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October 28, 1987 0 Volunteer Internship Corner If a student is interested in becoming an intern they should 1001 .An:rliversar)' . - contact the Internship Coordinator · · V ()}imteer Slogan at the Alpena Volunteer Center. This November 11th m~ks the . . . The internship program is tenth anniversary of the Alpena "People helping people" is the rewarding to all students that Volunteer Center. The Center slogan of the Alpena Volunteer register. would like to take this time to Center, and right now the center is The student can earn credits thank the communtiy for its seeking volunteers to participate in toward his or her degree. The support. their Tel-Med program. student will be connected with an Many of the local The Tel-Med program will be appropriate job, and once the organizations have extended a available to the whole community. student is placed in a specific helping hand, with free advertising The general idea of the program is position , the coordinator and and announcements to promote the to present basic information student will converse with the activities of the center over the relating to various health problems work supervisor at that company. past ten years. Thanks for your by using a medical tape library. Once approved by the work support. The Tel-Med program will be supervisor, the student is required There have been thousands of starting in mid-October and will be to obtain the approval of his or her community folks joining in over needing two volunteers per department chairperson and the the past years to lend a helping two-hour shift. They will be approval of Dean Davis. Once hand to those whom have needed required to answer the telephones these approvals are given, the one. The Alpena community is a and put on requested medical tapes. student is eligible to register with friendly one, and it shows in the · The hours needed for the internship coordinator at the numberofvolunteerseachyear. volunteers are from Volunteer Center. Even though the Alpena 2:00pm-8:00pm Monday through The student is then required to Volunteer Center is looking Friday and Saturday from report to the company at the time towards a new year, and looking 10:00am-2:00pm. If you are arranged by the work supervisor. toward meeting new volunteers, interested in becoming a volunteer Good luck with your internship, they would like to say thanks for in this program, . you should and enjoy the .career training helping make the Volunteer Center contact the Alpena Volunteer experience which will prepare you what it is today-people helping Center where your help is always for our future career. people. needed. · -----------.... """"" ....... ~""""""'---- --------------- eceived The ACC library occasionally receives gifts or loans of books from companies and universities. Most recently, Lake Superior State College (LSS,,C) has donated a collection of books, magazines, and equipment worth $8000 for the students enrolled in Lake Superior's MBA program, which uses ACC as an off-campus extension. The $8000 worth ofequipment and materials pertains to the business area, and is in the form of magazines, books and microfiche equipment. Although the materials were donated for the use of LSSC students on campus, they are also available for the general population. The magazines are listed in the business periodical listings and anyone who has a need for them can visit during the regular library hours. Other contributions, either loans or gifts, include books from Page 3 Internship Program · "It is important to know what the outlook is for your job and what you are going to be up against if finding a job ... ," commented ACC Job-Placement technician, Doris Feys, when recently interviewe~ Currently the Job-Placement Office at ACC is working on the placement surveys for the winter 1986 and the spring and summer 1987 ACC graduates. The placement ratio at ACC is over . ninety-percent, according to Feys. When conducting the surveys, ACC considers someone placed if they are working or if they are successfully enrolled in a college program somewhere else, since many of our students continue with their educati9n after leaving ACC. Over seventy-percent of ACC students are either placed in jobs related to their major or continue with their education. The best programs ACC offers, in terms of job-placement, are in concrete technology, nursing, and drafting. The fields that appear to be growing in the number of jobs available can be seen in the fields of industry and heavy manufacturing. · In reference to Alpena, Feys remarked, "We need more ~ob devefopment...more economic development." The job-placement program at ACC is supervised by Frank Mccourt. It has been in existence since 1984. Commenting on the improvements since its beginning, Feys stated, "We've done a lot of good things with placement. I think there is room to grow." If a student is interested in ' placement, they should contact . Feys in VLH 122. She will give them forms to· fill out, contact the, student if a job is found for them and offer resume help. Feys . will also set up trial inte~iews for nervous students. Feys encourages students to come in and discover the outlook for their career choice. STUDENT SENATE Student Senate Items in _Action Some of the items dealt with during Student Senate throughout the past few weeks include Club , Day, the Student Senate and Campus Activities Board budget, and various other campus activities. At the October 20 meeting, Scott Bartz started with the financial report; Student Senate has $3,500 of their requested $5,000, and Campus Activities Board recieved $10,369 of the requested $11,500. The Concrete Club is .selling tickets for a 50/50 raffle drawing to be held November 24. They are presently working on a drive way at 1st and Hitchcock. Circle K will be holding a Film Festival on November 10 from 6:30 to 9:30. In the Law Enforcement department, activities include the attendance of a Law Enforcement convention ·on October 20, at Michigan State University; the Law Enforcem~nt Club is holdin a raffle with proceeds going to the ACC Law Enforcement Scholarship Fund. The drawing will be held at ACC on Tuesday, December 1, 1987, at noon. Donation is $1.00, need not be present to win. Prizes are as follows: 1st prize: a VCR 2nd prize:$100.00 gasoline 3rd prize: AM / FM portable radio 4rth prize: $20.00 gift certificate from Lalonde's for shoes National Education Week is November 15th through the 21st. Kellie Krage has resigned as Sophomore Representative citing an overloaded class schedule as the cause. Student Senate will be I , appointing 3 new student representatives to the Publications Board The Student Senate will be meeting on Thursdays at 10:00 a.m., as well as continuing their 11 :00 Tuesday meetings.· Everyone is welcome to attend. Michigan State University, which TRAVEL FIELD OPPORTUNITY. also uses ACC as an off-campus GAIN VALUABLE MARKETING extension. There are also books of EXPERIENCE WHILE EARNING business law on Arbitration Labor MONE.Y. · Relations that have been donated by the Lafarge Corporation. CAMPUS REPRESENTATIVES r _______ , NEEDEDIMMEDIATELYFOR HELP WANTED t The latest m technology m the tight against hazardous goose dung; SPRING BRE,(K TRIPS TO t HUNDRETDYSPWEISTEKLY f FLORIDA OR SOUTH PADRE please note the tiny goose fences which restrict the critters from ISLAND. CALL CAMPUS f WRITE: AT HOME! f MARKETING AT p O BOX 17 CLARK NJ defecating in the path of unsuspecting students. f . . ' . 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