New library system aimed at smugglers
By SHAWN MCKAY
Staff Renorter
Smugglng a book out of the Watson Library should be almost impossible when a new electronic book detection system is installed next year.
The system known as "Tattle-Tape" will use electronic sensing devices at the library exits to detect thin metallic strips concealed within the shelves. When passed through the sensing devices, books not properly demagnetized at the circulation desk will cause the exit gates to be locked.
John Glinka, associate dean of libraries,
said that the music, science and art
libraries would be the first to use the new
system.
Glinka said that $100,000 had been set aside for the new system, although no bids for its installation had been taken
Installation in the science library should be finished late this summer, followed by the art library early next fall.
*“Probably 40 percent of the funds will be used for equipment and installation and the other 40 percent will be used to purchase the equipment installed in the library materials,” he said.
Glinka said that he could not give an estimate of the number of books the library expected to save, but that he thought the
savings would justify the cost of installing the system.
"While we have never taken a total inventory of our collections, we do know that books are leaving the library without being checked out." he said.
Circulation librarian Cliff Haka said, "I last year we declared 28 books lost, but not all of those can be listed as stolen. Some just been lost somewhere in the past."
"Yet the number could represent just what the tip of the iceberg. The figure only represents the books that people are looking for and the books that have been stolen, the number of books that were stolen."
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The cost of replacing stolen books is high, he said. It costs the library $25 in staff time to process and reorder each stolen book.
Under the present system, books are checked by staff members as patrons exit the library. Glinda that system was no guarantee against theft.
"We just have to assume that people have their books out where we can see them, which is especially difficult in the winter when books can be concealed under coat." he said.
Haka said that he expected the new system to virtually eliminate theft.
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But even with the new security system, Haka said, some stolen books will escape detection.
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Bush captures Pennsylvania vote
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's lead on the debt ceiling today, hours after the Democratic challenger claimed to have won a narrow victory in the Pennsylvania presidential primary. George Bush gained a Republican upset over Obama.
With 71 percent of the precincts counted, Kennedy's edge was down to 12,469 votes out of more than 1.2 million Democratic votes cast. The president and the senator each had 46 percent.
Kennedy won big in Philadelphia, the dominant Democratic city. But Carter votes carved into his margin as the ballots were counted in Pittsburgh and rural Pennsylvania.
White House Press Secretary Jody Powell said Carter wasn't conceded. Powell said that even with Pennsylvania, Kennedy would have to capture almost 70 percent of the electoral delegates yet to be chosen in order to overtake Carter.
Bush beat Reagan 54 percent to 45 percent in the popular vote. But Reagan said he had won the majority of Pennsylvania's nominating delegates—elected separately—while losing the preferential election.
Bush said he had shown that it wasn't too late to overtake Reagan, runaway leader in national delegate strength. Reagan said he now had 90 percent of the delegates needed to win nomination.
"Even this meaningless race here, which does not affect any delegates, can't change that," he said. Campaigning in Lafayette, Ind., Reagan said he couldn't think of a circumstance under which Bush could overtake him.
Pennsylvania was vital to Bush, the lone winner GOP challenger to Reagan. He trains Reagan by more than 4-0-1
Seventy-seven Republican delegates were elected yesterday, but the ballot didn't identify them with the
Reagan's campaign chairman, Drew Lewis, said. "We
expect a majority . . . I'll deliver for the convention in Detroit a minimum of 5 delegates for Reagan."
On the Democratic side, 185 delegates were apportioned by congressional districts. The popular vote in each district varied widely.
This was the Democratic count from 71 percent of the precincts:
Kennedy 623,010, or 45 percent, for 53 delegates.
Carter 611,541, or 46 percent for 92 delegate.
Six percent of the vote was uncommitted, 2 percent went to California. Edmund G. Brown Jr., who has quit the
In the Republican primary, it was:
Bush 475,413,or 54 percent.
Dushi 113,145,60 64 percent
Reagan 394 396 or 45 percent
Rep. John Anderson was drawing 1 percent of the vote on write-ins.
Republican delegates ran in their own names, on what amounted to a mystery ballot.
Future beer drinking on porch discussed
Bv ANN SHIELDS
Staff Reporter
Mayor Ed Carter and the owners of the Hawk's crossing, 618 W. 12th St., discussed the future of drinking beer on a summer afternoon, over site pins and light beer.
