The Michigan Daily-Saturday, , October 3, 1981-Page 5 .. . .. . .. . .. . .... . . .'4 'C , . > ..,.:.....r......,n..:.. -.i ):o ., n" .; :rw'rS.. x ..,. .... . . .,.., ...:n,.n.. .. , ...:,..^,.. ,.. T r ,> ... September, testifying to te scarcity of jobs. They v" WASHINGTON (AP)- Record-high unem- reopening of school. While the number of jobless eluded people who couldn't find full-time jobs and ployment among blacks sent the nation's jobless rate workers fell by 23,000 to 469,000, total employment those who chose part-time work. to 7.5 percent in September while more people than also declined by 69,000 to 3,906,000. Joblessness among black teen-agers improved ever before accepted part-time work, the Labor The proportion of the U.S. population holding jobs considerably over the previous month, declining Department said yesterday. fell to 58.1 percent, the lowest level since December from 50.7 percent to 40.7 percent. Nearly 8 million people were out of work last mon- 1980. The number of "discouraged workers"-those WHEN BLACK teen-agers were grouped with all th-some 309,000 more than in August-as overall who have abandoned job searches-increased by 1.1 minority youth, the jobless rate was 37.5 percent,- unemployment jumped by three-tenths of a percent, million in the third quarter. compared to 45.7 percent in August. the Bureau of Labor Statistics said. The unemployment rate in August was 7.2 percent, For blacks and other minorities overall, the rate f5- _MICHIGAN'S unemployment rate fell to its lowest following a decline to 7 percent in July. This year's stood at 15.1 percent, one-tenth of a percent higher. level in two years last month, but discouraged state highest rate-7.6 percent in May-was attributed by than in August. officials said the 10.7 percent rate actually represents government analysts to a statistical fluke because of The only decline in joblessness was recorded by a step backward when adjusted for seasonal factors. early school closings. Hispanics, whose unemployment rate declined four- *hWhile the official rate fell from 11 percent, the THE LAST TIME unemployment reached 7.5 per- tenths of a percent to 9.3 percent. t rseasonally adjusted figure rose from 11.2 percent to cent was November 1980. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said, "This 12.1 percent. Unemployment among blacks, including adults and is only day two of the economic program. We trust "Things have not improved," said Deputy Budget teen-agers, was 16.3 percent in September, the that when our program is put in place, it will provide Director Doug Roberts. "Things have gotten worse." highest ever. It was only one-tenth of a percent above up to 13 million new jobs. Actually, the unem- THE DROP WAS attributed to a seasonal the August level. ployment rate since January has remained virtually shrinkage in the labor force linked in part to the A record 4.5 million people held part-time work in stable between 7 percent and 7.6 percent." 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University Safety Director Walter Stevens said University security is working with the Ann Arbor police to find the suspects. The police have several leads in the case, Stevens said. Break-in on Monroe An apartment on the 600 block of Monroe was broken into early Thur- sday morning, police reported. The resident awoke due to noises in her bedroom and saw a male suspect in his 20s going through the pockets of her jeans. She screamed and he fled. He had entered by prying the screen to unlatch the window, police said. Sign upDaily Photo by MIKE LUCAS Pedestrians may find the corners at Liberty and Maynard and at William and Maynard, above, a little less dangerous now that the city has installed new stop signs. The signs were put up in response to complaints from citizens and mer- chants, according to Ken Feldt, city traffic engineer. The signs at William will be moved back from the middle of the street once people get used to the new stops, Feldt said. .Military research sparks debate (Continued from Page 1) JAMES LESCH, director of the University's Division of Research Development and Administration, whose oifjce orginelly discovered the DIA notice, said his responsibility is to bring research possibilities to the atten- tion of the faculty, not to screen out #ponsors. Holbrook, who picked up on the DIA advertisment from Lesch, said he thought an institutional, or University- wide, response to the DIA would give the University its - best chance at gaining a part of the project. THE DIA project's budget for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 is almost $500,000. Holbrook said he became especially interested in the DIA request because the University excels in the areas the *DIA is investigating. But Associate LSA Dean Eric Rabkin, whom Holbrook had contacted to coordinate the project, said he decided a University-wide response to the DIA request "is perhaps inap- proprjate." Holbrook had hoped an in- stitutional approach would include statements of interest from the Univer- sity's area centers and institutes. AFTER investigating the possibility Wf an institutional response and sensing some units might not want to par- ticipate, Rabkin concluded it would be best "not to do something badly which a substantial body of our colleagues ichigan Ftisnmble 'T'heatre. cMirandolina by Carlo Goldoni Sept. 24-27 Oct. 1-4 8:00 p.m. Sunday Mat. 2:00,p.m. Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre I Tickets at RTP-Mich. League 764-0450 FINAL WEEK doubt we should do at all." The DIA request specifies Africa, Southwest Asia, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and Latin America as, its areas of interest. The DIA's notice, which appeared in an August 27th Commerce Department publication, said the organization is looking for "applied, unclassified publishable research ... in the fields of history, political science, economics, geography, linguistics, cultural an- thropology, social-psychology, sociology, and in the geophysical scien- ces." THE AGENCY IS also looking for "on-call assistance for in-house studies and analyses." Lesch said about 70 faculty members received copies of the DIA request as a 'resultof a computer search from his of- fice. SSoe individual faculty members may have already responded to the DI A request, according to Rabkin. Nationwide, the DIA has received an "outstanding" response to the project, DIA Special Assistant for Education and Training Walter Longanecher said. Longanecher declined to say if any of these responses came from the Univer- sity. .. .; I. I 0 IN CONCERT s."+ CDICICD ADEKIA I, A I