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Show Contact: Take Note: 797-1769 features@statesman.usu.edu Don't miss the Step Show at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the TSC Ballroom. The future is looking bright for USU grads 15 U T A H :S T A T E S M A WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19,2005 Absurdity of Error BY SHELBY DOBSON Staff Writer This summer graduates will leave Utah State University and its late-night studying, cramming for midterms and eating ramen to enter into a world of responsibility, dedication and antacid. Fortunately, many of these students will be able to find employment in the field they chose to study. According to the USU school profile in Choices, a computer guidance program, about 91 percent of USU graduates had full-time job offers within six months of graduation. About 80 percent of students are placed in jobs within a year of graduating, Randy Jensen, administrative assistant of career services, said. "We're following the economic trends [and] its getting better," Jensen said. He said the Engineering and Business colleges probably have the highest placement rates. This is consistent with national outlook projections that indicate about one-fourth of the top 20 occupations (requiring college degrees) with the most new openings will be in computer science or business. Other occupations with large numbers of openings include all types of teachers and workers needed in the health care industry. According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics more than 14 million job openings nationally between 2002 and 2012 will be filled by workers with a bachelor s or graduate degree and who are entering a job for the first time. In 2003, workers with a bachelor's degree earned $900 a week and high school graduates earned $554 a week according to the BLS. This means on average, college graduates earning 62 percent more than high school graduates. BLS information also indicates that inmany occupations advancement opportunities increase with a graduate degree, even when it is not required to enter into a career. Between 2002 and 2012, "pure-college" occupations are projected to grow 22 percent, compared to the just 15 percent growth for all occupations, according to the BLS. "Pure college" occupations are defined as occupations where at least 60 percent of current workers have a bachelor's or graduate degree, fewer than 20 percent have only a high school diploma, and fewer than 20 percent have some college courses but less education than a bachelors degree. Over the past 10 years, the percentage of the U.S. population, aged 25 and older with a bachelors or graduate degree has risen from about 22 percent to about 27 percent Lower unemployment is another advantage of going to college reported by BLS. The national unemployment rate for full-time workers with Bachelors degrees (3.3 percent) is lower than that of workers with just a high school degree (5.2 percent). The chart shows a national table of the 20 pure college occupations expected to provide the most openings in the 20022012 decade. Every spring semester USU Career Services holds a career fair where close to 180 employers are represented. For the 2005 fair, companies included AR.UP Laboratories, Dell, Inc., Federal Aviation Administration, Intermountain Health Care, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Wright Engineers. In addition to those participating in the career fair, about 1,400 employers came to dRAPI JATINin See Page 76 Facts and Figures • More than 80 percent of USU grads have a job within a year of graduation. • In 2003 college graduates made $356 more a week than high school grads. • Workers with a bachelor's degree or higher have a 3.3 percent unemployment rate compared to 5.5 percent among those with diplomas. Compiled from figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and USU career services figures. Ryan Taibot/rta/bo(@cc.u5u.ec/u ADRIANA (AMBER LABAU) CHASTISES DROMIO (Chris Hudson) for failing to follow her instructions in Utah State Theatre's production of Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors." The play will continue Wednesday through Saturday at the Morgan Theatre. UST delights with its bizarre and curative 'Comedy' The most successful antidrug campaign of the early '90s began with a raw egg and a frying pan, and ended with the /, 'Comedy of Errors" egg ("your brain") frying in a greasy mess on the pan, which is, of course, the universal symbol for "drugs." Now, if you take that metaphor and exchange including a goldsmith, an obese "Shakespeare" for "your brain" and cook, a courtesan, a glutton and a "commedia dell'Arte" for "drugs," whirling dervish/exorcist. Coincidently enough, father, you might have an idea of Utah State Theatre's production of the mother, and both sets of twins all wind up together after a couple "Comedy of Errors." Of course, after watching the hours (audience time) of confusion show, "your brain" might still be a and blissful nonsense. Everything greasy mess, but that's only works out and the whole group Because the production is the most spends the night feasting in an hysterical, absurd and utterly out- abbey (which reputedly was the of-this-world play to hit the most happening place in Ephesus). Confused yet? As if the tale Morgan Theatre this year. weren't delightfully convoluted The plot (hilarious in its own right) focuses on all the mishaps enough on its own, the whole play and errors that occur when two is performed in classic Italian slapsets of. twins - each set with one stick where people walk like chickmaster (Antipholus) and one ser- ens and Charlie Chaplin, wooden vant (Dromio) - who were separat- pigs and bleached fisn bones keep ed at birth, meet in Ephesus where appearing between scenes and one set of twins had spent their every time someone mentions a dog, the rest of the cast starts barkwhole life. ing (the same works for any animal We learn early on that one set of and its accompanying sound - just twins and the mother Emelia were watch). separated from the other set and By far, the award for "Most Farthe father during a plot-inducing storm that took place 20 years Fetcned Shakespearean Duo" goes before the beginning of the play. to the show-stealing Tyson Smith Both the father and the mother (Antipholus) and Chris Hudson exaggerated named their half of the twins (Dromio) whose Antipholus and Dromio thinking it antics placed many in the audiwas the other pair who had per- ence in danger of hyper extending ished. It seems the rescue involved their funny bone. Amber LaBau some Corinthian anglers, but lets (Adriana) deserves "Best Dramatic Overacting" for her superb feminot bother with the details. nine hysterics while Amber Rolfe Well, the father of the twins (the and Ryan Hall can share the honor Antipholuses? Antipholi?), a of the "Best Shakespearean Syracusian who has been searchSlapstick" award. ing for his lost son and wife for the Oh, and without much compelast seven years, is sentenced to death at the outset of the story tition, the prize for "Longest Running Gag because (apparently, this was com- Successfully mon knowledge way back when) Performed in the Morgan Theatre" goes to Ryan Pence (Dr. Pinch) Ephesians hate Syracusians. By random chance, who whirled and twirled colorfully Antipholus/Dromio of Syracuse across the stage nearly every time take a ship to the same city their someone mentioned magic, devils dad, mom and brothers are in and or the little mermaid. Though taking off their masks are mistaken by everyone who and coming out of character occaknows their Ephesian counterparts, Heater Review: MattJBSL Ryan Ta\bot/rtalbot@cc.usu.edu ADRIANA (AMBER LABAU) CHASTISES DROMIO (Chris Hudson) for failing to follow her instructions in Utah State Theatre's production of Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors." The play will contin- Comedy of Errors hours to perform. I mean, brevity is the soul of wit. • Utah State Theatre In the end, "Comedy of Errors" • Wednesday - Saturday is Shakespeare like you've never 7 p.m. :--%^>i-:.%*&>- seen before: fantastically nonsensical and therapeutically absurd. If • Morgan Theatre you just go with the understanding that, like "Alice in Wonderland," • Tickets free in advance things might be logical but not necwith student l.D. essarily make sense, you probably will get better grades this semester. sionally, the performers kept the After all, during dead week, a spirit of their adaptation while havlittle nonsense just might be the ing a little irreverent poke at their only thing that keeps you sane. own craft (showing just how silly Matt Wright is a junior majoring extreme acting can be). The lanin English and a theater critic for guage, though unchanged from the the Utah Statesman. Comments original, is extremely accessible can be sent to him at and the only downside is that the mattgo@cc.usu.edu. production took just shy of three |