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Part-time job ads may misrepresent promises by BethBlenz One ofthecompanies (Southwestern,adivision Two companies which advertise part-time stu- ofTimes Mirror) wasn'teven inthis area.If you dentemploymentatUCIandotherUCcampuses wanted to work for them, you had to go to have come under criticism byUCI CareerPlan- Tennessee or some other out-of-state area, and ning and.Placementofficials forfalseadvertising. take your chancesin finding aplace to live while Subsidiaries of Alcoa and Times Mirror cor- you worked," she said. porations advertise fixed salary part-time em- InareportbyJohnSkaronofthe UCLACareer ploymentonflyers postedonmanyUCIbulletin Planning andPlacement Center,the Southwest- boards.However,the "part-time employment"is ernsales trainingprogramisexplained.Students, actually door-to-door sales work of cutlery and it states, are given $15-20 for one-week motel encyclopedias, salaried by commission only. lodgings at the Nashville headquarters. A region "The mostrecentadgoingaroundcampus is the is then assigned to each salesperson, and only 'Earn $5.18 per hour Alcoa Co. poster," said cities with populations of less than 30,000 are Linda Defeo, UCI career planning and place- visited. ment recruitment advisor. A student calls the Thebiggestproblem with the companies,how- number ontheposter,andgetsabunchofevasive ever, is the evasive attitude of the employees, according toDefeo. answers about what kind of work is involved. "Istoppedaguyone daywho wasputtingupone Then they're asked for their name, age and of the posters, she said. "Iaskedhimifhe could telephone number, and signed up for an inter- come to the Career Planning and Placement view." office sometimeto explainhiscompany's policies - Defeo addedthatstudentswhowenttothe"high andthe exact natureof the work.But hegot mad STUDENTSBEWARE JohnGrahampuzzlesoverpart-timejob pressure" interview,and signedup for the sales andrefused." listingsposted $70 around campus. Some of the adshave comeunder work werethenrequiredtobuya$40to sales Defeo isconcerned that studentsare not aware criticism recently for misrepresenting their salary claims. kit. of the misrepresenting ads. New University CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY OF IRVINE October 18, 1977/Vol. 10/No. 7 NEW HORIZONS Grant promotes science careers for handicapped A grant has been awarded to dents to realize their potential money are still being devel- UCI by the National Science for science careers. oped. According to Hoy, "we Foundation for a pilot program hope tohave theprogramoper- to show handicapped students ational this quarter. opportunities Another important part of the the available as program,accordingtoUCIoffi- science careers. Dr.Daniel C. Wulf, associate cials, will be to acquaint em- of the school ofbiological ployees and faculty with the dean According to John C. Hoy, sciences, will be in charge of vice-chancellor of university physical requirements of vari- academic planning. The result and student affairs, the grant ous science careers. of his work, he said, "will get was slightly less that $26,000 physically handicapped per- and UCI was one of less than Hoy pointed out that for the sons into science areas that up twenty institutions to receive first time grantshavebeengiven to now they thought have been any money. out by NSF for a handicapped closed off to them." studentprogram."Theyusually "Ithink we got the grant be- spend most of their money on Some UCI officials see the BY RESERVATIONONLY-ICS officialshopethat thenew cause the application report research.That'swhyIthinkit's beginning recog- computerterminals willendlonglines grant as the of reservationsystemfor was so candid and so thorough important wedo a firstrate job, nition for handicapped stu- in the terminal room. and it demonstrated that the so other schools will have the dents' educational needs. Mi- faculty has been responsive," opportunity to recieve such noritiesand women,as they see said Hoy. grants." it, have had their educational Students reserve problems surfaced. The handi- "The whole program," added capped are now beginning to Hoy "is an effort in increase All plans for use of the grant have their voice heard. terminals in ICS thenumberofhandicappedwho byMonti Rieman willfind careersinscience. We numbers with Informa- will also be trying to find sum- Students who have account UCI's jobs so can employment and Computer (ICS) computer facility may mer students get UCI tion Sciences experience to help make up have to reserve a terminal up to six daysinadvance. "The reservation plan was implemented because people their minds." had severe problems last fall quarter in getting a computer system's highest aspect is terminal todotheir classwork, ChuckCatlett,ICSmanager "Another important