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cations are distributed. August and January are the most popular months. Hartley said. Some departments, such as KU Libraries and Recreation Services, may receive 60 to 100 applications for a single job.
Campus employers who want to hire a student for an hourly position must post the position online for at least three days. Some positions may be posted for a week while others remain online for several months. Nearly 80 student hourly positions are currently posted online, some of which have been up since November, but others were posted just this month.
"As long as departments still have funding available, they will be able to hire and fill their student positions," Hartley said. "Based on the total number of students employed on campus, I would say it has not changed very much."
KU Libraries, the Department of Student Housing, Dining Services, the Recreation Center. The University Daily Kansan and summer orientation assistants probably have the most positions
each year, she said.
The seven libraries employ 304 students and have an annual student personnel budget of $818,000, which has remained relatively stable, said libraries spokeswoman Rebecca Smith.
Smith said she preferred students to have work study experience, but employers at KU Libraries generally look at the needs of the position and hire the person who can best fill it. The Federal Work Study Program helps students pay for school by providing them money through part-time employment. She said that the libraries changed their hiring habits a little bit given the current budget but that library positions had always been relatively competitive.
Chappell said she had noticed a high retention number throughout the recession. In some years, up to 70 percent of students come back to work the same job the next semester, which allows for
consistency with training and service, she said.
Stephanie Thompson, a senior from Shawnee, works for both the Recreation Center and Dining Services. She took the positions in January 2008 and has been employed since.
Hartley said she hadn't noticed any significant changes in hiring trends, such as looking for more students with work study, lessening the amount of hours or lowering the amount of pay. Students on a student hourly payroll can work up to 30 hours per week during the school year and 40 hours during breaks.
The campus minimum wage is currently $7.50 an hour, but Hartley said many student hourly jobs were posted at a wage between $8 and $9 an hour. A University salary freeze doesn't allow any increase in student wages.
"It has been very difficult to freeze salary increases when student employees continue to do great things every day in their jobs," Chappell said.
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much stimulus funding as we can," he said. "There are some other grants that are competitive that we are trying to apply for, and those will help out with
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creating new jobs, sustainability, construction and other new fields like that."
the 2009 and 2010 fiscal year, which has created a ripple effect. For just the third time since 1972. University employees will not receive pay increases this
Key to Lawrence's lower unemployment is the University, which is the city's largest employer with
"Even though the employment rate is so low in the city, there are some sectors that are suffering right now.
ROGER ZALNERAITIS Lawrence's economic development coordinator
The University has had its budget cut by $37.3 million in
Zalneratitis said local businesses also prospered in college towns because they provided goods and services for the additional residents that the University brings.
5. 515 full-time employees and 9.872 total employees, according to the University's Office of Institutional Research and Planning.
year.
And although only 11 people have been laid off from the University, spokeswoman Jill less said 121 unfilled positions were eliminated, including 55 faculty positions.
just because Lawrence isn't facing a 10 percent unemployment rate doesn't mean the struggling
economy hasn't taken its toll in some areas, such as construction. Zalneratics said.
"There are some sectors in Lawrence's economy that are being hurt pretty bad," he said. "So even though the unemployment rate is low in the city, there are some sectors that are suffering right now."
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STATE
Woman, unborn child murdered
LEAVENWORTH — A Leavenworth man has pleaded no contest to two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of his girlfriend and her unborn child.
Twenty-five year-old Sedale L. Fox had been charged with capital murder in the Jan. 22, 2008, shooting deaths of Olivia Jackson and her unborn child in Lansing.
Fox entered the pleas to lesser charges Tuesday in Leavenworth County District Court. As part of the plea, prosecutors will recommend a sentence of 24.5 years.
Barry Disney, deputy attorney general for Kansas, said evidence showed Fox and Jackson were in a relationship and she wanted more out of the relationship than he did.
Sentencing is scheduled for May 6. Fox remains in custody at the Leavenworth County Jail.
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Associated Press
Justice O'Connor to speak at KU event
Retired Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is set to deliver the KU School of Law's 2010 Shook, Hardy & Bacon Center for Excellence in Advocacy Annual Lecture.
Justice
Justice O'Connor will participate in a discussion with Judge Deanell Reece Tacha of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, at 7:30 p.m. Monday
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at the Dole Institute of Politics. The event is invitation-only. O'Connor will visit with law students, faculty and alumni. She will also speak during a
constitutional law class and have lunch with a small group of law students and professors.
"The opportunity to host Justice O'Connor means so much to me," said Gail Agrawal, dean of the School of Law. "Justice O'Connor has been an inspiration for so many lawyers, and I include myself in that number. I remember so clearly the day she was appointed to the court. I was in law school at the time, and as several classmates and I watched the news coverage together, we could also hear a glass ceiling shattering for us. Her visit is a great honor for the law school."
O'Connor was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan and was the court's first female justice. She served on the bench from 1981 to 2006.
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ODD NEWS
Mom faces charges for Facebook hacking
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The mother of a 16-year-old boy said she was only being a good mom when she locked him out of his Facebook account after reading he had driven home at 95 mph one night because he was mad at a girl. His response: a harassment complaint at the local courthouse.
"If I'm found guilty on this it is going to be open season on parents," Denise New said Wednesday.
New, of Arkadelphia, a small college town an hour southwest of Little Rock, said many of her
son's postings didn't reflect well on him, so after he failed to log off the social networking site, she posted her own items on his account and changed his password to keep him from using it again. But her son claims what she posted wasn't true, and that she's damaging his reputation.
Lane New, who lives with his grandmother, filed a complaint with prosecutors who approved a harassment charge March 26.
"I probably made maybe three, maybe four actual postings — the rest of it was a conversation between my son, me and his personal friends," Denise New said.
In his handwritten complaint to prosecutors, Lane New asked that his mother have no contact with him.
Denise New acknowledged changing both passwords to keep her son from getting access to his Facebook page. She denied hacking into the account.
Denise New said the boy had written on his Facebook page that he had gone to Hot Springs one night and drove 95 mph on the way home because he was upset with a girl. Several other posts on his site also bothered her, but she refused to elaborate.
She said he has since opened a new Facebook account.
Prosecutor Todd Turner declined to comment because the boy is a minor.
Denise New said Lane moved in with his grandmother about five years ago, after she went through a difficult divorce, was having mental health problems and didn't feel she could provide her son with the supervision he needed.
She faces a hearing on the misdemeanor at the Clark County Courthouse on May 12.
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