The Michigan Daily-Friday, August 14, 1981-Page 9 SOME CLAIM MOVE REFLECTS SHIFT TO THE RIGHT Teachers reject minority policy LANSING (UPI) - Lansing teachers-bucking their union leaders-are calling for an end to an 8- year-old affirmative action policy that protects minority educators during layoffs. The 642-to-473 advisory vote Wed- nesday cheered supporters of the seniority system, while some black teachers saw it as new evidence of a political shift to the right. Lansing Schools Education Association President Tom Ferris called it a disap- pointing sign of "retrenchment." Lansing Superintendent Matthew Prophet, himself black, said the district still strongly supports the unique policy that currently is the subject of negotiations along with other items in the local teacher contract. The vote was designed to provide guidance for LSEA bargainers in their talks with the district and some fear the outcome may make a settlement more difficult. Many believe the policy, designed to combat the last-fired-first-fired syn- frome which makes seniority-based layoffs so devasting for minorities, ultimately will wind up in court. At present, 17.2 percent of Lansing's teachers are black, compared with 36 percent of its school children. A total of 48 teachers, including 37 thenured white instructors, were laid off before the current contract expired July 31. "I am pleased with the election," said Earl Granzow, a white junior high schol civic teacher with 15 years of seniority in the district. "You can't have some union members protected more than others," he said. South African police comb the countryside Sfor 3 guerrillas JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (UPI)- Police searched the countryside southwest of Pretoria yesterday for three black nationalist guerrillas believed responsible for a rocket attack on South Africa's largest military complex. The search was launched after four Soviet-made 122mm rockets slammed into the Voortrekkerhoogte military complex shortly before midnight Weden- sday. MILITARY SPOKESMEN said one of the rockets exploded near a maid's quarters, injuring a woman slightly. The other rockets hit a toilet, a hedge and an open field, causing minimal damage. Residents in the Indian township of Laudium said they saw the rockets streaking through the air moments before Zahed Patel, 17, was shot by the three men as he was parking his father's auto near the launch site. A MOTORIST chased the gunmen until they fired at his car. Police alerted by the noise pursued the gunmen and forced them to abandon their car after a flurry of shots. They fled into a field where they disappeared in the darkness. Police immediately cordoned off all black and mixed race townships in the area and set up road- blocks and search parties. The military complex, about 10 miles south of Pretoria, is the largest in South Africa. It contains two airbases and numerous army facilities. There have been more than two dozen bomb and gun attacks by black nationalists since the beginning of the year, but the assault on the military base was the first time rockets have been used. arts jobs (Continued from Page 1) graduates on the basis of their specific degrees, according to an executive at Xerox Corporation in Southfield. The main emphasis when hiring liberal arts graduates for sales positions are the interview, job-related activities, and extra-curricular ac- tivities, said Cheryl McIntosh, manager of sales and planning at Xerox. IN FACT, McIntosh said, most of the people in marketing are liberal arts graduates. A student's major is not usually a determinant of who should be hired, she said. The individual is assessed for personality, desire, skill, and experience. The skills of a liberal arts major are the abilities acquired during the educational process, May said. Data synthesis, writing, self-confidence, communication and other abilities are usually present in a liberal arts degree holder. The manner in which graduates acquire their jobs is also a subject of much misconception, May said. "Only about 20 percent of available jobs even- tually make it to the want ads" in newspapers or on bulletin boards. The most common way to get a job is through "personal solicitation," she said. This involves contacting people in various occupations and expressing an interest, thereby making contacts for. later job hunting. CONVENTIONAL vocational educations-such as engineering and auto mechanics-are good for some DEBORAH MAY, ASSISTANT director of the University's Career Planning and Placement Office in the Student Activities Building explains that the job outlook for liberal arts graduates is not as dismal as generally believed. people, but "33 percent of jobs in the 80s will be ones we haven't heard of yet," May said. 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