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Show Openings 1988 News - Page Nineteen CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS -- ethnic participation in the Supplemental from news-pag- e seventeen said the center works closely Trujillo with the Career Placement Office in helping students get jobs once they graduate. "Sometimes businesses come to the center when looking for minority employees," he explained. The center also sponsors several ethnic student groups for Asians, Cnicanos, Polynesians, Afro-American- s, Japanese and Native Americans. The center also helps students through -- honors seventeen from news-pag- e This system promises that if professors teach something they feel strongly about and students take classes that stimulate their curiosity, the highest level of academic enrichment can be painlessly reached. Reduced class size allows teachers to Instruction Program and tne Minority Athletes Student Organization. "Our center helps (ethnic students) so they don't feel like a nobody on campus," Hamala said, pointing out that the large size of the U. can lead students to feel lost or confused about where to go for help. ,Tm friends with everyone up there," she noted about the center's advisers. "If they need help they can come to me and I know that I can go to them." Moyers: World of Ideas Begins Monday, September 12th at 1035p.m. This unique interview series explores the state of American lit today. Some of America's leading teachers, scientists, psychologists, poets, philosophers, artists and writers are interviewed, including Carlos Fuentes. Barbara Tuchman and Tom Wolfe. Moyers: The Secret Government: The Constitution In Crisis Wednesday, September 14th at p.m. trum combine to form the composite of the group. Students in the program are stongly 7.-0- 0 urged to complete the requirements for an honors bachelor's degree as opposed to taking the "honors option." The option is merely taking some of the classes offered, spend more time with each student. but forgoing a senior honors project. The project is proposed by the student Jennifer Wilkins, a junior majoring in of her honors and approved by his or her departmental psychology, says of one professors, "He sits down and goes over advisor during the last quarter of the (homework) with me and works with me junior year. Often the project is a until I understand it." Honors students are a rather special paper (good practice for graduate work), groupr The high GPA requirements set but Cummings wants to encourage a wide creative effort like a them slightly apart from many students. range of projects.-But that isn't their only distinction; a screenplay, poetry or a musical composistudents can boast tion would be a welcome proposal. number of Students who take the honors option remarkably high grades. There is a sense of community among miss out on the opportunity to plan and honors students. The classes are smaller execute a project of their own creation, as and foster discussion, so students within well as a number of classes. As one honors student put it, "I would the program get to know each other in a way that isn't possible in the massive gath- never have taken a higher math class. I didn't think I needed it. But completing classes. erings of many freshmen-leve- l The honors program's student body is the honors calculus sequence gave me a I quite diverse. Most religious, chronologi- - sense of mastery that I would have never .1 i i i sought voluntarily." cai, eumic auu suuiai groups me With very little effort, students can There really isn't an "average" honors student, but both ends (and a complete their liberal education rhents through the honors program. good portion of the middle) of the spec (I . . interview with University Edwin Firmage. well-research- ed September has turned out to be Moyers Month on KUED. as Bill Moyers' moving series with mythologistand teacher Joseph Campbell returns to KUED due to overwhelming viewer demand. It's an inspiring scries of conversations on birth, death, marriage, heroes and gods, rites and rituals, and religious belief non-hono- rs i KUED d. 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