Less Work, More Dough, No Drugs

Next year's college graduates will find fewer jobs but higher salaries than students who earned their degrees this year, according to an annual survey of employers.

The survey also found that most employers consider drug screening an ethical procedure, with 20 percent saying they screen new college graduates for drug use, the Associated Press reported this week.

Ninety-five percent of those who perform the drug screening said they reject applicants when tests turn up positive.

More than 630 job providers throughout the nation said they expected to hire 58,942 graduates during the year, 2.4 percent fewer than the 61,651 graduates they hired last year, according to the survey, which was conducted by Michigan State University.

"It is evident that surveyed employers are approaching this year's recruitment with caution, since they are anticipating a slight decrease from last year's job market for new college graduates," the study concluded.

Slightly more than 100 of the 761 businesses, industries, governmental agencies and educational institutions surveyed say they don't expect to hire any new graduates during the year. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

Special Protest

More than 200 students at the University of California at Santa Barbara urinated in specimen bottles provided by the student council and recently sent the samples to the White House in protest of President Reagan's mandatory drug testing policies.

The urine was accompanied by a letter of protest and a copy of the council's position paper opposing drug tests, the Daily Nexus reported.

"We're talking about our rights here," protest leader Brad Loel told a crowd of 250 demonstrators. "In the last couple of years we've had music censorship, media censorship, and movie censorship. Now we have piss censorship."

About 200 specimen bottles were given away and never returned because some people were too embarrassed to urinate in them and others used the plastic containers as drinking glasses or souvenirs, organizers said.

Many samples sent to Reagan bore messages such as "Don't open until Christmas," "Urinvading my Constitutional rights," and "Ronnie, give piss a chance."

Some students who were not involved in the pee protest charged that sponsorship of the event by the student council was inappropriate and not representative of students' beliefs. YALE

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