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1991 KU grads face slumping job market
By Justin Knupp
Kansan staff writer
Times are still tough all over.
After graduation and a summer of searching
for a job, May 1991 KU graduates still are
looking for work.
Terry Glenn, University Placement Center at the National job market was in a state of depression.
"It is hard to compare the job market in May to any other specific time," Glenn said. "However, 1991 is definitely a tough year for graduates."
One possible reason for the slump in the job market is that many companies across the nation are restructuring existing staff and not hiring new employees, he said.
*Many corporations don't have the money to
"Right now we are advising graduates to allow sufficient time to make a proper job search," Glenn said. "Because of the job market, the process may take a little longer."
hire new people, so they just shuffle current people around," he said. "Hopefully, this is just temporary and companies will begin hiring new personnel again."
The University Placement Center provides graduates with advice and help in finding a job.
To improve their marketability and help pass time, some recent graduates who have not found jobs are entering graduate school, he said.
Rosemary Miller, a graduate student in biology, said she was concerned about the current rise of *Arabic* language.
tive government the job market becomes tighter and tighter. "Miller said. "I think the current trend in the job market may take a funny turn because more and more people are going back to school to get more education."
"It seems that each time we get a conserva-
Enrollment figures for the KU graduate school showed an increase in 1990. Virginia Sayler, office specialist in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Graduate School, said 236 more students were enrolled in Spring 1990 than in Fall 1990.
Ruth Hillers, director of the college's graduate division, said the enrollment figures had increased.
"The KU graduate school hit an all-time high around 1980, and we are again at that level or higher."
She agreed that the current economy had much to do with the increase in enrollment.
- "Students are discovering that employers are requiring a higher degree before considering an applicant," she said. * "Plus, more education never hurts."
Hillers said she thought the trend in enrollment might continue as long as the job market is still strong.
One person who is not worried about the depressed job market is Paul Fairechild, a child care worker.
"Exact predictions are hard to make," she said. "But it seems like we have been slightly busier than we were last year at this time."
"When I get my Ph.D., I have a lot of other skills to fall back on if I can't find a job in the philosophy field," he said. "I'm just not too concerned."
An exception to the depressed job market
occurred this year in the School of Pharmacy.
"Every student who wanted a job had one before they walked down the Hill at graduation," he said. "We graduated 80 students and everyone who wanted a job got one."
Gene Hotchkiss, assistant to the dean of the School of Pharmacy, said 1991 was an average year for pharmacy graduates.
Holchkiss attributed the placement of the graduates to the expansion of the pharmaceutic field.
*People are living longer and more services are needed, "Hotchkiss said. "In general, there is a call for more pharmacists.
Hotchkiss said he thought the market for pharmacy graduates would continue to hold steady.
Panel seeks to open campus to disabled
Restroom accessibility tops list of priorities
By Melissa Rodgers Kansan staff writer
KU's architectural barriers committee, which recommends ways to improve campus accessibility for people disabled, has a wish list for this school year.
The committee, made up of two disabled students, a retired faculty member and six faculty and staff members, are improving restrooms as a priority.
Automatic door openers, more accessible sidewalks and curbs and improvements to already accessible areas are also on the list.
The committee has a budget of about $47,000 for this year, said Robert Turvey, associate director of the St. Lucia Bar Association and a member of the barriers committee.
Restrooms in Marvin, Fraser, Murphy and Nichols halls are scheduled for remodeling this year.
Improved curb and sidewalk access is scheduled for the Fraser parking lot, Danforth Chapel parking lot, the Military Science Building sidewalk and on Jayhawk Boulevard near the Chi Omega fountain.
Turvey said the committee learned mostly from students about campus barriers that restrict people who are disabled.
Automatic door openers are scheduled for installation in the Art and Design Building, Wescoe Hall and the Computer Center.
David Schaecher, capital improvement administrator for the office of facilities planning and a co-ordinator in architecture, brought design and architectural drawings for
Areas slated for accessibility improvements are the Art and Design Building, Wescoe Hall, the Computer Center and the Fraser Hall parking lot.
new KU buildings and renovation projects before the committee.
The University is required by law to meet codes of accessibility, Schaecher said. Future University building programs incorporate designs for accessibility.
The University's planned new scholarship hall will have specific designs for students who are disabled, such as ramping, an elevator and parking adjacent to the building.
One room in the hall is designed for a disabled student, and more can be modified. Schaecher said.
Lied Center, which is under construction, in addition to having an accessible entrance, automatic entrance door, elevators and accessible restrooms, will have box seating and seating in the balcony for people who are disabled.
