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4 November 211997 Student gains experience tlirough internship by Jason Cohen In today’s environment, one needs much practical experience. Aneel Gill knew that and pursued it. With the help of John Nicholson, director of internships at St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Gill received a taste of what the real world is like. The real world for Gill, a St. Andrews senior majoring in interna tional business, was a summer intern ship at Abbot Laboratories in Laurinburg. “I took this internship because of my interest in business,” Gill said. “I also wanted to get experience in a work place associated with business” While at Abbott, Gill worked in the human resources department. He gained knowledge in employee sales of Abbott goods and purchase of goods for the department. “This internship gave me an over view of the business environment, as 1 was involved in many business func tions,” Gill said. “The most interesting aspect of the internship for me was purchasing,” he said. “The type of business I would eventually like to work for would be a firm dealing with international trade. At Abbott, I hoped to learn the basic func tion of employee sales, and I did suc ceed in this.” Gill, a resident of Dhaka, Bangladesh, owes a portion of success to Nicholson, who assisted in making the internship pos sible. “An internship is a form of super vised independent study with fieldwork experience for which a student receives academic credit,” Nicholson said. Nicholson encpurages St. Andrews students to consider’the internship option for credit. “Internships expand student aware ness of the world beyond the campus by exposure to a variety of disciplines, lifestyles and environments. “Students can explore potential ca reers, clarify educational and career goals. develop new skills, gain valuable work experience and develop professional contacts through internships.” Nicholson added. Nicholson sees additional ben efits to internships. “Students learn to make deci sions and solve problems in a work setting, develop self-reliance, per sonal styles and values.” Also Nicholson emphasized that “internships look very good to prospective employers and graduate schools” Other students interested in internships can take the first step in arranging them by contacting John Nicholson Seniors meet to talk about SAPCs problems (From front page) baseball players lived in Win ston, but it wasn’t like you stayed in your dorm. You par- tied in Granville, you partied in Meek and you partied in Win ston. Now people just stay in iheir dorms.” a student pu' in.- Admissions was also a big topic of discussion. Many seniors worried that quality would be sacrificed for quan tity. Several students voiced concern that there was an over all pattern of trying to make St. Andrews into something it isn’t for the open houses. Highlighted was the fact that tour guides are discour aged from touring students through the art studios, which Ecuadorean students perform a traditional Ecuadorean dance as part of the festivities for the annual international dinner, held by the DAMES of St. Andrews. The dinner, which was held on November6 this year, featured food and entertain ment from many countires. students were required to clean before each open house. “Art studios are sup posed to be messy. Isn’t that part of the creative process?” someone put in On the academic side, there was worry about the seemingly small amount of eth nic diversity in the faculty, al though some argued that the “intellectual diversity” was great and many conceded this point. There was also concern expressed that professors are too involved in administrative committees. “Professors have the stu dents in mind, so I think it’s great that they have a hand in the administration. But some times 1 think that the academics suffer,” one student said. Several argued that some professors are quite able to teach and serve on many com- m ittees without either suffering. Some students felt that many classes weren’t offered often enough for people to fit them in and that classes were often scheduled in inconve nient ways. Required classes frequently conflict. The seniors were overall quite positive about the SAGE program, although many said that Senior Sage needed more structure. Also, some wondered if the SAGE program tried to cover too much to quickly. “In World Cultures, we covered Buddhism in two days. That’s dangerous,” one person put in. Several argued that this was better than not covering Buddhism at all and that cov ering things lightly was the way SAGE could possibly work. The meeting ended with a discussion of the method of choosing the senior speakers for graduation. The faculty had voiced interest in being al lowed to help select a speaker. Some students felt that this was intrusive and that the class should be able to pick its own speakers. Others felt that tiie faculty had spent four years with the class also and that they should be allowed to have a voice. The seniors eventually voted to adopt the “MacArthur plan,” named tor Senior Brad McArthur, who came up with it. Five students will be se lected by the senior class, five will be selected from the faculty, and the senior class will elect two from that list of ten. See your nRme in print. 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