Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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Practically every lU student takes advantage of the phone company ' s services. Two other Bloomington corporations, Otis Elevator Company and Westinghouse Electric Corporation, have more indirect ties with the university. Scott Comegys (TOP) ILI students are among the 700 employes at the Westinghouse plant on North Curry pike. (ABOVT:) IU grad student in education Starlin Walton, left, and business major (erome lones, junior, right, experience the ups and downs of factory work on the Otis Elevator Company escalator assembly line.

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Students come to Bloomington to participate in the world of academia. They come from every state and from almost every country, Australia to Zaire. But 50,000 others have come to Bloomington for reasons besides school. They make up a part of Bloomington that the average student rarely sees. (Believe it or not, the city does not exist solely because of the university!) Tor a total year look, the Arbutus extends its coverage to include such Bloomington economic mainstays as the limestone industry , neighborhoods such as the Miller Drive area and interesting persons ief; like William Addison.

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Local plants provide services, jobs ID Si.hwalm (ABOVE) justing ph Maintaining adequate phone service requires checking and ad- one lines. TA irectory assistance, what city please? In a large LJ carpeted office, 30-40 operators sit at cubicles amid pages of telephone listings, asking that same question hun- dreds of times a day. Number information is just one of the many forms of daily service Indiana Bell Telephone pro- vides for Bloomington and the entire 812 area code region. Practically every lU student takes advantage of the phone company ' s services. Two other Bloomington corporations, Otis Elevator Company and Westinghouse Electric Corpora- tion, have more indirect ties with the university. Traveling up to the graduate library ' s tenth floor, students ride in elevators manufactured by some of the Otis Com- pany ' s 800 employes. When students take a break from their studies, they head to the cafeteria on Otis escalators. Otis contributes more to the university than just elevators and escalators — it also provides students. Raymond Vry- daghs, employment supervisor for the Bloomington plant explained the company ' s tuition-refund plan. He said many Otis employes enhance their careers by furthering their edu- cations in work-related fields. Otis reimburses the workers for a substantial part of their tuition fees, Vrydaghs said. Several employes have obtained bachelors or masters de- grees in business, he continued. While Otis contributes students to the university, the Wes- tinghouse corporation works in a reverse manner. lU stu- dents are among the 700 people employed at the plant. The around-the-clock service offered by Indiana Bell makes it difficult for the phone company to hire students for positions there. Most persons would think a directory assis- tance operator ' s job would be ideal work for students. But, as Kenneth H. Smith, equipment supervisor at Bell explained, the continuous shifts operators must work make it impossible for students to work because of their conflict- ing class schedules. While Indiana Bell has refrained from hiring students, the phone company has helped them by handling what Smith calls the lU Rush. These rushes take place each year as school sessions resume, and students request phone installa- tions. But, we bust ourselves to give next-day service, if possible, Smith said. As the phone company completes these installations, the customers are serviced by one of the most ultra-modern communications systems in the world, said Smith. With this system, we have been able to create new types of ser- vice available to lU that was not available any place else in the world, he continued. Marianne Gleissner