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Tufts Struggles with Lull in Employment in Hillsides Thurs THETUFTS DAILY. \Where You Read It First Monday, October 4,1999 Volume XXXIX, Number 17 1 Tufts struggles with Rethinking Requirements lull in employment Problem not onlyfor Carmichael by JORDAN SOLOMON vate, throughout this region and Daily Editorial Board nationally have been having this For most people, America’s problem for several years. We’ve current booming economy can been feeling it in past, but more only be seen as a blessing. A few keenly this year. This department is organizations on the Tufts cam- just kind of sliding back to where pus, however, may beg to differ. others already are, so I think it was Dining Services is taking the reallyjustamatteroftime,”shesaid. brunt of what appears to be a de- A few other departments creased interest in student em- around campus have also reported ployment this year, much of it due similarproblems.Accordingto eco- to an abundance of attractive off- nomics department chair David campus options. The pull of local Garman, his staffhas been unable opportunities is not limited to to find the six to eight students those students who once filled the usually hired in the beginning of positions at dining facilities, how- each academic year. .The effects ever, asan array ofadministrative on the department, he said, have been noticeable. Photo by Kate Coben bodies have likewise found them- Are you bogged down with core requirements? Relief may be on the way for selves understaffed. “The situation puts more stress Despite a sufficient amount of on our staff because jobs that future Jumbos. The Education Planning Committee has tentatively proposed staffing in the eating areas in the people normally are able to del- changes to the graduation requirements, which will be presented to the faculty campus center, Brown and Brew, egate to others they are having to for consideration in November. For specifics of the propsals, student opinoin, and catering services, the number do themselves, so it’s hard for and historical context, turn to pages 2 and 3. of workers in the Carmichael and them to catch up,” he said. DewicWMacPhie dining halls has Garman also noted that the ex- There are great opportunities off- substantially decline from previ- planation might rest in“fewer stu- campus, but that’s no different ous years, according to Director dents needing work-study, with from other years,” she said. lncense causes Zire of Dining and Business Services morecoming from affluent homes.” Ross acknowledged the current Patti Lee. The impact, Lee says, The daytime manager for Din- problems with studentservices but in Hillsides Thurs. can been seen from the perspec- ing Services, senior Costa said she expects the situation to tive of both those currently em- Nicolaou, agreed, adding that the improve as it gets later into theyear. ployed in the facilities and those composition of the student body “I think that once students get Minimal damage done to property who use them. has had ameasurable effect on the adjusted and realize that they need “When there are fewer workers situation. “Tufts is no longer need some extra spending cash, they’re by BROOKE MENSCHEL ions called the firedepartment and being able to wash the inventory of blind, and students that come here going to go down to the office of Daily Editorial Board were instructed to pull the alarm. dishes it means that we either student employment and get a Students evacuated the 30s “We werejustwatching ERand can’t keep up with demand of “Tufts is no longer need jDb,” Ross said. “Plus, I think tower in Hillsides Thursday night suddenly there was smoke pour- clean plates or we have to put that Student Employment now when the dorm became filled with ing out from under the crack in the more into service,” Lee said. blind, and students that realizes that they have to do a smoke. The fire alarms went off at door,” Mitchell said. “lfyou’reaworker, youmight come here don’t need to little moreoutreach,andthatthey approximately 10:45 p.m. after a Also present at the scene was be working harder and later,” work per se, and if they justcan’twaitforpeopletocome student left incense buming unat- senior Casey Soloff,who estimated she continued. don’t need to work then to she said. tended and papers on his desk that the Tufts University Police Lee said that Dining Ser- Mailroom Distribution Manager caught fire. The fire spread to a Department(TUPD)respondedin vices has taken several stem we’ re-nOt gOi __g to __ Sheila Chisholm downplavedthe nearby a cereal box and also about two minutes and the .I to ameliorate the situation, dent positions.” crisis. Despite the presence of scorched his computer. Medford fire department arrived including investigating why long lines butside &e Hill Hall The student, Sam Mogilner, in