TUESDAY,OCT.9,2001
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
'Resume doctors' dispense job advice
By Matt Norton Kansan staff writer
About 20 to 30 percent of students who complete internships while in school are offered full-time jobs with that firm when they graduate, said Gail Rooney, director of the University of Kansas Career and Employment Services office.
Rooney and her "resume doctors" will be providing tips about how to get the best job. The event is from 10 a.m.to 3 p.m. today through Thursday on the fourth-floor lobby of the Kansas Union and is free to students.
The biannual event started last fall. Rooney said the number of participants rose from about 200 last fall to more than 500 last spring.
She said her staff would look at students' resumes and determine what changes could be made to make the resume focus on the student's desired position.
"We actually look carefully at the language," Rooney said. "We want students to use what we call action verbs that highlight what they did in their positions or their experiences and any accomplishments they have."
Rooney said her office stressed to students that it had at least two or three people look at their resume.
"It's very easy when it's my resume, and I've looked at it for the last two weeks, that I'll miss things or overlook things," she said.
Ryan Fields, Emporia junior, said he wasn't thinking about job searches
"I've got a long time before I graduate." Fields said. "I'm just taking it slow."
or worrying about resumes.
But Rooney said that it was never too early for students to begin thinking about resumes. She said students who didn't have a lot of work experience could emphasize course work or volunteer experiences to help them get summer jobs or internships.
She said she tried to get students to think about specific holes they could fill to help market themselves better for their intended fields.
The meetings with the "resume doctors" should take less than 15 minutes, Rooney said. Students who need extra help will be asked to make an appointment with Career and Employment Services, she said.
Provide basic contact information
Job search tips
Emphasize previous work, school and volunteer experience.
Have a specific objective whenbuilding a resume.
If waiting for a call from a perspective employer, remove the funny or silly message from answering machine. It can be seen as unprofessional.
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Musical competition livens up Late Night
By Jeremy Clarkson Kansan staff writer
Late Night with Roy Williams will have a bonus this year as the event premières the Iavawk Spirit Sing.
Members of five groups will show their loyalty to the crimson and blue through a musical competition Friday night at Allen Fieldhouse. Each song will relate to this year's homecoming theme, "Homecoming 2001: A Hawk Odyssey," and will have a line from the alma mater or fight song, said Richard Johnson, dean of students.
A panel of five judges will deter-
ers will earn a trophy award. Johnson said he had met with members of the Spirit Sing Committee and listened to tapes from groups that had entered.
mine the winner of the contest. The group that wins will receive a trophy and $1,000. The second-place finishers will earn a trophy as well.
entered. "There were a lot of entries and screening took them down to the top five." Johnson said.
live,Johnson Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, Delta Delta delta sorority and KU Men's Club were selected among the top five. The two final groups were each made up of two campus organizations. The Black
Men of Today and the National Council of Negro Women make up one group, and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority teamed up with Delta Upsilon fraternity.
Sarah Morrison, Leawood junior, said she screamed when she learned her sorority, Delta Delta Delta, was selected to sing in the competition. Morrison said her group was singing a version of Madonna's "Like a Praver"
"I'm excited for everybody to hear it because it is very powerful in person," Morrison said.
Laura Dakihil, Wichita sophomore, said her sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, was singing a song called "Space Jay-
hawk." She said it was adapted from the 'N Sync song, "Space Cowboy."
"Everyone is excited because this is an opportunity to get in front of the University." Dakhil said.
Doors open at 7 p.m. Friday. Activities begin at 8 p.m., and the men's basketball team will have a brief scrimmage at midnight. Admission is free, but people are encouraged to bring canned food, which will be donated to area food shelters. The fieldhouse will close when it is filled.
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Habitat: Raises security
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"It's really sickening to me, especially since it's happened before," he said.
help with vandalism clean-up efforts and to finish construction.
Noonan, Denver senior, said the Greek community had run into problems with its Habitat projects in the past. Last year the Greeks had a basketballfund-raiser atwhich $1,184 was stolen.
"I wish we could just
get a break. People don't realize what the project's going for," he said.
Bollaert said Habitat and Tenants for Homeowners were building six houses in the development. He said two or three families would be moving in by the end of October, and there would be less crime in the area once people moved in.
Habitat and Tenants for Homeowners will also build a privacy fence around the development
and put street lights that should help keep people out, he said.
Bollaert said Habitat also was considering hiring a security guard to watch the property on the weekends. He said most of crimes were taking place between Friday night and Monday morning.
By August 2002,10 houses should be completed in the development.
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Credit: Universities ban card solicitors
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Hoskinson said credit card companies cannot come on campus without a sponsor from the University, and they have to go through the events committee.
when solicitors can set up shop on campus.
"There are over 300 colleges in the country that ban credit card solicitors from Universities," Hoskinson said.
She said Fort Hays State University was one of the universities
that bans credit card solicitation on campus.
Mike Appleby, non-traditional senator, said he had accumulated roughly $7,300 of debt through his two credit cards in the past three years.
Appleby, Lawrence sophomore, said he initially didn't know about the credit and debt problems that could arise by using credit cards.