Crossing co-owner Jeff Morrow had asked the city commissioners to visit his bar after he was taken down by police. He had been set up for letting people drink in front of the bar.
The Lawrence beer ordinance enacted a law requiring that a local public property, but Morrow had painted a line about a foot in front of his porch to mark the place where his property ended.
"As I understood it," he said, "that was good enough."
But it was not. Morrow was policing the line Friday night when the Lawrence police, responding to a report by the KU Police Department, arrived.
The beer ordinance requires outside drinking areas to be screened from public view.
Colt Klutson, city prosecutor, said he originally approved Morrow's plan because he had not seen the property and he thought the porch was enclosed.
"There may be a legitimate difference of opinion here. There may not. In my opinion it's pretty clear."
"It's my opinion that he should either keep the people inside or put some sort of enclosure around it," Knutson said. "I could be wrong and if a judge of competent jurisdiction tells me I am, I will go to police department to enforce it that way."
Morrow, after talking with Carter, said he wanted to build a new porch and plant trees around it to screen it from public view.
But he said he still hoped to convince the city to allow his patrons to drink on the existing porch because the city or district may not be drinking occur on the business' grounds.
"And we defined our place of business traditionally as the front porch," he said. "Drinking out in front of that place has been a time-honored tradition since day one. Only since we arrived at home they started to enforce this new law."
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Crossing controversy
Mayor Ed Carter (far left) discusses the Lawrence beer ordinance with (from left) Embry, co-moor, owner of the Bar's Crossing; Carol Brewer, a friend of the bar's owners; and
Kelley Judd, ee-owner of the Crossing, police warned Morrow Friday night about allowing people to drink on the Crossing's front north.
Recruiters no longer awed by MBA degree
By JON BLONGEWICZ
It's no longer a free ticket. It's not a magic degree
But even with a recent surplus of graduates with master of business administration degrees, the MBA from the University of Kansas still means a good chance of getting a job.
Statistics from the January issue of the MBA Executive, a newsletter published by the Association of MBA Executives indicate there is a glut of MBAIs in the job market. In 2014, MBAIs awarded increased from 21,417 to an estimated 59,000.
A market saturation of MBAs is a "distinct possibility" according to Frederick Madus, placement expert at Bain Capital.
A recent survey by MBA Executive suggested that companies intended to hire 11 percent more MBAs this year than last, but it also gave two examples of "omnious signs for the future."
THE SURVEY said many of these jobs were accounting positions that paid last year's lowest average salary for an MBA. Also, because of a sales crunch, auto dealers would hire they would hire 50 percent lower MBAs this year.
Part of the reason more MBAs are being hired this year is that they may get jobs previously held by persons who were not MBAs.
"Some may be filling jobs formerly handled by undergraduates because that is all that is available."
"Are they over-qualified? Yeah, they may be putting
MBAs in jobs where undergrads could do it before," he said.
KU's contribution to the supply has steadily been increasing. Enrollment in the program increased 160 percent from 1973 to 1979. This year there are almost 500 students in the MBA program.
WHILE THE future for MIAs might be uncertain, this year's picture at KU looks good. Madaus said the number of companies recruiting KU graduates had increased from last year with 185 exceeded by years' end. Job placement figures are expected to reach 90 by Madaus said, depending on the economic situation.
The number of MBAs enrolled at the University of Columbia also has increased, from 130 in M77220 to 148.
It is basic economics according to Wiley Mitchell, director of麦肯锡的masters program in the School of Business.
"When the supply outdoes the demand, there is a problem," he said.
Ronald King, placement director at MU's School of Business, said that although competition among MBA graduates was getting "beener and keener," companies were hiring as many MBA as before.
In the face of an economic downturn, many companies are a little slower in hiring and are putting off some
Bob Brown, an assistant instructor in accounting at KU and a recent MBA graduate, said more interviews and no geographic restrictions were part of the greater competition among MBAs.
They're just being more selective." he said
Brown, who went through more than 30 interviews this year, said a willingness to accept a position that might have been held by an undergraduate at a lower salary was also a part of it.
One explanation for the recent flood of MBAs and the reason companies can be more selective is an increase in the number of programs across the country. The number of MBA programs is growing at the rate of 3 a year.
