Zurich Citizens News, 1981-04-16, Page 4Page
Citizens News April 16, 1911
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Placement situation confused
Recent headlines on the dismal job situation for
college graduates has brought forth a spate of denials
from colleges and universities.
Marge Millar, manager of placement services for
Wilfrid Laurier University called the Globe and Mail
story, using the word "bleak", as off base and dis-
torted.
A press release sent out by the Ministry of Educa-
tion quotes an impressive statistic: 91 percent of the
16,270 1980 graduates of community colleges found jobs
by mid-November.
It is of course qualified by the fact the ministry,
for a variety of reasons, had no data on a further 4,615
students.
Some simple mathematics shows only 91 percent
of about 77 percent of the total number of sudents got
jobs. In other words, of 20,885 students graduated, only
71 percent got jobs by the November cut-off of the
study.
The catch-all phrase of the release is "did not seek
work". While many students will continue their educa-
tion, or not seek employment to match their schooling,
can some 23 percent of a graduating class be classified
as "did not seek work".
It would seem too, turning down a job because of
low pay, or bad location, or inferior opportunity is
classed as not seeking work.
Perhaps as Marge Millar says, "As soon as all
statistics for Laurier are complete, our employment
rate will be over 90 percent'"
We wonder which is more unrealistic; graduates
expecting to find a job doing exactly what they want to
do in their field of training; or education officials
assuring us they can.
Ask bike safety questions now
One of the certain signs of spring every year in
Grimsby is the increased presence of bicycles, par-
ticularly those ridden by children and adolescents.
The sights are everywhere:
— carefree youngsters on bicycles weaving through
traffic;
— careful youngsters on illequipped bicycles, par-
ticularly those riding at night without lights or
reflectors.
Sooner or later, this year or next, yet another
young rider is going to be seriously injured, or
worse, killed a harsh word, perhaps, but it has
too often become a harsh reality.
Many youngsters, showing the results of proper
upbringing and training, exercise responsibility
with their bicycles. Too many others are, simply, a
hazard to themselves and others.
• Somewhere, sometime, a smart -aleck bicyclist
will have a collision with a car, and he'll come out
second best; or perhaps he'll be unable to avoid a
slow-moving senior citizen as he races along a
sidewalk or shopping plaza.
Then, his grieving parents will be asking
themselves questions, when it's too late. Why not
ask them now?
Do you know where and when your youngster is
riding his or her bicycle? Do you know how he or
she approaches that responsibility? Does he or she
know how to ride a bike?
Let's ask the right questions now, and not the
wrong questions later.
Grimsby Independent
By
ROB CHESTER
This column plans to live up to its name this week.
The reason the rumblings are really miscellaneous
this week is .because I managed to come down with a
hard case of spring fever. I don't mean the euphoria
felt by young males during the traditional rutting
season, I mean a fever, in the spring. •
My throat is swollen and I'm popping little black
and red capsules. Its a good thing this is a newspaper,
not a radio station. It's a real challenge just to
swallow, let alone talk.
Mark Hough is safely entrenched in his new job at
the Durham Chronicle. Durham is close to his home in
Allenford. (But farther away, than Exeter is, from
Kitchener and his girlfriend.)
Mark's being kept busy with council stories and a
variety of other news items. He seems to like it and
since he's from from the area, he should fit in well. I
wish him my best.
And speaking of jobs -- it Looks like I'll have to
get used to eating beans, and Zurich people will have to
get used to me pestering them for stories.
Rob's being kept busy with...
Rob's being kept busy with a variety of things
these days.
Anybody know where I can rent a tall, skinny tux-
edo?
The big day is four months away, August 15. I don't
know -why certain people Carol (the bride to be) ,
her mother, my mother get so upset about plan-
ning!
I'm really not convinced we need a hall, food,
music, etc. The ideal, I think, would be to have a five
minute service, shake a few hands, throw a piece of
cake at everyone and split for the Pocconos.
Quick and simple I always say.
This may not go over well with the ladies, but
Carol's dad took to it right away.
He's got the ladder ready_..
The perfection of Sunday's space shuttle launch
was almost anti-clijmachic.
In perspective, It was a very smooth launch.
(Please don't call it a blast-off it sounds like the
machine is supposed to blow itself to smitherines) .
John Glenn's Mercury launch, back in '61, was
delayed on the pad for three weeks. A two day delay
for the shuttle is insignificant in a program that will
guide the exploration of outer space for years to come.
The reason for the wait is indicative of the safety
of the program. The shuttle's back-up computer had a
timing error of something on the order of 40
nanoseconds. It was a computer hiccup; an incredibly
short time. And this was just a back up unit for four
other computer systems.
I don't suppose any other industry has to work un:
der such close tolerances; with such a striving for
perfection.
One of the announcers mentioned the shuttle
program had cost about $14 billion so far.
Again, perspective is necessary.
The United States spent about $26 billion, in 1968
alone, waging the war in Viet Nam. In one year!
In the persectives of history and future and
thefuture is guaranteed by history the space shut-
tle has been incredibly inexpensive.
The saddest part of it is I won't be able to take
part. But what a future in space my grand -children
will have.
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