TUESDAY,FEBRUARY 4.2003
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3A
Service reviews students' resumés
By Nicole Roché
nroche@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
It's not too late to fix a pathetic resume.
Advisers at University Career and Employment Services will review resumes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the basement of the Burge Union. The review is geared to help students prepare for this week's Spring Job Fair, which takes place from 12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. tomorrow and Thursday in the Kansas Union ballroom.
The review began yesterday. Eric Njuki, Nairobi, Kenya, graduate student, said counselors showed him how to outline his strengths.
"I didn't want to take it for granted that my resume was exactly what employers were looking for," he said.
Yesterday, recruiters from Phillip Morris, Sprint and other companies served as advisers. Today's advising will be done by Career and Employment Services staff.
Diana Duffy is a staffing consultant for Lab Support, which hires scientific staff such as chemists and microbiologists. She said she wanted to help students because resume writing could be tricky, especially if they do not have any relevant work experience.
Students without this experience can still write an effective resume, she said, by focusing on
skills and course work.
Duffy said she overheard a recruiter saying, "A resumé is not a television program about yourself — it's a commercial."
She said it was important to keep a resume simple and pertinent.
Joel Hood, documentation specialist for the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank, said students needed to be specific when describing past work experience.
"General office duties — that could mean a hundred different things," Hood said. "Don't make an employer guess what you mean."
Hood said students should remember that recruiters are at the job fair to represent the company and to distribute information, not to interview students on the spot.
Mary Andrade Carlson, assistant director for University Career and Employment Services, said the number of students attending the resume reviews had increased in past years. In fall 2001, 95 students attended, and in spring 2002, 132 students sought help with their resumes.
Andrade Carlson said this was the first year company profiles were available online at www.ku.edu/-uces. She said students could research the 134 companies before attending the fair.
"It's easy to talk to employers when you know what they have to offer," she said.
Edited by Melissa Hermreck
John Nowak/Kansan
Aaron Grill, Topeka graduate in education, is the campus representative for Apple Computers. The iMovie Film Festival allows students to check out video cameras, shoot shorts and edit them using computers in Budig Computer Lab.
Festival offers showcase for student films
By Lauren Bristow
Ibristow@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Aspiring student filmmakers, actors and actresses at the University of Kansas will have the opportunity to showcase creative talent thanks to Apple Computers and Student Union Activities.
Preparations for the iMovie Film Festival began last week with an information session and the start of equipment checkout at the SUA box office.The festival and awards ceremony, scheduled for March 5, will showcase the winning three short films.
Apple has provided the University with six digital camcorders and four computers equipped with iMovie, a digital editing program. The company provided the equipment so students could work under the same conditions, said Aaron Grill, Apple campus representative.
"I then spoke to my boss about sponsoring one at KU, and he
Grill said he considered hosting the festival after hearing of similar programs at other universities.
offered the support for cash prizes, a giveaway and the equipment needed to produce the movies," Grill said.
Entries must be three- to 10-minute films produced on a Macintosh computer using iMovie software. Groups of up to four students can work together to create the movie, Grill said. There is no entry fee.
Editing stations are located at the Kansas Union Bookstore, the Budig Hall computer lab, and the JRP Hall computer lab. Camcorders, which can be checked out for three business days, are available on a first-come, first-serve basis at the SUA box office until Feb. 14.
"Right now, we are completely out of cameras," said Isaac Dill. SUA Spectrum film coordinator and McPherson sophomore.
SUA is assisting with the film festival and providing a venue for it, Dill said.
"One goal I have is to remove the higher artsy predisposition from filmmaking." Dill said. "It's not just limited to film or art majors."
After the Feb. 21 deadline for
entries, representatives from KU Filmworks, the SUA Spectrum Film Committee and Fine Arts Committee and Grill will rate entries based on editing, technical quality and original story line. The three finalists will then be chosen for showing at the festival.
Winners will be announced after the final viewing. First place will receive $250, second place, $150 and third, $50.
"I'm hoping we get at least 30 entries," Grill said. "But I'm really hoping several hundred people will show up at the awards ceremony."
visitors at the festival will have the opportunity to win an iPod, donated by Apple. The portable MP3 player holds up to 2,000 songs and retails for around $275. Grill said.
Edited by Lindsay Hanson
By Kevin Wiggs
kwiggs@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Some students smoke, drink or exercise to calm nerves after a long day, but others flip the switch on a game console and lock themselves into a fantasy world for a few hours.
Some students use addictive gaming to escape problems
In medical terms, the word addiction is generally reserved for substances like drugs or alcohol. But Stephen Iardi, professor of psychology, said anything be addictive.
Psychology experts say these games can do more harm than good. Some people find themselves spending too much time in front of their Game Cubes, wasting valuable hours trying to hunt down that elusive mob boss or beat their friends.
Hardi said addiction's symptoms could include:
Withdrawal once the stimulus is taken away
uus is taken away Need for more of the stimu-
Need for more of the stimulus to reach the same effect
Interference with normal life
"People can get mentally addicted to the endorphin rush they get from playing games," he said.
Francis DeSalvo, director of Counseling and Psychological Services at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said shy people were more susceptible to becoming obsessed because they used the game to escape their problems.
"They are generally uncomfortable around people so they lock themselves into a game that they can have total control over." DeSalvo said.
Kevin Green, Kansas City Kan. resident, dropped out of the University of Kansas last
year partly because of EverQuest, a computer game played on the Internet.
"I spent at least 60 hours a week on the computer, and that was probably a slow week," Green said. Green said he was, and still is, attached to the social aspect of EverQuest.
"When you're in a game, there are about 2,000 others in the same area playing with you," he said. "We are constantly talking and get to know each other well."
Mike Self, Wichita senior,
bought the game Grand Theft
Auto 3 after he heard about it
from a friend last year. He
enjoyed the game, he said, but
soon learned he wasn't the only
one. It was difficult to get some
friends to leave after they
started playing.
"We would tell him to leave because we all had to go to bed and he would keep playing until we turned off the TV," Self said.
So what should somebody do if they find that they, or somebody they know, is playing too much?
"An obsessed person would first have to have motivation to get help." Iliardi said.
Ilardi said the person had to identify what made them want to play so much. Then they would have to find a more healthy substitute.
DeSalvo agreed.
"We would try to put something more functional in the game's place, or teach them some coping mechanisms so the next time they have a problem they can deal with it instead of feeling obligated to play," DeSalvo said.
-Edited by Melissa Hermreck
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