February 28, 1975
Volume 57 Number 18
Student personiiel offers $30,000 in student iobs
In the 1975-76 school year, the Otterbein student personnel office will be offering nearly $30,000 in student jobs. In addi. tion to the regular employment o f counselors and student head r esidents, it has been announced by Dean for Student Development Karl Oldag, that seven new jobs have been created. Each job will e a r n some student $1,200 over t h e next year. The new employment comes under the heading of custodial services, and in actuality, is a gradual replacement of present custodians with students. Plans for next year call for students to be employed in Garst (2), Scott (1), and Mayne (4). The basic responsibilities of these students include dusting of furniture in lounges, vacuum ing of carpets, cleaning bath-
rooms, emptying trash, clean ing windows, etc. The student will perform the same duties as the present custodians. The students will also be required to keep records of materials used and received from the house keeping department. Wages for the jobs are based on the 15 hours-per-week em ployment, at an hourly wage of $2.00 an hour, over a period of 30 weeks. The 30 weeks does not include winter or spring break, and students are not re quired to work over those per iods, except to clean and close down the dorms for break. Eligibility for the custodial positions require a student to either reside in a residence hall or to be a married student. Also, both work-study and non work-study students are eligible
Dean Karl Oldag discusses with Elen Dager and A I A I bert s the proposed employment of student custodians.
to apply. Applications are avail able in the student personnel office beginning today. All in terested students are encouraged to apply. After all applications are returned, interviews will be arranged between the student and the Dean of Student Development, the assistant dean, and the head resident of the hall where the student would be employed. The student custodian will be hired by student personnel but will be directly answerable to the· head resident of his or her res pective residence hall. The ser vice department will not be in volved in the supervision of the students, though they have offer-· ed to assist in training the stu dents and to give suggestions. After selection of the student custodians, a training ·session will be held sometime during spring term. The hired students will be required to attend. Dean Oldag stresses that the student custodian will be bound by some form of contract to ful fil their duties. Breech of con-,· tract will result in the firing of any student employee. The employment will be established on a strict employer-employee relationship. The Dean wrote in his pro posal to establish the new job, "I have every reason to believe that this program could be suc cessful from a housekeeping per spective, education from an em ployer-employee relations h i p perspective and an economical plus for both students employed and for Otterbein College." · If all goes well with next year's trial program, more student custodial jobs will be made avail able, possibly totaling 2.4 positions by 1977.
Marty Bookwalter, the technical director for "A Streetcar Named Desire", designs part of the set for the play which opens March 5.
"Streetcar Named Desire''Opens March 5 "Selective realism" is the tone student technical designer Marty Bookwalter has chosen for his "Streetcar Named Desire" set design. The Tennessee Williams' clas sic will be presented by Otter bein College Theatre March 5-8 in Cowan Hall. Curtain time for all performances is 8:15 p.m. Bookwalter, a senior theater major at the Westerville college, wants "a strong feeling of heat and humidity, a sense that New Orleans is right there, behind this set.'' Although still a student, Book walter has designed 27 produc tions for high schools, Otter bein and community theaters. His other Otterbein work ineludes Children's Theater pro ductions of "Story Theater of Haris Christian Anderson" and "Pinocchio", last summer's comedy, "Come Blow Your Horn", and Opera Theater's pro duction of "Figaro." He was delighted by Dr. Char les Dodrill's choice of this Pulit-. zer Prize winning drama, "be cause of the tragic nature of the play, something heavy I could really get into." Fall term, Bookwalter was in Washington, D.C. where he in terned in technical theater with Arena Stage. The internship program at Otterbein has sent upper level students into acting,
Mothers' Weekend Schedule
This weekend is Mothers' Weekend, Friday and Saturday, February 28 _ and March 1. Campus Programming Board has planned the following list of activities for mothers: Friday, February 28: 8:15 p.m. - A performance by the Otterbein symphony orchestra in the Campus Center Main Lounge. 9:30 p.m. - A reception will be held immediately following the concert for the mothers upstairs in the Campm, Center conference rooms. Saturday, March 1 9:30 a.m. - Coffee hour and registration in the Campus Center Main Lounge. 12 - 5 p.m. - Open house for residence halls, and fraternity and sorority houses. 5 - 6 p.m. - Dinner hour entertainment. 8 and 10:30 - C.P.B. movie, "The Lost Horizon"--the original Capra version in the Science Lecture Hall.
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management and technical as signments with regional theaters throughout the eastern United States. Building a 1927 "Chevy" was one of the most interesting pro jects he tackled for Arena Stage. The car was used as a standing prop in a revival of "Death of a Salesman." Only four feet by two feet, Bookwalter reproduced the car in exact detail using lumber and fiberglas for mater ials. His eleven weeks in Washing ton, "a totally tremendous ex perience,'' provided professional 1 training in all areas of techni cal theater, lighting, carpentry, props and painting. Bookwalter actually began his post-high school work in fine arts at the Dayton Art Institute. Dropping out of school for three years, he became involved in community theater and decided to look for a small college with a strong theater program. He counts his almost-com pleted liberal arts degree an asset. "I believe we're the sum total of our experience. If I'm limited to theatrical images, I'm really limited." After June graduation, Book walter plans to study in New York City but admits he won't stay in New York. "The oppor tunities seem to be much greater in regional theater."
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