University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 13, 1976
CAA cut proposal called harmful
The Consumer Affairs Association (CAA) would have no choice but to cease operations if a recommendation by the Student Services Committee to cut the student allowance is accepted by the Student Senate, Judy Kroeger, CAA director, said yesterday.
The Student Services Committee will advise an allocation of $8,237.00 for CAA at Senate meetings tonight and tomorrow, instead of the $8,730.00 requested.
The committee recommended that a $7,317.68 personal services request by CAA be cut in half. The personal services request is the full-kit administrative director's salary.
"TO SUGGEST that CAA be cut back by
If the recommended allocation is accepted by the Student Senate, Kroeger said, CAA wouldn't be able to serve students or the community as well as it does now.
half is to suggest that the director handle the same amount of work in half the time and at half the pay," Kroeger said.
She said this was impossible.
"We would have no choice but to cease operations at this level of funding," she said.
The committee's reason for the cut was that CAA doesn't serve enough students to warrant full funding. The committee said that only 40 per cent of CAA's inquiries were from students and that 60 per cent were from other Lawrence residents.
The committee also said that the CAA office could operate on volunteer labor, with a part-time paid director, instead of a full-time director as CAA has now.
KROEGER DISAGREES with this reasoning.
Since she became director in March, she said, she has noticed the number of students at her school.
Last year, for the month of April CAA received 59 student inquiries, or 40.7 per cent. Another month, for the month of per cent. However, Kroeger said, this year from March 25 until yesterday CAA had received 88 student inquiries, or 68 per cent, from community members, or 35 per cent.
Work Force aids some seniors
By HARRIS RAYL
Staff Writer
With the current economic slump and the national economic unemployment rate around eight per cent, graduating students from public schools will face a tight job market this spring.
But Work Force, funded by the University and the Student Senate, has tried to help in its three-year existence by matching employees with employers in Kansas and five other states.
ABOUT 1,280 students and about 700 companies responded to the mailing. The information was then run through a computer program that helped them identify and state preferences with those of the companies. The students who filled out the cards received lists of the companies in their records.
Last fall, it mailed about 5,000 inquiry cards to graduating seniors and graduate students. The students were requested to attend a workshop which of six states they would like to work.
At the same time, cards were mailed to about 30,000 companies in Kansas, Illinois, Oklahoma, Colorado, Missouri and Texas, who then what majors they would be hiring.
Because most of the 5,000 students didn't respond or receive computer mice.
Work Force will post company preference lists in various KU placement offices.
Engineering majors graduating this spring, for example, can find the list of companies interested in hiring engineers in their placement office in 4010 Learned Hall.
Other placement offices that will have lists are: 105 Flint Hall (journalism), 202 Summerfield Hall (business), 223 Carruth (music), and 238 Strong Hall (liberal arts).
LARRY GREENBAUM, Overland Park junior and Work Force director, said yesterday the 700 responses from 30,000 about his role was about as good as could be expected.
"The way the economy is going, we might have expected less than that," he said.
Greenbaum also said when so many mass-produced cards are mailed, a two per cent response wasn't so bad, when no gifts were included to elicit replies.
"We don't include whistles in the letters," he said.
Greenbaum said he was more concerned about the lack of student response.
"I was sort of disappointed that we only got 1,200 cards back (from students)," he said. "They don't take advantage of something that they didn't have the very much and could bring them to a job."
GREENBAUM SAID the companies that
responded ranged from small businesses and banks to oil companies.
One company, an ice market in Texas,
wrote: "Congratulations on your program;
however, we employ only common labor. I
work with a team of 31" - class 31- A helluva time to look for a job.
But occasionally, a nasty reply will come in. Greenbaum said.
A company in Texas returned its card and wrote: "We need apprentice-trained men to work with their hands. We already have too many butts-sitting book scholars. So long, we can't get them out of the habit of just sitting."
Work Force has expanded its operation the last two years. During the 1974-75 school year, when only the Senate fund the program, only about 15,000 companies in Kansas, Illinois and Missouri were contacted.
BUT BECAUSE OF the benefits of the program, Greenbaum said, the University has partially funded the program this year. The additional funding has enabled Work Force to contact twice as many companies in three more states than before.
Oliver, McCollum halls targets of 6 bomb threats
Six telephone calls threatening bomb
last nine days. Two KU resident halls.
McColm Hall received two calls April 4,
one at about 8 p.m. and another at 10:30
p.m. The building was evacuated for more
than an hour.
At present, the University is planning to reorganize its placement services. According to Kala Stroup, dean of women on the UWM faculty, the placement services under the direction of a full-time job placement coordinator. She said that Work Force would probably also fail under the direction of this co-ordinator, whom she appointed to fill the position, she said.
At 3 p.m. Sunday, McColum received another call threatening an explosion. Police said yesterday the building wasn't evacuated.
Oliver Hall was three times the target of bomb threats this weekend. Friday at 5:30 p.m., a call came in threatening an explosion. Another call followed about 10 minutes later. The building was emptied for about an hour, police said.
SUNDAY MORNING at 12:38. Oliver
maintained a threatening bat, but the
buffalo was overpowered.
The penalties for conviction are from one to five years in prison or a fine of not more than $5,000.
Bob Ellison, KU police captain, said calls of this kind were labeled "terroristic threats" under Kansas law and were considered felonies.
The calls weren't made by the same person, Ellison asked me when he caller was.
Ellison said that the buildings involved in the bomb threats weren't always evacuated. Every case is a separate consideration, he said.
The Work Force office is in 101 Kansas Union. Office hours are 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 m.p. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Greenbaum said any students with questions about the program could call the office at 864-7572.
"EVERY ONE is a judgment call, there is input each time," he said. "Each case is weighed with information available at that time."
The information considered in making the decision to empty a place that is threatened, Ellison said, includes what the caller said and where he was located in events and where the caller threatened.
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Kroger said the statistics showing the number of students who used CAA's services didn't include the actual number of students aided by CAA, because its educational materials were far-reaching in benefits.
"JUST BECAUSE we don't deal directly with students doesn't mean we don't affect the outcomes."
Although salaries may be a very low priority in the eyes of the student senators, Kroeger said, salaries are very important as far as the services CAA cap offer.
Without a full-time paid administrative director, Kroeger said, the CAA couldn't maintain its present level of professional service.
She said the director must be in the office full time to be aware of all pending complaints. In addition, the director handles all inquiries, does all the office work, writes and prints consumer educational materials and produces TV and radio broadcasts
Last year the Student Senate allocated CAA $7,524. In addition CAA also received $1,500 in revenue-sharing funds from the city. Half of the $1,500 was received in January and the other $750 will be received by June.
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