the Grade.
Grade point averages for Spring 1993
All University 2.86
All Females 2.94
All Males 2.79
Freshman Females 2.63
Freshman Males 2.63
College of Liberal Arts 2.78
School of Architecture 2.87
School of Business 3.16
School of Education 3.20
School of Engineering 2.94
School of Fine Arts 2.89
School of Journalism 3.12
School of Law 3.15
School of Pharmacy 3.19
School of Social Welfare 3.35
Graduate School 3.73
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