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[filvJ _____ "T i 1 internsnips pi By NICOLE BYRD Ann Staff Writer nator, Summer is approaching fast, and, dents t with it, students are adding the fin- mer 11 ishing touches to resumes, sharpen- Januar ing cover letters and anxiously lines ' waiting for interviews, all in the Match. She hope of settins a summer mternto the ship. Because of the weak economy ^er__n^. and tough competition for jobs, (|ie va many USC students are realizing . % c . . other i the need for summer internships to Qne ? ^ gain career-related experience. ^ v Journalism junior Jennifer ; Britton said, "I think hands-on siuden experience is essential in the '90s. sllipS > Jobs are so few and far between a$ j q that if you don't have internship AT&T. experience or a graduate level slate p. degree, then a college education wiie alone won't allow you to com- interns] P^- mind I The Career Center, located in the SOme a BA building, is a good place for Acc students seeking a summer intern- Interns ship to start. sponsc Exhibit here From Staff Reports ports. A new exhibit that recalls the The great days of river transportation in the during South Carolina's plantation directt era has been completed by the Mark r owners of Magnolia Plantation near gathere Charleston with the help of the on ahat S.C. Institute of Archaeology and The Anthropology and its 14 feet Archaeological Research Trust at ters U! USC. frames The exhibit features an authentic piling: reproduction of an early 19th-cen- Savann tury river flat, a heavily built barge ship's ' craft used by African-American fr?m a crews to carry plantation produce felled ( ur?.. 1 down the state's rivers to coastal D> Ul At the end of his rof. ,, , . Bfe 'x" i * | * J >' t | *-JjH f fl PBBHB S < mwi Participants were able to climb Mountaineering and Whitewater Competition occured on P.E. Field climbers got a chance to demonstrate c ^Airi/ln rfurlnn^i LUTlUt ^iUUUUi e Orange, internship coordi- compensation i said, "The best time for stu- or weekly sti 0 begin looking for a sum- reimbursemen iternship is no later than costs. y or February, since dead- Not only ire often in February and improve your i your key to ge suggested that students come door and fori Career Center and view the tacts. It can hip board, which lists intern- decide if they or all majors, as well as read Field of study, rious books, pamphlets and Frank Marcl materials available to every- istration majoi Grange said. last spring at ariety of internships in all College in N< are open to college students, was a student ts can choose from intern- letics director, villi major companies such "Basically, I 1 Penney, Toys R' Us and did a lot of pk , to internships abroad and at ment," Marche uks. experience the n thinking about a summer further interest hip, students should keep in administration that while many are paid, centage of sp re non-paid. majors who d( ording to the Career with that orgar hip Program, 58 percent of tion." irs during 1991-92 offered There is a v iIds glory da to research ti exhibit, the first of its kind methods used state, was designed and ters," Newell si ;d by USC archaeologist "As a result vlewell using information he deal about the :d from historic craft found the skill invol idoned rice plantations. mance of these flat, measuring 41 feet by are impossible , was built by three carpen- historic wrecka sing massive yellow pine The finishe< cut from 150-year-old dock flat as it migl s recovered from the the Ashley Riv ill I IV1VC1. 1XCWCI1 LdiVLU Ult- llldll ULW Id 5 'knees," or interior supports, which is loade 250-year-old live oak tree rice barrels ant >n the plantation by a storm, cal of antebelh ilding the flat we were able area. >e... Kelly Johnson/The Gamecock a 36' wall, shown above, at The Club's 6th Annual S.C. Climbing D. Beginners as well as advanced their skills Saturday and Sunday. aroliri s with experi in the form of hourly tunities available pends, housing, or ing a summer int t of travel or other is to use the res and to consider all can an internship Orange said th< esume, but it can be students seeking j tting your foot in the to make their resu ning valuable con- tei- as neat pre also help students pie t0 aiways 've chosen the right phone call Going what makes a si lese, a sports admin- from the other apf r, had an internship Orange also se Duchess Community de[US ^ake sur ;w York, where he , , . assistant to the ath- ey re yin" ' they are looking was a gopher, but it experience, and inning in the depart- =?P ' :se said. "It was the ^'ie aieei *-e ;re that spurred my ducting inteinshi in the field of sports April 7 and 14. . A very large per- Having an inter iorts administration an unwritten rule i 3 internships end up ates. Students nee lization after gradua- just to get ahead, I in the race. Witho vide range of oppor- get left behind. ys of riverb he techniques and The flat