Recruiters m Brian Campbell Daily Staff Reporter Pete DeHaan, a human resources agent for Hitachi Automotive in Farmington Hills, Mich., said he had a very bad experience with the University's Engineering Placement Office last week. "If my manager didn't specifically ask for University of Michigan stu- dents, I'd have just said 'Forget It,"' DeHaan said. DeHaan said he was shocked when he called the office and an unidentified woman told him he had to pay a $10 fee hefore she would release any engineer- ing students' resumes to him. "It is not standard," DcHaan said. "This stinks." "That's a service the school provides to students, a service they should be roviding free-of-charge," he said. "Ninety-nine percent of your resumes you don't even use because they're not qualified or whatever," DeHaan said. "You don't want to pay for something you can't use." The College of Engineering place- ment office is funded by the University and provides students' and alums' resumes for businesses interest- d in recruiting graduates, said harlotte Doontz, former placement advisor. Ni ust pay to obt EWS Wednesday, August 7, 1996 - The Michigan Daily - 3 DeHaan said none of the University's competitors in the metro-Detroit area use similar practices, and that he's never been charged a fee for resumes by Wayne State University, Michigan State University, or the University's Dearborn office. Kaye Voss, placement office supervi- sor, said that the University instituted the charges just a few years ago in fol- lowing the policies of other universities. "We just started the fee about two years ago when we found out other schools did it. We tried to keep the cost down hy providing the resumes in packets hy program and degree,' Voss said. Voss did not say which other schools charge fees for resumes. Voss said there is no resume fee dur- ing North Campus job fairs when stu- dents have on-campus interviews, or if the requested resumes are from a small program (which means a small packet) like Materials Science Engineering. But, Voss said, if the requested resumes come from a large program (which means a large packet), like Chemical Engineering or Electrical Engineering, there is a maximum fee of $10 depending on the exact size of the packet. DeHaan said he was irritated by the whole experience and the woman he spoke with at the office "gave him a lot am resumes of attitude." DeHaan said it was not the amount of money that aggravated him, but rather the attitude and "the poor business practice." DeHaan said he was further angered when the woman informed him the fee would be increasing in the coming months because of computer system upgrades. Voss said the placement office is in the process of changing its method of assigning fees. The new method, likely to begin this fall, will be based on the "market value" of the resumes ."e re just kind of eyehalling right now until the new system goes into effect" Voss said. Voss maintained that the fees arce1 similar to universities across thecour- try and that since the fees began, the Placement Center has received only one other complaint about them. Matt Kern, an engineering senior, said he had never heard of the resume fee and was puzzled by its instatement. "I don't see why there should be a fee,' he said. DeHaan said because of the New deal will not seek out resumes from the University in the future, unless there William Gray, president of The College Fund/UNCF (United Negro College Fund) is a specific request hy the employer. spoke at the Business School last Thursday. Gray spoke about the creation of the - Daily Managing News Editor Frederick D. Patterson Research institute, whose headquarters reside in Fairfax, Jennifer Harvey contributed torthis Va., but will also have a satellite research center at the University. report. _ Power outage leaves residents in the dark By Katie Wang Daily News Editor More than 3,000 Ann Arbor residents were left in the dark and in the sweltering heat yesterday when two power outages *ccurred mid-afternoon. At 1:16 p.m., about 1,500 Detroit Edison customers were left without electricity when an animal interfered with the distribution line from its Phoenix station. The outage affect- ed residents south of the Ann Arbor railroad and west of Whitmore Lake Road. Power was restored for these cus- tomers at 3:12 p.m. Another power outage occurred at 2:10 p.m., affecting about 1,700 Ann Arbor residents. Mary Kay Bean, spokesperson for Detroit Edison, said an .lectrical flash occurred at the Phoenix station, but the direct cause of the outage is still under investigation. Bean said she did not think the outage was caused by a large number of customers using air conditioning to relieve themselves from the heat and humidity. Power was restored at 3:14 p.m. for these residents. Students wandered aimlessly through the dark at the Union yesterday during the power outage. LSA senior Christy Petroff and LSA senior Anand Ramana decided to sit in the dark at the Union and wait until the elec- tricity returned. "I came here for air conditioning," Ramana said. "But it's still cooler in here than it is out there" One worker at the Subway sandwich shop said if the elec- tricity did not return within an hour, the store would have to start disposing of its food. 215 5. STATE ST. Z v BREAKFAST ANYTIME - LUNCH-DINNER c SUN. MON.-WED THURS.- AT. 8AM TO 8PM 8AM TOIOPM 8AM TO 4AM "e OFF ANY OR ER VR . 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