676 Grads Get Jobs Through Placement Center

676 grads get jobs through placement center By Katie McClare acquire positions by using the ters, said Doherty, placement do. We provide information declined by 4 per cent. About About half of all students personal skills obtained through personnel arrange interviews, about what the employment 89 per cent of all offers are com graduating from UNH who re the use of the office. This, he identify employers, formulate m arket is like, so th ey ’ll know ing from the engineering and spond to Career Planning and said, is the main function of the letters of application and in what’s out there.” business fields. Placement before and after service. quiry, and prepare personal Quoting figures issued by the While job offers from federal graduation obtain their desired “Students think of this office resumes, among other things. He College Placement Service, and state employers and school positions, according to Career as a ‘thing’ on campus to get you said that 802 seniors have regis Doherty said that although the systems went down this year, Planning and Placement Director a job. It is actually more of an tered. outlook for the job m arket is those in business, industry, and Edward Doherty. informational service which The placem ent service is open not good, it is slowly improving. non-profit organizations in Approximately 50 per cent of helps you acquire the skills to to all students, not just seniors. He said that positions in the creased, Doherty continued. UNH students use the placement place yourself in a job. What we “We are here to serve everyone, humanities and social science Doherty said that a lot of the service located in Huddleston try to do is give the student an from the first year,” said disciplines are experiencing a 26 jobs being offered do not direct Hall, said Doherty. idea of what’s out there in the Doherty. “In working with un- per cent decline in job offers, ly relate to the person’s major Doherty added that those who job market,” commented the derclas^n^'fwejrft^jto direct the natural sciences have de field of study. “How many phil- don’t get jobs through Career slim, dark-eyed Doherty. th e j^ in tfe re lis ,I if Alfidy, d o n ’t creased by 12 per cent, and job Planning are able to eventually Once a senior formally regis to offers from business areas have GRADUATES, page 7 p s h i n e Volume 66 Number 51 Durham, N.HP Students take UNH to court By Michael Imsick understand why the University that I’ve heard about it has been UNH students Brian Peters refuses to comply.” in the newspapers.” and Christopher Berg recently Eugene Franceware of the Uni An informed source in the filed suit against the University versity Public Relations office ASO business office who wished of New Hampshire for withhold said yesterday, “Since the case is to remain anonymous said, “The ing information regarding Divi still pending in coiAt, I think it’s students as citizens are paying sion of Recreation and Student totally inappropriate to com money to UNH in the Memorial Affairs budgets and meeting ment on it for the time being.” Union Fee. Under state law the minutes. Berg and Peters have named students have a right to know University lawyers and admin President Mills and Philip Dun where that money goes. The istrators refuse to comment a- lap, chairman of the University University will talk about the bout the “right to know” suit Board of Trustees, as defendants budget in general but they won’t brought against them by Berg in the case. Both Mills and Dun talk about financial reports or and Peters. lap were unavailable for com conference budget decisions. The Univcralty has until June m ent . Berg and Peters said they “ For example, where does the 1 to respond to the allegations. did not want to comment be money come from Lor the b^er They are due that day in Straf cause the case is pending. for MUB staff Christmas par Robert Keesey, the executive ties?” Students Chris Berg and Brian Peters, who are suing UNH. ford County Superior Court house as defendants in the case. assistant to the president said “ The students are right in (Ed Acker photo) If the University does not re yesterday, “In a situation where bringing about the lawsuit,” the spond the students will win by a suit is pending, the counselor is source added. default. responsible for all statements.” McManus said, “I think the Cancellations hurt Bruce Poulton, chancellor of University will respond.” Kevin McManus, lawyer for the University system, said, “I Both Peters and Berg were in the plaintiffs (Berg and Peters) don’t know anything about the volved in the UPA (the Union other students said, “The only thing that has case. It is strictly a campus mat for Progressive Action) proposal happened so far is that service ter. No comment.” last fall to bring about more stu has been made with a copy of Michael O’Neil, director of dent control of the MUB. The By Betsy Bair dorms is made ineligible because the petition to the UNH Board recreation and student activities proposal never gained student The $50 non-refundable de of them personally,” Gardner m — » t> ______ t posit that students put down for said. dormitory room draw is used as The 67 students who are not an incentive to keep people from being allowed back in dorms cancelling out of their room con next semester are mostly seniors tracts, according to Richard who have had the most semes Gardner, associate director of ters in dorms. residential life. The 120 students that the resi Gardner spoke in response to dence office plans will cancel a letter to the editor in the May out is a projected num ber th at is 4th issue of The New Hampshire an estimate because this is the concerning students being first year the downpayment has “ripped off” $6,000 by the Of been made non-refundable. fice of Residential Life. “This has been done in an at Students were previously re tempt to avoid holding a space funded $40 out of the $50 if and then having him change his they cancelled before July 1. mind,” Gardner said. Gardner said the downpayment According to Gardner, the res was made non-refundable this idence office plans for rooms for year in the hope that students the 4500 spaces on campus, 100 would plan their living arrange, for build-ups, and another 120 ments more carefully prior tc who will cancel. signing up for room draw. “If only 100 cancel compared “When a student comes in and to the 120 we have projected, 20 cancels his room it means that more must be swallowed up by Over ip00 students attended MUSO’s outdoor concert yesterday in East-West Park featuring Vassar one student among the 67 that Clements. Also playing were the Franconia Notch Band, D*OA, Smootchin and Lunch at the Dump. were not allowed back in the CANCELLATION, page 5 For a closer look at the festivities, see page 4. (Stew Berman photo) —INSIDE Pre-law Serendipity Football Richard Derosiers is bat There’s a new literary The UNH football team ting 1000, but he isn’t a journal floating around concluded spring train baseball player. He ad campus. If you were ing with the Blue-White vises pre-law students, lucky you got a copy. If game Saturday. For a with every one of his you didn’t, find out look at next year’s Wild advisees over the past what you’re missing on cats, see page 16. three years getting into page 12. law school. How? See page 2. PA G E TWO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE TUESDAY MAY 11, 1976 No guards9 no bars; to the men it is home By Art Miller “The prisoners will spend their reviews the list of prisoners “We’ve had a lot of success “They won’t if they are Forty per cent of the people last 90 to 120 days here,” he selected for the half way house. with our program. Most emplo handed everything on a silver who leave prison return. The fig said. If he approves, the names are yers have been more than willing platter. If something gets broken ure is only four per cent for in McDonald, short in size, with submitted to the court for the to hire our men.” and no one owns up to it, then dividuals who have been to half shoulder length hair added, “This judge’s approval. Only then can The skinny Nicholson, with a everyone must pay for the dam way houses. is their home. They wake up in the individual be transfered from mustache that seemed to cover age,” McDonald said. The half way house in Con the morning at 7 a.m. - drive to the prison to the half way house. his mouth, added, “We’ve had The house has no soft com cord has been in existence since work - then are brought back for “T hey’ve got one chance hei;e, problems with some employers fortable sofas--no color televi 1973, and Pete McDonald told the night.” and they better do a good job or in the past treating our men like sion sitting next to the fire of its progress. There are no guards at the half it’s back to the prison,” said slaves, but we try to keep away place-no odor of home made “We’ve been here since 1973 way house.

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