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Evans said her past teachers are the ones who set her on the path to shaping the minds and hearts of children every day of her life. She said she believes majors are considered useless bLause of the superior career status of mathematicians and scientists. "I don't think being a scientist is what success is," Evans said. "I think success is doing what you odu- elemen- tary education, don't do philosophy or psychology," said Bailey Evans, Students enrolled at xie State University are doing their part to dispel the myth surrounding apparent useless degrees by speaking out on the subject. A "useless degree" is a degree researchers found has little growth in its field, small potential salary, and few online job postings. The most mentioned useless majors are English, philosophy, education, psychology and exercise science according to Business Insider. "People have told me Di- a sophomore elementary education major from Vernal. "There's nothing there. You just study people and you don't go anywhere with it." Evans said the most interesting aspects for her are in the fields a lot of people call useless. The most difficult part in choosing a major is deciding whether students want to make a lot of money or do what they enjoy because finding a career that has both is rare, WOMEN continued from page 7 Starting this year, the club will continue to work with "The Vagina Project," which is in its fourth year running at DSU. Within the span of two nights, this forum sought to raise awareness of both women and men's issues. Dakota Witzel, a senior psychology major from Las Vegas, hosted this year's "The Vagina We are love every day." Alexander Easson, a sophomore to discuss issues in a calm, respectful way. "We are fiot here to be derogatory or just say vagina and penis," Witzel said. "We are here to discuss things like what are good ways to go about talking to your family about being gay or talk to your friends about the sexual practices that you have." With an event like this, Witzel said she, really wants Project." Witzel said "The Vagina Project" was created by psy- chology pro- fessor Danelle people to realize still fighting every single year for the rights to our own bodies, like right now it is a especially ' - , , , "' 10'.;- - - ''' . , 1 44 l r , 1 , 1 . - s. , , b A IL ,,,,.,' : 'i. t, ,,,. 'N , ',x ,,,,,'-'- '' 4 I fr i' ,''(--- . , . ..,- 70 -- k.ee tiliatletA.,............-:cc.- D3 Women in mancEr.m3nt Occupations 71 " - Human Resources Managers , 65 " Social and Community Service Managers Education Administrators ; CO 46" Food Seryke Managers 33 C 0 CO 033 H ( F salaries, Cheri Crenshaw, English department chair and associate professor, said useless degrees can offer as many skills as "practical degrees." "I think we need every sort of major," Crenshaw so-call- ed said. Crenshaw said everyone should encourage people to go into a field of study that complements their skill set and interests because that is where people will succeed. "If they're doing something they hate, they're not going to do well," Crenshaw said. 7 nevan said he met and married his now and his current wife by meeting on dating apps. "I have met many wonderful friends that I still I keep in contact with and met through online dating sites and I met a nice plethora of crazy, crazy women," Denevan said. For some people, the fantasy of a person being a certain way becomes consuming and incorrect, which can be dangerous, Denevan said. "It builds an untrue fantasy about the relationship It is important to meet ead other in person relatively quickly," Denevan said. ex-wi- fe programs , , ' V that teach a little bit here and r there but it isn't enough," t ., t , Witzel said. "A lot of people if 4 . believe that having compret ( '''. ik.' r , ; .. hensive sex education means 'I '. it people are going to be more . i ',. promiscuous or have sex ''k ...Al e earlier in life, but research is 0 II 4 . 1 t ', , ! , p...x,-- -' finding that isn't the case." ' f 11 Acting as leaders at DSU, , . Y7'' or these three women have .,, started different initiatives to i ''.1.,,,, i ,,,,'' '......7.'..?''''''' ',' , promote student involvement T ....1010,46.41,ftoit . , , , ,........,ot m on campus, from combating ',CA suicide to educating those Student Body President Sarah Ramaker says mental health was one of her platforms for her term. Ramaker helped found who would like to learn more The Hope Squad" at Dixie State University which about sexual health. helps people who are feeling suicidal. (Th. of their smaller continued from page V s, 99 He said most people see degrees as inferior be6ause DATING abstinence-base- d they are not alone, and it isn't tailored to only women. "One of my favorite Larsen-Rif- e things that after she was political war zone I have been asked on mul- told is 'The concerning bodily occasions tiple Vagina autonomy. about sexual- Project' it)!, gender isn't just Hannah Milne and women's for women, sophomore issues during it is for anyc ommur ation major her lifespan one who Salt' Lake City has inter- development class. acted with a ) "She was invagina,' so that means trigued by the fact that there anyone was little to no who has sexual education here in the been born essentially," state of Utah," Witzel said. Witzel said. "In order,to get "She decided what better past thinking this is just for than an event that brings way women, we have added talks about precarious masculinity, multiple disciplines together to talk about these issues that which includes things like no one really talks about." men who feel more feminine Witzel said this forum has and how do they deal with benefited DSU because it that." gives students the chance Witzel said more male pre-physic- al presenters have also been integrated into "The Vagina Project" as well. Going beyond "The Vagina Project," Witzel said the U.S. doesn't offer nearly as many programs that are dedicated to,comprehensive sex education, which needs to be addressed. "A lot of states don't offer comprehensive sex education ; they just offer abstinence-onl- y or abstinence-pluwhich are 66 obviously it's not useless," said Landen Goodrich, a freshman psychology major from Roosevelt. Goodrich is looking into switching majors to sports medicine or exercise science. When looking into making the switch, Goodrich said he was driven by both economic and personal interest. "In psychology you need a master's degree to do anything with the degree, and even then you don't make a lot of money," Goodrich said. Goodrich said many students might find some degrees useless before of the higher degree requirement. therapist assistant major from St. George, said people call majors useless when there is no immediate application in the professional world. The most apparent useless majors, Easson said, are the arts. "I feel like all degrees have merit because you put in the work for it and there's something you can do," Eassoti. said. Easson said people who work toward any degree gain knowledge and experiences they can use in the professional world, no matter the field they go into. "Enough people are interested in a useless degree to make it a degree, so Evans said. 'never get a degree in art or chromatics,' and they - '" 45" Marketing and Sales Managers 27- 0, Chief Executives 26" Computer arid Information Systems Managers m9r Cy, I' Cgristructign Managers all- - "I had a one-wee- k meetup rule I stuck to." According to High Sped Internetcom, the state of Utah is listed fourth as of the top 10 safest states for online dating. Five percent of marriag es meet through an onlini dating service, according to Pew Research Center. "I started online dating in 1997 with some of the websites that were out there, but the stigma of online dating overshade what it really is," DeneOli said. "Online dating is just another way to meet another person. It's the same way you would meet someone with a dating service or a random 00 e bis.nov !- 1 , - I. |
