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Viking junior Roderick Fields takes time out to ponder the day in tlie vacant Moore Hall Auditorium.
Photo by Richard Mclntire
CALENDAR
OCT. 15
GMAT Exam
Black Folk Heritage Tour Program
(8 p.m. In Moore Hall)
OCT. 18
ROTC Awards Day
NTE PK Seminar (5 p.m.)
Career Day
OCT. 19
OCT. 20
NTE PK Seminar (5 p.m.)
OCT. 21
Coronation of Miss ECSU
OCT. 22
NTE (Core Batteries)
Sigma Gamma Rho Dance
(9 p.m.)
OCT. 24-25
Fall Recess
No Classes
SGA Homecoming Week
Activities Begin
OCT. 26
Classes Resume (8 a.m.)
OCT. 28
SGA Step Show / Dance
OCT. 29
Homecoming Parade
SGA Homecoming Concert (8 p.m.)
Alumni Dance
Summer jobs serve as career springboards
By Urusula McMillion
Not all college students spend
their summers cruising the
streets of their hometown, relax
ing on the beach, or feeding
coins into their favorite video
game.
ECSU seniors Lynne Chapman,
Darrius Morris and Aerek Ste
phens used their summers to
gain valuable work experience,
which can serve as a spring
board for future careers.
Instead of spending this past
summer in a hammock, or a vi
deo game parlor, Chapman,
Morris and Stephens worked-
respectively--as a stage man
ager of an outdoor drama, a pro
motion manager assistent for a
records distribution plant, and a
junior marketing consultant for
an education marketing distri
bution company.
Lynne Chapman learned
about the job as stage manager
for “Unto These Hills,” in Che
rokee, N.C., from Shawn Smith,
Director of University Players.
The long-running outdoor drama
has a cast of 130. After sending
in in her resume, a photograph.
and a personal letter, she was
interviewed, and hired for the
job.
“The hours were sometimes
long, but I loved it,” said Chap
man. Her duties consisted of
running rehearsals as cast su
pervisor, assisting the director,
assisting with business and fi
nance, checking the cast at each
rehearsal, and filling in as an
understudy for absent cast
members.
“I feel the technical experi
ence and skills I acquired will
help me in the professional job
world,” said Chapman, who will
graduate in May, 1989, with a de
gree in English, (concentration
in drama). “I consider this job
to be a definite possibility for fu
ture employment.”
Chapman is the president of
the University Players,
Darrius Morris, a personality
for WRVS, gained valuable ex
perience this summer as a pro
motions manager assistent for
Capitol Records’ Distributer
Plant in German Town,
Maryland. This company dis
tributes records for Capitol and
EMI Manhatten labels, who pro
duce such big-name artists as
Tina Turner and Najee.
Although Morris began his
quest for summer employment
by sending a cover letter and re
sume to music industry compa
nies across the country, a per
sonal contact led to his summer
job.
“I attended the first Annual
Media Conference, which for
mer station manager David Lin
ton designed for students to net
work with heavyweights in the
music indstury,” said Morris.
“One of the people I met at
this conference was Gwen
Franklin, who works for Capitol
Records.”
Ms. Franklin referred him to
the distribution company in Ger
man Town.
“I was interviewed and hired
as promotion manager assis
tant,” said Morris.
Morris’s duties included tra
cking retail sales and records
runs.
“I enjoyed the job,” he said.
“And I especially enjoyed meet
ing recording artists like Fred
die Jackson.”
Morris, a business manage
ment major, believes his sum
mer job “will most definitely
benefit me” when he ventures
into the job world after his grad
uation from ECSU in December.
Aerek Stephens landed his job,
as a junior marketing consulant
from a newspaper ad. “I sent in
my resume and was called in for
an interview,” said Stephens,
who had to go through a train-
ing-test period before he was
hired.
“I interviewed prospective cli
ents, checked their credentials,
and introduced them to the edu
cational programs for childen
offered by Global Industries,”
said Aerek. “I really felt like I
was contributing to the educatio
nal advancement of young peo
ple.
Aerek said his job as a junior
market consultant enabled him
to put into practice “some of the
things I learned here at ECSU.
This job also helped me leai
how to function in a business e
vironment,” he said.
“The worst thing about the job
said Aerek, “is when it ended,
really miss the $1,500 a month
Global Industries has aske
him to return after his gradui
tion in December, 1988.
Worrying a popular pastim(
(CPS) —Worrying is the neg
ative national pastime. Every
body does it and very few find it
is a positive experience. You
don’t think clearly or perform
well when you worry. The main
focus is the worry, the fear of
“What might happen if...,”
which overwhelms you, makes
you feel depressed, reduces your
energy, and prevents you from
getting your work done.
College students are big wor
riers. That worry leads to stress
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and college students are very
big on stress. In fact, the Nuprin
Pain Report, the first national
study on pain in America, docu
mented that more people 18-24
are likely to suffer stress and
pain than any older age group.
Most of what we worry about
is out of our control. You can’t
control other people’s re
sponses, a grade a prof will give
us, whether someone will agree
with us, what they think of us,
the weather, traffic, room
mates, money, how we look,
grades, the future. The more we
worry about things we can’t con
trol, the worse everything gets.
Remember this rule of thumb:
You can’t control other people or
external situations. But you can
control how well you prepare for
and respond to them. In other
words, you control your infor
mation, attitude and actions.
Worrying is made up of two
words: what if. “What if...they
say no,...I don’t get the money,
...the professor assigns,...the
traffic...” The key to beating the
worries is to change the what if’
to “if...then’s.” “If they sa;
no...then I will...” If I don’t ge
the money then I will...” Alwayi
change the worry to anticipa
tion. Concentrating your energ]
on what you can change rathei
than dwelling on things yoi
can’t control increases your con
fidence and prepares you foi
any situation.
This strategy was used bj
President John F. Kennedy. Be
fore his press conferences Ken
nedy and his aides anticipatec
any possible question or situa
tion that might arise and devel
oped answers for them. Whether
a reporter asked about the Viel
Nam War, the economy or civil
rights, Kennedy was prepared.
Likewise, in a job interview,
instead of worrying whether or
not the potential employer will
ask about your grades, antic
ipate that he or she will. Then
mentally list wins, accomplish
ments and qualifications that
your course grades might not re
flect.
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