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■THE WEST GEORGIAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3,1984
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Co-op dears way for unique job avenues
by Kris Wheeler
Students who want to live on cam
pus, gain job experience, and make
money don’t have to rely on the
menial occupations of a work-study
program or fast-food job.
Cooperative Education allows
students this freedom and grants
credit hours while they work.
“Co-op students are exposed to a
professional environment and gain
hands-on experience with state-of
the-art equipment,” said Jessica
head of West Georgia College’s
Co-op service.
Students who participate in the co
op program usually alternate
quarters with work and school.
WHAT? Go to school, work a
quarter, go to school...Man, a guy
could be in school forever! On
average, however, co-op students on
ly end up having to attend school an
additional academic year.
Although a co-op service was pro
vided on campus prior to ’Bl, the pro
gram in its present state has only
been in existence for three years.
But in those three years, the number
of students participating in the co-op
program has grown from 20 in ’B2 to
well over 100 in ’B4.
Lee credits the increased par
ticipation in the program to the
many advantages of being a co-op
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COURT: STUDENT CAN SUE CAM
PUS FOR FAILURE TO WARN
HER ABOUT CRIME
San Francisco City College student
Kathleen Peterson says the college
should have warned students that
others had been attacked in the same
area where she was assaulted in
1978.
The California Supreme Court
agreed, adding the college may be
negligent for failing to cut back
foliage in the area, which provided
cover for the criminal.
A lower court will now decide
whether to award damages to Peter
son.
WESTERN MICHIGAN PRO
FESSORS END THEIR STRIKE
In the midst of a relatively
peaceful campus labor season, 770
Western Michigan U. teachers
struck for four days before agreeing
to a tentative contract giving them
an immediate pay hike of five per
cent this year, 5.5 percent next year,
and six percent in 1986-87.
Administrators said about 600 of
the 900 classes scheduled during the
strike were held as planned.
But now WMU’s refusal to pay
faculty for the days they struck may
lead the union to reject the contract.
JUDGE VOIDS NEW COLLEGE
FOOTBALL TV CONTRACT
UCLA, which is covered by the
PAC-10 conference’s tv contract with
CBS, wanted its game with
Nebraska televised on CBS.
Nebraska, though, is under con
tract with the College Football
Association (CFA) to appear only on
ABC.
The same contract put the Nov. 24
Notre Dame-Southern Cal game in tv
limbo.
Now U.S. District Judge Richard
A. Gadbois says the CFA’s refusal to
let its member teams appear on CBS
violates anti-trust laws, and leaves it
up to the individual schools to decide
on which network they’ll appear.
ABC is appealing the decision.
CALIFORNIA STUDENTS
HECKLE MONDALE
Southern Cal students last week in
terrupted Mondale’s speech with
shouts of “Moscovites for Mondale,”
“Reagan” and “Four More Years.”
It was the worst student heckling
the candidate has received this year.
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student. “Beyond working in a pro
fessional evironment, and being ex
posed to the latest in technology, co
op students can be sure of their ma
jor by working day in and day out in
a realistic job environment.”
Lee went on to comment on other
advantages such as: many co-op
students establish very important
contacts on the job, many companies
hire co-op students following gradua
tion, and most importantly, “co-op
students are much more
marketable.” DEGREE + EX
PERIENCE looks a heck of a lot bet
ter than DEGREE + NO EX
PERIENCE.
The only disadvantrage to being a
coop student seems to be the addi
tional time it takes to obtain a
degree, plus the possibility of reloca
tion. Some companies will want the
coop student to relocate from time
to time in order to learn specific job
related skills. However, in talking
with several coop students, most
don’t seem to mind the rigors of ex
tensive travel of relocating. In fact,
they tend to enjoy it. Brian Hamil,
coop student with IBM, feels that
“the opportunities and the hands-on
experience gained by working with a
company such as IBM is well wortth
the extensive amount of traveling
that goes along with my job; plus I
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ARIZONA’S DRUG EDUCATION
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As few as 30 percent of the univer
sity’s athletes are attending the
mandatory drug education
seminars, a UA coach reports.
Athletic Director Cedric Dempsey
last week met with all coaches to
discuss ways to get athletes to the
five seminars, including walking
them to the classes.
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get to see the world free.” Other par
ticipating students have offered
similar praise for the coop service.
Rod Dawson, a coop student with
Lockheed Aircraft Corp. had this to
say. “You get a glimpse of what it’s
like to work from 8 to 5” and “Ex
perience is very high on a job
recruiters list.” “Every student
should get involved if possible. ”
Len Chandler, a senior from
Bremen, Ga., has just completed his
second quarter as a coop student
with IBM. Like Dawson, Chandler
feels that “being involved in the
business world and having hands-on
experience has been a great advan
tage.”
