University Daily Kansan, November 30, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA
Students to form job search group
By HOLLIE B. MARKLAND Staff Reporter
The classified ads are not the best place to look for a job.
"Seventy-six percent of all jobs are not advertised, so looking in the want ads is not the most effective way of finding a job," said Ellie Le Compte, a graduate teaching assistant in counseling psychology.
But Le Compte is trying to help students who fear graduation will be the threshold of unemployment.
She and a graduate student in counseling are organizing a job-search group to help students meet people in their chosen professions and find job opportunities.
KEITH KOBES, BATTLE Creek,
Mich., graduate student, is also one of the group organizers. He said he
had previously counseled people who were looking for jobs.
Le Compte said, "The best way to get information is to get out and talk to people in the field you're interested in."
"They aren't looking in the right places and using their resources," Le Compte said.
Jobs are available, she said, but job hunters usually do not find the exact job they want in the newspaper.
Students in the group will be encouraged to ask professionals for recommendations about where to start a career. Students also will be encouraged to ask them what they liked and disliked about their jobs and what advice they would give to someone starting out, she said.
"Students could ask them what names they recommend for people to talk to," she said. "By tapping into
this network, the prospective job
an firm can find is let more about
the grid (grid by request).
"ONCE THE STUDENT has established a rapport, it's not uncomfortable to ask advice or help," she said.
Le Compte said students interested in joining the group could call the Counseling Center and leave their phone numbers for Le Compte or Kobes.
About eight or ten students will comprise the group, she said, but if more students are interested, more groups will be formed.
Part of the group's job will overlap the role of the University Placement Center, an employment service for students, she said.
Vernon Geissler, director of the University Placement Center, said the idea for the group had merit and
would complement the role of the Placement Center.
KIRK SAFFELL, GARDEN City senior, said he had asked Le Compte for help to find a job. Saffell, now enrolled in a career planning course, asked her what she asked her to organize a job-search group for graduating seniors.
"The major reason I wanted a group was to make myself pursue finding a job instead of putting it off. Saffell said. It's a lot easier to form a group when there are other people as opposed to doing on my own.
Tom Krieshok, the assistant director in charge of career development for the Counseling Center said that waiting for prospective employers to offer jobs was the biggest mistake college students made when they were looking for work.
Debate team places high in tourneys
Ten debaters placed in three tournaments during Thanksgiving break at Wichita State University, Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
At Wichita State, the team of Mike Dudick, Lee's Summit, Mo., sophomore, and Steve Ellis, Wichita sophomore, took first place in the senior division. Third place in the senior division went to the team of Al Pitzer and George Lopez, both Wichita sophomores. Third place in the junior division was Richard, Laramie, Wyo., freshman, and Oray Hall, Manhattan freshman.
At the largest tournament of the semester at Wake Forest, the team of Jerry Gaines, Houston senior, and John Culver, Overland Park sophomore, placed fifth among 88 other teams.
City may form renewal board
By CHRIS BARBER Staff Reporter
At the request of one commissioner, city commissioners on Monday will discuss the possibility of forming a group outside the City Commission with the specific purpose of handling downtown development.
Commissioners will meet with city staff Monday to talk about forming an urban renewal board, one way that Commissioner Mike Amyx sees of strengthening downtown development.
Mayor Ernest Angino set the date for the session at the Nov. 20 commission meeting, and any anxy computer possibility on a radio program the week before.
AMYX SAID YESTERDAY that he
saw several advantages to an urban renewal board. One of those would be longevity, because the board would be free from City Commission turnover every two years at election time.
"We need to set a body that will allow continuity." Amyx said. "This group would prepare a finalized package of the downtown redevelopment concept that would show what equipment required to put the plan together
But Commissioner Nancy Shontz said yesterday she feared putting too much power in the hands of a small group, because state law provides urban renewal authorities with definite powers.
"IT IS PROBABLY not the kind of committee that is appropriate for Lawrence." Shuntz said. "It would be
OK for big cities with tremendous amounts of blight.
Shontz said that although the City Commission would appoint the committee members, it would be difficult to avoid selecting someone who might pursue personal interests instead of those of the community.
The Downtown Improvement Committee, made up of community members and city staff, serves as an advisory board to the City Commission.
"But for Lawrence, I think we ought to be able to get by with just the DIC."
Shontz said she would prefer appointing one staff member to handle downtown development.
"I wouldn't object to having an "extra staff person," she said. "But I don't think we need an urban renewal authority."
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