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Show The Thundcrbird Monday October 28, 1985 Page 3 Center helps find jobs, offers career services BY KON KONTOGIANNIS I Southern Utah State Colleges placement and student employment department is designed to help students complete their programs at SUSC and move on to career employment or to advanced-degre- e programs. The student employment responsibility focuses on part-tim- e students while or employment for either they are attending school. We spend considerable time, attention and resources in preparing appropriate credentials, resumes, letters of application and placement files for teaching candidates, said Rex Michie, director of the department. Students are also prepared to interview appropriately and successfully; they participate in other types of workshops and look up material in our departmental library to help students conduct job searches, to try to identify potential employers. employers make their own decisions as to who they will hire, but are required to list the jobs in the placement office. student employment policy requires that an student job be advertised three working days part-tim- e before it is filled. This gives students better access to job listings and gives departments a better selection. The part-tim- e jobs on campus are divided into two categories: work-studand regular payroll. Work-studis a federal program designed to assist students judged to be financially needy to find a job on campus. The college receives a work-studgrant to help pay the students wages. Regular payroll jobs are available to any student who is enrolled for a minimum of six credit hours. At any given time, part-tim- e jobs on campus can number anywhere in the range of 400, Michie says. There are probably the same number of work-stud- y jobs as regular payroll jobs. The placement department also writes to all employers in the community and solicits job listings from them. There has been good cooperation between the department and employers, which is to the advantage of both, Michie said. Placement and student employment has a cooperative relationship with the Utah State Job Service, which has a section of the bulletin board listed with jobs that may be of interest to students. There still are quite a few job openings listed on the bulletin board in the placement center, Michie said. Students on work-stud- y are limited to 20 hours of work per week when school is in session, and 30 hours when school is out. There are no restrictions stating that students cannot have more than one job, but the total number of hours is limited because students are in school to obtain an education. This policy also makes jobs available for others, he said. Most of the services are without charge, but there are those which cost the student, such as the mailing of placement files in which the average cost to prepare, photocopy and mail these files costs the department about $2, but the student is only charged $1.25, he said. Students should be aware that these services are available and that they need to take responsibility for themselves in obtaining employment, he said. y y y Murder game planned Several people will be murdered on campus this week sort of and students who want to join in the fun should meet at the lounge in the Student Center Tuesday at 5 p.m. Marty Harris, the ASSUSC special projects coordinator, will reintroduce a game to SUSC called T.A.G., which stands for The Assassination Game. The object of the game is to kill as many people as possible; the last surviving soul will be declared the winner. The weapons used in this game arent what your basic hit man would use. Instead, participants will be given harmless dart guns to do away with their victims. Harris, the game master for T.A.G., will make a portfolio of each person involved in the game. The portfolio will include a picture and some basic information about the person. Game players will then receive a dart gun and a portfolio of their victims. Everybody is a victim, so the main objective of the game is not to get killed by an assassin while out killing others. Those who want a challenge should play," says Harris. T.A.G. is a game that combines all the necessary skills that are needed by an international spy. You have to be cunning, you have to be cautious all the time, and you have to have the competitiveness to go out and get your victim. : The U of Us Dean of Liberal Education L. Jackson Newell told students Thursday that liberal education has nothing to do with the political spectrum, but is instead a means of preparing people to act in the publics interest. He said liberal education also prepares us for the realities of life and for the personal joys of the individual. Author Barry Lopez speaks at SUSC Distinguished natural history author Barry audience Thursday at SUSC. Lopez has gained a widespread reputation as an authoritative writer and lecturer on the subject of nature and the environment. He has been favorably compared to such distinguished authors as Edward Abbey, Hal Borland and Edwin Way Teale. The nature writer visited SUSC in May 1984 as a Convocation speaker. We are very fortunate to have him back again, said Convocations Coordinator Lana Johnson. The program will start at 1 1 a.m. in the auditorium. According to writer Sam Hamill in a Pacific Northwest article, Lopez work is characterized by some of the most thoughtful and knowledgeable prose around. He is a naturalist without any of the adolescent awe or that flaws so much recent nature Hamill. wrote writing, Best known for his nonfiction book, Of Wolves and Men, Lopez has been the object of said considerable praise by critics. Wolves, Whitely Streiber of the Washington Post, is a luminous example of the relationship between men and wolves... it is a work of intelligence, dedication, and beauty, deserving the widest Lopez will address the Convocation back-to-natu- KGSU-F- M is possible attention. In 1979, Lopez received the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished natural history writing for the book. That same year he earned the Christopher Medal for humanitarian writing and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers award for excellence in nonfiction writing. In addition to his books, Lopez has written numerous collections of articles, short stories, prose and other fiction. Many of his books, some of which are available at the SL1SC Bookstore, have been translated into German, French, Swedish and Japanese. Recently Lopez completed work on a nonfiction piece about the arctic entitled, Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape. The book will be featured as the main selection in February for the Book of the Month Club. Lopez is currently working on a fictional piece set on the northern plains in the eighteenth century. He is also a frequent contributor to such magazines as Harpers, North American Review, New York Times Book Review, and Pacific Northwest. During Lopez visit to SUSC, he will work with students in Jim Atons American Nature Writing class both Wednesday and Friday. back on the airwaves BY CYNDY LEYSON If you wake up to the sound of your favorite contemporary music, chances are that youre tuned in to KGSU-FM- , radio SUSCs station. Lance Jackson, tngineer for SUSCs communications department says, The station is run by students in the radio production class taught by Donald Godfrey (associate professor of the communications department). The students use the station as part of tht;r training in radio communications from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. KGSU-Foffers a variety of musical and educational programs, currently running from 6 a.m. to 1 a.m., Monday through Friday. The musical programs run by set time schedules. From sign-o- n at 6 a.m. until 10 a.m., KGSU plays contemporary music. Easy listening fills the airwaves from 10 a.m. to noon and classical music runs from noon to 5 p.m. Contemporary music returns after 5 p.m. and the request line is open until sign off. Referring to contemporary music, Jackson says, All the music is screened before it goes on the air. In a conservative area you dont want to play liberal songs. Educational programs include two science-oriente- d shows, Man and Molecules, and Science and Our Lives. Another program broadcast is Thinking Out Loud, a series produced by the Utah Endowment for the Arts. The series features news about programs, such as the Utah Shakespearean Festival this summer. Small Business Utah, is a call-i- n talk show hosted by Harry Swanson, coordinator of the Small Business Developmefit Center at SUSC. |