Volume XXX No. 5
Methodist College, Fayetteville, N.C. 28311
February 17,1993
New Career Planning Placement Office Opens...
by Vatrice C. Mack
The Methodist College Administra
tion recently approved a new budget line
to create a full-time position for a place
ment director. Ms. Paula Miller opened
the new Career Planning & Placement on
January 15, 1993 in tlie Student Center.
Many students thought the new office
was long overdue. Miller, the new direc
tor, said there are two tasks she hopes the
office will accomplish. These tasks are
career planning and placement.
The first task, career planning, is in
tended to help those students who are
wandering around aimlessly looking for
the major that best fits them. Career
planning is designed to help students be
come goal-oriented and to work toward a
specific goal. Soon, the office will re
ceive computer software which will al
low students to come in and take interests
tests. These tests will tell students what
they are good at and what career utilizes
these skills. For those students who are
planning to attend graduate school, the
office has something in store for them
also. With the software, a student will be
able to obtain information on all graduate
schools nationwide. All students have to
do is type in their GRE scores and GPA
and the software will be able to tell them
which schools are likely to accept them.
The information on the software is updat
ed each year.
The second task, placement, will in
clude the conducting of interview work
shops, resume and cover letter work
shops, and job fairs. The first interview
workshop will be held on February 18,
1993 at 6:30 p.m. in one of the dormito
ries. Contact the Career Planning &
Placement office for information regard
ing the exact dormitory. Commuter stu
dents are also invited to attend. The first
job fair is scheduled for March 5th and
6th at 6:00 p.m. This job fair will be
held at the Holiday Inn on 1-95. Trans
portation to the job fair will be provided
by Methodist College. Students must
bring their resumes with them to the job
by Sharon Revels
Between January 25, 1993 and Janu
ary 27,1993, Methodist College Campus
Security gave out approximately 75 tick
ets to students. Many students expressed
displeasure. Some decided to pay the vi
olation. Other students discussed their vi
olation with Captain Saunders, depart
ment head of Campus Security.
Captain Saunders has explained that
if a student refuses to pay the ticket, the
fine is added to their bill in the business
office. He also said that if students re
ceive parking tickets for not having reg
istration stickers on their cars, they
should come to his office and discuss the
ticket. "Security is here for the student's
benefit," Saunders said. Captain Saun
ders wants every student to receive a
parking sticker. He will definitely give
students a chance to get a parking sticker,
if they do not have one. As of January
27,1993, he had already voided approxi
mately 25 tickets. If a student can't af
ford a parking sticker. Campus Security
will issue a temporary sticker for seven
days. If a student can't obtain a sticker af
ter seven days, they will renew the stick
er up to three times.
Some students complained that they
didn't know they were parked illegally
and that some parking spaces a were not
marked clearly. Captain Saunders said
that Campus Security has repainted the
parking areas at the Science Building,
and they are making efforts to paint other
worn signs in additional areas. His advice
to the students is that they read the stu
dent handbook and become familiar with
student parking rules and regulations.
Captain Saunders wants the students
to know that the Security Officers will
work with them, but that when they park
illegally they will receive a ticket. Pair
ing illegally makes it difficult for visi
tors, faculty , vendors, and the handi
capped. He and his staff would
appreciate everyone’s cooperation.
fair. There will be many national corpo
rations present. The corporations will
contact all those they wish to interview
on March 6th. On March 8th, on-campus
interviews will be held with the Highway
Patrol. Ms. Miller has a binder of job va
cancies in the placement office and is
ready to serve all those who are interest
ed. These vacancies include federal as
well as civilian jobs. She also plans to
educate students on career trends and sal
ary projections for various jobs.
For those students who have an in
terest in finding summer jobs, Ms. Miller
said she has hundreds of summer job
openings waiting to be filled. Please
contact her at 630-7279.
Upcoming issues of Small Talk will
include more information about Career
Fairs, and will'tell which companies will
be interviewing at the career fairs. Infor
mation about scheduled on-campus inter
views will also be published. The com
puter in the Career Planning &
Paula Miller, Director of Career Plan
ning and Placement.
Placement office has a laser printer and
can be used by appointment. So, get out
there and get your resumes together.
Good Luck!
Methodist Holds Writers' Students Fined For
Day Symposium
On Monday, February 1, Methodist College hosted the 1993 Writers' Day Sympo
sium for area high school students. After the students' arrival at 10:30 am. and the
welcome at 10:40, the students chose to attend five workshops, beginning at 11:10
am., each one dealing with a different sp^ific arra of writing, inclutog Fiction,
Poetry, Writing for Popular Magazines, Business Writing, and Screen Writing/ VisuM
Media At 1:45 p.m., after the workshops had concluded, smdents gathered in the sci
ence auditorium to listen to readings by three prominent North Carolina writers, Tim
McLaurin, Robin Greene, and Phil Gerard. At 3:30 p.m., awards were presented to
outstanding student writers.
The three writers who read fi'om their works have close ties to North Carolina
Tim McLaurin is a native of Fayetteville who now lives in Chapel HiU. His recollec
tions of growing up in East Fayetteville, Keeper of the Moon: A Southern Boyhood,
was the winner of the Mayflower Cup, a prestigious North Carolina non-fiction
award. His first novel. The Acorn Plan was also based on his childhood in Fayette-
ville.
Fayetteville poet and part-time Methodist College English mstnictor Robin
Greene was recently awarded a $7,500 Individual Artists' Fellowship by the North
Carolina Arts Council, an award that is partially funded by the National Endowment
for the Arts. Ms. Greene was one of four North Carolina writers to receive such fund
ing. She was also the winner of the 1991 poetry chapbook contest sponsored by the
North Carolina Writer's Network. Ms. Greene's prizewinning poetry collection "Mem
ories of Light" was published by Harperprints of Henderson, N. C. and has been
praised for its author's exploration of complicated human issues.
Philip Gerard is a Wilmington writer who earned his Master of Fine Arts at the
University of Arizona after a stint as a journalist and fi^-lance writer. His firet novel,
Hatteras Light, was followed by a book of nonfiction. Brilliant Passage. His second
novel. Cape Fear Rising, is due out in Februapf of 1994. Gerard is also the author of
many short stories, reviews and essays, including nearly one hundred on-air essays for
Nation^ Public Radio's i4//Conwdered.
The Writer's Day Symposium is an event held every year at Methodist College
and is attended by high school students. It features local writers who read from their
latest works. This year, over 180 high school students fitom nine local high schools at
tended.
Parking Violations