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4&M expert says unemployment
lower than reported statistics
Most economist expect a jump in
unemployment figures as one of the
jolts from the as yet undeclared
1979-80 recession, but a Texas A&M
University expert said that current
unemployment figures are mislead
ing.
“Basically there has been a per
manent increase in the number of
individuals included in the meaured
unemployment statistics,” said Dr.
Roger Meiners of Texas A&M ’s Col-
,5 lege of Business Administration.
The high rate of unemployment,
especially in recent years, can be
eiplained in part by federal welfare
programs that directly and indi
rectly cause beneficiaries to report
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TWJftSOAY. AUGUST 16. 1979
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a graduate of Stanford
they are not really seeking work,”
he said.
Individuals who previously were
not included in the labor force are
now counted in the official unem
ployment statistics, Meiners said.
The study was prepared by Mein
ers and Professor Kenneth Clarkson
of the University of Miami’s Law
and Economics Center for Texas
A&M’s Center for Education and
Research in Free Enterprise.
Between 1947 and 1972 official
unemployment in the United States
average 4.7 percent. In the five
years after 1972, unemployment av
eraged over 6.7 percent, an increase
of more than 40 percent.
“Official unemployment statistics
used today are not comparable to
unemployment rates in earlier
years. Nor are they consistent with
the recent record high levels of em
ployment,” Meiners said.
“For that reason, it seems to me
that it may be that employment,
which is more accurately counted, is
a better measure of the state of
economy with respect to the status
of workers.”
The professors stressed their
study does not determine the opti
mal level of unemployment. Rather,
their aim is to examine why the offi
cial rate of employment has jumped
to abnormally high levels during the
1970s.
“Since some individuals prefer
researchers support theory
Eating shaped man’s face
Prehistoric man’s facial appear-
jme was due as much to how and
what he ate as how his ancestors
looked, report Texas A&M Univer-
researchers who say they have
uncovered more evidence to sup
port their premise.
The team discovered structural
Aaracteristies in Neanderthal skulls
similar to those found in apes and
monkeys that would share roughly
the same diet, supporting the
theory that chewing mechanisms do
s much to shape human faces as
genetics.
Recent findings regarding the
honey comb or lattice-like structure
of the brow region known as the
(ermiculate bone suggest develop
ment of the upper face was directly
associated with formation of teeth
and jaw muscles strong enough to
accommodate ancient diets, said
medical researcher Dr. Robert
Rice.
Rice, who collaborated with fel
low anatomy researcher Dr. Marvin
Cannon and former Texas A&M an
thropologist Dr. Ordean Oven, ex-
ined that the diet of Neandert-
modem man’s immediate pre-
ilecessor, would be associated with a
hr different chewing mechanism
an that of Homo spaiens.
Development of agricultural
methods and cooking created more
asily chewed foods, which lessened
the demand for large teeth and
powerful jaws,” Rice said.
“Modem man’s teeth are signifi
cantly smaller than those of Nean-
trthals and he doesn’t look much
ake his ancestor, either. ”
Neanderthal humans were
mound as recently as 3,500 years
ap>. If man’s existence of 3.5 million
*ws were translated into a 24-hour
ptriod. Neanderthals would have
disappeared only 15 minutes ago.
The Texas A&M scientists found
’wmiculate bone in samples of Gib-
caltar and Rhodesia Man, two
Vanderthal popOulations, but not
■ all the prehistoric skulls on loan
k^the study from the University of
Wobi, British Museum in London
®d Vfusee de 1’Homme at Paris.
The same bone formation ap
peared among some macaque,
chimpanzee and baboon skulls, al
though again, several samples
lacked the characteristic.
National Institutes of Health and
Texas A&M funded the study.
“Periods of rapid creation of this
particular bone tend to coincide
with active eruption of the molar,
incisor and canine teeth,” Rice said
of the results.
“Our evidence shows that a ver-
miculate pattern appears to be
common to several different pri
mates and that its deposit and sub
sequent assimilation in browridges
of Neanderthals, chimps, macaques
and baboons may be associated with
changes in the chewing machanism
during growth and maturation with
accompanying changes in diet,” he
said.
