Brown and White Vol. 87 no. 49

              lehich university brown and white vol 87 — no 49 bethlehem pa tuesday may 4 1976 215-866-0331 66 per cent of seniors seeking jobs got offers according to b&w survey by ed bogucz kone out of every three university niors who have tried to get full-time post-graduate employment have received rffers according to a recent brown urvey also showed that engineers i more job offers and were offered salaries than their classmates m j and business colleges however e seniors m all college are faring n the job market than last year's ing class m early may lephone interviews lastweek the and white polled 320 seniors 1 at random from a class of ap proximately 700 students scan han derhan 76 coordinated the polling effort i the survey revealed that 68 per cent of c seniors have tried to get full-time iployment of these students 33 per cent id they had received no job offers 51 per nt had one to three job offers and 16 per nt had received four or more offers of iployment in a similar poll conducted last may by the brown and white 40 per cent of the seniors that were looking for full-time employment had not received any job offers at the time of the survey last year's poll also found that 73 per cent of the graduating class sought full-time jobs of the 32 per cent of this year's seniors that had not tried to find full-time em ployment 11 per cent said they would try to find a job m the future 63 per cent said they would attend graduate school and 26 per cent said they had other plans twenty-six per cent of all seniors polled said they would attend graduate school job opportunities for graduates of the engineering college were the best of any of the university's three undergraduate schools only 27 percent of the senior engineers polled that wanted jobs had no offers 50 per cent said they had one to three job offers and 23 per cent said they had more than four offers also more senior engineers also were offered higher starting salaries than arts and business seniors thirty per cent of the engineers that received job offers said the highest annual salary they had been of fered was over 15,000 41 percent said their highest offered annual salary was between 12,500 and 15,000 tuition projected at 7,000 by 1987 eric ottervik poll at a glance re^ivet arts bus - e 9 t ° tal 0 33 42 27 33 m 1-3 61 48 52 52 e 4-6 6 8 15 11 n 7-9 0 2 3 2 10 0 0 3 1 wo 56 33 33 45 o 1-3 44 56 33 45 m 4-6 0 11 33 10 e 7-9 0 0 0 0 n io o oo o to 44 40 27 33 o 1-3 53 49 50 51 t 4-6 3 9 17 13 a 7-9 0 2 3 2 l 10 0 0 3 1 all figures represent percentages of students that tried to get a job byruthhinzand olga yannitsadis cheating revealed by poll evokes concern of deans university academic deans and several professors have expressed concern over the degree of cheating among university students as revealed m a recent brown and white survey the brown and white had polled 356 students by telephone on questions of drug use drinking and cheating of all students polled 47 per cent said they had cheated on an examination and 14 per cent said they had plagiarized a paper although doubting the accuracy of the poll john hunt dean of the college of arts and science said it reveals a startling trend even if it's not accurate it shows that cheating is much greater than it ought to be he said hunt said he would have guessed the figure to be about 10 per cent cheating is a condition to be discouraged and combatted rather than a problem and as such there is no procedural solution for the condition as a whole said john karakash dean of the college of engineering and physical sciences if students view their academic life as possible deficit shown by computer projection by ken bandler the university will be charging more than 7,000 for tuition and operating with a 2-million deficit by 1987 according to a computer projection compiled m february by vice president for planning eric ot tervik's office the feb 10 report covers the next 10 years through 1986-87 it reveals that the university progressively will increase annual tuition hikes and operate with a growing deficit after next year the projections show an annual tuition increase of 250 for 1977-78 and 275 for 1978-79 both years the university would be running deficits of 100,000 and 151,000 respectively according to the projections elmer glick university vice president and treasurer emphasized that when the budgets are actually made for these two years they may bear no resemblance to these projections according to the projections the university will have accumulated a deficit of approximately 2 million by the end of the 1986-87 fiscal year glick said it is our the administration's ) job to make sure it does not happen that way tuition is projected to rise by 350 m 1979-80 increasing each year to 400 m each of the last four years of the 10-year period the projected charges for room and board will continue to increase by 50 each year over the 10-year span more than 100 computer models based on different assumptions are produced each year ottervik said the feb 10 model is based on next year's budget the cost of living and the university's own rising costs he said ottervik said the only reasonable runs he can get from the computerized model involve the kind ot tuition increases projected m the feb 10 report the 1976-77 budget is based on an an ticipated registration of 4,000 under graduates the maximum undergraduate enrollment level set by the board of trustees m 1971 with enrollment stabilized at 4,000 students no extra tuition will come m without additional tuition coming m it will be more difficult to balance the budget glick said a large part of the budget increase is due to increased salaries and employe benefits costs salaries and employment benefits account for most of the cost of running the university see engineering page 8 see tuition page 9 inside greek week 76 p 6 macbeth reviewed p 7 maid pensions p 9 netmen lose p 1 1 sackers victorious p 1 2 see cheating page 5