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University Daily Kansan, August 29, 1980
Student jobs available, officials say
By ROBB EDMONDS Staff Reporter
Digging deep in jeans pockets and finding only a fingernail full of cotton lint needn't be a problem for KU students. Jobs in Lawrence and on campus, according to University employment officials, are available.
"We're busier we were last year," Nancy Mills, Lawrence graduate student, said. "We have more jobs to post."
Mills is one of two coordinators for campus employment in the office of student financial aid.
THE JOBS for both on and off campus are posted in a glass case in front of the office of student financial aid in the basement of Strong Hall. The job information card includes the employer's name, the job title, and qualifications required, how many hours the job requires and the wage.
However, Mills said, the office of student financial aid was not an employment service. The staff's job, she said, is to process jobs and make
their availability known to the students.
She estimated there were 3,000 students who worked at on-campus jobs.
Clantha McCurdy, assistant director of financial aid, said that all on-campus jobs paid at least the $1.00 an hour minimum wage. Many on-campus and graduate assistants make more than minimum wage, she said.
LOCAL MERCHANTS hire KU students regularly for a variety of reasons.
McCurdy said the office was especially busy this time of year, when students were trying to jobs to cover food, rent and fees.
The college students are dependable and mature, said Grant Lowe, a manager at Burger King, 1301 W. 2rd St. Burger King hires about one-third college students and two-third high school students so that the different schedules allow them to cover for each other, he said.
Lowe said that he did not consider anyone for employment who could
not work at least 15 hours a week and that all his employees earned at least the minimum wage.
The Town Shop, 839 Massachusetts St., has no trouble filling its job openings, Ken Whitenight, owner and manager, said. Many of its employees come back from one semester to another, he said.
STUDENT EMPLOYEES at the store work 20-30 hours a week. Francis said they all earned more than the minimum wage.
Wendy Francis, a manager for Francis Sporting Goods, 731 Massachusetts St., said students did a good job of balancing work, school and store. Francis said the store recently had a position open and had many applicants.
Ray Eckert, manager of the Hillcrest Standard Station, 914 Iowa St., said he had four or five student employees and that they were reliable and hard-working. He also said he had a foolproof method to ensure that he got only the best employees.
KU prof edits book on Truman seminar
Harry S. Truman is portrayed as a concerned and selfless president in a recently published book edited by Roberts and Roberts Distinguished Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Kansas.
Personal recollections of the 33rd president by his cabinet members and presidential aides are assembled in The Truman White House: The Admission of the Presidency 1945-53," published by the Regents Press of Kansas.
Heller said the book was a record of a 1977 conference held at the Truman Library in Independence, M. Included are accounts by W. Averell Harriman, former ambassador to the Soviet Union; Richard E. Neustad, presidential assistant; and press secretaries Beth Campbell Short and Roger Tubby. The book also contains transcripts of panel discussions.
Heller, who is also vice president of
the Truman Library Institute, said about two-thirds of the participants contributed to the book.
Heller helped Truman write his memoirs in 1954 and worked with Truman several times after that. Proceeds from the book's sales will go to the University of Alabama library, provides grants to students and encourages research. Heller said.
Heller said he enjoyed working closely with Truman.
"It was a fascinating period of my life," he said. Heller characterized Truman as a "man not given to waffling—a straight talk."
Although Truman was not a popular president, he is remembered today as "Give-em-Hell Harry." Heller said the reason for Truman's growing popularity could be the ease with which the average voter identified with him.
"In a list of 20th century presidents, who stand out as being ordinary," Hellsay said. "He was."
Rock Chalk's script contest begins quickly
Only two days after the official announcement of the theme for Rock Chalk Reveil 1981, 14 campus groups and their scripts to be considered for the show.
The theme for the 31st annual student
tourry show is "Laugh," said Jim
Lincoln, Rocky Mountain University.
The first deadline for entries is Sept. 1, when the groups must turn in a short essay.
The entries will be judged further on the basis of scripts, music and set and costume designs submitted on a regular basis during the next two months.
The final deadline for all prepared scripts is noon, Nov. 15.
Auditions for the In Between Act players, who perform during set the hold soon after the announcement of the participating groups, he said.
The four groups chosen to perform in
that show will be announced Dec. 3,
Chauvin.
Rock Chalk Revue is scheduled for March 6-7, 1981.
