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VOL. LXII - NO. 84 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 Monday, May 1, 1972 Women's to be offer By KARIN BURCHSTEAD News Editor Partial funding has been received for the establishment of a Women's Studies Institute at USC next semester, according to Jeanne Chaffee, a member of a committee which has been working since February to establish the institute. Chaffee said that though more funds are expected, "We will have an institute with teachers and courses in the fall." She said funding to supplement some of the teaching activities has come through a University fund for the improvement of un dergraduate teaching. "The goal of the Women's Studies Institute is to describe and analyze systematically the con dition of women and to apply the insights generated by Institute fellows to the complex problems confronting women in modern America," according to a proposal set forth by the women's studies committee. "It will serve also as a base for encouraging the hiring of female faculty members and for aiding women who are trying to eliminate male prejudices within the University and the disciplines," the proposal said. Chaffee said a reading room will be opened in the fall with reading materials and aids available for women. "Basically the reading room will be a place for women to come together," she added. The Institute will be multidisciplinary and will not attempt to compete with any of the established disciplines in an organizational sense, she said. The Institute will develop a core curriculum that could become a cognate area, she added. "Within the Institute women and men can teach, research and study Student By TOM DAVIS and * JUDY TAYLOR Staff Writers "The number of graduates is roughly the same as last June's, but industry's appetite for college trained talent has greatly in creased," - Business Week, April, 1967. "if one expects a job to jump up and bite him, he'll be disap pointed," --Henry Tr. Price, placement director for the University of South Carolina College of ,Journalism, April, 1972. In the five years separating these two statements, the em ployment situation for graduating -seniors and graduate students has completely reversed itself. * St udents are finding it e'xtremely (litficult to rfnd a job this year. in j monrast to 19E;7 when business and Studies ed in Fall the condition of women," the proposal further stated. "The University of South Carolina numbers among its students thousands of women. To them it owes the best preparation which it can provide, the same training it offers its male students, for the wider responsibilities women are demanding and assuming today. "Yet women graduates confront a world which has stereotyped them and channeled their efforts into specific 'women's oc cupations' and family life only," the proposal continued. "Women must understand the phenomena that frustrate their ambitions at the same time such impediments are being swept away." A student interested in taking an Institute course must obtain permission from the instructor or the Institute's director, Constance o Myers, who may be reached through the history department. Courses are open to men and women and a catalog of courses (Continued on page 6 ) UT nursei By BETTY WOODRUFF Staff Writer An experimental child care nursery is now operating on campus under different hours than other campus nurseries. The hours of the center will be Tuesday, Wednesday and Thur sday, 4 until 11 p.m.; Friday, 4 until 12 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m. until 12 n.m. Sponsored by the University Union and associated with Kampus Kiddies nursery at Woodland Terrace, the nursery is located at University Terrace. Denise Cellier, director, said the only difference between this Situation a shave( industry were vig4 recruiting students. "There has been a whiplash which has el patterns drastically an denly," Frank S. Er director of placement sera Northwestern Universit' "Three or four years ago enrolled in college were being able to find job graduation - schools, corn the government were tryini graduates. Then, in abe years while these students school the situation cor turned around." Endicott, who has si national trends in employr 26 years. said he expec'ts upturn in hiring gradual bachelor's degrees this although the outlook is ... that one grad student tu ry hours A< nursery and the Kampus Kiddies nursery is the hours. The idea fo'' the new nursery originated during Women in Focus when women were unable to attend some meetings because they had no place to leave their children, Jan Jordan said. Jordan then headed a group to open a new nursery with different hours. The group has been working on the idea since Women in Focus week and the center was opened April 21. Cellier said she was hired as a University employe and was in terviewed by the group as an applicant for director. Her ser Ourn-about in lifficult' )rously bright master's serious "There hanged employer d sud- firm sij idicott, provemei /ices at few comn ,, said. thiemselv ~tudents any larj sure of graduate: s upon how the ipaniesC, how real 7,to find Price iut two ments o were in econiomy npletely shortage market is rveyed he expeci nent for "Findii a slight thing tha es with that those year.- one, but not so sta..t .. Vould you believE rned in the same paper, man was fit lif fer froi vices will be aided by volunteers s( that one adult will be on duty foi every four children, she said. Cellier said she believes ir guidance rather than disciplin( and has attempted to create at educationally unstructured at mosphere. All equipment in use has beet donated and Cellier said more i: needed. She said she especiall, needs children's books, ol magazines, a rocking chair and broom and mop. Trhe center expects to be funde by the University if the usage o the facility indicated a real neec Cellier said. "We need 35 enrolle five years y md y f in di, or graduates at the level. is a general feeling that s are waiting for more ,ns of economic im it," Endicott said. "Very panies are committing es at this time to hiring ,e number of college S. They are waiting to see conomy develops, to see the current upturn is." echoed Endicot t's com - n the economy. "The is the reason for the of jobs." he said. "The just not as good as could ted." ig a job is the kind of ttakes work. I still think who want a job will get lot of people will have to with jobs they rdon't 3s the freshman and the fresh inked? n others and now, after one week, we have 25," she said. A $2 registration fee is required each time a child is brought to the center, Cellier said, to help cover insurance. After the initial fee, the charge for caring for one child is 50c an hour; for two children, 60c and 75c for three. Cellier said parents may work at the center one hour for every hour the child is left in place of cash payment. At present, a child may not be left at the center for more than f four hours. Cellier said this was a welfare regulation because she I does not serve regular meals. ng jobs want," Price said. The University Placement Bureau, traditional starting point for students seeking jobs, will not have any figures available "for at least a month on how many students have been placed," ac cording to Frank W. Johnson, the bureau's director. "We don't pretend to get every student a job," Johnson said. "We can only give them the op portunity. If a student is earnest and works hard, he'll get a job maybe not the job he wants, but a job." Endicott said signs indicate a 10 to 15 per cent increase in hiring graduates with bachelor's degrees, but that it is too early to know what is going to happen to those with master's degrees. i antinued on nae 6) . .