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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 25 • THE MAROON TIGER • PAGE 2
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SUMMER SCHOOL IN EUROPE
New Orleans, LA—The University of New Orleans will sponsor its
18th annual International Summer School in Innsbruck, Austria
during the summer of 1993. For more information contact Dr.
Margaret F. Davidson at (504) 286-7116.
TIME INC* MAGAZINE INTERNSHIP
Reston, VA—Time Inc. Magazines and the National Association of
Black Journalists are sponsoring a 9-week, magazine internship
program in New York City this summer. Salary is at least $350 a
week and housing is provided by at a local univesity. For an
application call Jacie Jone, Internship Coordinator, at 703-648-
1270.
Glacier Park to Hire 900 College Stu
dents for Summer Employment
Glacier Park, Montana — College students from across the country are
being sought for summer jobs at one of the nation’s most spectacular
national parks.
Glacier National Parks, located in the northwest comer of Montana, is best
known for its rugged mountain wilderness and its historic lodges. Glacier
Park, Inc., is looking for students to fill more than 900 summer jobs in all
segments of hotel and hospitality areas.
Jobs include a large variety of hotel positions such as hotel front desk, room
attendants, cooks, wait persons, and bus drivers. Some students also
participate in guest entertainment, another Glacier Park tradition. Employ
ees are needed this year from mid-May to early October, the highest demand
is for employees who can work through late September and early October.
Internships are available for hotel/restaurant, culinary arts, travel/tourism,
and accounting majors.
The seven hotels and lodges are the famous red vintage tour coaches
operate throughout the 1.4 million acres of Glacier national Park. Since the
early 1900’s, it has been a tradition for college students from across the
country to work at the park while enjoying a number of activities such as
hiking, riding, and fishing in one of the nation’s last examples of pristine
wilderness.
For details on jobs and salaries call Glacier Park, Inc., at (602) 207-2612,
or write Glacier Park, Inc, Dial Tower, Phoenix, AZ, 85077-0924.
Office of Health Careers Receives Grants
The Morehouse College Office of Health Professions, ranked among the
nation’s foremost premedical programs, has been awarded grants totaling
$87,000. The grants were provided by the Health 1st Foundation, TAP
Pharmaceuticals, the Stanley H. Kaplan Education Foundation, and Smithkline
Beecham Pharmaceutical.
A non-profit organization that has assited minorities enter medical school
over the years, the Health 1st Foundation contributed an $80,000 gift.
TAP Pharmaceuticals, granted %5,000 to directly support Conference 20/
20, an annual premedical symposium sponsored by the Office of Health
Professions.
The Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Foundation donated $1,500 for the
office’s programming efforts.
Smithkline Beecham Pharmaceutical, a marketer of prescription and pro
prietary products for human and animal care, provided $500 for program
support.
The Office of Health Professions, an appendage of the Morehouse College
Department of Biology, undergirds the college’s Health Careers Program
through the provision of academic advisement, career counseling, and
vocational nurturing.
According to Dean Thomas J. Blocker, director of the Office of Health
Professions, the gifts are highly significant as they will allow the premedical
program at Morehouse to embark upon new and innovative methods of
readying students for careers in the health professions.
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Haiti: De facto prime minister, Marc Bazin, refused to accept a key portion of a U.N. sponsored plan to
restore democracy in that country. Bazin said that he backed a proposal to send international observers to
monitor human rights in Haiti. However, he rejected a proposal to allow the observers to interview Haitians
without permission from the government.
South Africa: Seven people were burned to death in an arson attack on a Black township. The attack is said
to be the result of the growing tensions to resume negotiations to end white rule.
Algeria: A military court sentenced 19 people to death on charges of conspiring with Muslim fundamen
talists to overthrow the government. Of the 79 people that were put on trail in Bechar, Algeria, they were
the only ones given the death penalty; many of the 19 were military officers.
South Africa: In an effort to speed up integration, the white ruled government proposed a single education
department for all races. However, the government still wants to maintain the four separate administrative
systems for Africans, Caucasians, Indians, and mixed people.
Angola: Government troops recently engaged rebel forces for control of a northern diamond mining
province. The confrontation occurred a day after guerrillas captured the oil town of Soyo and recaptured
Huambo, where rebel headquarters are located. More government forces have been sent to Saurimo, where
the rebels command the countryside around that city. Even with enforcement, however, an Angolan military
official said the government was still having difficulty weakening the rebels.
Rwanda: Supporters of President Juvenal Habyarimana paralyzed the capital, Kigali, with demonstrations
against an agreement to end more than 2 years of rebellion. Supporters of the president said that the rebel
Rwandese Patriotic Front received too many seats in an interim government proposed in a peace agreement.
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Libya: Libya closed all its borders for 3 days for security reasons. The Libyan news agency said a security
committee of the government decided to stop all movement in and out of Libya because of the "great human
and material losses caused by Western sponsored U.N. sanctions."
Egypt: Egyptian archaeologists recently unearthed the ruins of a small pyramid located several feet from
the Great Pyramid of Pharaoh Cheop. The discovery was made while cleaning the area. The small pyramid
brings to 96 the number of known pyramids in Egypt.
Mogadishu, Somalia: Close to 3,000 U.S. military personnel will be returning to the United States. This
pullout exercise will be the largest since American forces arrived in that country on December 9, 1992.
Marine Col. Fred Peck said that so many soldiers could return to the U.S. because many units had completed
their missions. He explained that "[t]he reductions primarily affect headquarters, logistics, and combat
support units of the Army and Marine Corps."
Job Growth Improving, But
Unemployment Rate Still High
Adminstration officials say they
are still about 9.3 million people
unemployed in this country, but
the outlook for job growth has
improved significantly in recent
months.
If this year's job growth comes
in as many economists expect, it
will be little more than enough to
absorb the new entrants to the la
bor force, and the unemployment
rate will decline very slowly.
Experts say most of the new jobs
are likely to be in health care and
business services, just as they were
last year. The outlook is medio
cre, at best, for the employment
rate in manufacturing, construc
tion and mining.
An informal survey of forecast
ers and economist at Federal Re
serve Banks across the country
suggest that job growth this year
will be much the same as it was in
1992, with two important differ
ences: The overall outlook is bet
ter, and the prognosis for manu
facturing jobs has turned from
negative to neutral or slightly posi
tive.
Highway construction jobs may
soon begin to open up across the
country as states start spending
the funds Congress appropriated
in last year’s surface transporta
tion bill. But those new jobs may
be offset by continuing declines
in commercial construction, ex
perts say.
It is generally agreed, however,
that net gains in employment this
year will come in this service sec
tor. Most of the hiring there will
be by the same kind of small and
midsize companies that have al
ways been the engines of job
growth.
This article orginally appeared in The AUC Di
gest