University Dalv Kansan, January 24, 1983
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Job experts foresee trouble for students
By SUSAN STANLEY Staff Reporter
Although snow is still on the ground, students are busy hunting for summer jobs. But local employers and placement officials said that even starting this early is no guarantee that jobs will be available.
"The best advice that I can offer to students is to start looking." Vernon Geissler, director of the University Placement Center, said last week.
But Ed Mills, director of the Job Service Center, 833 Ohio St., said that students should not expect a firm commitment from an employer right
"With the economy in the state it is, employers are not sure what summer will bring." Mills said. "You may talk to someone who will give you the impression that you have the job, on the condition that the economy will turn around. You go back later, the economy goes back around and you haven't got a job."
MILLS SAID that March unemployment figures would determine the ease of getting a summer job. The unemployment rate in Lawrence now is 4 percent, much lower than the 10.8 percent national unemployment rate.
The unemployment rate usually declines during March, Mills said. If it does not decline, the summer employee will be for Lawrence will be bleak he said.
Lawrence has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country, but that does not make jobs any easier to find, he said.
Students are not necessarily at a disadvantage in job-hunting, Geissler reports.
and being willing to take any job will make a job hunter attractive to employers, he said.
"IT IS DESIRABLE and preferable for students to get summer jobs in their major areas, but they can learn important skills in any job." he said.
"Finding a summer job won't be easy, but it sure won't be impossible."
"It's a buyer's market right now."
Jackie McClain, director of employee
relations at FMCG.
The parks and recreation department will hire about 60 people, slightly fewer than the budget.
Mississippi
The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department is one area employer that soon will be hiring summer help.
Students will have a more difficult time finding a summer job because they will be competing with unrecognized employers, have more work experience, she said.
Pam Houston, director of student employment at the University, said she did not know how many summer positions would be available on campus, but said chances were slim that jobs or any more plentiful than summer.
Jim Stramel, assistant manager of Minsky's Pizza, 2228 Iowa St., said that he doubled he would be hiring any additional workers this summer.
ABOUT 100 PEOPLE are applying for each regular parks job, and McClain said she expected many more to apply for the summer jobs.
"Our business drops off so precipitously during the summer, coupled with the fact that not all of our employees go home for the summer. The ones that do stay want all the hours that they can get," he said.
On the record
AN ARMED ROBBER stole an unknown amount of money early Saturday morning from the Sonic office, 10am to 12pm at 23rd St., according to police records.
Police said they do not have a suspect in the crime.
The records said the man entered the restaurant through an unlocked rear door, pulled a small-caliber handgun, stole the money and then fled on foot.
The report said the burglar entered the apartment by forcing a door open.
A KU STUDENT reported to police that a burglar broke into his apartment in the 1700 block of Tennessee Street Saturday night.
According to a police report, the victim lost more than $3,000 in camera equipment, travelers' checks and other belongings.
A BURGLAR stole more than $2,000 worth of miscellaneous belongings from a KU student's apartment in the 1500 block of Kentucky Street early yesterday morning, according to police records.
The records said the burglar stole two shotguns, a television, camera equipment and other items.
The burglar entered the house by kicking down a door, the records said.
A POLICE OFFICIAL said yesterday that a KU student had been assaulted at the school.
The official said the student had been taken by ambulance to Lawrence Hospital.
ANOTHER KU STUDENT reported to police Saturday that a burglar broke into her apartment in the 1500 block of Keufferts Street late that day.
Nothing was taken, according to the police report.
THE HOME of a KU student was vandalized Friday night when someone threw a beer bottle through the window of the front door, police records said
Steve Phillips/KANSAN
Nick Vaccaro, KU professor of art, and his wife, La, dance to live music at a party in the Spencer Museum of Art. The party Saturday night was in honor of the museum's fifth anniversary.
Carlin proposes aid for work-study jobs
By ELLEN WALTERSCHEID Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Gov. John Carlin's recommendation to allocate $700,000 to the Board of Regents for a college work-study program could mean a wider variety of work-study jobs for KU students, the estimated number of students of Kansas said Saturday.
Carlin announced his recommendation in his budget proposal to state
Scott Swenson, ASK campus director,
said the student lobbying group had
begun to work for state funding for
study-work programs last summer.
Swenson said the group was asking the state to help finance a work-study program by fall 1984 because federal funds for this year's program had been cut and more reductions were expected next year.
IF THE LEGISLATURE approves the recommendation, Swenson said, it will be the first time state funds have been used to support a college work-study program.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said that he supported Carlin's recommendation but that it wasn't enough to predict what the Legislature would do.
