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Show Internship hopes to bridge ethnic gap An internship can ta ke you far away from Cedar C ity, to the biggest metropolis' in America, or to a small town somewhere, or an internship can have you jet setting around the globe to the far corners learning skills and helping others. Or you can stay right here if you so choose. That's what SUU alum Carmen Alldredge did. A new internship was created this year in the Multi-cultural Center just for her. The position was created, according to Alldredge, because the center needed somebody to II act as a connection between the students of other cultures and nationalities and university. Alldredge was born in Bolivia and has lived a large part of her life in Spain. She has also toured several European countries and a large part of the U.S. That experience, Alldredge says, can help her apply what she's learned in other countries to this one. "I'm serving in the Multicultural Center to help students from all nationalities, even Caucasians," Alldredge said. 11 It is really important for us as a university to open up ... bccause we arc growing. It's not just the Multicultural Center, it's the university, the community, and the state and we need to be prepared for it." She said she is also the adviser from the Multicultural Center assigned to work with SU USA. Alldredge says she also goes into the community on a regular basis and asks the residents of Iron County for donations for student scholarships or to help out as community volunteers. An example of community involvement, Alldredge said she's especially proud of the International Food Fair held at SUU recently, where families from the community volunteered and helped with preparing and serving the food from different ethnic origins and providing the food fair patrons with the live entertainment. Alldredge said her specialized internship will last until the spring of 1998. But Alldredge said she wouldn' t mind being asked to stay on and help out a little more in the Multicultural Center. Alldredge said, "I' m grateful for all I have learned. This is my way of giving back." 11 SU intern to be honored by company Warner said he believes Northwest ern Mutual Life is, "a great company t o work for. The product sells JOURNAL STAFF WRITER itself. Having the highest ratings in the industry and number-one policy benefits, don' t hurt either," he said. When it comes to getting a job, an internship can provide that extra edge that looks great on a resume. According to Warner, the biggest benefit of th is internship is the "flexibility Experience is key with and the chance it gives you employers and in the end, he or she with the most ·to work when you are experience will win. available since school is m y number one concern ." All around the country, students are filling their Warner also said he enjoys the high caliber of people summers with part time-jobs and internships. With the with whom he works. increasing demands of Warner said that doing what he was taught lead to technology and experience, students are turning to his success. He said that he internship programs. In works well with people is America's Top Internships trusted. He added that internship programs are consisten cy played a big ranked and information factor in his success. Warner provided on how to apply for said he spent 35 to 45 hours these programs. Listed as the per week during the summer, and is currently top 10 internship programs spending some 15 to 20 are Hewlett Packard, Ford hours per week working for Motor Co., The Washington Post, Inroads, Lucasfilm, and Northwestern Mutual Life. Northwestern Mutual Life. Warner said he would love This summer more than to talk to anyone interested in an internship. He said, 11 lt 1,000 students from around the country participated in offers a student a chance to the Northwestern Mutual work with the number Life Insurance College Agent Hank Warner eight intern team in the Program. Northwestern - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - nation." Mutual Life provides an internship that is available The Northwestern Mutual Life internship pays the s tudent commission from his or her sales while around the natibn, including SUU students. A new many internships do not. Students can also earn up branch in Cedar City offers university students a chance to earn college credit while enjoying good to 6 credits towards a degree with the internship. For more information students should contact "compensat ion and quality of life," according to the authors of the Princeton Review. Warner or Todd Langton at 867-8 100. Further This year Hank Warner, an SUU student, was information ca n be obtained from Carl Templin, dean of the College of Business, Technology and honored as the top N orthwestern Mutual Life intern. Warner is featured in the Oct. 27 issue of Communication, or bulletin board announcements Sports lllustrated. To be featured in the magazine, a around campus. student intern had to complete 15 sales. Warner For information on other internship possibiliti es, completed 44 sales from June to September of 1997. students can visit Career Services in the Sharwan The intern second to Warner had 29 sales. Smith Center. By HEIDI HATCH Russian classes under new direction SUU hoping for ne-w area zip code Mamedov is now teaching this 'challenging language' It's no secret that Utah is growing at an increasing rate. To meet the needs that accompany such growth, Utah will have a new " 435" area code effective in March, which will include southern Utah and the university. Additionally, SUU is looking at creating a new zip code for the university area, said SUU Post Office manager Dave Brown. "It would eliminate one step in the mail service on campus, and therefore get the mail out faster," he said. Many other colleges and universitties have such an arrangement and SUU applied for its own zip code seven years ago, but so far, Brown said, nothing has happened. "It is just like any other political process, it just takes time. I haven't even thought about it for the last six months. I ma y give Salt Lake a call and see if anything is happening." More realistically, the best the university would get is an extended four-digit code to follow the Cedar City area 84720 number. "The additional code would make it a little easier, but it will still have to go to the Cedar City Post office first. Ideally, we would like to avoid that step in the future, he said. With the year-long Joss of Russian language instructor Alla Paroiantnikova, students studying Russian here are now under the direction of interim instructor Mikhail Mamedov. Paroiantnikova took a leave of absence earlier this year to tend to pressing matters of family business in Russia. In her stead, Mamedov, who's teaching this quarter, will also be teaching two Russian language classes winter quarter, and an additional Russian history class winter and spring quarters. "Russian is a very challenging language to learn, but the students are working very hard," Mamedov said. 11 By D.W. ANDERSON SENIOR ST AFF WRJTER Mam edov graduated with m aster's from Moscow State University in 1994 and is currently engaged in his doctoral research. He was born in Azerbaijan, which is located on the western side of the former Soviet Union . Mamedov said that he likes southern Utah beca use it is small and clean . He said that one of the main differences between the United States and Russia is that the Russian people are much more formal than Americans. Mamedov also said that he is impressed by the number of compu ters that are available for student use. According to Rod ney D. Decker, dean of the College of Arts, Letters and Humanities, the college has also proposed a Russian minor. ;! "It will take about a year for ~ the proposal to make it o through all the necessary ~channels," he said. Som e of ~ those channels include :; _______.....__.::.! passage Council.by the Deans' |