University Dally Kansan / Wednesday Aug. 23, 1989
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Army sends officers to school
by Dick Lipsey Kansan staff writer
While graduate school is a stress-filled time for many students, for a few it's almost a welcome break.
Bill Slayton, Macomb, III., graduate student, appreciates his studies.
"Certainly the work pressure is much less here. My work is my academic endeavors. I don't have the long work hours and long training exercises away from home that I had before. Family relations are much better here." he said.
Slayton was referring to the "long work hours and long training exercises" of the Army. He is one of a dozen active duty Army officers attending KU.
The Army sends officers back to school to educate them in areas where there is a need for that skill in the Army.
"I have the freedom to pursue my intellectual curiosity, which is very healthy mentally, but at the end of the month, I always feel I haven't sacrificed as much as the guys back in the trenches in the Army," said Slayton, a Soviet studies major.
The Army continues to pay the officers' salaries while they go to school as well as their tuition, fees and books.
"I almost feel guilty about it." Slayton said. "A free education, while being paid, is such a great deal."
It might sound like an easy life to some, but Slayton said he felt pressure to do well academically.
"With Uncle Sam paying for it, the bottom line is that at the end of the semester I must have good grades." he said.
Steve Parshley, Suffield, Conn. graduate student, agrees.
"The military is giving me such a great deal, I feel I have to do a lot." Parshley said. "It's a duty for me to attend class. It's not optional. Nobody checks, but I
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I he military is giving me such a great deal, I feel I have to do a lot. It's a duty for me to attend class. It's not optional. Nobody checks, but I have a sense of obligation to attend and do my best.'
—Steve Parshley
Suffield, Conn. graduate student
have a sense of obligation to attend and do my best."
Parahshe, a philosophy and English major, said that he experienced different kinds of stress as a student than an army officer.
"Here you have to be self-stressed, in a positive sense," Parshley said.
"The volume of reading is enormous. But the military is giving me such a great deal, I feel I have to do a lot," he said.
Parshley plans to complete master's degrees in philosophy and English in two years. He said that last summer he was enrolled in 12 hours of class and that during the fall and spring semester he takes 15 hours of graduate courses.
Raymond Leonard, Wichita graduate student, said he knew several of the Army officers in history and Soviet studies courses at KU.
"My overall impression is very favorable," Leonard said. "There's no question they are better prepared. In their language training they are probably comparable to the best Russian students we have here.
"For some people graduate study is almost a game," he said. "For them it's a real-world problem, not just an academic exercise. I find that refreshing."
William C. Fletcher, professor and director of Soviet and East
European studies, said there were some common myths about the Army officers.
"There is a myth that they all have a common point of view," he said. "In fact they range from the far left to the gung-ho right in about the same proportions. They are not macho National Rifle Association types any more than the ordinary student body.
"They also are not a drain on scholarship funds," he said. "This is about the only sector where bright young people are doing graduate work and I don't have to spend half my time helping them survive financially. The state of Kansas makes mover on them."
Fletcher said there was an initial problem for many of the officers.
"They have been exposed to one of the nation's most rigid bureaucracies," he said. "It generally takes them two weeks or a month to get used to what goes on in a university. But they generally turn out to be in our top 25 percent of graduate students."
After receiving his degree from KU, Kluyt will study at the Army Russian Institute in Garmisch, West Germany, for two years.
Classes at the Institute are conducted in Russian and focus on Soviet military and politics, he said.
"Some of the students also assist the INF treaty verification teams," Slayton said. "I look forward to that, with the chance to see parts of the Soviet Union that tourists don't see."
Slayton said he expected his next duty assignment to be in Washington, D.C., or in one of the major military headquarters in Europe.
Parsley's next assignment will be as an instructor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., where he will teach courses in philosophy and composition.
Both men said they liked the Lawrence area.
After students pay six times the price of a new pair of Air Jordans for tuition, the idea of a job suddenly becomes more appealing.
by Angela Howell Kansan staff writer
Offices help find jobs
But where do they start their search for employment?
