Lawrence businessmen disagree
Employers surveyed are anti-long hair
By KENNETH CUMMINS Kansan Staff Writer
If you have long hair and n beard perhaps you had better plan on starting your own business because that may be the only way you will ever get a job. This was the conclusion drawn
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from a national survey of personnel directors. But most employers in Lawrence tend to disagree with this conclusion.
"We have no rules or regulations against long hair," said Ethan Smith, personnel director for the city. "There is nothing that would keep us from hiring the individual if that were the only reason."
Smith said that there were several persons with "extremely long hair" working for the city at the present time.
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John Peters, personnel director for the Lawrence National Bank and Trust Co., said that he hadn't been approached by any applicants with long hair, but he "wouldn't object to long hair as long as it was neat."
Those employers interviewed agreed that the decision to hire a person depended upon the individual and the situation.
"It would depend upon the individual and where he would work." a spokesman for Lawrence Memorial Hospital said. "Certainly cleanliness and sanitation enter into the picture."
"We have to take an individual look at each individual situation," said Bob Bowline, personnel director for Hallmark Cards. "Part of the qualifications is appearance and appearance reflects attitudes toward many things."
Art Cromer, personnel director for Gibson's Discount Center, also stressed appearance as a factor.
"We don't object to long hair and beards as long as the person is neat and clean," he said. "If a person is shaggy we will ask him to get a haircut or shave his beard."
The employee's preference for long hair sometimes leads him into an embarrassing situation.
"If we hired someone to work
in the dietary department," a spokesman for Lawrence Memorial Hospital said, "he would have to get a haircut or take some precautionary measure, such as wearing a hair net as we require the women who work there to do."
Sideburns have gained the most ground against the "long hair" prejudice. Several personnel directors boasted that they had sideburns and were wearing them longer than they did a few years ago.
Mini-skirts, an earlier barrier to employment, now appear to be well received.
But employers still draw the line as to how short the skirts can be worn.
"We like to have it at a modest length," Cromer said. "If it doesn't look nice we will ask them to wear their skirts longer."
The national study, conducted by a private firm in Washington, D.C., showed that 90 per cent of the firms interviewed "reacted negatively to applicants with long hair and mod clothing."
"We hire them every day," Peters said.
Surprisingly, 60 per cent indicated that they would be "turned off" by an applicant who came in wearing a mini-skirt. However, employers tended to be more tolerant of girls already on the job who wore mini-skirts.
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