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THE PILOT. GARDNER-WEBB COLLEGE. PAGE 3 Student Apathy In Face Of Shortages A Puzzle To Placement Office Officials Headlines like, “CollegeSen iors in N.C. Face Dismal Job Market,” and “As Job Market Tightens, Seniors, Shrug It oft. Ask ‘Who Cares?” describe a phenomenon prevalent on many college campuses and it would appear even at Gardner- Webb. Job prospects for college graduates are the lowest they have been in 15years, for a bum per crop of 25,000 graduates in N.C. College placement offices forecast a difficult, season for seniors in job-hunting. With employment prospects down it would seem that stu dents would be aggressively competing for the positions and interviews available. However, as the second headline above Toints out this is not the case. Even with increased publicity, articles in student newspapers and in student mail boxes it seems that students still do not realize the hard times com ing up after graduation. In an interview with the Pilot Mr, Jesse Taylor, Director of the newly established Office of Placement, expressed concern over lack of student interest in job interviews and placement as well as completingquestion- aire information necessary for giving future references. After the Christmas holidays each senior received a packet of materials to be filled out and returned to the Placement of fice for files and references. Of the 300 seniors who were given the packets 189 failed to fiU out the requested forms and return them. In addition school systems and businesses have agreed to come to Gardner-Webb for in terviewing but have had no stu dents come for the interviews. Placement is a service for students and as such cannot re quire participation even if the student’s best interests are at heart. Another wrench in the works Rondoliers Will Sing Folk, Opera, Spirituals In DAS The men’s quartet, The Ron doliers, will be presented by •The Distinguished Artists Ser ies, Tuesday, April 20 at 8 o’clock in Hamrick Auditor ium. The Rondoliers Trio offers something special in the field of concert attractions. Four outstanding young artists com bine their talents in a distin guished and varied program of Art Songs, Operatic Selec tions, Show Tunes, Folk Songs, and Negro Spirituals with spe cial arrangements by Charles Touchette. This attraction has toured coast-to-coast across the en tire North American Continent and has scored a tremendous success both on college and university campuses and in organized audience cities . The variety of theirprogramsis the key to this great success. is that the Southern Association of Colleges and Universities is questioning the college on its procedures for handling follow- up and references. This will be difficult to do if files are incomplete. Perhaps the anxious state ments of college placement of- fimalfe across the state are exaggerated but even so a per son cannot be too careful about his future. if you desire to participate in the placement office ser vices please go by the base ment of the Church Building and talk to Mr. Taylor. Pre sented below is a listing of interviews for the rest of the school year. Union Trust Company, April 6; Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools, April 7; Winston- Salem / Forsyth Co. Schools, April 9; Goodwill Publishing Co., April 12; Norfolk City Sc hools, April 13; Chester, S.C. Schools, April 16; Rutherford Co. Schools, April 16; Stanley Co. Schools, April 19; Vance Co. Schools, April 23; Roses Stores, Inc., April 26; and the Navy Recruiter, April 26 and 27. New ID’s Will Be Permanent And Do Library Card Duty ID card system i being introduced at Gardner- Webb this year. It will eli minate the necessity of hav ing a new ID card made each year and is intended to last for the entire period a student matriculates at Gardner-Webb. Social Security numbers were taken recently and will be em bossed on the new ID card along with the student’s name and a color photo. Pictures will be made in the Bulldog Room on April 20 and 21 for all students planning to return to Gardner- Webb next year. Failure to do this will make it necessary for students to come back early in the fall or lose their place in the registration line to get it Next fall the cards will be given to each student as they go through the registration line and will serve as a pass through the rest of the registration pro cess. This will lessen the time and confusion of registration considerably. Each card will be a heavy duty laminated card similar to the present library cards only larger. They will come in three colors: full- time students, red with black ink; part-time students, beige with red ink; and faculty staff, white with red ink. The cards will serve as an ID, a library card, and a pass to all college events. They Wright Presents Faculty Recital Of Piano Works fUndolph Wright, a faculty member in the Music depart ment, presented a program of piano works by Schubert Beeth oven and Braham recently in the lounge of the 0. Max Gardner Fine Arts Building. A native of Harrisonburg, Virginia, Mr. Wright majored in music at Shenandoah Con servatory of Music where he received his Batchelor degree. Later he received a Masters in Music from West Virginia University. This is his first teaching position. Harrelson Plugs Ecology Dr. Michael A. Harrelson, Associate Professor of Bio logy addressed the N.C. Wat erworks Association, South Piedmont Section on March 26, Speaking in the Bulldog room of the CID, Dr. Harrelson consid ered the question, “What is Ecology and where do I fit in?” According to Dr. Harrelson, nature consists of non-living and living matter. The living includes: Q) green plants, which directly or indirectly furnish food for 5ll other organisms; (2) consumers, which use en ergy from green plants; and (3) decomposers which return dead organism to the mineral form. All of these make up the ecosystem which is self- sufficient except for sunlight. Man’s problem is that he is overdriving the ecosystem. That is, man puts more se wage or chemical waste in a river than it can take care of naturally, or puts DDT or plas tics which are not natural com pounds into the ecosystem. One of our biggest problems in ecology is, in Dr. Harrel son’s opinion, communicating. With all the space we have, the idle farmland, surplus food, etc., it is difficult to convince many people that we have a problem. Dr. Harrelson stres sed that the simple mathema tics of population increase tells us that food and wealth are simple problems now but in a few hundred years there won’t be standing room on earth! will have to oe carried at all times and be surrendered upon