Don't be fooled by offers of easy jobs!

Since Waseda is a gateless university, all sorts of unscrupulous operators and representatives of cults can easily sneak in Waseda.
At the entrance ceremony, the Dean of Student Affairs (Gakuseibucho) warned freshman students not to give out their personal information lightly, such as their addresses and phone numbers. The warning has also been announced through "Compass" (Students' Life Guidebook), bulletin boards, and Waseda-net. Despite all these efforts, there has been no end of problems.

WARNING 1
Be aware of home-tutor registration campaigns!

Freshman language classes targeted

This spring, an agent was caught red-handed on the charge of illegal entry. He came into the classroom as if he was a faculty or staff member, and distributed "Home tutor registration sheet" with the help of student worker. He had the students fill in the form, including their name, address, and the high school they had graduated from. Beforehand, he had investigated in which classrooms the language classes are held, and had planned his actions quite carefully. Thus he quickly collected the registration sheets, and was gone before the teacher arrived. Even when we caught him and had him write an account, he reappeared using a different name. In our university, only Student Life Section (Gakusei-seikatsu-ka) officially offers home-tutor jobs and students go there and register on their own will. A faculty or staff member of the university never distributes registration cards in classrooms.

The value of "Waseda student" as information

Unscrupulous agents often have connections with other agents. In this case, the troubles become more serious. Since the brand name "Waseda student" is highly valued among them, they will sell your personal information to other job providers. Registering on the thought that "they might offer me an easy job", can result in being offered a job not as a home tutor but in textbook sales or telephone sales. Some students even join the unscrupulous agents to gain money, and distribute registration sheets in classrooms. Never do a job that misleads your friends and causes them trouble!

WARNING 2
Caution! It is illegal to get paid for the election campaign support!

If you do a part time job in an official election campaign, you may be arrested for violation of "the Public Officers Election Act". There will be an election for the House of Councilors (Sangi-in) in July, and please remember that election campaign support is fundamentally voluntary work. Even officially admitted jobs, such as "Uguisu-jou" (a woman who calls a candidate's name repeatedly at the election campaign), have caps of daily payment, and only registered people can do these jobs. Without knowing this, some students do these jobs for illegal payment, and get caught together with the candidate for violation of the law. This is actually happening in Tokyo area.

Considerable transparency is required with regard to elections because they are the very base of democracy. Therefore, excuses of students such as "I just thought it was an easy job" may not be accepted and result in the temporary deprivation of civil rights.

Shigenobu Okuma, the founder of Waseda University, was the first prime minister of a party government in Japan. Thus Waseda students have a tradition of being interested in politics. So do not take a paying job to support a candidate. Instead, support as a volunteer the candidates who agree with your political philosophy.

Others...
Pyramid schemes; they pretend not to be pyramid, saying, "This is legal", or "This is an easy networking business".

Points:
With regard to pyramid schemes, slogans like "You can make money if you work hard" are false. Pyramid schemes always fail, and never make money. They try to have you sign up as quickly as possible and pay a registration fee. Also, they tend to have you take out a loan, and refrain from advice of parents, etc. There is always something suspicious about them.

Inquiry:

• Student Life Section TEL:03-3202-0706
• Human Service Centre (also offers legal council for persistent bidding)
  TEL:03-3203-4449
• Consumers' Centre of Shinjuku-ku, Division of Consumers Affairs Council
  TEL:03-3365-6000(Open on weekdays, 9:30 to 15:30)