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PAGE 4 THE DECRKK MONDAY. MAY 29. IflfiT little man on campus >Miu- ^ KNet? u> 200. CJsUr s-sk Firms JJsin^ To Lure Summer Jobs College Students The days when college stu dents whiled away the summer working in their fathers’ offices are fading from the American scene. More and more business firms are using summer jobs as re cruiting lures for college stu dents, but there are not enough jobs to go around, an Associated Press survey indicates. An estimated 3,500,000 young people, aged 16 to 21, will seek work this summer, the Labor Department estimates. “It is still much harder to get a good summer job than it is to get a permanent one,” said Miss Marcella Harrer, Connecticut College for Women placement director. “We already have five times as many applicants as we can employ in summer jobs,” re ported George Yoxall, of Chi cago, Inland Steel Corporation personnel manager. “Red-Shirt Recruiting” “This is the only time of the year when we have more per sons wanting jobs than there are jobs,” said D. Y. Robb, place ment director at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. The survey indicated pros pects were best for college juniors in technical fields where there is the biggest postgradua tion demand. “It’s red-shirt recruiting,” said Mark J. Kaufman, 25, an economics major at the Univer sity of Miami. “They want to get people on their side right away.” “Summer jobs are always a factor when the demands for graduates are up. It is one of the most logical techniques for long-range recruiting—simply a /arm system,” said Maurice Mayberry, placement director at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Mayberry said the sludents’ summer jobs usually were de manding. In Philadelphia, Richard Dun- nuck, of Philco-Ford Corpora tion, said firms were hard- pressed to come up with inter esting jobs because of the lim ited amount of time students worked. He added, however: “We try to keep them away from the routine dog work.” But in New Haven, Conn., Walt Fogarty, First New Haven National Bank personnel direc tor, said undergraduates were offered only a few jobs as tellers “and in other service areas.” “We don’t give them any glamor jobs,” he said. For the last three years, Dou glas Aircraft Company's Mis siles and Space Systems Divi sion at Santa Monica, Cal., has employed about 50 students each summer, dividing their time 90 per cent to work in technical or business administration fields and 10 per cent to briefings. The aircraft division is about to start a similar program. In Atlanta, Lockheed’s college relations coordinator, Rick Green, said a significant num ber of underprivileged and dis advantaged college students and high-school seniors would be hired. “We’ve been following this practice for years,” he said. Continental Can Company, at Tampa, Fla., seeks special as signments for its summer em ployees. A few work vacation re lief for supervisors. “That’s a job with a lot of responsibility and not a great deal of authority,” said G. J. Beemer, industrial relations manager. Florida Power and Light Com pany began a summer program last year. “We have had fair success,” said William S. Summers, train- The Last Word 1 pOTHl^ ON PAY'S —A ce(^TA\N 6TUDEHT tLeMgNTTHAT TO ATOFIM' BCOVI/'' The noise dies away, the smoke clears, and another group of obstinate, obnoxious people have left the scene, much to the relief of the college ad ministration, which has been called upon too many times in the past four years to answer unanswerable questions. The point now is, are there any people left with enough guts or interest to display those same obnoxious, obstinate hab its which have kept the ad ministration on its toes for the past eight semesters? For the sake of the remain ing students, and the future sake of the college, let’s hope so. Pertiaps a brief word to the people remaining on is in or der. Classes of ’68, ’69, >70, and those who will follow you, keep up the pressure. If you let the college have its way un questioned, then you will find yourselves in a position that will be unbearable, at least to any tJilnking, independent human. The college administration and faculty are sincere in feel ing that they always know wtiat is best for their charges, but they are not infallible. If you let them go complete ly unchallenged, you will find that they will become totally convinced of their infallibility, and you will be the ones who suffer. Obstinancy and questioning for their own sake or for per sonal gain are valueless. Only when there is genuine belief that the college will be a bet ter place if the questions are asked, or the roadblocks placed, will they l>e worthwhile. Platitudinous though this may seem, it is nevertheless the truth. Dean Wilde’s “re sponsible freedom” must be the rallying cry of those who seek to make Wesleyan an in stitution of which they can be truly proud. The situation improves year by year. The office of the Dean of Students is now oc cupied by a man the students can trust; the major obstacle to college progress and stu dent happiness, ensconced for so long in the business office, will be gone after this year; faculty members are taking more interest in student issues and organizations. This improvement will cease if the students who remain fail ing and safety director, who hires about 40 engineering stu dents to work with trained en gineers. Pacific Telephone and Tele graph Company in San Fran cisco said its program was de signed to give students a taste of working with industry “with hope^ that good people will be impressed enough to want to come back after graduation.” ONTGOMERY WARD tarrytown mall Welcome WESLEYAN STUDENTS and FACULTY Open 'til 9 P.M. Mon. thru Sat. For your shopping convenience over 130,000 items available through our retail and catalog departments. to carry on when their pred ecessors have laid down their various torches. Wesleyan. will continue to grow and improve, but the stu dents must take an active hand to see that it develops as it should. Student passiveness l>ecause of fear of administrative re taliation is not necessary. Don’t be afraid to speak out! Members of the administration and faculty will support you. by Tom “Elephant” Davis if for no other I'eason than the fact that you tiad the cour age to stand up and object. If you who remain fail to take up the ctiallenges offered by the college, you are doing yourselves a disservice, and will l>e destroying much of that which your predecessors have tried to accomplistu We implore you not to quit, but to continue the fight to make Wesleyan the type of col lege you will be proud to name _as your alma mater. Continued from page 2 V C as they dig a tunnel up to the well and break through 3 feet below the surface of the water. When a force of U.S. troops surrounds a vil lage, the enemy quietly slips into the well and submerges only to crawl into the pas sageway. The VC use the Chinese version of the Army’s Claymore mine. Placed on the ground or high in a tree, it can be seen what serious da,mage they inflict upon un suspecting ground forces. The use of buried mines imbed ded in a road are not new to the war scene, but their pres ence makes it necessary to call in mine-sweeping teams. Road sweeping takes a long time to accomplish and if “Charlie” can hold us up from rushing supplies to a critical area, then he tias succeeded in his mission. The Viet Cong’s effect on the civilian population is another interesting facet. During the night, the VC will slip into a hamlet and threaten to kill the entire community if they do not co-operate with their plans. Village chieftains have a shor ter life span if they are found to be friendly to U S troops. This is where the Pacification Program comes into use and where we win against insur mountable odds. Surrounding a suspected village, the Army will send in medics to treat the sick and dispatch groups to search the huts in case there are VC hiding in them. Once the villagers are assured that we have come to help them, they receive ID’s and are guar anteed protection. But a lot of the villages are hard-core fortresses no matter what aid is offered to them. Known VC towns are then subjected to continuous inspections and every effort is made to pub licize the harmful disad vantages that go with harbor ing the enemy. I know that there tiave been numerous pic tures published in the state side newspapers that show US Forces burning huts while cry ing women stand by with lit tle children, Wtiat the read ing public doesn’t know is that they are being relocated to keep them alive and safe from VC mass murder. Or else it may be that the village can not be pacified due to the fact that they are directly aiding ,the enemy and that many of our men have been killed by snip ers whenever near it,. True, it still destroys the saying that a man’s castle is his home but many of these “homes” are built on a foundation of firm communistic principles. Just As Out-Of-Date As Money These days, most financiol transactions are handled by check. Money in our bank can't be lost, stolen or borrowed. It's available In any amount at the point of your pen. It's easy to pay your bills by mall. A checking account gives you a complete record of college ex pense. Open your Student Checking Account this week PLANTERS NATIONAL BANK
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