The Collegian Wednesday, February 22
Behrend Briefs
Summer at UP To advance register for SU 89 at
University Park pick up a form in the Registrar's Office and see
your advisor before March 8.
Elementary Education Majors Elementary Ed.
majors are needed for student helpers at Diehl Elementary School
on Tuesdays or Thursdays for one-hour sessions from 9-10 am or
1-2 pm. For more information contact Brenda at 864-5088 or
M.C. at 898-6693.
UP Housing If you are looking for off-campus housing
at University Park there are packets available in the Office of
Student Services. Ask for John Downey.
Values Identification The Emerging Leaders Series
continues tomorrow with a discussion of values identification led
by commuter Council President Joseph Cunningham. The
meeting will be held in Reed 116 at 5 pm.
America's Black Leaders The Association of Black
Collegians will present a look at America's black leaders
tomorrow at 8 pm in the Reed Lecture Hall (117).
Amnesty International Amnesty International
meetings are held every Tuesday in the upper Winter Green lobby
from 4-5 pm.
Biology Club The Biology Club will meet Thursday,
Feb. 16 at 12:15 pm in Nick 1 to elect officers for 1989-90. New
members are welcome.
Wilderness Lecture R. John S Liner, creator of the
WILD (Wilderness Invites Learning and Discovery) Club, will
present a program concerning the social and biological aspects of
biological areas. The presentation is free and open to the public
and will be held tonight at 7 pm in Nick 8.
Theater Tickets Tickets for Behrend's Studio Theatre's
production of Christopher Durang's comedy, "The Marriage of
Betty and Boo," will be on sale Monday, Feb. 20 through Feb.
24. Tickets will also be available from Monday, March 6 until
the last performance. Tickets are $2.50 for students, S 4 for senior
citizens and non-Behrend students, and S 5 for the general public.
The play will run from Tuesday, March 14 through Sunday,
March 19. For more information or reservations, call 6331.
Junker Scholarship This Friday is the deadline Junkcr
Scholarship. For an application, see Mary-Ellen Madigan in the
Financial Aid Office, ext. 6162 or John Downey in Student
Services, ext. 6111.
Eating Concerns The Eating Concerns support group
will resume weekly meetings at 7 pm on Thursdays (note change
from last semester). Anyone concerned about eating behavior is
welcome to attend this informal support group. For more
information call Louanne Barton at ext. 6203 or -Patty Pasky
McMahon at ext. 6217.
Health Center Hours Physician hours are:
Wednesday and Thursday, 1 pm-4 pm. Nurse practitioner hours
are: Monday and Tuesday, 1 pm-10 pm; Wednesday and Thursday,
8 am-1 pm; Friday, 8 am-5 pm. The Health Center is open
Monday through Thursday, 8 am-10 pm; Friday, 8 am-9 pm;
Saturday, 9 am-1 pm.
Photography Scholarship New Photographers
Association of Greater Pittsburgh is offering a scholarship for
students from Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair,
Butler, Cambria, Clarion, Crawford, Fayette, Greene, Indiana,
Jefferson, Lawrence, Mercer, Somerset, Venango, Washington,
and Westmorland counties. Students must submit a portfolio of
ten original photographs. Applications are available in the
Financial Aid Office, 221 Glenhill. The deadline is March 31.
'Discover' Helps Career Placement
by Jennifer Rose
Collegian Staff Writer
For a number of years ,
Behrend's Career and Placement
Center has been helping students
choose which their majors and
fmd jobs in their chosen fields.
The "Discover" computer
system helps students accomplish
the former and the center hopes
that job recruiting will benefit
from the Reed Building
renovation and Behrend's growth.
Discover has been at use at
Behrend for a couple of years, but
many students have never heard
of the program. The program
consists of nine parts, including:
self-assessment (in interests,
abilities and values), how to
chose a major, occupational
outlook (salaries, availability,
etc,), information on different
careers available through your
major, graduate schools, resumes
and geographical locations of
companies, colleges and military
programs throughout the United
States.
The computer basically helps
the student make informed career
choices. To use the computer,
students are required to sign up in
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will move back to the DUS
office when the new one (to be
located near the old RUB desk) is
finished in May.
The system has been
temporarily relocated in the
library during the Reed Building
renovation since there is no room
for it in the DUS temporary
office in the green trailer behind
Reed.
The Career and Placement
staff is looking forward to a
larger new office. The old office
had no windows and little
ventilation, and the temporary
office is cramped into two rooms
with no waiting areas for
students.
Marybeth Peterson, head of
the Career & Placement Office,
says that students have been very
understanding about our space
problem. "I hope they'll continue
to bear with us until we move
into the bigger office."
Behrend has had some
problems attracting recruiters.
Since Behrend has only recently
begun including four-year
programs, many recruiters have
ignored it for other colleges.
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from a college, it usually
continues to go there each year,
so Behrend has missed some of
the big companies.
In addition, most recruiters are
big companies that want to hire
many students at a time, and
since there was a limited number
of students at Behrend, they often
skipped over the campus. This
situation seems to be improving
as more students attend all four
years at Behrend.
The average number of
recruiters visiting Behrend is 30,
while main campus has more
than 1000. Behrend students,
however, are able to request an
interview with a recruiter at
University Park. This year, 39
students were granted interviews
at main campus for the week of
March 6-10, and many others for
following weeks.
Other services available from
Career and Placement include
group career counseling, a career
information library, interest tests,
workshops (for resumes, grad
school, etc.), internships, and
one-credit courses including a job
searching course for seniors and
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