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Vol. XIV, No. 4
A New Direction In Placement By SR. PATRICIA
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Plans are under way for enlargement of post-graduate placement activities here at Cabrini College during the spring semester. In addition to the traditional Career Day (set now for March), there will be several small seminartype meetings planned with representatives from companies with unique or diversified career programs. An example of such was the "Federal Career Seminar" held on January 20 when four representatives of various branches of federal employment met with interested students. At that meeting, Miss Joan Barbell from the Army Engineer Corps brought out the point that a new college graduate will rarely land a job with which he or she is really satisfied on the first try. Miss Barbell emphasized over and over the dangers of "jumping at the firs t position offered" or "becoming frozen in one position for fear of changing jobs." The seminar on "Library Career s" this Wednesday (de, cribed elsewhere in this paper) is another example of a placement activity directed to students who are majoring in any or all of the fields of study -offeredhere at Cabrini. I am presently investigating the National Directory of College Graduates, which, if Cabrini girls indicate their willingness to participate, could add meaningful dimensions to their search for a career position in cities and towns far away l n.,m Radnor. With this plan, prospective graduates could file a detailed resume (forms for which would be provided by . the company) which would then be indexed and cross-indexed by their field of study, occupational interests, and locational preferences. AU resumes would then be collated in a national catalogue and distributed to a minimum of 25,000 employers who are desirous o( hiring graduates. With such a program, for example, a 1970 Cabrini graduate with a degree in psychology, who is interested in social-welfare work or in special education in either New York City or Rochester would have her name and resume automatically sent to every employer in that category and in those cities. Further information will be made available by the end of this month . In addition , copies of the 1970 Federal Careers Directory for
Thoughts For the Day "Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, that stand upon the thre shold of the new ." -Edmund Waller "Nothing dream ."
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the states of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia will shortly be available in my office, A bulletin board display on career possibilities for women in New York City will be featured this week. However, I feel the most important concept to be stressed in placement activity is that investigating career possibilities is NOT just a senior class activity-the time to begin such investigations is freshmen year If and every year thereafter. each student took advantage of the opportunities presented to consider seriously the direction of her future, there would be no need for pre-gra ,duation panic. There is nothing to be gained from postponing post..gr~duate job ccnsid-erations and there may be a great deal to be lost.
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Celam Atten~ : CICOP Conference The Latin American Bishops' Council's (CELAM) top-level decision-makers have confirmed. that they will attend the Seventh Annual National Catholic Cooperation Inter - American Program (CICOP) conference. The letter of confirmation received from CELAM headquarters in Bogota, Colombia praised CICOP as "an important channel of Latin American communication" and a "most highly regarded inter-American forum ." The CICOP conference will discuss the theme "New Dimensions in Hemispheric Realities" at its 1970 sessions to be held from February 5th through 8th at the Marriott Motor Hotel in Washington, D.C. The CELAM officials attending the 1970 CICOP conference will be CELAM's President Archbishop A velar Brandao Vilela of Brazil; First Vice-President, Archbishop Marcos McGrath of Panama; Second Vice-President, Auxiliary Bishop Luis Eduardo Henriquez of Venezuela and General Secretary, Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo Pironio of Argentina. CELAM has taken an active interest in CICOP since the inter-American cooperation program was initiated in 1964. CELAM represents some 650 bishops in 22 Latin American countries including those French English and Portuguese cultural heritage. CELAM is now considered a model for Third World Churches seeking to increase episcopal collegiality by promoting an efficient organizational structure of national Church policy-making bodies.
Sr. lmmaculata In New York
Peter Ndiege Lectures AtCabrini Peter Ndiege, brother of the former Minister of Economic Planning and Development of Kenya, Tom Mboya, lectured at Cabrini College, Radnor, on Tuesday, Jan. 27, at 8:00 PM. He spoke on the political status of Kenya with reference to the overall political situation . in Africa. His brother, Tom Mboya, was assassinated during the summer of 1969 while holding the Kenyan Cabinet post. Mboya, a member of the Kenya National Assembly, was also General Secretary of the Kenya African National Union, the country's ruling party. Peter Ndiege is an instructor in minority. history at the Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC), 1225 N. Broad Street, Phila.
