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Commerce Picks Officers

Commerce school students elected
fourth-year Alan Botsford president and
third-year students Gilbert McGeorge
vice-president and Carol Garvin,
secretary-treasurer in elections Thursday
and Friday.

The winners campaigned together on a
platform supporting the single sanction
Honor System.

This year 88.2 per cent of the
Commerce students voted, compared
with 70 cent in last year's school election.

Mr. McGeorge said, "we all felt the
single sanction was best, but we also
think the Honor Committee should
reflect the views of the majority of the
students."

Job Program

The University has begun a
federally-funded program to provide jobs
and training for underemployed and
unemployed Charlottesville area residents
during the next two years.

The University will fill a maximum of
21 positions through the program,
financed by a $240,000 grant from the
U.S. Department of Labor.

"The idea is that, within a two-year
period of time, these workers can be
trained and transferred to regular
state-budgeted positions as vacancies occur
through normal employee turnover," said
John Lambert, University Personnel
Department training coordinator.

Funded through the Emergency
Employment Act of 1971, the
newly-funded positions include jobs in the
University's Departments of Buildings and
Grounds, Security, Food Services, the
hospital, and Alderman Library.

Tenant Handbook

The free handbook on
Landlord-Tenant Law produced by the
now-inoperative Student Aid and Lawyer
Referral Office is available at the Student
Affairs office in Kent-Dabney House and
the Student Council office in Newcomb
Hall.

The handbook was formerly distributed
through Madison Hall.