There also will be a remote hearing sound system for those with hearing impairments.
Facilities planning has a strong commitment to accessibility and every year identifies accessibility projects, Turvey said.
Hoch fire ruins key link in route for wheelchairs
That, though, was before the elevator at the back of Hoch Auditorium — a vital campus link for people who are not here. In June 15 fire that gutted the building.
A person in a wheelchair used to spend between 30 and 40 minutes going from the Dole Human Development Center to the Kansas Union, according to a study last year by a group of architecture students.
To take the route before the fire, someone in a wheelchair starting at the Dole Center had to go through a tunnel connecting Dole to Haworth Hall and take an elevator up to a tunnel connecting Haworth and Malott Hall.
Now people who are disabled must again find other ways to reach Jayhawk Boulevard from buildings on Sunnyside Avenue.
With the Hoch elevator gone, no other route meets code requirements for steepness, and students must either drive or ride in a van supplied by the University, said Robert Turvey, associate professor of the Student Assistance Center.
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Next, the person would take an elevator down to the front of Malott, take the sidewalk from Malott to Anschutz building, and go up to the front of the science library.
The person then would take the elevator at the back of Hoch up to a parking area between Hoch and Marvin in front of the parking lot to Jayhawk Boulevard.
At this time, there are no new routes from Sunnyside Avenue to Jayhawk Boulevard planned for people who are disabled. Turvea said.
If a car blocked any of the curb crossings along the way, the person would have to negotiate a detour.
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Cheers and tears
After nearly a week of rush-related activities, rushees and rush counselors gathered Wednesday afternoon for Bid Day activities.
One of the highlights occurred when the counselors revealed to the crowd their individual sororities in a chorus line in front of Allen Field House (above). During the week, counselors are not allowed to disclose their houses to the rushees.
The climax of Bid Day came when bids were given to the rushees. After discovering the Chi Omega house had accepted her, Kim Cocks, St. Louis freshman (right), hugs a fellow rushee.
Hurricane Bob forces thousands to learn how to live without power, water
BOSTON — Hurricane Bob is gone but far from forgotten in parts of the Northeast, where thousands continued to get by without electricity and some had no water.
The Associated Press
Asked what she missed most, Warwick, R.I., b-2-year-old Kathy Smith died after being struck by a car.
Nearly 200,000 utility customers from New York's Long Island to Maine remained without power. In chic Newport, R.I., tourists took a mansion tour by candlelight.
Bobashed the Northeast last Monday with winds to 115 mph. Hundreds of boats were pushed ashore, trees blew down and heavy rain brought flooding. Sixteen deaths were reported from the Carolinas to Maine, where the storm finally dipped below 40°F — a sustained winds of at least 74mph.
In Warwick, residents with electric sewage pumps found they could not use toilet without the waste backing up into basements and yards.
Kathy's mother, Joan Smith, had to
buy a portable toilet, and her toilet-trained 2-year-old son was back in diapers.
"With three kids you need a flushable toilet. "Smith lamented.
Neighbor Ida Wryerostic took a more rustic approach: "I've got an旧 bucket from my mother from years back and we've been using that."
Asters' Beechwood, one of Newport's famed mansions that had been closed, reopened the old-fashioned way, with candles.
"Because we're set in the year 1891,
this works perfectly," representative Carole Brownell said. "Electricity was rather new then and they were having blackouts like this all the time."
In Carver, Mass., which has no municipal water service, 7,000 residents rely on electric pump to get water from the stormwater system, 2,468 homes remained without power.
Selectman Frank Kane said he was becoming a bit too fragrant for his wife, until he snuck a shower in the town's police station.
"My wife was quite pleased," Kane said. "The odor decreased some- what."
On Long Island, the sign on the door of an East Hampton hardware store summed up local sentiment: "Frustrated and without power."
About 100,000 Massachusetts customers remained in the dark Thursday, about 71,000 of those on Cape Cod. Another 70,800 were powerless on Long Island and 41,000 suffered in Rhode Island. About 16,000 in Connecticut had no power, while 13,000
remained affected in Maine.
The storm hit the poor especially hard. Salvation Army workers in southeastern Massachusetts and the Cape were feeding low-income families whose food had spoiled in their refrigerators.
"It's hectic. There's no question this is from the hurricane," said Capt. Douglas Jones of the New Bedford Salvation Army. "We have two full-time staff. One of my caseworkers was going on vacation this week, but came back to help."