Wednesday, July 14, 1976
3
KU office aids job hunters
By TOM BOLITHO
Staff Writer
As the University of Kansas' first placement director, Vernon Geissler hopes to ease the frustration people encounter looking for a job.
Geisler, who assumed his post July 1, said yesterday that he would coordinate various placement activities currently divided among the schools. This coordination, he said, would benefit the student by centralizing all lob possibilities.
'Right now, I'm concerned more with the philosophy of the office rather than the managemen
"Primarily, I want to get our graduates prepared for their interviews and let the recruitors know what we have to offer," he said.
Geissler, 55, was associate director of Kansas State University's Career Planning and Placement Center for 10 years before he moved to Texas. He said his experience at Kansas State convinced him that the new placement office here would educate students to investigate many job opportunities.
"Job hunting is hard for almost every graduate, and most graduates wonder what the job market in their particular field is," he said.
"We're going to provide information for both graduates and recruiters. Our main goal is to bring more potential employers to our graduates, and allow our graduates more alternatives."
William Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs, hired Geissler as the University's first placement director in April. Balfour said that relatively little help was needed to placing students in the past and that Geissler's office was created to remedy that.
"The schools' programs will continue to run as they are now. We'll all be working together at making it more effective for both recruiters and students." he said.
"We want to make a system that makes
the students' opportunities clear to them. We want to make it more productive," he said.
Gessler said the job market was tight for new graduates, but his office would set up interviews for a graduate in any field of interest.
"We're concerned with placing a graduate where he'll be happiest, and if he's determined, we'll find him something he likes," he said.
Geissler said that although he would probably not have his full staff for another two weeks, his office was operating and encouraged students to come in.
Geisler received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Kansas State. He is president of the Midwest College Placement Association. He is a member of the National College Placement Council and is a past president of the Kansas chapter of the American Society for Public Administration.
an emergency telephone is being installed on a lighted telephone pole outside Bailey Hall this week, the first of eight that be in use across the campus by early fall.
Kathy Hoggard, Douglas County Rape Victim Support Service worker, said the emergency telephone system was developed as a security device following a series of 20 rapes at the University of Kansas between 1972 and 1974.
First emergency phones being installed on campus
"The need for an easy method of immediately reporting crimes to police was demonstrated when five women were attacked within one block of each other in a short period and only the last victim notified the police quickly." Hoggard said yesterday.
The new phones will immediately connect the user to KU police when the receiver is lit.
A Student Senate task force was formed after the 20 raps in spring 1974. Various security measures were discussed with the staff of the consulting consultant W. Thomas Morgan, Hergestellt.
A special committee was formed through the office of student affairs to implement the suggestion that KU install a network of emergency telephones. The KU phone system was modeled after a similar system at the University of Oklahoma.
Early this spring, eight strategic locations for the phones were chosen by the committee. The first installation will be followed by the rest next week.
The installation of the phones will cost about $4,000, William Balfour, vice chancellor, will receive them.
Others will be set at 18th and Sunflower, 13th and Oread, 14th and Alumni, near the south entrance to "X" zone, on the dam at Potter's Lake, across from Learned Hall on 15th Street and on Irving Hill Road adjacent to Nunenaker Center.
Although the student committee feared the phones would be targets for crank callers, Balfour said "there was astonishingly little vandalism or misuse of the system at Oklahoma and we don't expect much here. People fear they could easily be identified since the direct connection will bring police quickly."
John Thomas, director of security and parking, said he expected little abuse of the
"Its advantages far outweigh its disadvantages," he said.
Thomas said the number of rapes on campus had declined since 1974
Hoggard said the Rape Victim Support
unit received no reports of rape on the
KU campus that day.
Hearst's robbery role described
The first witness at the Harris trial, store owner Carroll William Huett, described the 'strange' person he saw fired a machine gun. The police have heard has admitted she was the assailant.
LOS ANGELES (AP)—An absent Patricia Hearst emerged as the star character in the William and Emily Harris trial yesterday, described as a pale, bewigged gunwoman firing wildly at a sporting goods store.
Hutt recalled the confused scene when he and other store employees wrestled with them from their suspected shoplifter, and Hairst opened fire from across the street.
"It it had large sunglasses, a very white face," Huccet recalled. "a very strange face and this big afro style hairdo. None of it looked like it belonged to one person."
"There were shots being fired at us," Huett recalled. "They sounded strange because there was traffic on the street that kind of muffled them.