byDavid Stoner ofpublic services said."15 to20people wouldbe waitingin that we will be developing role of UC students so other handicapped Arecent studyon employment patterns revealed line at one time touse a computer." models that 10percentmore studentsareemployedatUCIthanany other "With the new system, students can be assured that a students can raise their hori- area zons," Hoy. UC campus. terminalwillbe waitingforthem whentheycome. There said Over 5y percent ofIrvine's students are employed,according to few free access (non-reserve) terminals for students who thestudybyUCCommunity PlannerIraFink.Theloweststudent want to take their chances," Catlett said. employment rate 32.4percent at UC Santa Cruz. However, spokespersonsaid, department feels The money will be spent for is anICS "The workshops and special Sizeanddiversity ofthejobmarketdeterminesthe amount ofoff- that the terminal reservation system won't always work for faculty seminars to deal with any campus employment. Campuses located in metropolitan areas them." were tohave more opportunities for students than the special problems, according to said job ones in ICSpurchased tenports (connectionsbetween terminal Hoy. "They'll help the student rural areas. andthe maincomputer) on theDigital Equipment Corpora- "Off-campus job opportunities at UCI are due mostly the If terminalis available,butmore find out where they should go to tion(DEC-10) computer. a for engineering, biological efforts of the Career Planning and Placement Center,"said UCI than10operators areloggedon(usingthe computer),noone Career Placement Interviewer Linda "We've expanded log sciences, physics or computer Defeo. a else will be able to on. science careers." lot in the past two years." "The department feels it would be too bad if someone Vicki Freimann, UCI co-ordinator of Housing Services said, reserved a terminal and came a long way to find that he (in study)is important in on," they're "This typeof data the determining what couldn't log the spokesperson added. "Sonow The grant will also pay for types of jobs are needed in the campus area." workingon aportreservation system.But it'sreally compli- speakers at various planned The study also shows that off-campus employment affects cated, and a long way from implementation." programs as wellas foranation- (such "Star patterns of transportation for students. Students employed off Computer facility officials saidgameplaying as ally distributed pamphlet on campus were twice as likely touse cars as primary Trek") priority regularcomputer their means of onthe terminalhadno over science careers for the handi- school transportation than students employed on campus. Over work. capped. 7,800 students drive to and eve»y day. terminal," spokesperson from UCI "Evenifsomeonereserved the the Married students were more likely to be employed than said."Ifsomebody'splayinggames, someoneelsewho wants according non- the UCI personnel will visit high married on everyUC campus, to the study.Men were to do classwork can "bump (remove) the player from likely employed women, terminal." [con't on pg.11] school and college campuses to more to be than and as academic levels encourage handicapped stu- rose, employement rates increased. 2 Opinion/Editorial October 18,1977 New University Handicapped evicted on misunderstanding A recent "misunderstanding" between administration officials and the Handicapped Student Association (HSA) allowed com- muter student advisors to remove a therapy bed and rearrange furniture in half of HSA's trailer space without any advance notice. Theirabruptevictionofthehandicappedstudentsindicates alack ofcommunication,thoughtandresponsibility.Inaddition,a question is raised as to the administration's promise in campus organizations HSA was giventhe two-office trailer space temporarily last year "until a room was decided upon."according toHSA co-chair Jim Mitchell. However, Sally Peterson, associate dean of students, claims the space was tobe sharedwithcommuterstudent advisors. Who actually removed the bed is not known. Neighboring Veteran'sConspiracymembersremembered seeing"oneormore' advisors carryingoutabedused fortherapy andexercisebymany of the handicappedstudents.One commuteradvisor,Gary Geils, claimedhedidn tknow whohadremovedthebed,butthatit"didn't matter" because it was "non-functionalanyway." But who were they to determine what was functional and what wasnot? Andwhogave themthepermission tocomeunannounced andremove private propertyfrom an office.' HSA's therapy bed has since been returned to the office, and officialsare searchingfor apermanentspace forboththemandthe commuterstudent advisors.Inthe future,however,administrative decisions and priorities should be agreed upon by all involved Letters to the editor parties. Maybe that way,fewer "misunderstandings" will occur. the