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Show !THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2000 PAGE3 UNIVER.SITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS Al 1· invited to 'week' eve nts During spring break, 17 SUU students trayeled to Guaymas, Mexico, to take part in a SUUSA community improvement project. Their focus was on the town's youth programs and faciuties. While in Guaymas, the students rehabilitated playgrounds and took part in making a foundation for a youth center. (continued from page 1) The winner of the pageant will receive a partialtuition scholarship. According to Vlasich, the highlight of Native American week, the 23rd annual Pow-Wow will conclude Native American Week on March 31 and April 1. . According to Vlasich, the Pow-Wow will begin with a "grand entrance," or a large parade featuring any Native Americans who wish to participate. A competitive dance will be held on April 1, which, according to Dalley, will offer prize money. "This is a very special kind of thing. I don't think people in the west appreciate what a Pow-Wow is like,· Vlasich said. The Pow-Wow will run from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. on March 31 and from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. on April 1. Dalley said admission to the Pow-Wow will be charged, although definite prices have not been set. SUU students have the option of earning one credit for attending Native American Week. Upper-division and lower-level credits are available. In order to obtain credit, the student must: • Register with the Registrar's Office at anytime either before or during the event. • Attend three othe( Native American Week lectures. • Attend two of the following: the Pow-Wow workshop, the Navajo feast. the Miss • Indian SUU Pageant or the Pow-Wow. • Submit a two-page essay for credit in HIST 29202, or a four-page essay for credit in HIST 4920-2. Students wishing to write an essay need to obtain the essay questions from Vlasich at his office in Centrum 225 or call 586-5456. Students give service on break While other students went to Southern California to work on their tans, 19 SUU students spent $250 of their own money to go to Guaymas, Mexico, to help remodel and clean a playground and volunteer at a local school and recreation club. The trip was sponsored by SUUSA and was organized by Marilyn Aodgson, an SUU junior political science major from West Valley, and Shawn Day of Phoenix, Ariz. While in Guaymas. the students cleaned a playground. They disposed of garbage, repaired playground equipment and painted basketball hoops. "It was a very humbling experience. I cried myself to sleep every night," said Timmette McKenna, a junior math major form Green Valley, Nev. . Those students majoring in education received the opportunity to assist local school teachers for a day. Members also visited the local Club Jerry from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. The club is equivalent to a Young Men's Christian Association. While at the club, the students played games with the children. SUUSA President Kristian Olsen said he wanted to . make this trip a tradition at SUU. He also said he wanted to increase the number of students able to go to 40. There were 60 students who applied for the opportunity to go. Christmas in May is another service project planned by SUUSA to help the children in Guaymas. Later this school year, SUU students will be asked to donate their used jackets, blankets and school supplies in the drop boxes pr9vided SUUSA. Cortes to speak on Job intervieWs.scheduled classroom diversity • Davis School District on April 10, • Los Angeles USO, CA, on April 11 • Jordan School District on April 24-25. Students.interested in learning more about Career Services of SUU will hold interviews during March and April for students searching these interviews can attend the orientation held on April 10 at 4:15 p.m in the Career for potential employment. Services Center in room SSC 201 . Elementary and secondary education Education majors can explore more than students can soon be interviewed at Career 100 school districts by Services for jobs with - - - - - - - - - - - - . . attending the Spring various school districts 'We have the largest Teacher Recruiting Fair held throughout the western number of school on April 14, 2000 at the states. h University of Utah. The fair . Stacia Thomas, d IS nc S we ave ever will have 106 school districts education employment had ... / think because of from various western states. specialist, said she is Thomas said she thinks 700 impressed with the number SUU's excellent d prospective teachers will of school districts e d uca ton program an attend. students can register interviewing at SUU this the students it for the fair after April 1 at year. · we have the largest produces, ' said Stacia Career Services. number of school districts Th SUU d t · Thomas also suggested 1 ' omas, e uca ,on students should check out we have ever had. I think employment specialist. the Career services web site the reason there are so ' - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ at www.suu.edu/sslcareer. many is because of the "I always try to push students to investigate struggles some of the schools are having and search fpr jobs over the web, there is a finding enough teachers. There is a high lot of info on there that is constantly being demand for teachers in the larger school updated. The career services web site has a districts. I also think that the reason so many school districts are interviewing is because of teacher education bulletin, teacher openings and career fafrs throughout the West." SU U's excellent equcation program and the Thomas said. students it produces,• Thomas said. Thomas said there are also companies School districts interviewing in March are: coming to interview for non-education majors • Clark County, NV, on March 24-25, in the future. The Fastenal Company will be . • Chino USO, CA, on March 24, interviewing March 30 for sales and • Weber School District on March 31 . management trainees. United States School districts interviewing in April are: Investigation Services will be interviewing • Page, AZ, on April 7, April 17 for investigator/field researchers. • Fontana USO, CA, on April 7, BY MICHELLE GARDNER JOURNAL STAFF WRITER The status of multicultural education inside and outside the classroom will be the topic of discussion at a March 23 presentation in the SUU Convocation Series. Carlos Cortes, professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Riverside, will speak at the 11 :30 a .m . Convocation in the SUU Auditorium. The general public is invited to attend the free lecture. •As a teacher and an author, Dr. Cortes has spent 30 years studying racial and ethnic diversity in the U.S. ." said Carol Gale, coordinator of the Convocation series. "He has been a lecturer and consultant to numerous government and educational organizations around the world.· His new book, The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about Diversity, has been published this month by the Teachers College Press. In addition to writing books and film and television documentaries, he has appeared as a guest host on the PBS national television series Why in the World?, and is the feature presenter on the Video Journal of Education's trainin9 video, Diversity in the · Classroom. Cortes was selected by the Smithsonian Institution as a public lecturer for 1993-1994. In 1989 the American Society for Training and Development ..~ presented ~ himthe . ~ National · 'i'k\ Multicultural "*~:"°~ Trainer of the Year Award. Since 1990 Cortes has served on the summer faculty of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education. He also serves on the faculty of the Summer Institute for lntercultural Communication. t·t t. . I• |