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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dowling Report of 1981, which drew up the blueprint for the present Undergraduate Council. The Council's budget, the report said, should "include funds for secretarial help and associated supplies," among other necessities (p. 29). On the basis of this recommendation, the University required the Council to hire its Executive Secretary on the University payscale. That, according to Council officials, is why the salary is seemingly so high; that's the way it was written into the Council bylaws: "The Executive Secretary shall be an employee of the University, but his salary shall be drawn upon the treasury...
...Brooks House, the Drama Club and numerous other time-consuming undergraduate organizations--including the chairperson of the Undergraduate Council--put in 25, 30, or more hours per week and receive no remuneration. True, their work involves less drudgery than does the Executive Secretary's and in some cases they hire others to do the typing, filing and telephone, answering. But the concept in similar--an organizationally talented student is selected to play an honorary leadership role...
...serve to stretch skimpy campaign funds, but the practice adds to the already legendary chaos of the Jackson drive. Jackson's schedules are haphazard at best, and difficulty in finding the homes of the poor is making him even later than usual. In Baltimore, campaign workers had to hire a cab to lead a motorcade of aides and reporters to pick up Jackson at Jarrard's home Tuesday morning, and borrow $12 from a reporter to pay the fare. Even then, Aide Frank Watkins had to stop the caravan of vans and buses to ask exact directions from...
...waited for them at the Loews Anatole Hotel in Dallas. Jackson aides rounded up two church buses to get the tour under way-90 minutes late. But one bus broke down and limped onto a goat farm near the town of Grand Prairie; reporters and camera crews had to hire a fleet of taxis to chase after the candidate. All of which seemed apt for a major campaign that has generated more excitement with less money and organization than any other in memory. In a self-satisfied moment, Jackson put it this way: "If Hart or Mondale had my budget...
...most of the bill focuses on the enforcement of current labor law's rather than the implementation of employer sanctions. This gets to the root of the problem by eliminating the incentive for employers to hire undocumented workers, rather than threatening them with fines after they have hired them...