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Show ASSUSC chooses placement officer BY PETER TAGG Trudy Broadbent was recently appointed as the new ASSUSC Graduate Interview Project Director under the direction of ASSUSC President Julie Stuart. According to student body officials, the new position will help prepare students for graduation. Stuart said, The two main reasons students go to school are to get a diploma to get a job, or to go to graduate school. We really want to aid students to make that transition through graduation. The graduation and interview services have always been available, she said, but students have not been very aware of their availability. Broadbent said the position entails working d with John Q. Cannon in SUSCs Placement Office. Broadbent will serve as a student representative to keep both the Placement Office and the student body aware of information. Prior to Broadbents appointment, a number of services were available under the jurisdiction of ASSUSC Student Services. However, the service mainly entailed appropriating money to groups and faculty members to help them explore job possiblities. Broadbent will have a wider range of responsibilities. Now, I make students aware of anything pertaining to graduation, Broadbent said. Students may approach her for information about test and application dates for graduate schools, to take sample tests, and to receive assistance in determining upper division standing. Broadbent will also work with the Placement Office to present workshops and seminars each quarter to help students develop practical skills. Two workshops are already scheduled for this quarter, covering the topics of effective resume and cover letter writing, and preparing for an interview. Broadbent said the first will be held on May 3 in the Zions Conference Room, and the second on May 7 in the Bryce Canyon Conference Room. All students are invited to attend. In addition, next fall quarter Broadbent will organize a job fair to bring companies to SUSCs campus. She said, It will be a recruiting type of fair. We can show them (the companies) what we can offer as employees. We want to get our students out and hired. Stuart said there is a need to expose our students to potential employers. We really want to get people on campus to see our credentials. They tend to overlook us, but once they are here Im sure they will be impressed, she said. Stuart said Broadbent will bring a lot of experience to this new position. She is ambitious. She is nearly graduated, so she knows the ins and outs, and she has a good head for knowing where to go and what to do, she said. hand-in-han- Members and pledges of Delta Sigma Chi, including Troy Meeks, Chris Goslin, Darin Heaton and Gordon Birch, cleaned up SUSC during their car wash Thursday as part of the fraternitys spirit week. Faculty Senate seeks recruiting funds BY JASON university name we must be able to recruit faculty from many parts of the United States and abroad, says a bill that would provide $15,000 in travel reimbursements for prospective faculty members who travel to SUSC for interviews. The proposal says the faculty senate president should petition the provost and President Gerald R. Sherratt to include this money as-- a line item in the colleges budget for next year. Faculty Senate President David Rees will present the bill at the next Deans Council meeting for a vote. Ana Dittmar, an assistant professor of behavioral and social science who previously taught at Rutgers University, said she feels this reimbursement is critical. As a candidate who paid her own way from the East Coast to be interviewed, I think it narrows the candidates down a lot. I know I tried to make sure that I was seriously being considered before I paid my own way to come out here, said Dittmar. There may be certain legal technicalities with not furnishing at least some type of travel funding. We are discriminating in certain ways if we dont allow for NORTH After approval by SUSCs Institutional Council, discussion concerning changing the college to a semester calendar is scheduled for May by the Board of Regents. Were going to pursue this as far as possible, said Provost Terry D. Alger.-Hadded that SUSCs administrators would the proposal if some other of Utahs institutions did not adopt a semester system too. If approved, the earliest date that the change would be in effect is fall quarter 1992, he said. After being approved by SUSCs Institutional Council, the issue of changing to a semester calendar system is scheduled for May discussion by the Board of Regents. Were going to pursue this as far as possible, said Provost Terry D. Alger. Besides mentioning the status of the semester proposal, the Faculty Senate members approved proposals for improving recruitment of new faculty members, rescheduling classes around holidays and raising funds for the senates student scholarship. In order to allow our image to grow with our (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6) Stanfords president to lecture here Stanford University President Donald Kennedy will present the Grace Adams Tanner Lecture on Human Values April 26 as a part of SUSCs Convocation series. Responsibility and the University is the title of Kennedys lecture, the latest in a series of human value oriented programs that began at SUSC in 1980. The annual lecture is funded through a grant from Utah philantropist Obert C. Tanner and is a program of SUSCs Grace Adams Tanner Center for Human Values. Dr. Kennedy is one of the most prominant educators in America today, said Tanner Lecture Series Chair Eugene T. Woolf. He represents the academic point of view that is of interest to the university student and has some excellent insights into the attitudes of students in the western United States. Kennedy was a senior consultant in the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Ford administration and was commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration during the administration of ' President Jimmy Carter. He was named vice president and provost of Stanford University in 1979 and its president in 1980. The Stanford President is a member of numerous professional societies and editorial boards. He has over 60 articles in major science journals and contributions to books and encyclopedias on the comparative physiology of the central nervous system and sense organs, especially visual systems, and of the central nervous control of simple behaviors. Kennedy is the recipient of numerous honors, including doctorial degrees from six colleges and universities. He is a member of advisory councils for the California Academy of Sciences and the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy. A board member for Clean Sites, Inc., and the California Nature Conservancy, he chairs the board of directors for Medical Education for South African Blacks and serves on the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government. |