University Daily Kansan / Wednesday. October 31, 1990
New service provides options for KU students seeking jobs
By Amy Zamierowski
Kansan staff writer
Students now have another alternative besides the classified ads to find a job while in college.
The University Placement Cent., acquired a new computer system last week that provides students access to nationwide employment openings.
The National Employment Wire Service, NEWS, created in 1989, is lending the University an IBM-computer and the NEWS program.
Companies subscribe and pay a membership fee to have their information in the NEWS system.
"Students can use the computer to research companies as well as find job openings," said Ann Harley, a professor in the Center. "Then students can send
Terry Glem, director of the Placement Center, said the system, which was updated Friday evenings, had about 260 companies entered with job listings in 16,000 permanent and part-time job listings and internship opportunities.
their resumes off to the companies.
Glenn said the system gave names, addresses and contacts of companies in a readable format.
"The system has all kinds of different companies, primarily for college graduates," he said. "Students with any major would be appropriate for a lot of the positions, but many of the listings are business-related."
"It opens up the job market and gives interested students that many more possibilities," he said. "It's a lot of work to do, but it makes you everything to do step by step."
tunder headings such as the name of the company, position sought, geographical location, type of industry desired, salary and education
Students can search for informa
Students may use the system any time the Placement Center is open, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. The area is in the basement of Barge Union.
Gleem said he thought many other corporations across the country would subscribe to the NEWS service. The Placement Center gave a list of corporations for NEWS to contact them to have them subscribe to the service.
"We had recruiters in the Placement Center last week who were looking at the system and said they wanted to hire companies to subscribe," he said.
Parking shortage at health center continues to give patients problems
By Mike Brassfield
Kansan staff writer
Rich Lazano was on crutches. He thought his ankle was broken, and he wanted to get an X-ray at Watkins Hospital. But he could not find a place to park.
"When you're on crutches, the last thing you want to do is walk very far," said Lazano, a first year law student. "But there's just no place for sick people to park near Watkins."
There are 12 metered spaces near Watkins that are marked "outpatient parking only." But the regulation is not enforced because parking departures do not permit whether cars parked in the spaces belong to patients, Lazano said.
Jim Strobil, director of student health services, said, "We have been discussing the parking problem for years. The only solution we have come up with is to install more meters in the area."
Dear Kornes, director of the Parking Department, said the situation would be discussed at the next parking board meeting. Nov. 7
Lazano attended the last board meeting and suggested that a clipboard be placed at the center's front desk. Patients who parked in the reserved spaces could register their cars on the clipboard, and parking department employees could use the list to ensure that people were not illegally parked in the reserved spaces.
But Strobl said a clipboard system would not work because there were about a dozen different clinics in the building.
"Students could come in, sign their names and say they were going to a clinic," he said. "They could just walk out another door and go to class. There is no way we could make sure they were really being treated in it. It would take a full-time staff person to chase everybody down."
"I'm not saying it's a perfect solution," he said. "I just trying to get people to think about possible solutions to this problem."
Lazano said he agreed that a clipboard system probably would not work.
A touch of blush
Corey Carter, Overland Park senior, receives a dusting of blush at a makeover session sponsored by Revlon Co. as a promotion for the Revion Unforgettable Women of 1991 Contest. Revlon representatives were in the Kansas Union bookstore yesterday giving makeovers and cosmetic samples as students filled out entry forms.
Warm weather to last awhile longer
By Wes Denton
Kansan staff writer
Students can enjoy the-unusually warm weather and sunny skies at least until Friday.
Robert Neff, from the KU Weather Lab, said the warm weather probably would be here for a few days. The weather should be 80 degrees, he said.
The KU Weather Lab receives its weather information from the National Weather Service in Topeka
"The jet-stream is holding the cold air north of us," said Neff, a Lawrence senior major in meteorology. The cold air is over the Canadian border."
Teresa Havel, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service at Kansas City International Airport in Oklahoma, and this was a tropical january summer.
year, she said. The high temperature last year at this time was 46 degrees, and 41 degrees was the low.
"This is not extremely unusual." Havel said. "Last October 24 and 25 had a high of 80 degrees."
A cold front across southern Iowa and a low pressure condition over the Oklahoma panhandle are bringing in much of the snow across the Kansas area. Hayev told
a jet-stream, which is a narrow
A chance for showers on Friday may bring cooler temperatures. Havel said.
A high of 61 degrees and a low of 41 degrees is normal for this time of
Neff said, 'I doubt if it will last very long. However, Kansas is always kind of weird for weather
"In a week we could have snow or a blizzard."
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