Sister Immaculata is now in Columbia Hospital in New York City. She will probably be there for at least six weeks, or until her leg heals properly. She would greatly appreciate it if some of the girls from Cabrini would write to her and cheer her up a bit. The address is as follows: Sr . Immaculata MSC Columbia Hospital 227 East 19th Street New York, New York, 10003
SGA NEWS From now on all SGA meetings will be held on Mondays, 6:00 PM. The SGA Newsletter will come out every other week instead of weekly as is presently done. It will be published on alternate weeks from the newspaper. In this way any important information which is not able to be put in Loquitur will still be published for the be'.1efit of the students.
On Wednesday, January 21, the Department of Public Instruction came to Cabrini to interview the members of the various departments and make recommendations about the curriculum. Two of the departments interviewed were the Math and English departments, where the DPI's main concern was the education of secondary school teachers. On meeting with the Math department, the following topics were discussed. DPI asked if the teachers of our Math department would be able to look in on the student teachers as they teach at their various schools. Mr. McGee answered that the faculty will be able to look in on the students, and that in addition to this, in the near future, these student teachers will give at least one lecture to a freshman class here at Cabrini. Mr. Satlow also added that the Math department . is considering a math course that will be given to Seniors b~fore they begin student teaching, serving as a "refresher course " to fill in the 2-3 year gap since their last encounter with math. The only problem that would then face the department is that of finding new staff members to teach the possible 60-70 additional students.
_ Since, at the present time, there are so few secondary education majors in the English department, teacher education is incidental. The DPI recommended courses in Linguistics, which are required by secondary schools. They emphasized that the student should be familiar with every area she would be asked to deal with while teaching . They approved of the courses that are now being offered, especially those dealing with writing (of which the department plans to offer more) , and of the program the department has which affords its students the opportunity to view dramatic productions in the area. The DPI plans to eventually do away with the degree in English, per se, in colleges, and to offer, instead, a degree in Communication Arts , where the student will be able to major in English, Speech, Drama, or Journalism.
Rocket ellerSpeaks Out OnThe Church InLatin America Governor Nelson Rockefeller has submitted hi report on the quality of life in Latin America praising the Church in those countries as "agents for change" with one breath and criticizing them as "vulnerable to subversion" with another. A spokesman for the Latin American hierarchy rejected the implied conclusion that the Church should stay in its place ( the sanctuary) and leave socioeconomic development to the military. Agnelo Cardinal Rossi of Brazil (the largest Catholic country in the world), Chairman of the Brazilian Bishops' Conference, explained that Governor Rockefeller greatly underestimated the Church's achievements in promoting human advancement. "Rockefeller is minimizing the competence of the Church," Cardinal Rossi said. "The report bypasses the tremendous influence of the Church throughout Latin America by assigning it merely a cooperative role with the government poograms. The document fails to recognize the constructive work of the Church in the field of human progress. Timely advice by the Latin America Division of the U.S. Catholic Conference could have produced a more timely and accurate view of the Church in Latin America." The Division for Latin America is totally committed to stimulating spiritual and material development in Latin .America by assisting projects whose productivity has been thoroughly investigated and proven. The Division for Latin America agrees with Cardinal Rossi that Church work in these vital areas must not be limited to cooperation with government programs . The Latin American Church has taken the initiative and launch-
ed many programs seeking to restore human dignity and selfSufficiency in accordance with the Gospel's call to actively promote social justice. The Division for Latin America assists such projects seeking to promote integral human development. This essential work depends directly on your willingness to generously contribute to the U.S . Catholic National Annual Collection for Latin America to be held in your parish on January 25th unless rescheduled to conform with local circumstances. With your help the Latin American Church's active role in promoting religious and socio-economic advancement
The '70s, A Good Decade For Latin America "There are strong indications that the decade of the 70s will be a time of dramatically increased Latin American awareness among formally apathetic segments of the U.S. Catholic population." That prediction was made by a spokesman for the Division for Latin America of the U.S. following a report that over 100 dioceses have volunteered to hold the U.S. Catholic National Annual ..Collection for Latin America. "This high degree of voluntary participation by the U.S. bishops reflects a ground swell of interest in Latin America on the part of Catholics in dioceses throughout the United States," said Kenneth Boxler, Administrative Director of the Division for Latin America. "The intensity of the Latin American Church's struggle to implement the Gospel message of social justice despite persistent and even violent opposition ( Continued on Page 3)