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The Red and Black • Thursday, February 15, 1990 • 3
FBI provides many opportunities for students at lower pay
Careers
By ANNE-MARIE FANQUY
Staff Writer
The Federal Bureau of Investi
gation offers excellent retirement
benefits for those who are willing
to wait, but starting salaries fall
short of being competitive.
Atlanta recruiting agent Charles
Jent said according to surveys by
indepedent sources, salaries for be
ginning agents are about 24 per
cent behind those in competing job
markets. But Jent said the compa
rison depends on which part of the
country one lives in.
David Bernal, a special agent for
the Athens office, said an agent
Btarts at about $27,000. Jent said
because this figure doesn’t vary
with location, many agents have
complained.
Jent said salaries are the same
across the board without any con
sideration to cost of living. An
agent in New York would be
making considerably less than if he
started in another field, while one
in Athens makes a comfortable
living.
Congress is considering a
change in federal pay which would
consider the cost of living index,
Jent said.
“IBM, other big corporations, ev
erybody wants the same people,”
he said.
Promotion opportunities, how
ever, are good, he said.
“After four years, an agent is eli
gible to become a manager,” he
said. With a management position
comes pay acceleration.
Because of the financial benefits,
a trend is developing within the or
ganization for agents to retire
early, he said. An agent can retire
at 50 after 20 years of service and
receive 50 percent of hiB salary for
his pension and a two percent in
crease for each year beyond that.
Bemal said the FBI investigates
more than 270 federal violations,
many of which are reported by citi
zens and concern white-collar
crime, such as embezzlement and
fraud.
There are five different catego
ries in which an agent may be
placed: legal work, accounting, sci
ence and engineering, foreign lan
guage and a diverse category
which includes teachers and busi
ness people.
Maurice Kennebrew, a national
regional recruiter, said he visits
the University six to eight times a
year, providing students with in
formation on the bureau.
Glenn Rosenthal, director of
Clark Howell Placement Center,
said applicants must be at least 23,
have a degree from a four-year ac
credited college and pass a physical
fitness test.
Jent said a felony conviction au
tomatically eliminates a candidate
from consideration. A misde
meanor or DUI conviction will be
looked at carefully, he said.
Less than 25 percent of the ap
plicants are expected to pass the
written exam which iB adminis
tered before being considered for
an interview, Jent said.
“We’re not brain surgeons, but
the job does require intelligence,”
he said.
Athens shelter gets new and improved home
By J.D. SQUILLANTE
Staff Writer
For years the Athens Area Emergency
Homeless Shelter has been a haven for people
who have felt ready to give up.
And now the shelter is getting a new home
of its own.
The new house, to be located at 620 Barber
St., will be designed to create a more hospi
table atmosphere than before, said Joel Sie-
bentritt, shelter director.
The new shelter will be 1,300 more square
feet than the last one, designed to fit the needs
of a group-living environment and provide the
necessary privacy for couples, men or women,
Siebentritt said.
The construction tentatively is set for some
time in March and will take six to nine months
to complete, he said. Efforts will be directed at
making the establishment as comfortable as
possible to avoid the institutional atmosphere
of some shelters.
"We don’t want to just warehouse people
here," Siebentritt said. "We need a sur
rounding that is conducive to making the
people feel able to trust the help we give
them."
The current two-building duplex facility, lo
cated at 245 Hawthorne Extension, is occu
pied by about 20 homeless men, women and
children. The new shelter will hold a max
imum of 30 guests.
The present location has been home to the
shelter since December 1988.
The residents of the new shelter will have
the advantage of being close to other social
service offices such as the Athens food bank
and the Ark United Ministries Outreach
Center, he said. Also, it will be close to the
downtown area and city buslines.
The centralized location will make job
searching easier for guests, said Robert
Burton, who has been living at the shelter
since Christmas.
“It takes us all day to walk from place to
lace and get things done and look for work,”
e said. “If getting around was easier I could
get the some things done in an hour and a
half."
The center is a major source of volunteers
for the homeless shelter.
