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Tuesday, February 18, 1997
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APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING SUAPOSITIONS NOWAVAILABLE FOR 1997-1998:
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The
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Accessories
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Belts, Hond Bogs, Shoes
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Downtown Lawrence
Applications may be picked up at the SUA Box Office. Level Four, Kansas Union.
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You are invited to attend one of three general sessions to comment on ideas to improve campus safety, access transportation and parking.
looking for 3,300 parking spaces on main campus every class day.
The sessions are
Noon Feb.18 Kansas Room, Kansas Union 3:30 p.m.Feb.20 Pioneer Room,Burge Union 7 p.m.Feb.27 Jayhawk Room,Kansas Union
The complete text of "A Proposal for Improving Campus Safety, Access, Transportation and Parking" is available on KUfacts at http://www.ukans.edu/~traffic. Copies also are on reserve at Watson Library; Anschutz Science Library; Art and Architecture Library, Spencer Museum of Art; Music Library, 448 Murphy Hall; Spahr Engineering Library; Law Library, 200 Green Hall; and the Communities and Activities Center, 400 Kansas Union.
Comments may be e-mailed to traffic@raven cc.ukans.edu or sent in campus mail to the Office of University Relations. Deadline for comments is March 15.
Organizations and Activities Center, 400 Kansas Union.
AFL-CIO aims to stop decline
Group has plan to boost numbers
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The AFLCIO slowed the decline in membership last year, according to federation officials who yesterday outlined a broad organizing strategy to bolster labor's reaks.
With steadily declining numbers the last few decades, the union's strength has waned.
Unions less popular
As the federation's executive council met this week, there was widespread support for AFL-CIO president John Sweeney's call to energize the labor movement.
Labor union membership as a percentage of the total work force has dropped steadily since 1955. The graph a left shows this drop in the late 1980s and 90s.
While claiming some victories in regaining members during Sweeney's first year as president, there also have been stinging setbacks, such as labor's offer to end unconditionally the Detroit newspaper strike this week.
Andv Rohrback/KANSAN
A unionist took Sweeney to task during a news conference yesterday, accusing him of failing to do enough to support the Detroit strikers. Sweeney denied it was a surrender and portrayed the union's unilateral back-to-work offer as a strategic decision that forced the company now to decide whether to rehire the workers or to risk backpay liability.
Sweeney said membership in affiliated unions increased by about 12,000 members in 1996 to slightly more than 12.9 million. With the AFL-CIO's help, the labor
movement during the past year has notched up organizing victories among state workers in Maryland and hotel workers in Las Vegas.
Yet labor's strength is a far cry from when unions represented nearly 35 percent of the nonfarm workforce three decades ago. Unions overall showed a decline in membership in 1996, from 14.9 percent of the labor force in 1995 to 14.5 percent in 1996, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The Associated Press
The House voted 100-0 to make "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia" the state song emeritus. There was no debate.
RICHMOND, Va. — Not a single discordant note was sounded yesterday as Virginia's House of Delegates voted to retire a state song that critics say glorifies slavery with words like "darker" and "massa."
The first repeal attempt was made in 1970 by then-State Sen. L. Douglas Wilder, a grandson of slaves who became the nation's first elected African-American governor.
"This puts the song where it belongs — in history — and it won't be troubling us any further," said Delegate William P. Robinson Jr., D-Norfolk.
Astronauts patch up Hubble's torn cover
The Associated Press
SPACE CENTER, Houston With the sort of ingenuity used on Apollo 13, Discovery's astronauts cobbled together foil, wire, clips, plastic twists and parachute cord yesterday in an attempt to fix the Hubble Space Telescope's torn insulating cover.
Mission Control added an extra spacewalk so two astronauts could split splits in Hubble's thin, reflective insulation, apparently damaged by sun exposure during the past seven years.
Working 375 miles above Earth,
Gregory Harbaugh and Joe Tanner covered two gaping holes near the top of the 43-foot telescope with pieces of 3-by-1 Teflon-coated material. They attached the blankets, brought along to repair possible pinholes, to knobs and rails with wire and string.
Hubble probably could have made it to the next service call in late 1999 without the insulation repairs, said Kenneth Ledbetter, NASA payload manager. The concern was the deteriorating cover might cause sensitive electronics in the $2 billion telescope to overheat and fail.
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