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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Tuesday
March 3, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 107
(USPS 650-640)
Attorneys defend court's indigents but don't get paid
By PAUL BELDEN
Staff writer
Harry Warren would like to be paid for his work, but he doesn't expect that he will be.
Warren, a Lawrence attorney, said he spent more than 50 hours in 1986 and 1987 representing David Winebrenner, who was facing felony charges of murder and aggravated arson.
Winebrenner couldn't afford an attorney, and Judge James W. Paddock had appointed Warren to defend Winebrenner.
At the state-set hourly wage of $30 — half of Warren's usual criminal case fee — the bill came to slightly more than $1,500.
But Douglas County has no more money to pay court-appointed defense attorneys and won't have any until July.
So Warren, who turned away five or six new clients during the Wine-brenner case, will probably have to eat that $1,500.
He's not alone.
Milton Allen Jr., another Lawrence attorney, said, "All the people doing it now are doing it gratuitously, pro bono, for nolin."
Nothing remains of the $58,000
allocated to the 7th Judicial District,
or Douglas County, by the State
Board of Indigents' Defense Services
for the fiscal year ending in June
1987. The money ran out Feb. 19, said
Cathy Estes, assistant director of the
IDS board.
The board changed the way it allocated funds to judicial districts in July. Estes said.
Previously, indigents' defense programs in all Kansas judicial districts received money from a general fund. But last year the IDS board chose to separately finance 11 districts that traditionally had high costs. Estes said.
Douglas County was one of those districts. Estes said that she didn't know why the budget projection had not been included, but the town was not limited to Douglas County.
Before July, the judicial districts encompassed Leavenworth, Johnson, Butler and Wyandotte counties and run out of money as well, she said.
Allen said attorneys volunteered yearly to be included on a list of court-appointed defense counsels. Allen said attorneys are currently on the list.
See BROKE, p. 6, col. 3
Off the wall
These legs were found dangling over the wall behind Wescoe Hall yesterday afternoon. They belong to Margo Townley, left, Anthony sophomore, yesterday's sunny skies.
Students, faculty win basketball tickets in lottery
By ROB KNAPP
The Kansas basketball lottery has produced its first 20 winners.
KU athletic ticket office employees yesterday morning drew names from about 300 student entries for postseason basketball tickets. The students whose names were among the first 20 drawn now have the opportunity to buy one ticket each for the Big Eight Postseason Tournament, to be played this weekend at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Mo.
The second group of 20 names belongs to alternates. The tickets not purchased by the 20 winners by noon today will be offered to alternates, beginning with the first name on the list.
The drawing was the first in the new system of distributing postseason basketball tickets at the University of Kansas. The lottery replaces the old "first come, first serve" system, that in the past, had students waiting overnight at Allen Field House for tickets
Demand for Big Eight Tournament tickets this year is much heavier than last season.
Richard Konem, assistant athletic director, said that the ticket office sold only 12 Big Eight Tournament tickets to students last season. He said he'd be during the first few days of KU's spring break.
Reaction to the lottery system varied even among the winners.
Jaci Allen, Overland Park senior, said she wasn't sure if she would win but that she liked
the lottery system better than its predecessor
"I think it is the most fair," Allen said. "Not everybody has time to wait overnight for tickets."
Mary Allen, Overland Park sophomore, was one winner who said she would probably not take advantage of the chance to buy Big Eight tickets.
"I put in my name and my boyfriend's, but
his wasn't even on the alternate's list," she
said. "I'm not going to Kemper Arena by
myself."
She said she wished the ticket office had sold the tournament tickets in pairs.
Carter Patterson, Lee's Summit, Mo., junior,
did not make the first list of 20, but he was the
first to finish.
"I wanted to see who else got them," Patterson said after learning he was an alternate. He said that several of his friends had applied for tickets but that he would go to the tournament alone if he had to.
Patterson said he liked the new system.
"I've spent many cold nights outside Allen Field House." he said.
Patterson said he applied for postseason tickets hoping to get seats for the NCAA subregional in Birmingham. Ala.
Kansas, like all other Big Eight Conference schools, automatically received 250 tickets for the postseason tournament. Kansas this year allotted 150 tickets for use by the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation and the Athletic Department.
Recruiting trends show a tight job market
Staff writer
By PEGGY O'BRIEN
KU's class of 87 is facing a flat job market, but the employment forecast isn't all bad news.
Recruiting trend studies show that international competition, downsizing and mergers by major corporations are tightening the job
The trends found in a study done by Placement Services at Michigan State University imply that graduates, even in majors whose employment prospects have been good, have a harder time finding a job.
On the brighter side, the study said that when graduates do find a job, starting salaries will be higher, and smaller companies with increased hiring quotas may be making more job offer. The study defined smaller companies as those with 500 to 999 employees.
Despite the significance of the the study's findings, the percentage of change expected still is small. Employers will hire 2.4 percent graduates, and salaries will increase by 2.9 percent.
Fred Madaus, business school placement director, said new graduates would be smart to look to medium to small companies for their first job. He said he didn't think downsizing, or staffing cutbacks, would make that much difference at the entry level, where big companies may still want to load talent.