The researchers cautioned that
full understanding of the relation
ship requires that scientists deter
mine exactly how growth control
mechanisms govern such develop
ment.
' Bones, despite their rigid appear
ance, are one of the most responsive
and plastic tissues of the body, said
Rice.
The browridge of olive baboons
will add bone tissue to withstand in
creased chewing forces being
transmitted through the bones of
the skull each time a new molar ap
pears, he explained.
By accurately measuring and
comparing as many primate, prehis
toric and modern skulls as possible,
the Texas A&M team hopes to learn
if their theory is sound that facial
bones respond directly to changes in
teeth.
What they find may eventually
answer questions as to why Homo
sapiens look neither like his ances
tors nor like contemporary apes.
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not to work at existing wage rates
and welfare benefits or are largely
unemployable, the work registra
tion requirements have perma
nently increased the measured rate
of unemployment,” Meiners said.
The official rate of unemployment
is important politically. It affects the
outcome of elections and billions of
tax dollars are allocated every year
by the federal govemmnet to com
bat “the perceived unemployment
problem,” he said.
Meiners explained that another
primary source of the increase in
reported unemployment is higher
unemployment compensation bene
fits. With unemployment insurance,
workers can afford to remain unem
ployed longer while searching for a
better job.
Another contributing factor is that
individuals who are not really in the
labor force, especially students and
seasonal workers, can collect unem
ployment insurance as long as they
claim they are looking for work,
noted the business researchers.
“A certain amount of unemploy
ment is a natural and efficient
movement of human resources.
However, unemployment above a
certin level is not politically accept
able, so that accurate measurement
is important. Unfortunately, unem
ployment statistics are invalid for
public policy purposes since they
are now based on incorrect notions
of what the unemployment figures
represent, Meiners said.
United Pres international
STANFORD, Calif. — Dr. Marty
Weiner teaches a Stanford Univer
sity course that he says builds self-
confidence in his students — bar-
tending.
Weiner said he has been teaching
the $60, eight-week course for two
years and some 200 students have
completed it. No one has flunked
out.
“At today’s salaries,” he said, “a
person can pick up as much as $80,
including tips, in one shift.” He said
it’s an ideal part-time job.
Of the course itself, he said: “It
teaches confidence, the knowledge
that you can stand on your own two
feet in the real world with a useful
skill. It teaches humility; it gener
ates a feeling that serving others
with a smile can be rewarding finan
cially and psychologically.
“I don’t expect everyone to go
into professional bartending, al
though some have. The course has
helped cure shyness, and many fac
ulty wives and women staff mem
bers have learned to become better
hostesses.
“If you can master the tools of the
trade — the bottles, the ice, the
glasses, the dispensers, it makes
sense that you can master books and
other learning skills by bringing the
same approach to them.”
Weiner, a graduate of Brandeis,
earned his doctorate degree at Stan
ford and served as an assistant to the
dean of undergraduate studies there
from 1972 to 1974.
For his full-time job, he now
teaches muscle coordination and
motor skills to people recovering
from broken bones, cerebral palsy
or multiple sclerosis — and to
athletes.
As for his bartending students, he
teaches them to work under fire.
He wanders through the class sh
outing orders in the jargon that
cocktail waitresses use — “two King
Al’s, a driver and a J&B over!”
“Put a spoon in the glass for the
King Al,” he instructs, “and slide
the cream down it. Otherwise you’ll
get mud.
"If some guy orders a bourbon
and soda, don’t stir it up. You’ll
knock all the fizz out of it, and he’ll
have bourbon and water.”
Weiner also teaches his class how
to handle obstreperous drunks and
how to pour drinks with both hands.
How does a graduate pick up a
job?
“You have to lie a little,” he said.
“Don t tell them you just graduated
from Stanford’s bartending school.
"Tell ’em you used to work for the
Black Bull in Boise, Idaho. They
never check up, and they’ll accept
your previous ‘experience.’”
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