request by student leaders, fa culty or staff. A replacement charge of $2.00 will be charge for lost or mutilated cards. The cards will be returned to the Student Affairs Office upon graduation or withdrawal. New Course Will Feature Tour Of Near East Areas The Great Pyramid of Cheops, the legendary Nile River, the narrow streets of Old Jerusa lem and the Sea of Galilee will be among the many sights to be toured by Dr. Furman Hewitt and a group of Gardner- Webb students in late May. Covering Greece, Cairo, Eg ypt, Lebanon, Damascus, Cy prus, and Israel, the tour will initiate a new method of teach ing at Gardner-Webb. While on the tour of the Near East, the students are to study the textbook BIBLICAL BACK - GROUND, and they will be lectured by Dr. Hewitt. Dr. Hewitt has worked and traveled in the tour area. The students will be tested on the textbook and will earn three hours degree credit upon suc cessful completion of the It is hoped that this type program can be expanded to include History, Foreign Lan guages, and other academic fields. This program would give students the opportunity to study firsthand the countries and cultures covered by their textbooks. TTSB Will Play Again Next Year The Trinidad Steel Band, which was at Gardner-Webb during the fall is scheduled to return next September for a concert in Spangler Stadium. Following the performance there will be a spaghetti sup per and the first home foot ball game. The Homecoming Parade for 1971 will be on Friday, October 22. Plans are being made to reroute the parade and to re quire both waterproof and fire proof materials to be used on all floats. It was suggested in the Student Activities Co mmittee Meeting of March 4 that chairmen be selected for the Shelby and Boiling Springs area. These chairmen would be responsible for coordinat ing and working with various committees to get the parade organized. The deadline for submitting the dates and events scheduled for the next academic school year, to be included in the Student Activities Calendar 1971-72 is the first of May. The dates should be submitt ed to the Student Affairs Office for the preparing of the cal- Data Processing Dept. Growing To Meet Needs Of Business, Research Expanding needs of business and Industry in the area of data processing are creating a de mand for highly trained per sonnel in this field. With over 200 students involved in the Data Processing Program, Gardner-Webb College is work ing to meet the needs of the two Carolinas. Offering a BS degree in Data Processing with two possible areas of concentration, busi ness or mathematics, the pro gram provides a flexibility not found in other colleges where computer science, usually in volving higher mathematics only,is offered. Since the classes are small er the program at Gardner - Webb is more custom tailored to the needs of the Individual. Another benefit of the program is the small labs which pro vide greater personal contact with instructors. Over 200 students are Invol ved in the program with 100 majoring in Data Processing. Three faculty members staff the department. The best teaching materials in such a program are the computers themselves. With over $400,000 worth of data processing equipment the de partment is amply equipped to carry on the highest quality instruction. Among the equipment avail able is a new 1130 computer which augments the ample unit record system. At Gardner-Webb the Data Processing program aims to prepare programmers, mach ine operators, systems analy sts, data processing supervi sors and managers to meet the demands of area comm erce and research. One of the best features of the program is that it provides an opportunity for those work ing in the Piedmont area to update their training. Two data processing supervisors from Pittsburgh Plate Glass of Shelby and General Fir- eprofing of Forest City are examples of those who en— rolled at Gardner-Webh and avoided leaving their jobs and families to take training at some more distant location. A strong data processing de partment which Is striving to provide a deeper and higher quality preparation to meet the needs of commerce, is just another of the ways Gardner- Webb College fulfills its role as a full-service college. 54 Seniors Involved In Students Teaching A second wave o f student teachers, 54 strong, was sent from Gardner-Webb College in to eight North and South Caro lina school systems on March 8. Added to the 72 prospective teachers who were sent last October , a total of 126 have been involved In student teach ing this year. This is the first year Gard ner Webb has participated in a teacher training program on a senior college basis. The program is under the direction of Dr, R.E. Carothers, Chair man, Department of Education and Library Science. These students will be in volved in student teaching for a period of eight weeks. They will begin by observing and par ticipating on a small scale and will eventually take over full teaching responsibilities for a minimum of 90 hours and up to 200 hours. On April 3, these student tea chers will take the National Teacher Examinations. Then the N.C. State Department of Public Instruction will examine their transcripts at which time if all is in order the student will receive a class “A” N.C. Teaching Certificate. Student teachers and their hometowns are: From Boil ing Springs: Terry Abernathy; Sid Bryson, Marion Jester, Jo yce Lail. Nancy Linnens, Linda Mace and Janice Poston. From Charlotte are: Gale Alexander, Susan Broadway, David Gibbons, Sara Russell, and James Seacord. From Lawndale are : Peggy Eaker, James Hedrick, Joseph South ards, Don Sweezy, and Car olyn Black. From Greenville S.C. are: Miles Aldridge and Ryan Hendley. From Franklin are: Frances Bishop and June Sorrels, From Union Mills are: Ruby Bowen, Boyce Hensley and Brenda Whlsnant. From Lenoir are: Dawn Spainhour and Linda Tolbert. From Shelby are: Margaret Edwards, Suzanne Gold, Linda Hendrick, Doris Hunt, Ton Tur ner, and Ann Wright. From Spartanburg, S.C. are: Law ton Neely and Chris Worrick. Others are: Pinkney Guer- ard, Dorchester, S.C.: Sheila Harris, Winston-Salem; Hilda Heavener, Vale; Jerry Holli- field, Marion; Kay Honeycutt, Valdese; Claudia Houser, Jack sonville, Fla.; Esther Hendrick, Gastonia; Judy Jackson, Gaff ney; Jan Johnson, Canton; Andy Kanipe, Conover; Jack McGill Florence, Ky.; Lois Reel, Den ver; Nancy Simpson, Spencer; Annette Spence, Eden; Camilla Taylor, Granite Falls; Sandy Webster, Norfolk, Va.; Pamela Booker, Cherryville; Tanna Boone, Waynesville; Beverly Cash, Chesnee, S.C.; and Jack ie Faye Connor, Spindale.
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