about four-and-a-half. it is having difficulty attract- - Costa Nico’aou mailroom on most weekdays, said he was not in his room when Lt. Cronin of the Medford fire ing staff. Dining Services is ChishoIm said that this year has the fire began. department said that when they also examining the wages offered don’t need to work per se, and if not been unusual. “I left and my friend came and arrived, there was a light smoke by other departments. As a result they don’t need to work then we’re “Basically, the only difference told me the fire people were in the condition in apartment 230. of that study, their own hourly not going to fill student positions,” from last year is that last year we room and I ran back, and it smelled Deputy Chief Edward O’Brien wages were recently raised to $7 he said. were able to hire temporary full- like smoke,” he said. reportednocivilianorrescueworker per hour. While Lee is hopeful that TuftsTelefund,amajoruniver- time employees through Human Mogilner’s suite-mates were injuriesand said the firemen had no this action will lead to higher em- sity findraising program, also said Resources. This year we’ve had to sitting in the common room at the trouble extinguishing the flames. ployment, she also acknowledges that they are having trouble hiring go to outside agencies, but the time. Firemen opened windows to in- that the she may eventually have thenumber ofcallersthey haveem- staffing is still similar. “We were watching ERand we crease ventilation and help dissi- to turn to alternate solutions. ployed in the past. Despite the Chisholm blamedthe long lines started to smell smoke and we were pate the accumulated smoke then “My prediction is that we’re struggles faced by these depart- at the mailroom on the increased like ‘it’s nothing.’ The guys from deemed the building safe. going to continue to have a prob- ments, Student Employment Man- frequenct of mail rather than a upstairs came down and they said O’Brien said that after sav- lem recruiting student workers, so ager Joanne Grande says that she shortage of employees. “It isn’t there was smoke coming upstairs. ing lives, property protection is we look to populations that we has not been approached by any- uncommon for aparticularly high We pulled the fire alarm and [the the fire department’s number may not have looked to before, one voicing concern over the issue. volume ofpackages to go through firemen and police] came,” Luke one priority. There was minimal such as other agencies or other “1 know we’re in the Boston job the mailroom early in the school Jensen said. damage to Mogilner’s computer sources of workers,” she said. market, but wealways have been. year,” she said. Erin Mitchelland hercompan- and desk. Sophomore Erin Ross, chair- man oftheTuflsCommunity Union Senate’s ServicesCommittee,ech- oedlee’sview. She notedthat job Stephen Hawking to lecture on campus opportunities such as those in a newly opened Abercrombie & by JEREMY WANGIVERSON ing the existence of the universe tors, deans, and local area high Hawking received an honorary Fitch store in Harvard Square have Daily Editorial Board and the nature oftime. Hawking is school students. degree from the University in madethings especiallydifficult for Internationally-renowned the Lucisian Professor of Math- Vice President of Arts, Sci- 1989. Tufts this year. physicist Stephen Hawking has ematics at Cambridge University, ences, and Technology Me1 “It was an opportunity we saw, “[Working in a dining hall] is come to Boston and will be speak- a seat once held by Sir Isaac New- Bemstein was the primary spon- he agreed, and we’re happy to clearly not as glamorous 6s work- ing in Cohen Auditorium next ton. His accomplishments are all sor of the event, planning for welcome him,” Graham said. ing in a huge department store,” Tuesday, Oct. 12 at 12:30 p.m. the more admirableconsidering he which began this August when it Hawking will be speaking at Ross said. “Although it’s conve- Tickets, which are free, will be is confined to a wheelchair as a became known Hawking was go- Harvard this Tuesday and at the nient to go down to Carmichael to distributed starting at 9 a.m. to- result of Lou Gehrig’s disease. ing to be in Boston. The specifics, . Wang Center Thursday, the latter work, as opposed to having to go day at the campus center informa- Approximately 300 tickets will however, were not cemented until a lecture co-sponsored by Tufts to Harvard Square, I think that tion booth. be available to undergraduates last Tuesday. along with Lucent Technology, there’sstillacertainappeal to work- Hawking, one ofthe most well- for Hawking’s lecture. Ninety “It was imminently important WGBH, among others. ing off-campus,” she continued. known scientists alive today, tickets will be set aside for Arts [to Bernstein] to get Dr.
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