A two-week long strike may have paralyzed business on the coast of Poland, but it won't affect relations between the University of Kansas and Purdue. It will be Fletcher, director of Slavic and Eastern European Studies, said yesterday.
KU, Polish ties remain stable
The State Department told Fletcher yesterday that Alan Lichter, assistant professor of English, would be allowed to teach at the University of Gdansk in Poland, this fall.
LICHTER RECEIVED a Fulbright award last year to teach at the university. However, after a strike broke out in Gdansk in early August, he resumed his work for the summer home in Seattle for the State Department to approve his trip.
Although he hasn't spoken to Lichter since July, Fletcher said Lichter and
Some professors feared that the Polish government would tighten its control of travel to and from Poland, said Gerhard Zuther, professor of English at University Exchange Program, it is business as usual, Fletcher said.
his 15-year-old son should be in Gdansk by Oct. 1.
"No sweat," Fletcher said. "This is a very serious crisis in Poland, but I can't see that it's affecting our academic relations."
Marcin Sar, a professor of political science who will be visiting KU from the University of Warsaw, is expected this weekend. Fletcher said, and should Lawrence on Tuesday to teach his first East-Central European politics class.
FOR THE TIME being, another professor is filling in for Sar, said James Drury, professor of political science.
"The students have been told to have faith, this man will arrive," he said.
Drury, who has taught political science at KU since 1947, will leave for the University of Warsaw next month to teach American government.
Drury said he wasn't worried about reaching Poland, even though the New York Times reported that the effects of the war had lead to Warsaw and other inland cities.
"I expect to go to Poland; I'm quite an optimist," he said.
Theatre auditions draw large turnout
While students were opening their books for the first time this semester, a little song, dance and prose could be called to mind all at the University theatre auditions.
Final casting for the semester's six productions will be announced tomorrow afternoon.
"There were just so many talented people," Rich said.
Productions this semester will be "A Toby Show," Sept. 24-27; "Sexual Perversion and Mr. Happiness," Sept. 30-Oct. 5; "The Fool," Oct. 10-11 and Oct. 18-18; "Uncommon Women and Others," Oct. 23-Nov. 1; "Grease," Nov. 7-8 and Nov. 13-15; and "Now Appearing." Nov. 19-24.
So many people auditioned this year that another night of auditions had to be scheduled, Jamie Rich, University entrance house manager, said yesterday.
Among those auditioning were a doctoral candidate in music therapy and a third-year law student, he said. Other students in psychology students also auditioned.
The auditions, which were open to all students, originally were scheduled for
Students were asked to perform a song and prepared reading.
If they were auditioning specifically for the musical "Greaset," they were asked to do a few basic dance steps in order to demonstrate movement ability.
Materials were provided for students unable to prepare for a sonic or reading.
After the auditions, callback lists were posted listing those students the day before to perform again. From callback auditions, make their final casting assignments.
One student, called back for three of the six shows, said that even though he had prepared his material three days before he auditioned, he was still pervious.
"You never escape nervousness," Klan Myers, Raytown,Mo., senior chairperson.
"People get cast from cold readings and come in to do from prepared readings," he said.
Rich said, though, that it wasn't absolutely necessary to prepare for the auditions.
One student who was auditioning for the first time at KU said the auditions were no different from others she had participated in.
"I felt pretty sure of myself until I started singing and then I thought I sounded like someone else," Joy Jones, Shawnee Mission junior, said.
Expert insists labor movement not on decline
As hundreds of thousands of workers in Poland continue to strike, laborers in this country will take a day off Monday to celebrate their national holiday.
"It is a day for labor," Jim DeHoff, executive secretary for the Lawrence Building and Construction Trades Council, said yesterday. "We think a lot of it."
Labor Day has been a national holiday since 1894, when President Grover Cleveland signed a bill making it one.
Since Cleveland signed the bill, Labor has had its ups and downs. But Jean
Baderschneider, acting assistant professor of business, does not agree with those who say Labor is again headed for tough times.
"I can't buy the argument that labor is on its way down," she said. "The key to their success will be their ability to organize different kinds of people."
The American Labor movement is basically a "bread and butter" one, she said, the emphasis being predominantly on wages. However, job security is increasing of grievances has become increasingly important, Bader-schneider added.
DeHoff said he had been monitoring the situation in Poland carefully.
"I think it's great that those people are speaking out," he said.
But he was doubtful whether the Parkers' movements would be successful.
"I think it's just a matter of time before the Russians step in," he said.
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