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Museum prints to aid relief fund
By Gregory Barry Special to the Kansan
The Spencer Museum of Art is helping victims of the New York City tragedy and making an important addition to its collection by purchasing a print of a famous contemporary photograph that's been re-released.
The Julie Saul art gallery in New York announced last week that 500 copies of a picture titled New York, N.Y. 1979, taken by photographer Tseng Kwong Chi, would be re-released. The 8x10 gelatin sliver prints are on sale for $250, and the proceeds, as well as those from the I Love New York Art Benefit, will go to the World Trade Center Disaster Relief Fund.
The museum staff said the print was important as an addition to the photography collection and it had great sentimental value.
"It is important to have this photograph in our collection to pay tribute to those who died in the World Trade Center and to financially help those who survived," said Elissa Anderson, museum intern of photography and Baltimore graduate student.
John Pultz, curator of photography, said the museum ordered a copy of the print after a staff meeting. The museum staff, art history faculty and graduate students in the School of Fine Arts purchased the print with money they pooled themselves.
selves. "It would be more appropriate to take up a collection from the staff than to use museum endowed funds," said Andrea Norris, museum director.
The photograph shows Chi standing in front of the World Trade Center wearing his traditional garb of a Mao's worker suit and sunglasses. It is taken from a group of about 80 photographs titled "East Meets West, The Expeditionary Series," which portray Chi deadpan in front of national monuments across the United States.
The print should be arriving within the next two weeks, Pultz said. The museum houses another work by Chi, which shows the photographer in front of Graceland in Tennessee.
Chi (1950-1990) is best known for his series of self-portraits in which he placed himself in tourist settings both natural and manmade. He established himself as an ambassador from China, creating a parody of his stereotyped Eastern culture.
Chi played a major role in the East Village art scene in the 1980s with his "Costumes at the Met" project and his close relationship with friend and collaborator, Keith Haring. They made more than 50,000 negatives documenting Haring's subway work, mural commissions and studio shots.
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To view the photo go to saulgallery.com
Some international GTAs struggle to overcome language barrier
By Rachel Larson Special to the Kansan
Ousmane Seck is about 5,000 miles and 11 hours away from his home country of Senegal, where he knows communication will almost never be a problem.
Seck, who is one of more than 250 international graduate teaching assistants at the University of Kansas, admits that language barriers and cultural differences have caused problems for him.
Even though he's taught for four years in French, this is his first year teaching in English.
"I need to make myself clear even if I have a foreign accent," said Seck, who is teaching in English for the first time.
Every international GTA who teaches a course partially or completely in English must take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).
The test is developed by the Educational Testing Service, the same company that produces the SAT. In Kansas, the Board of Regents requires a minimum score of 240 out of a possible 300 points. The test consists of seven different parts, which are taped and reviewed by at least three people.
Seck, who is also working on his Ph.D. in economics and is teaching managerial accounting, said he passed the speak-test with no trouble the first time and thought it was easy.
"I don't think you need to study for the speak-test; it was just practice," he said.
song-Perk Sem, a first-year GTA from Malaysia, had a more
difficult time.
Sem has lived in the United States for seven years, but he still failed the test the first time he took it, scoring a 250. Sem passed the test on his second try with a 240—the minimum requirement.
"It's not hard, it's just weird," he said. "I can speak to people fine, but to just speak to the machine, sometimes you have anxiety."
Mark Algren, who works at the KU Applied English Center, grades and administers the spoken portion of the test. Algren said the testing process had some problems.
"The results that we end up with for any given student for any given exam reflects what we've heard on that tape." Algren said. "Now, if a student slips back into bad habits afterward, we don't test that."
Despite sometimes low test scores, Sem said he doesn't think that language is a problem in KU classrooms. He said he was used to the cultural differences between students at the University and students in Malaysia.
Nancy Kinnersley, an associate professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, hired nine international GTAs this year for her department. Kinnersley said her department hired a lot of international students because of a shortage of domestic applicants.
"Domestic students will go out to work instead of graduate school," she said.
Kinnersley said she has heard complaints about international GTAs in the past, but she had had no major problems with them. She said that she chooses applicants
with higher test scores and carefully critiques their oral interviews.
"I've turned down people who have passed the speak-test because I felt it would be difficult to understand them in the classroom," Kinnerley said.
Kinnersley said international GTAs evaluations have been as high or higher than domestic students. However, some students still have complaints.
Susie Chang, Topeka sophomore, switched classes when she couldn't understand her teacher. She said calculus was difficult enough without worrying about understanding the teacher.
"It definitely affects your grades." she said.
Sean Baker, Houston junior, is taking an economics course taught by an international GTA
"They are really rigid," Baker said. "It's not because of languages. They don't have the gift of teaching. They come from a different culture."
But jill Irwin, Omaha, Neb,
sophomore, said she hasn't had any problems understanding the international teacher in her calculus class. She said the professor warned students at the beginning of the semester to drop the class or transfer if they had problems understanding him.
"I don't think the international part matters, it's whether or not you can understand their accent." Irwin said. "I've had no problems."
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and an international professor, and he said cultural differences were a big problem.
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