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...classes changes drastically, the porter system will not expand to other dormitories. As this is written Trottenberg and those helping him have just about enough man-power to take care of the three dormitories where the plan is now in operation--Dunster, Thayer Hall, and William James Hall. As Monro says, "Right now we've taken care of everyone who wants a job that will take about the same amount of time and pay about the same amount of money as a porter...
Together, the porter and kitchen jobs this year have taken off much of the pressure to find steady jobs within the University that has always burdened the Employment Office. Taylor and Monro both point out, however, that despite their desire to get students into University jobs which were formerly held by outsiders, no maids or kitchen helpers have been fired. "We have simply not hired replacements for outside workers who retired or who went to work else-where," says Taylor...
Both the porter and kitchen positions fall into the category of "priority jobs," a system that was instituted experimentally last spring and with which Holt is believed to have disagreed. Monro and Taylor have divided all jobs into two kinds--priority and casual. Priority jobs are roughly defined as those inside and outside the University which will net a student more than $100 a year. Right now most of the 500 priority jobs (300 inside the University, 200 outside) pay between $250 and $400. Some (nightwatchmen and night switch-board operators especially) earn as much...
...means of these priority jobs that Monro and Taylor use student employment as a means of bridging the gap between a student's estimated expenses and resources during a school year. In this job classification a slight shift in emphasis has taken place this year, with financial need gaining over ability to do the job as a criterion for getting...
Each man's case is an individual one and is treated as such by the Financial Aid Committee. But the Committee has certain guiding principals which it always keeps in mind. As Monro says, "All our scholarship award thinking revolves around the fact that every scholarship we give regulates the amount a man will have to work. Thus when we give a big scholarship we know that the student will have to work less...