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Show THETHUNDERBIRD SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1993- - PAGE 3 Barbara Gordon to open spring Convo tomorrow 1 Tomorrow s Convocation lecture features Barbara Gordon, who will share her experiences in Im Dancing as Fast as I can. Gordon, who authored a book by die same tide, worked for 20 years in television as a writer, director and producer of a string of documentaries. Her book, and a 1982 motion picture starring Jill Clayburgh, recounts her best-sellin- award-winnin- mental breakdown drat resulted from valium addiction. Tire remaining spring quarter lectures will include dre commemoration of Thomas Jeffersons 250th birthday and a study of sports in American culture. Cordelia Candelaria will be dre April 1 Womens History Week speaker. An English professor at Arizona State University, Candelaria is a poet and audror who has published numerous titles, including Seeking the Perfect Game: Baseball in American Literature, Chicano Poetry, A Critical Introduction and Arroyos to the Heart. The April 8 Convocation will feature Marvin L Cobb, director of development for minority affairs and the school of medicine at the University of Southern California. Cobb played football for dre Cincinnati Bengals for six years, and was named Rookie of the Year" in 1975. Thomas Jeffersons 250th birthday, April 13, will be observed widr a special lecture by J.D. Williams, professor emeritus at the University of Utah. Williams topic will be Thomas Jefferson: The Renaissance Comes to America. Odrer April 13 activities will include the unveiling of a statue of Jefferson, and a colonial-periodinner in dre Great Hall. The April 1 5 Convocation will feature scholar and actor Clay Jenkinson with a presentation tided Thomas Jefferson: Revolutionary and Nation Builder. Jenkinson has appeared as Jefferson at conferences throughout the United States, before numerous state legislatures, and at education retreats, law schools and libraries. The annual Grace Tanner Adams Lecture on Human Values, April 22, will be presented by David Pierpoint Gardner, president of die William R. Floral Hewlett Foundation. Gardner served as the president of the University of Utah from 1973-83- , a period of rapid development for the institution. Terry Tafoya will be the speaker for Native American Week. His April 29 lecture is titled Hearts in Harmony: The Sacred Dance of the Native American Spirituality. Tafoya is a member of the Taos Pueblo and serves as a tribal storyteller. William Glasser, M.D., will discuss Control Theory: Meeting Needs in Private Industry and Education May 6. Glasser is a psychiatrist who is best known for his book Reality Therapy, a method of psychotherapy that can be applied to all human problems. The topic for the May 13 Convocation will be Drugs, Sports and Politics. However, die speaker has not been selected and will be announced at a later date. The lecture will explore the use of drugs in a variety of sports and training programs. The May 20 speaker will be Joel Levey. Levey and his wife of Inner Work Technologies, Inc., a Michelle are the Seatde, Wash., firm specializing in enhancing creativity and innovation. The final Convocation of spring quarter is the annual Academic Awards Convocation May 27. The program honors SUUs outstanding scholars and is intended to recognize excellence in students and to offer academic awards for their d board-certifie- achievements. Cal Stroud, SUUs placement officer Placement Center is virtually unknown BY NAOMI BAHR Thunderbird Staff Writer With less dian diree months unnl Commencement, future graduates may be considering what diey will be doing with dieir degree, and just how or where to find work when out in the real world. Students in diis situation should take advantage of die job service available the SUU Placement Center. The Placement Center can help students find a temporary job to earn money to pay for dieir college career, as well as helping future graduates secure a permanent job after graduation. Located in the basement of the Administration Building, the Placement Center offers many services for students, including weekly job bulletins, an office library, an annual Career Fair, and, periodically, seminars and workshops focusing on such topics as resumes, interviewing, and other information diat can help in a job search. Published in the weekly bulletin are any education and jobs available, and the bulletin is posted n around campus. The library contains information diat can help in finding work and creating resumes, and lists of employers and contact people for major organizations and corporations. The annual Career Fair brings different employers on campus for students to meet and find out about die companies. This year the fair will take place April 5 in die Centrum, where they expect approximately 60 employers Sign language class offered class in sign language will be A offered at SUU this quarter. The class will meet on Thursdays from will learn the sign p.m., and participants and basic vocabulary alphabet, language sentence structures. The cost of the course is $35. The class is all open to people of ages. The course will be taught by Jeanette Ekker, an SUU student majoring in English with a non-cred- 7-- 8 minor in Spanish. Because she is the daughter of a deaf parent, Ekker has lifelong experience in signing. She has acted as an interpreter for many says that the SUU Placement Center is 'virtually unknown. years in a variety of settings ranging from church services to medical appointments. Ekker also attended a Brigham Young University workshop on sign language, where she became a certified interpreter for the deaf. The location of die class will be announced prior to the first session. The course is a new addition to the spring quarter Division of Continuing Education offerings, and is not listed in its catalog. For further information, including registration, contact Boydine Daniels at the SUU Division of Continuing Education, to be on campus and available to students. The Placement Center is also a great help to students looking for work while going to school. Placement Officer Cal Stroud stressed diat die Placement Center helps students needing work, work study, or summer work for bodi the local area and odier parts of die country to find a job, eidier on or off campus. To die graduating senior, Stroud suggested, It takes an average of 6 mondis for a senior to find work in dieir area. We suggest seniors start early by coming to us diat much before graduation in order to begin a job search, so they can get right to work once outside college. The Placement Center has many files of companies, supervisors and key people to contact in particular fields. Placement Director Jack Cannon handles all education students seeking employment, and Cal Stroud works with science, business, technology and liberal arts students. There are many ways to find work, but die best way is to work through someone, Stroud said. Contact persons are a great asset to someone when searching for work. The only fees applied for using die Placement Center are for printing and computing, other dian those small, initial fees die service is free. Yet few students use the great help and service available to diem. The percentage of people who use die Placement Center is extremely low for die number of graduates we have each year, and the workshops are not well attended, Stroud pointed out. "We are virtually an unknown entity. There are lots of services here that students should come in and take advantage of. part-tim- e EMT training available at SU A spring quarter Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) training course at SUU begins March 30. A basic training program for the first responder to the sick or injured, EMT training, the course is a valuable asset for fire and police department personnel, in addition to being a prerequisite for anyone desiring to work on any ambulance service in the state of Utah. The course will be instructed by Robert Tuckett and will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from p.m., and on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. It consists of 120 hours of training, including hands-oexperience and ambulance practical experience. Successful completion of the course also gives students nine credit hours in Biology 292. The final EMT class session is June 5. As elective credit, die EMT class can also be valuable to nursing program care of the sick and or police science students who want to understand 6-- 9 n pre-me- injured. Registration for the course is at die Registrars Office in the Administration Building. The tuition fee is $250. |