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Thursday, April 27, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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and 1800 minimum wages, but the request was denied.
THE STATE didn't say the University couldn't pay it, just that they wouldn't coven it," said Joan Sherwood, director of student financial aid.
However, Harren said, the University also seems hesitant to cover the additional expense and there is nothing that her office can do about it.
Although the amendment was designed to help maintain current levels of student employment despite the increasing minimum wage, some observers forswear
"I don't like the idea of paying below minimum at all. More students will be forced off campus to better-paying jobs," Harren said.
Vernon Geisler, University placement director agreed with Harren that the cut was appropriate.
"I JUST HOPE it doesn't come to that. The quality of people we hire is very high, and I would really hate to see their wages cut and then lose some of them," he said.
Jack Carlson, vice president of the National Chamber of Commerce, had predicted earlier that the wage amendment's impact would be far-reaching.
He estimated that approximately 27,000 jobs would be lost in Kansas. More than half of these, or 14,000 jobs, would be lost by the department's only job comp案 only 5 percent of the total.
But, to the relief of students forced off campus, local employers said that jobs would be easier to get this summer than they had been in the past.
French honorary society raising money for cleanup
Students in a French honorary society are selling candy and flowers outside Wescoe Hall today to help clean up a March 16 oil spill on the coast of France.
One hundred and twenty miles of the French coast were foiled when the Liberian tanker Cadiz Cadiz dumped its entire cargo of 220,000 tons of oil into the nearby sea. Marine and bird like and the livelihoods of fishermen were threatened by the oil sill.
Nancy Strom, Rochester, N.Y., graduate student, said that Pi Delta Phi, the French honorary society, would send money from France to Brittany. The group raised $150 yesterday.
Strom, who organized the effort, said that Pi Delta Phi selected Plousca because it was one of the towns hardest hit by the pollution.
KANSAN On Campus
TODAY; The UNIVERSITY COUNCIL meets at 310 in 180 Blake Hall. OMEGA PSI PHI meets at 5 in the Regionalist Room of the Kansas Union.
Events
TONIGHT: The CANDIL AWARD DINNER, for physiology and cell biology, is at 6 in the Watkins Room of the Union. The RAPE IVICE MUPPORT SERVICES meet at 6 in the Oread Room of the Union. SUA BRIDGE meets at 6:10 in the Oread Room of the German HONORS BANQUET at 6:30 in the Union's Centennial Room. The PI SIGMA ALPHA DINNER for political science is at 7 in the Kansas Room of the Union. THE COLLEGE REPUBLICANS meet at 7 in the Council Room of the Union. Guest speaker is JIM LOVELL, representative of the College representative, TIM PURCELL, horn, and CHRIS BRADT, bass, present a student recital at 8 in Swarthout Recital Hall, Murray Hall.
TOMORROW: A LATIN AMERICAN
LECTURE will be at 3:30 p.m. in ParLars
and B of the Union. The NAVAL ROTC
will be at 5:15 p.m. on the Field House lawn.
THE SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND
LITERATURES dinner will be at 6:15 p.m.
in the English Room of the Union. The
LUNCH and Dinner will be at 6:30 p.m.
in the Union's Kansas Room. THE
JOURNALISM AWARDS BANQUET will
be at 6:30 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of
the Union. KARRIN FORM, organist, will
be at 7:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall.
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Strom said the clean-up can take two months and $30 million. The French honorary society will send the money to the local government who will allocate it.
"We didn't expect to make a thousand dollars," he said. "We just wanted to offer some real benefit."
"You would be surprised how many job possibilities there are out there." Beesler
He agreed with Mills that the job market was quite favorable on both the local and a
THE JOB MARKET'S better than it's been in three years," Mills said.
T&D&Y, K-Mart and Gibson's Discount Center, said they had no plans to institute the wage cut and that they would continue to pay the rising minimum wage.
Several of the large stores in the area that mainly rely on student employees, such as
'My employees are worth the increased minimum wages, and that's what they'll do.'
He said his store would hire at least as many students as it had last year.
future job markets was Lawrence's declining unemployment rate.
IN FEBRIARY, the local unemployment rate was 4.1 percent by but March it had fallen to 3.6 percent. Mills predicted that the rate would go as low as 3 percent this month. Geissler said the upsurge in hiring might be caused by several factors.
"When the economy was tight, conservative or cautious hiring was com-
Mills said one very favorable sign for
"like always, it will be the student who's willing to get motivated that will get the job."
But, as one might expect, there still are more students than there are jobs.
moplace. Things are a lot better now and most employers are quicker in taking on additional personnel. Also, government offices have become of being restricted like in the past," he said.
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