The first place they might go is to the office of student financial aid at 26 Strong Hall. It is the central employment office on campus.
Julie Cooper, student employment director at the financial aid office, said 4,000 to 5,000 jobs each year were posted and filled. The jobs are posted on the job board outside the office, and every student hourly job available must be listed.
Student hourly jobs are the most common type of job on campus. They pay by the hour and are available to all students. Most pay $3.50 an hour, the campus minimum wage. Students can expect to work anywhere from five to 20 hours a week.
Student monthly jobs, which are paid monthly, generally require more specific job skills and are held by upper-level students. Cooper said.
An Affirmative Action policy dictates that a job opening must be posted for at least three working days before it may be filled. A deadline is usually listed on the job description and the employer may not hire anyone before the deadline.
Students who submit a financial aid form the semester before might be eligible for college work-study, which is federal financial aid. The government reimburses campus employers 75 percent of the wages paid to a student on work-study.
Students may not work at both a student monthly and a student hourly job on campus because of a state regulation that prohibits working on two different state payrolls, Cooper said.
Students with work-study eligibility may work at any student hourly job on campus, but may not work at a student monthly job because of the same regulation.
armes are more likely to give students a flexible schedule, in which students can work two or three hour blocks. Cooper said students could also make contacts that could help them in their studies.
"The pay may be less, but since you don't have to buy a special uniform, and you don't have to take 20 minutes getting ready and driving there, it can be more profitable in the end." Cooper said.
On campus jobs have many advantages, Cooper said. Campus employ-
The financial aid office also posts off campus jobs and sponsors two off campus work programs. The Kansas Career Work Programs help eligible students who are Kansas residents. Youth Education Services work programs help eligible students. These programs find career-oriented jobs for students.
Students cam network with campus employers at the financial aid job fair, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug 28 and 29 in the Kansas Union ballroom. Campus employers will be available to talk to students about job openings.
The University Placement Center can help students who are trying to find a job after graduation or a summer internship.
The center, located in 110 Burge Union, provides career counseling, information on businesses and tips on making the right impression during an interview, said Terry Glenn, director of the center.
Students can have their names listed in the resume file for $10. The placement center arranges interviews with companies for these students. The placement center also prepares a credential file, connecting students with educational employers, Glenn said. The cost of the credential file is $15.
The placement center services are aimed at students majoring in liberal arts and sciences, fine arts and education, Glenn said. Other schools, such as business, engineering, law and journalism provide their own placement offices.
Students who decide that clerical or light industrial work is more their style might consider an employment agency.
Karen Knox, supervisor of Kelly Services, a temporary employment agency in Lawrence, said 95 percent of their customers were students.
"I think for a student, a temporary position is the way to go," Knox said. "Education is important, but industries are getting to a point where they want experience, because that's where you really learn."
Mike Pritchard, manager of Job Service Center, a state employment agency, said he estimated that 7,000 to 8,000 students were hired through the center each year. Most of the jobs are in retail sales, service occupations, or the health field.
Pritchard said students should come in and prepare a file as soon as possible.
"The sooner they come in, the better the chances are of getting something." Pritchard said.
Foreign students must take extra steps before they are able to get a job in Lawrence, said Daphne Johnston, assistant director of Foreign Student Services.
First, they must take their passport, Social Security card and I-94 form to the Office of Foreign Student Services at 112 Strong Hall. Students sponsored by another institution must obtain permission from their sponsor, Johnston said.
New foreign students must wait eight weeks to receive an on-campus work permit. Graduate and transfer students have no waiting period, Johnston said. They are restricted to working a maximum of 20 hours a week, except on vacations, when they can work full time.
There are several different kinds of visas and each one has different regulations, Johnston said. Work permits for any type of employment must be approved by Foreign Student Services.
Foreign students who want to work off campus must first apply for permission through the immigration office. Permission is granted to students who can demonstrate financial need and have been a student for more than one year, Johnston said.
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