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Show THE FORUM November 12. 2003 3 Students to Choose Best Pizza Students to feplore Careers at Major Connections Meghan Dymock Staff Writer Mosr everyone loves pizza! Westminster students will get to sample some of the best at this weeks Wild Wednesday activity. Ten different given small pieces of pizza from each pizza vendor. They will then vote for the one they Staff Writer like the most. The most popular pizza vendor will receive a plaque to hang in their store and their name will also Students will have the opportunity to learn about Westminster degree programs, meet with faculty and alumni and discover careers Ten different pizza places from be published in The Forum. Hardy said this activity has not been done at Westminster before, but it has been one of the more popular activities at opportunities at Major Connections on Nov. 14. The event will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Gore School of Business. The annual event will offer sessions featuring panel discussions to aid students in choosing a major and explore career choices to coincide with their major. Panel discussion will include one faculty member or chair from that program, one senior student and an alumni who has been successful in that particular field of study. The sessions will cover 17 around the area will be bringing in pizza for students to sample... pizza places from around the area will be bringing in pizza for students to sample and to vote for their favorite one. According to ASWC Megan Hardy, a few of the pizza places who will be in attendance are: The Pie, Salt Lake Pizza and Pasta, Pizza Hut. Little Caesars and other colleges. Pizza Pipeline. of The event will take place at 8 p.rn. in Shaw. All students This activity is sure to be popular, so get there quick, you wouldnt want to be left out of the pizza voting! 05 Vice-Preside- nt are invited to attend. The cost is SI, and students will be Sophomore Aubrie Jane Heath said she is excited for this activity because, 1 love pizza, and even better 1 can try a bunch of different kinds pizza! Aviation, Business, The event is open to Westminster students, Education, Nursing and Communication. although freshmen enrolled in the INTR 100 College The sessions are Success course are required to attend. This freshman degree programs including Miranda Taft designed to provide information for those students confused about the direction they are heading both during and after college. Students who are planning to attend the event should sign up for two sessions. The first session will be offered from 2 to 2:40 p.m. and the second will be conducted from 2:50 to 3:30 p.m. Registration will begin at :45 p.m. Major Connections takes 1 place every fall. According to the Director of the Career Resource ('enter, Bev Christy, the event is typically seminar course all designed to help new Griffins discover the programs and opportuniis ties the college has to offer as well as explore career choices and develop both time-manageme- and nt test-takin- g skills. The students also participate in a class service project. Students planning on attending Major Connections, with the exception of students enrolled in the INTR UK) course, should R.S.V.P to the Career Resource Center hv Nov. 12. , The event will close with well-attende- d. It has been very successful, savs Christy. a reception from 3:45 until 5 p.m. in the Gore Atrium. C5 Poetry Enthusiasts Treated With Works by Bang Kim Brokling Contributing Writer Last Thursday night, a receptive audience was treated to the works of Mary Jo Bang, a poet who teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. Bang started writing when she moved to another country. She started getting into photography, and had classes that emphasized the verses. The sand barks or makes a fine whine as particles slip past their cousins. Whats good is understate- to do with the paintings. Youre not missing much. She proceeded to read the poetry, which stood on its own laughed after sharing the poetry. She also read a set of poems that were based on ment, Mrs, Autumn and Her Two Daughters merit. reads a After passage from her the show, poem A Tour of most of the crowd the March stayed and socialized over crackers and cheese. Several Equinox. The A relationship between image puma and text. She sold :some books that combined photos and poetry, but she soon found that she could not support herself on that swallows the sun, only to puke it back out, alone. another Eventually, she earned a job teaching and is now free to write and perform her poem copies of reads. .. She read from her book Louise Bangs books poetry. to say what makes' a good reading, Bang Its hard people bought ill wm and met with her. 1 m if y.' m very grateful, said Bang. People have busy lives and that they make time for pti If. ing on being in Salt Lake Citv. The first time I was here, I was 8 years old, Bang said. She added that this was her' third visit. Bang has a talent for making unusual connections between words, and between poetry. They are all my imaginary friends, Bang , certain artwork. I know that youre at a disadvantage because you dont have the paintings behind me, Bang said before she began the set. Try not to let that bother you, because this has nothing live: My mother knows how to make snow. We never see our feet Our skirts end in the oncoming frost My sister wears ermine, I have a narrow waist. 1 no longer curl my hair. Why bother? I love my sisrer but hate my mother yet were of a piece. Endless snipsnip. Ragged fragment. all We still live where you last left us between the palace where you keep your winter and the summer garden of the ersatz emperor. Did 1 hear you say China? If I did you are right. ? We live atop die continent that contains such poverty. Such pollution. Such eerie beauty. Always a mountain. Always a screen.: Whitewashes over me. 1 do not act like my mother. I lean farther. What I make annihilates die mirror of China but not the mountain. like Mary Jo Bang entertained a Westminster audience with her poetry Nov. 6. Bang described some of the characters in her poems as her imaginary friends." the book is a collection of poems centering on a few characters. Bang allpwed the audience a glimpse into the lives of the characters by sharing the in an ocean of white waiting to fall. One of us is not like our mother and its me. Its I. My eyes are mostly closed. We this... I feel very Not the man walking away. My mother says throw more snow but i cant fortunate. Im lucky to have a job that allows me to do There this kind of thing. I feel lucky that people respond to my work. . . Oh, that was fun! 05 You are wrong she says, You dont wear your cape, . help thinking is more to being than erasure. 2001 Maty Jo Bang |