"It's not black and white, just a hue of change," said Vernon Geissler, director of the University Placement Center.
"Instead of four to five years, it may take eight to 10 years to move into key career positions." Maddaus said.
Madaus said he thought the effects were more likely to slow career progress down the road rather than at the start.
While business majors in accounting and finance are looking for public and private accounting firms, they tend toward a general business degree
Estimated starting salaries of college graduates
Academic majors Bachelor's degree starting salaries
Academic majors Bachelor's degree starting salaries
Electrical engineering $ 29,680
Mechanical engineering 29,636
Chemical engineering 29,254
Computer Science 28,087
Civil engineering 25,399
Chemistry 23,474
Physics 21,269
Accounting 21,037
Mathematics 20,804
General business administration 19,643
Personnel administration 19,267
Geology 18,184
Education 17,874
Communications 17,853
Liberal Arts 16,975
Journalism 15,743
Source: The Collegiate Employment Research Institute Bill Skeet/KANSAN
are looking at sales, Madaus said.
are looking at sales, Madaua said.
Sales jobs always have been around, and a new graduate has always been turned on by the idea of being a salesman of being a salesman. Madaua said. But now the business school placement center finds its sales interview schedules filling fast.
Because a sales job can offer many opportunities for growth, incentives such as cars and trips, and bonuses based on productivity, graduates are finding it a desirable first job. Madda said.
Julie Webster Cunningham, engineering school placement director, said that smaller companies would be important to engineering majors, too. She said some graduates found greater and varied responsibilities in a small company. They find the personal satisfaction more rewarding than a high salary.
The high salary offered by a big company becomes much less a factor when the quality of a job is better than a small company is greater, she said.
Cunningham also said that companies forced to cut back in sales or production might need to continue hiring engineers. These companies need engineers to develop new products, regardless of the
Getting a first job requires planning, KU officials say
Staff writer
By PEGGY O'BRIEN
A strong major and high grade point average don't necessarily guarantee graduating seniors that first job, placement directors say.
Students who plan, make an effort and have a sense of direction can potentially have more success, said Julie Webster Cunningham, director of the School of Engineering placement center.
She said that students should spend at least as much time preparing for a job hunt as they would spend on a term paper or a final exam.
"What makes the difference between who gets the job and who doesn't has much less to do with major choice and market conditions than it does with good career planning and a good organized method of job seeking," Cunningham said.
Fred Madau, director of the School of Business placement center, said he thought that sophomores and juniors would find their job search easier if they started
thinking about it early.
Students with a business degree can go into several different directions because KU business degrees are flexible, he said.
Madaus said that students with a liberal arts degree who had taken some business courses, or who had become proficient with computers, would appeal to an employer who wanted to fill a job in business.
Vernon Geissler, director and coordinator of the University Placement Center, said that he was wearing a worel for flexibility and creativity.
Geographic flexibility is a relatively rare but important asset to a job seeker, each of the directors said. Job prospects are much better if the graduate is willing to move.
"It takes dynamite to get students out of their home state," Cunningham said.
Geissler advised students to begin thinking about their job search early and to expect to go on an organized and persistent way.
state of the economy.
Right now the employment picture for petroleum engineers is bleak, Cunningham said. But that could change dramatically by the time the current freshman class in petroleum engineering is ready for college. The industry's technical majors such as engineers always had been cyclical.
She said students were flocking to electrical and computer engineering, but the computer industry was flourished as was predicted.
"I'm confident the cycle will swing back up. We just don't know how soon that will happen."
Starting salaries for engineering majors range from $18,000 to $23,000 depending on the size of the company, whether it's a private company or government agency, and what city the job is in.
The Michigan State study found engineers and nurses making the most money the first year out of college.
Nurses in the Midwest are starting at about $21,000, and on either coast, between $24,000 and $25,000. Because of a shortage of hospital nurses, a graduate nurse should have no problem finding a job, said Rita Clifford, assistant dean of the nursing school.
Nominee sought to head CIA
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, striving for a fresh start from the Iran arms scandal, agreed yesterday to withdraw Robert Gates as a nominee for director of the CIA. Reagan is seeking another nominee to lead the agency.
Gates, acting director of the CIA, was faced with growing Senate opposition to his confirmation because of his — and the agency's — role in the Iran arms-contra aid that has rocked the administration.
Reagan said he hoped Gates would return to his post as deputy CIA director, a position he held until he took over temporary control of the agency in December when William Casey underwent brain cancer surgery.
Reagan said in a statement that Gates "would easily have been confirmed without delay" under normal circumstances, but "it is clear at this point that confirmation proceedings could be the forest of the CIA or the United States."
In a statement, Gates said he would remain at the CIA as deputy director and stressed the president "never wavered in his support" for him, but he felt it was "imperative that the nation get on with its business."
NCAA bound
The Kansas Jayhawks earned their first trip to a NCAA Tournament with an 85-51 victory over the Kansas State Wildecats last night in the women's Big Eight Championship game in Salina. See story page 9.
Down graded
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Students have lost the option to pick up their transcripts from the office of student records because the understaffed office has been forced to cut services. See story page 3.
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