Educators say students should
use educational opportunites
By Thomas Prowell
Of the Kmeraid
It’s difficult for many Univer
sity graduates to enter the
business community because
they don’t take advantage of the
educational opportunities
available to them, says Don Ly
tle, associate dean of
undergraduate studies.
Lytle says many business
leaders complain about the poor
language and communication
skills graduates have and the
lack of on-the-job experience
they acquire while going to
school. While Lytle teaches
students with communication
skills ranging from ‘‘pre-high
school” to “very good,” most
students have problems with
syntax, grammar and spelling,
he says.
Students must be responsible
for their own education, and
classes exist to help students in
areas where they have pro
blems,, he says. "The-education
is available, but avoidable,” he
says. “The squared-away stu
dent selects the courses he
heeds."
The University offers a broad
based education designed to
give students a thorough educa
tion, says Lytle. He says some
majors require students to take
more than half of their courses
outside their fields of choice.
He says he wants students to
better learn what they are taught
in required courses, and he
would like to see more com
munication tasks built into
those courses.
Students with poor language
skills will run into problems in
the business world when they
make mistakes on job applica
tions or resumes, says Lytle.
Those mistakes “jump off the
page" at potential employers,
he says.
Gwen. Schubert, media direc
tor for an advertising firm in
Kugene, says her company
hired one University graduate
that "couldn’t even write a
news release."
However, she says her com
pany is happy with about 50
percent of the graduates they
hire from the University. “It
mostly depends on the in
dividual applying and exerting
himself,” she says.
Students need to better use
programs offered by the Career
Planning and Placement Ser
vice, Lytle says. ‘‘There’s a
wealth of stuff there (at the
placement center) that’s pro
bably underutilized,” he says.
Larry Smith, director of the
placement center, says students
do not take full advantage of
what the center has to offer,
such as seminars on marketing
and communications and con
tacts with firms that are
recruiting from the University.
“We’re (the University) clear
ly in the top 15 percent in pro
viding excellent education and
resource opportunities,” says
Smith. Students should follow
up on those opportunities, he
says.
Students need to “identify
some specific goals for their
education and select courses
that are designed to meet those
goals based on the notion that
they are responsible for their
education,” says Smith.
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EMU
Budget
Committee
During their meeting Thurs
day. the EMU Budget Commit
tee set tentative guidelines and
a timeline for dealing with
group budget requests during
the KMU budget process.
The committee plans to hear
the budget goals of small groups
prior to winter break, with
larger groups making their
presentations following the
break.
Budget requests will be heard
in late January and early
February.
Budget Committee Chair
Ahrea Summers also took tag re
quests from the members of the
committee. Tag assignments
will be made prior to the com
mittee’s next meeting on Nov.
29 at 3:30 p.m.
Committee member and
ASUO budget director Kevin
Lewis reiterated his opposition
to an increase in the overall
EMU budget. Lewis said he
believes the programs will
realize an overall increase in
available dollars through the
identification of budgetary
waste.
“1 don't want to pump in any
more dollars to the EMU
budget.” Lewis said. “Instead, 1
want to maintain the same ser
vices while increasing the effi
ciencies in the budget."
ASUO appoints four students to publishing staff
The ASIJO executive staff
recently hired four students to
work in the organization's
publications department.
John Fergurson, who is ma
joring in journalism/public rela
tions, will be the new ASUO
media publicist.
Mary Lewis was hired to
replace Marcia Schmaedick as
editor of The Course Guide;
which is put out at the beginn
ing of each term to help
students with registration.
University to host feminist poet
ine tenter tor the Mudy ot
Women in Society will host
feminist poet and social critic
Audre horde at the University
tonight.
I-orde, a professor of English
at Hunter College, will discuss
her most recent work, “Lorde:
Sister Outsider.” a collection of
essays. The collection ranges
from subjects of general
feminist theory to issues of in
ternational concern, such as the
invasion ot Grenada and soutn
African apartheid.
Lorde has written a number of
other books including, “The
Cancer Journal,” “The Black
Unicorn,” “Zami” and the Nor
ton edition of "Chosen poems
— Old and New.” Her writing
spans the 1960s through the
1980s on racism and sexism.
Lorde’s presentation will be
held in Room 167 of the EMU at
7 p.m.
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Kins
Lowery also said that King,
though living to see tremendous
strides in civil rights, “realized
we still have a long way to go.”
White House spokesman An
son Franklin said Sunday that
President Ronald Reagan had
been told of King’s death.
“The president was inform
ed, and he was saddened by the
news,” Franklin said.
“Daddy King,” as he was
known, preached non-violence
to his children, and his son
Martin made it the hallmark of
his civil disobedience crusade
toward integration in the 1950s
and 1960s.
“It’s no accident that Martin
or my other son didn't hate
anybody,” the elder King said
in an interview. “1 taught them
to love everyone, rich, poor,
high or low. I instilled that in
my children. That came up in
them, and now, I’m preaching
the same gospel to my
grandchildren.”
The younger King was
assassinated in Memphis,
Tenn., in April, 1968. Last year
Reagan signed a bill to make the
younger King’s birthday a na
tional holiday.
Lewis was the ASUO’s assistant
events coordinator last year.
Shannon Kelley, currently
editor of the Survival Center’s
publication. The Advocate, will
be co-editor of Off the Record
w'ith Tim Jordan, coordinator of
ASUO publications.
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