Under questioning by Deputy Dist. Atty.
Susan Mayerson, Huett spoke of Heart's
sufferers at a news conference.
"On the first burst of fire I looked up and saw the door. The left door of a van was open and they were outside the van looking through the framework of the window."
"...Mr. Harris said, 'You'd better get out of here.' She's shooting at you." We started running in the store and there was another burst of fire."
Moments later, he said, he saw the Harrises "beating it across the street."
Huett and another store employee,Gary Mason, said they never heard the Harrires call for help from Hearst nor signal her to shoot.
The Harrises, charged with kidnaping,
assault and robbery, claim the no part
in Hearst's decision to open fire and rescue them.
The 22-year-old Heart, indicted with the Harrises, is awaiting sentencing on a San Francisco bank robbery conviction and will be tried separately.
Mrs. Harris, who delivered her own opening statement Monday, told how Hearst decided to "go along for the ride" on their shopping trip to test her ability to disguise herself. She was then the nation's most famous fugitive.
One employee, he said, was struck in a sart pocket over his heart, but a pen was pressed against his chest.
Huett revealed that Hearst's shots came close to causing death.
Huett said his wife, who was at the cash register, was bleeding from superficial wounds to the face and he was hit in the arm by bullet fragments, also superficially.
When the shooting stopped, the witness said, the scene inside Mel's Sporting Goods Store was "like Ringling Brothers Circus. It was complete pantomime (sic), confusion," he declared. "There were thousands of people."
University Daily Kansan
Scout takes to the trails with ease you won't believe. It's small enough on the outside to get you into places the others can't. But big on the inside to hold all the gear you need.
Get off the road and into the rough in the rugged machine with plenty of muscle, plenty of maneuverability. New Scout II for '76.
Introducing the most spirited Scout of all. New Scout ll for '76.
New International" Scout II for 76 Compare it with the others. There's no comparison.
Scout the America others pass by.
Kuhn Truck & Tractor Co., Inc.
1548 East 23rd Street
H
Cadets appeal expulsion order
WASHINGTON (AP)—A group of 37 cadets involved in the West Point cheating scandal asked the U.S. Military Court of Appeals yesterday to halt academy action against them and restore them to good standing.
The court began considering whether it has jurisdiction to step in, since the past it has handled only appeals in criminal cases in federal justice. No crime is charged here.
The cadets are among 173 third-year men implicated in charges of cheating on a takehome electrical engineering test March 3 or charges of not reporting those they were aware did cheat. Violation of the academy's honor code means automatic expulsion.
West Point are due to review the cases this week.
There was no immediate indication when the three judges—Albert B. Fletcher, Matthew Perry and William Cook—will come to a decision. But some action may come quickly since the boards of officers at
The 37 cadets contended they had been "unreasonably or capriciously" selected for prosecution and called on the court to give them a hearing, assisting in dismissing the action being taken against them.
The petitions argued that the board of officers which returned the allegations of honor code violations against most of the 173 was outside the honor system.
"Sidewalk Bazaar"
The
Crewel Cupboard
"Your Yarn and Needlework Center"
Crewel Kits 15%-75% off
Tennis Visors $5.00
Crochet Dolls 1/2 price
Wooden Frame Pieces 75c pair
Icelandic Homespun Yarn 25% off
Reverie Mohair Yarn 1/2 price
Past Issues of Needlecraft 1/2 price
Many Models on sale— Lots of Misc. Goods "Cheap"
Sidewalk Bazaar hours 10-6 p.m.
15 East 8th 841-2656
July 7th Thru July 17th
HAMBURGER & ONION RINGS
LEANER - Fresh Ground Beef
25% More Ground Beef
DELICIOUS • Crisp, Golden
French Fried Onion Rings
$1.04 Value FOR 79¢
Check Our
Bazaar Specials!
Shirts
Values to $15^{00}
$5^{00}
Skirts
Values to $^{18^{\circ}}
$5^{00}
Pre-Washed Denim
Jeans
Values to *1900
$700
Colored Denim Jeans Values to $2150 $500
Dress Pants
Values to $^23^\infty$
$6^{00} \& $7^{00}
Pre-Washed Denim
Safari
Jackets
Reg. '20$0
$1290
Calcutta Jackets
Values $18-$49
$8^90 & $9^90
Gobs &
Gobs
of Tops
From $1.00
And a Jillion Other Items