SUSC Student Intern at Garn's D C Office 1 ;0 c)f 4 1 MX, and saw the Supreme Court in action. "It's important to understand un-derstand the basic structure of government, knowing how committees are formed, how members are appointed, before one can be effective working in a position in Washington," he says. "And, it's important to realize that many mundane things have to be done before the interesting things happen." Washington interns, Decker notes, receive a stipend-about $500 per month) --to cover living expenses in the District of Columbia. Thejr earn 12 hours SUSC credit in political science and cooperative education. Internships in the senators' local office earn three hours credit through SUSC's Institute in Practical Politics during the quarter. They work about four hours per week in the government office and complete an outside research project. The most recent intern, Mary Jo Chase, a nominee for SUSC's Pestalozzi Award in elementary education, interened there with field representative Jeannine Holt winter quarter. She completed a research project on attitudes of five county area officials towards energy development. develop-ment. i ' 1 Utah Senator Jake Garn with SUSC student Bruce Garner, St. George. Garner interned in the senator's Washington, D.C. office this year as a participant ia SUSC's internship in political science. City, also interned in the local office. He will graduate from SUSC May 30 with high honors and will enter law school next fall at Brigham Young University. Garner, a transfer student from Dixie College where he was student body president, outstanding sophomore student and outstanding freshman male, is leaning towards law school following graduation. "I was a little cynical about Washington before going there," he says, "but this position has ,heD modified by spending an internship in Senator Gam's office." While in Washington, Garner did a great deal of correspondence for the senator, much of it involving the proposed MX system. He also attended several committee hearings dealing with foreign affairs, attended at-tended White House briefings on revival of the Selective Service, attended Pentagon briefings on SUMS (Shallow Underwater Missile Systems) and on the An appreciation for the legislative process and valuable practical experience ex-perience in government not found in the classroom or textbook, is being offered through a a political internship in-ternship program at Southern Utah State College. "There are some really tough, hard-nosed elected officials back in Washington who do a lot better job representing their constituency con-stituency than their constituents con-stituents know," says Bruce Garner, a SUSC junior who spent winter quarter in Washington, D.C, office of Utah Senator Jake Garn. "After spending three months in Washington, I have more faith now, maybe not in the whole , political system, but in a lot of the individuals I've seen there," the political science major from St. George says. Garner is one of three SUSC students who have worked in the capitol city offices of Utah Senators Garn and Orrin Hatch. Chris Kerecman, Utah's 1980-81 Truman Scholar and a SUSC junior, is working in Hatch's office now through August and another summer intern for the same office will be selected in the near future. "The program gives students an appreciation for the legislative process and for the pressures placed on our elected representatives," represen-tatives," notes Rodney D. Decker, coordinator of the internship program. "Two students from SUSC are eligible for three-month internships in Washington each year, one with each senator, while other students can work in the senator's local office. "To date," Decker says, "the majority of interns have come from the poltiical science area. We hope to expand the program so that all disciplines on campus are represented." SUSC's first Washington internship was awarded to Layne A. Isom, a political science major from Cedar City, who spent the 1978-79 winter quarter in Senator Gam's office. Isom gradauted from SUSC with I honors last June and is now f enrolled in a masters of business adminsitration program at the University of Utah. The second intern was Alan A. Jones who worked in Senator Hatch's office last summer. Jones, from Cedar