"There is a rapid proliferation of matchbook cover programs," said Jean Badertscheder, assistant manager.
EUGENE JEWNINGS, a professor at Michigan State University, annually surveys corporations known to hire large numbers of MBAs. He said the hiring problems were not with students from the top schools. Jennings said corporations made a distinction between schools where in three tiers KU has been included in the second tier.
KU has one of about 30 percent of the MBA programs in the country that are accredited by the American Association for University Teaching.
"There is a glut of MBAs." Jennings said. "A lot are afraid, but mostly they are from second and third grade."
He said the 100 largest corporations in the United States actively recruited MBAs from the first tier group of MBA candidates.
Included in the top groups, Jennings said, are schools in the Ivy League, the Big Ten Conference and on the West Coast. Also included in this group are the Universities of Oklahoma, Texas and South Carolina.
"It is a well known fact that other schools are not always able to attend tertiary schools never achieve the status of the others."
Jennings listed Stanford University, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, Harvard University and Columbia University as the "exclusive six," schools for MBA graduates.
but another child was in the KU is at the top of the second level of schools," she
said. "With a little effort we can get over that hump. With KU's program, she said, is a lack of equity control."
"I don't want to denigrate our students, but if I have a top student," she said, "I tell him to apply at the Wharton School (the University of Pennsylvania's school of business) or Harvard.
"Our program offers many good things. My concern is that our standards haven't been high enough. I want our students to learn about the world."
"There is a lot of competition for the Harvard people," he said. "The smaller schools' people have a problem."
To be competitive a school needs faculty recognition, awards, and a reputation based on the scholar output of the school.
KU's program is designed for people with an undergraduate degree in areas other than business. There are several programs offered.
Tom Morton, a representative of General Foods Corporation who recruited at KU this semester, agreed to accept the job.
Unfortunately it isn't so easy to move right into a job, and it may become even harder.
Funds eluding KU bus service for handicapped
By SUSAN SCHOENMAKEF Staff Reporter
Editor's note: This is the third story in a four-part series on the KU on Wheels bus system.
At least one option remains open for KU on Wheels, the campus bus system: the Kansas Department of Transportation
Although Uncle Sam is determined to take the american we of running for president, bush lacked money, KU's handicapped bus service, so far, hasn't found a way to cash in on the
"We just hadn't realized they might fall into that category."
"We haven't been approached on it before, although we'd have to know more about the project," he said and regional planning engineer for the KDOT department of planning and development, said. "The funds haven't been issued yet." He also found a funding (a KU handcoded service)
According to the Urban Mass Transit System's plan, a bus service that is MOJT private handicapped bus service is eligible for UMTA funds if it is "an exclusively private, non-profit service" or "an exclusively public service."
WOODS SAID THAT he knew about KU's program, but that he had not considered funding it. However, Woods could not afford the money for KU's program would be ineligible for funds.
If the state declared KU on Wheels had disabled service to be eligible, it could obtain a share of the more than $201,000 in more than $1 million in requests this year.
KU's handicapped bus service operates as part of KU on Wheels, the campus bus system. The KU on Wheels budget, and any additional costs are covered by the KU administration. The handicapped bus service is available with both permanent property ownership.
"Yes, right now, money is tight," Woods said.
The government has allocated $20 million among the 50 states to help compensate for a See BUS page 10
Jayhawk West gets temporary campus permit
A temporary campus driving permit for a shuttle bus was granted yesterday to the Jayhawk West Apartments, Clark Bricker, Jr. and Transportation Board, said yesterday.
The temporary permit is not without restraints. The restraints, according to McKenny Murray, Student Senate Transit and the Auckland High School Jawahry West bus will have only two stops on campus—one at Snow Hall and the other at the Kansas Union—and will not be allowed to board passengers at those two buses when "KU on Wheels" buses are there.
Last week at the board's regular meeting, the board approved a bill for Parking and Transportation Board for campus driving permit. The decision was tabled until Student Senate opinion was heard.
"Dr. Bricker wanted us to look at this and wanted to know how the Jayawah West bus would affect 'KU on Wheels,'" McMurry said.
Brickers said that when he learned that the Senate supported the Jayhawk West permit, it was granted.
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