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European natio ns• and Japan ca used the Clinton admi nistr ation 10 vow to help develop nationa_l stand ards for job tram mg with prirate groups. The anno unce ment came after a study by and Labo r the Education depa rtme nts US the ed ,.,hich show Jacked in teach ing technical skills to those who do not atten d college. The admi nistr ation ;et a goal to set standards in one year.
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Stnrrw;i~:rcnge Desp ite some about t!~oncerns of of stude nts epossibility 1nfonn atio voting on misStud ent Cn, the Clark tion comme~ter renov a. on Nov. 2; tee decided W1th the re to !'roceed erend um vo~ova~on ref. to begin Dec.~ - sc eduied . Jane Leish ner tant .. dean of st~;i35s1sentsh, s was bsaid. There o muc ad info . . felt therr mat_,on that we time to co~:~ g~\. not be I ' Th cred e committee considpost Poning the vote b laet~ausc of rumors circu$Gs nft~; ong stude nts of ent cente r fees, lack of admi nistra tive supp ort for the project possi ble adver se efTeci,; on MSU's financial solvency, limited benefits to some stude nt groups and other concerns, Kath ryn Self, Clark Stud ent Cent er renov ation com::~t ee co-ch airpe rso n,
Dr. Howard Farre ll, ,'ice president of stude nt services, said MSU's current S15 "stud ent center fee, " which was approved by the Texa s state legislature years ago, would be suppl emented by a $20 increa se called a "stud ent union fee ." State law preve nts Texas schoo ls from raising th ei r "stud ent cente r fee" more than S20 without appro\'al by the stale legisl atnre . The propo sed raise must, and does , fit \\'ilhin the S20 limit. Rum ors that some of the renova ti on prpjec t's cost would be recovered through other fees may have originated in n con• fu sio n of th e "stud ent cente r fee" and "stud ent union fee" as separ ate fees, Farre ll said . The total fee , if the renovation referendum passes, will be S35 ·· not $35 per seme ste r hour, Farre ll
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Many firms , howll'er, do not plan on active recruiting on campus, according to the 1urvey. Resp ondi ng :lllployers plan to visit •.4 percent fewe r camPuses jn the 1993-94 retruiting seaso n than ~ey did last year. _Last year was dej~ bed in the surve y as Ii buyer's mark et" for Elilployers and that low ~ ation, :oupl ed with a g I job mark et kept l!icreases in st~tt ing lilaneslow. Only 37 perce nt of ~-Profit organ izatio ns government plan to I) ease hirin g, whi le Percent of servi ce · Ployees plan to hire .
Rodr iguez , univ ersit y presi dent, and Farre ll said they approve of the proje ct in its curre nt form. Rodr iguez said, however, that rumo rs of faculty disap prova l may have stemm ed from disapproval of earlie r, more prop osal s.Se e _ _ _ _ __, expe nsiv e _ some of which would have ~-_
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Ex-KGB officer tells about life in Russia
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BETH LEH EM,' Pa. iCPSJ ·· Alth ough companies are doing Jess recru iting on college camp uses this academic year, many employers are anticipating a bette r year ihan last year , the College Plac eme nt Council said. According to the council's Job Outlo ok 1994 report, 57 perce nt cf the 245 empl oyers responding in a surve y plan to hire more col lege gradu ates for the 1993-94 recru iting season than they did last year. They project, hiring 5.9 perce nt more graduates in 1993-94 than they actua lly hired
cost MSU over $8 million . Farrell said that while the original $7 million to $8 million pluns were too much for the unive rsity to bear, the curre nt plan is accep table . "We felt uncomfortable loading future gene ration s with a large bill, so cuts were made. The curre nt plan wi ll have no nega tive short term or long term effects on the university's financial footing," Farre ll said . Rodri1,'llez said, "The unive rsity can live with the curre nt bond issue ." Ferg uson , Gail comptroller, said the renovati on proje ct can receive suffic ient fundi ng because of savin gs generated from the two year waiting period now incorporated into the pla'n . She also said that altho ugh
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Photo/Brandon Olds as (center) as Bart the shirt off of Lalania Bocquin Shawna McGovern (far leO, rips Hagemann (left to right) look on in the latest MSU Noggle, Becky Mobley and JasonThe show opens at 8 p.m. Dec. 9. Theater production "Noises Off."
'Noises Off' illustrates comedy behind the set
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The Midw ester n State Univ ersity Thea ter Departm ent will pres ent "Noises Off' by Michael Frayn next weekend. Open ing night will begin at 8 p.m. Dec. 9. Othe r show times are: 8 p.m. Dec. 11 and 2:30 10 and Dec. . p.m. Dec. 12. The play will be done m g takin three acts, each place in the year 1982. The cast inclu des Sh a wna McG overn as
Dotty Otley ; Benj amin Olsen as Lloyd Dallas; Bart Noggle as Garry Lejeu'ne; Lalan ia Bocquin as Brooke Ashton; Allyson Slagle as Poppy Norton-Taylor; Jaas Hage mann son Fello wes; Fred erick Rebecca Mobley as Belinda Blair; Greg Jones as Tim Allgood; and Tommy Carey as Selsdon Mowbray. "Noises OJI" is unde r the direction of Laura Wilson, assis tant professor of
theater. The play's origins has some what of a stran ge beginning, Wilson said. "Fray n was watch ing the actors backstage and thoug ht that was funni er than what was happ ening on stage," Wilson said. Because of this, Frayn wrote aplay depic tingw hat happ ens on-stage as well
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tary for the Midw ester n Stat e as press secre Emb assy in Univ ersit y's Spec ial Sovi et ton, Kalu gin Progr am Serie s will spot- Was hing with the mast ers light former KGB Officer mingled a world . Maj.-Gen. Oleg Kalu gin of the medi A popu lar guest on the at 7 p.m. Dec. 9 in the party circuit, n ingto Wash Akin Auditorium. he obtai ned Amer ican session discu of topic The crets while succe ssful ly will be his exper ience as opera ting a team of KGB r-gen majo the youn gest agent s. eral of the KGB. Kalu gin spen t 30 years in the Kalu gin was expos ed Russ ian servi ce, 20 of by colu mnis t Jack those years in the Unite d Anderson and retur ned to State s in official and un- Moscow wher e he was official capac ities. In his name d head of foreig n lectu re he provides both a coun ter intell igenc e. He backg round and a look at made nume rous eriemies the futur e of Russ ian pol- in the KGB becau se of his itics from his point of youth and rapid rise in view. the organ izatio n. Kalugin began his career as an intelligence officer after le avin g Lenin grad Univ ersity in 1958. He then atten ded the Colu mbia School of Journ alism to becom e the with fami liar Amer ican lifest yle so he "ilKGB a as n retur could legal." Kalu gin opera ted the in man as the main KG B's pene tratio n of the Unite d State s. Duri ng his Ame rican stay throu gh the heat of the cold war, Kalu gin parti cipat ed in every Intel ligen ce oper ation , defection and East- West confr ontat ion that occurre d. Work ing as a corre spond ent in New York for Moscow Radio and la ter
His caree r was altere d after attem pting to defend a Sovi et scien tist and learn ing of "the list of Party offic ials who unto ucha ble" . were Kalu gin was offer ed a comfortable position if he agree d to rema in silen t. He decided to talk and was attac ked publi cly by Gorb achev and strip ped of his rank. Kalu gin decided rathe r than defec t to anot her coun t,ry he would do what he could to save his own. Ol eg Kalu gin curre ntly lives in Moscow where ho is writing a book abou t hi s story . Kalugin's prese nta lfon is free nnd open to th e publi c.