will rer by historic carpen- Magnolia, which aid. the world for its , we learneci a greai ueris on me oam construction process, River. The garden ved and the perfor- their kind in Norti crafts ? things that "Although horli e to discover from mary focus of M ige," he said. that something si 1 exhibit shows the acknowledge the it have appeared on Americans on our -er in 1850. A three- Drayton Hastie tationed on the flat, Magnolia and a < d with cotton bales, of the first plante I other produce typi- 1860. "They wei im plantations in the who built the flats up and down our 1 Psychology graduate student Johi below, says he likes the challenge a rock climbing gives him. Kelly Johnson/The Gamecock I f'-'*' * J* mmm 11 ^MKS !li# if jHI t i. fw^mm ia^B JH j llt^H /L [ La! I G A S T mm f/ ence j for students seek- < ernship. The key iources available e best advice for in internship was me and cover leti follow up with a tudent stand out * 1" x iggested dial stu- ^ " *!j e the company d understands that for career-related 2 gfMjfl for college gradubut to merely stay l|tl ut one, you might 'Stalin' is one . "Art as Actr C anc* Eastern fMuseum of A nain on exhibit at A T*| is known around xJLA V vl magnificent garcs of the Ashley C?4~T*11H s are the oldest of l,J[ |_| M t America. ~ i. . _ .1. - Prnm .Qtaff Rone culture is me pri lagnolia, we felt The Columbi lould be done to presents a rare role of African view Central plantations," said Europe's strug , the owner of and democracy, direct descendant "Art a: :r at Magnolia in Revolutionary re the craftsmen Central and E and piloted them presents a look ivers." ical tradition poster. Unlike reliance on ele political expression, /these posters from Europe adorned wall and storeys fronts J? exhorting people to revolution during Eastern ^ Europe's rise from under the yoke of communism / in the late 1980s. rosters mocking their oppressors have historically i Johnson, been a nd exercise favored medium of dissidents depr state-controlled The Europea been the "art During the 19; Central and Ea poster becan means of comn "Art as Act the different ro has served in Revolutionary way of studyi social and poli occurred durii unorganized tin moil and uphea Poster art is of self-expressi Icai activism n. mon man. Ma in the exhibitu by highly accl; unfortunately, in quantity foi ment retributioi Others are mimeographed painted by stu mous citizens desire for freed Many of the acterized by t ON S A I V A T 0 8 ~t H ^^^^^HMIMfiii ilk' ^ ?*t ^Bfefl t of more than 80 posters in the exhibition fist: Revolutionary Posters from Central Europe" on display at the Columbia jrt through May 23. lepicts European ;gle for freedom )rts slogans such as "End Rule by a Museum of Art One Party!", "Marx is Dead!" : opportunity to antl "40 Years of Lies!" Others and Eastern are: complex and unique works gle for freedom ?f arl rich colors and vivid dramatic imagery, s Activist: These posters trace events of , Pnciprc fmm the first democratic movement Astern Europe" of solidarity in Poland in 1980, at a unique polit- Mikhail Gorbachev's "perestroiof Europe: the ^a ?1 1980s, the fall of : the American ll*e Berlin Wall in 1990, the colctronic forms of 'apse of Communist governments and the ? ^struggle for T^K|maSZ^I ~ of these The poster 'Make Your Choice' European is part of the Columbia countries Museum of Art exhibit today, this through May 23. exhibition poses quesived of access to tions about the new challenges media. ot freedom, such as minority n poster has long and ethnic lights, the lole of of the streets " government in society and the 89 revolutions in problems of elections and demoistern Europe, the cratic choice, te the primary "Art as Activ>st" was orgatunicatin" ideas nized by Marta Sylestrova, curaivist" focuses on tor at the Moravian Gallery in les that poster art Brn0< Czechoslovakia, and Dana European history. Bartelt< a graphic designer from posters provide a Raleigh, N.C. The Smithsonian Ing the complex Institution Traveling Exhibition tical changes that Seivice, SITES, worked with the lg an essentially organizers to develop tne exnioine of national tur- tion for travel to 12 locations ival. through January 1994. Most of a critical means the posters are form the collec011 used by politi- tion of the Moravian Gallery. > reach the com- "Ait as Activist" will be on ny of the posters display in the East Galleries at in were produced the Columbia Museum of Art aimed artists, but, through May 23. The exhibition were not printed 's sponsored by the Happy r fear of govern- Bookseller, n. The Columbia Museum of Art : silk-screened, is located in downtown and even hand- Columbia at die comer of Senate dents and anony- a?d Bull streets. Operating hours ; united in their are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday lorn. through Friday and 12:30-5 p.m. posters are char- Saturday and Sunday, old graphics and Admission is free.