Swenson said ASK wanted a program that would allow students who qualified for work-study to work off campus in jobs related to their studies.
Swenson said he did not know how the Regents' would divide the proposed allocation among the seven Regents institutions, but he expected Carlin to present a more detailed program for the recommended allocation this week.
"At this point, it doesn't have any obvious opposition," he said. "I think it's an important provision that ought to be kept in the budget."
UNDER ASK specifications, private businesses participating in the work-study program would pay half a student's tuition and would pay the other half. Swenson said.
pay the entire Non-profit organizations and public agencies employing work-study students would pay only 20 percent of a student's salary, and the state would pay 80 percent, he said.
If any money remained, Swenson said, AK hoped it would finance on-campus jobs in addition to those covered by federal funds.
Pam Houston, student employment director for KU's office of financial aid, said she liked ASK's idea because it would give students on work-study a chance to work off campus in businesses that interested them.
Under the proposal, an accounting student might work in a local business office or an art student with a local art council, she said.
HOUSTON SAID that many students who had qualified for work-study were not working because they could not find on-campus jobs that interested them.
Also, many work-study students do not want on-campus jobs because they cannot fit daytime jobs into their class schedules. Houston said.
Med Center official says electric use decreased
But the off-campus jobs proposed by ASK might offer students who could work only nights and weekends a more flexible work schedule, she said.
Staff Reporter
By MICHAEL BECK
Newly released figures for the energy conservation program at the University of Kansas Medical Center show an average 21 percent savings in electric consumption. Gerald Immending, Med students planning director, said last week.
The Med Center could not have saved any more without spending more on conservation measures, he said.
The savings figures for July, August,
September and October are 17 percent,
25 percent, 18 percent and 24 percent.
Med Center reports indicate.
An eight-member committee was appointed in July 1982 to find ways to reduce energy consumption 20 percent a year, or $50 million in 10 years, Imming said.
"WE HAVE BEEN doing well, but there is so much more we can do, if only we had the money," he said.
He said it would be possible to obtain a $50,000 grant from both state and federal governments, but he must fill out a technical assistance application. To do that he needs technical assistance, which would cost $473,000.
"You have to get money to spend money to make money," he said.
"Were in kind of a Catch-22 situation here."
Gov. John Carlin has included the technical assistance money in his budget. He also includes
SOME OF THE measures taken by the energy committee were common sense ideas, Imming said. These include:
Imming said that some of the grant money would pay to dig up buried electrical turbines and station them above ground to make them last longer.
*turning off lights when rooms are not being used*
- insulating pipes
- removing light fixtures where a lighter coat of paint would brighten rooms
- educating employees on energy conserving measures.
Despite savings for the four-month period, Immings said that advancing utility rates had negated some cost savings.
Some energy conserving measures have been taken since 1979, but the program was initiated when Med Center officials discovered a faulty meter, which had been misreading consumption since 1975.
The Kansas Board of Public Utilities said the Med Center owes it nearly $3 million, and is suing the state of Kansas for the unpaid bills.
KANU auction raises $2.300 for new tower
KANU-FM's auction Saturday raised about $2,300 to help replace its broadcast tower, which was destroyed by vandals Dec. 11.
About 100 people tried to buy anything from three hours of baby-sitting by Mayor Marci Francisco, which sold for $12.50, to an original, signed letter from President Harry Truman.
Al Berman, director of development at KANU, said that although the turnout was low, the auction went well. Berman, who was in charge of the auction, said he had hoped the auction would raise $3,000.
Howard Hill, KANU director, said the original estimates of $5,000 to replace the tower were probably too low and final costs might reach $7,500.
HE SAID THE station had already received $1,500 in private donations to help replace the tower.
Hill said be like the auction because some merchants found it easier to donate merchandise instead of money, and it was a less expensive way to raise money than on-air fund raises.
Francisco said, "I figured three hours was shorter than a commission meeting, and it would make more money for KANU than I get paid as
Items for sale at the auction included a button with a bug playing a saxophone and an evening with KANU host Leon Burke.
BURKE, WHO is the host of KANU's program "Music by Candielight," offered to play his harpiskord by candielight in the highest bidder's home. The evening sold for $28.
Autograph collectors paid $67 for Truman's letter, $31 for a copy of "Death of a Salesman," signed by author Arthur Miller, $81 for an autographed copy of James Michener's book "Space" and $2 for a Star Wars' poster autographed by the actor who played the character Darth Vader.
A section of pipe from the collapsed tower sold for $35, but there were no buyers for the most expensive item of those built by Nova which required a minimum bid of $1,900.
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