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Career Fair
to display
job choices
By SUSAN SIMPSON
Staff Writer
Students can shop around foi
more than 100 jobs at the 14th an
nual Career Fair tomorrow.
The fair, which is sponsored bj
the Career Center and the Offict
of Minority Student Affairs, wil
have representatives from 126 bu
sinesses, industries and govern
ment agencies around the country.
Graduate schools will also be
there for students who are planning
to continue their education.
"It is a great chance for students
to obtain information and talk one
on-one with professionals front:
various occupations," Career Fau
Director Elisha Mobley said.
'The fair is an experience from
which all students can benefit
even freshmen, because they car
become aware of the career paths
within each major," Mobley said.
Sophomores and juniors can reevaluate
their field of study and
begin learning the educational
background and personal skills
each hiring agency is looking for,
she added.
Most importantly, she said, seniors
are informed of the career
opportunities within each organization
and what their admission process
involves.
Students who attended the fair
last year gave it high marks.
"I was impressed with the variety
of careers represented," applied
professional science junior Eric
Parsons said. 'The people were extremely
helpful and well
informed."
Representatives will be on hanc
tomorrow from 10 a.m. until 2
p.m. in the Russell House Ball?oom.
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The Five Points msytique is
not something that can be
easily pinned down.
It's as intangible as the reason
the swallows annually return to
Capastrano, or the reason your
mom and dad always look at
each other that way when "A
Summer Place" comes on the
radio.
It's not just because that's
where the bars and clubs are.
It's not just because it's close
to campus.
The roots of this phenomenon
lay somewhere in Columbia history,
back when ducktailed guys
and poodle-skirted girls hung out
at the burger joint where the
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they know the establishments,
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people who work there, and they
like what goes on.
Besides, where else in the limited
universe of Columbia are
you going to find such a concentrated
and wide selection of the
best new and local music? If the
band is hip, it's going to play at
Greene Street's or Rockefellas'.
In fact there's very little about
Five Points that isn't on or approaching
the cutting edge of
something.
Of course, not all things hip
are necessarily new. Tim Smith,
owner of the used record store,
Papa Jazz, says topography is
important to Five Points' success
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ie village offers them.
as well. "It sounds kind of silly,
but I think being downhill from
the university helps a lot. I mean,
it's a lot easier to walk downhill,
and it's especially good for our
location."
Smith also notes the environmental
differences from the typical
late-'80s gathering place.
"Five Points has a different atmosphere
from something like a
mall. It's not as plastic, the
buildings are older and have a
different look, but you still have
a lot of different things close
together."
The potpourri of USC students
and faculty and the Columbia
locals also makes for a diverse
mix of people, Smith says.
"It's the closest thing Columbia
has to Greenwich Village,"
networks
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lsumer News and Business Channel
several cable systems bumped VH-1
a cost of nearly a million subscribers,
BC. MTV, however, says it's closer
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want to play," Freston said. "And it
go."
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