Moreover, “working with IBM,
through the coop program, has
helped me determine what my
career plans are.” However, Lee
was quick to point out that the co-op
program isn’t for everybody. “Many
students aren’t willing to spend the
time which is involved in a coop pro
gram.” For example, “a senior
PSYCHOLOGY 331
Dr. Moore teaches
course on careers
By Brenda Thompson
A provocative psychology class
taught this quarter by Doctor Henry
Moore is giving students the oppor
tunity to find out just what kinds of
jobs their Psychology degrees will
net them.
Although the course (PSY 331) is
offered by the Psychology depart
ment, West Georgia students enroll
ed in the class are mainly concerned
with those jobs that they can enter
with a Bachelors Degree or Masters
Degree in the Social Sciences.
So far, the students have encoun
tered a dozen or more jobs in
Georgia that have a Bachelors
Degree in the Social Sciences
(Psychology, Sociology, Political
Science) as a requirement.
According to Dr. Moore, one or two
newspapers articles about such jobs
will be written by the students in Psy
331 and will be centered around their
survey findings. Upcoming reports
will deal with jobs in the military
services, establishing eligibility for
Social Security Benefits and School
Psychology opportunities.
Quite a few of these jobs are
available in Carrollton, such as
social worker, mental health
worker, court service worker, proba
tion officer and parole officer.
Psy 331 students have found that
more and more businesses and in
dustries are employing Psychology
in Public Service Work and have
found that there is a steady increase
in employment opportunities for per
sons with a Bachelors Degree or
Masters Degree in Psychology.
Psychological Services I meets at
5:30 on Monday and Wednesday of
would be much better off looking into
the possibilities of an internship” as
opposed to the time consuming
process of being placed into a co-op
program.
Although some jobs pay minimum
wage, most pay better than average
and some pay up to $lO an hour. Just
some of the companies participating
in the co-op program include: IBM,'
Data Generali, AT&T, Borroughs
Corp., Southern Corp., Southern
Bell, and a variety of government
agencies.
If this sounds like it’s for you, then
here’s what you need to do. You can
apply at any time. (Freshmen must
complete one full year before being
placed on the co-op program.) To be
placed in the co-op program students
must be of sophomore classification
and have at least three quarters in
residency. Transfer students must
have two quarters in residency. A
GPA of 2.5 is usually required;
however,in many cases the
employer will set his own criteria, in
each week for two hours.
In Psychological Services II (Psy
332), students will be assisted in
developing useful skills and ap
propriate attitudes that go along
with working in the various fields of
Human Services. Students will also
be requested to spend ten hours per
week as a volunteer in some Human
Service area of activity.
Each week the class will have a
seminar-type discussion which will
give students an opportunity to
review and discuss the things- that
they have tried and have seen as a
volunteer with, hopefully, helpful
suggestions from other students and
the instructor.
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which case the GPA may be lowered
to a 2.0. A minimum of three
quarters of work is required for all
co-op students participating in the
program.
The co-op program offers a great
deal of opportunities for enthusiastic
knowledge-seeking students, but as
Debates to air
Aiming to help students cast a bet
ter informed vote on Nov. 6th, the
National Student Campaign for
Voter Registration (NSCVR) plans
to organize simultaneous forums on
the Presidential elections at over 100
campuses on Oct. 21.
The campus debates, collectively
titled “Showdown ’B4”, will be held
immediately before or after the na
tionally televised debate between
Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan.
The Presidential debate will also be
aired on large screen televisions dur
ing the events.
“Students are strongly concerned
about the issues, but are often unin
formed about the candidates’ posi
tions on those issues and the implica
tions to those stands,” observed
Gary Kalman, a senior at Clark
(MA) University and NSCVR
chairperson. “These forums are
designed to augment this cam
paign’s personality politics with
substantive discussion of the
issues.”
The campus debates will feature
prominent individuals analyzing
campaign issues such as the arms
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Lee puts it, “work experience is
valuable, but if you don’t develop
your skills, finding a good job will
still be a problem.”
The Job Placement office is
located in Rm. 128 of Mandeville
Hall.
race, the economy, civil rights, the
environment, women’s issues, and
education policy.
Co-sponsors with NSCVR of the
debate include Project Vote,
Southwest Voter Registration
Education Project, Human SERVE,
United States Public Interest
Research Group (U.S.PIRG),
United States Student Association,
The Difference, American Associa
tion of University Women, Public
Citizen, Democracy Project, Public
Citizen, Environmental Safety, and
the Children’s Foundation.
The National Student Campaign
for Voter Registration is a non
partisan organization which con
ducts voter registration and voter
education campaigns across the
country. A project of the student
directed Public Interest Research
Groups (PIRGs), NSCVR was found
ed this February at a conference of
1500 student leaders from 42 states.
Students interested in organizing
“Showdown ’B4” debates at their
campus should contact NSCVR at
617-357-9016.