Siebentritt said it is the ultimate goal of the
homeless shelter to help its guests piece their
lives back together. The new facility, with help
from its neighboring agency and food bank,
will make that possible.
Joanne Jones, full-time shelter volunteer,
said the planning of the new shelter is a
bittersweet event.
“It’s such a good thing that there is going to
be a new shelter," she said.“But then it’s such
a shame that we need it at all, especially
knowing the problem is getting worse.
‘The price of living isn’t going to go down
anytime soon and I often wonder how many
people are out there less than a paycheck
away from being without a place to live,” she
said.
Siebentritt said, "Homelessness is not
something we can continue to ignore."
He estimates that several hundred home
less people live in cars and on Athens streets.
A college town such as Athens is prone to
developing homeless problems, he said. The
demand from the swelling number of students
drives the prices for housing skyward.
Owning the new shelter will be a fantastic
relief from paying the $800.00-a-month rent
for the present shelter, he said.
Funding for the project largely comes from
the efforts of country-singing star, Kenny
Rogers.
The Rogers family has invited entertain
ment and sports celebrities to take part in a
picnic-type benefit. For the past two years, the
proceeds have totaled about $35,000.
CONCERT
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when the Beach Boys played.
Wheeler said the Union lost about
$15,000 on that show.
Auburn University Programs
Council held several concerts out
side or at its coliseum during fall
and winter quarters. More than
10,000 seats were sold for the
Jimmy Buffet concert Jan. 25. UPC
also brought the Hoodoo Gurus,
the Call, Drivin’ and Cryin’ and the
Connells to Auburn.
Marsha Darden, assistant coor
dinator of Auburn University Pro
grams Council, said the council
had some trouble getting big acts
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to perform on campus because Au
burn is between Atlanta and Bir
mingham. However, she said there
hasn’t been a problem keeping
ticket prices within a reasonable
range. Many of the concerts they’ve
held were free.
The University’s Coliseum is a
10,000 seat auditorium which has
to compete with the Omni, Wheeler
said. It’s also difficult to get the
Coliseum during winter auarter
because men’s and women's bas
ketball games and gymnastics
meets are held there.
Another problem is that most
people seem to think the Col
iseum’s sound quality is poor. How
ever, today’s technology can
improve the sound in any building,
Wheeler said.
University Union starts the year
with about a $48,000 concert fund,
Wheeler said. A concert in the Col
iseum would require at least $25,-
000 just to pay the band, he said.
Expenses such as production,
maintenance and security could be
another $10,000, amounting to
more than half of the entire concert
fund, he said.
“We usually have to go to outside
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their money into it with the hope of
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creases ticket prices —and the
Union wants to keep prices lower
for the students," he said.
Wheeler said a promoter paid
the expenses for the B-52’s concert
at Legion Field last quarter. How
ever, the promoter wouldn’t accept
anything less than $8 per student
ticket. So the Union paid $3 for
each $5 ticket sold.
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SA: No more senators
The Student Association voted
again Tuesday to throw out a pro
posal that would add 19 senators
elected from the University’s
schools and colleges to the 34 it
now elects from the freshman
through graduate classes.
Fourteen senators voted against
the bill, six voted for it and three
abstained.
The proposal was voted down at
last week’s meeting but was pre
sented again for further discussion
because its sponsor, SA President
Mark Schisler, couldn’t attend last
week’s meeting after being in
volved in a minor car accident.
Schisler said the proposal was
drafted with an eye toward giving
the SA authority to appoint stu
dents to the University Council in
the future. The University Council
is a legislative body made up of
mostly of faculty but also 19 stu
dent representatives elected from
their schools and colleges.
Peter Shedd, executive com
mittee chairman of University
Council, encouraged SA senators to
become more involved with Uni
versity Council issues.
He said the University bylaws
include a section which would
allow the SA to elect University
Council student representatives.
However, he said if the SA wants
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a hand in the University Council’s
student representation, it would
have to convince the council that it
has representation from the Uni
versity’s schools and colleges.
Schisler said the proposal would
make the SA more truly represen
tative of the student body.
Graduate Sen. Neil Thom said
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the two organizations.
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