Miami Hurricane, November 11, 1977

              Elimination Of Attrition Is Goal
Job Choice* Simplified By Course
Retention Discussed At Luncheon
By MARGO RAMIN Hurrlcant stall Writ«
The School of Education is offering an experimental course, EDP 100, "Career Exploration and Life Planning."
It is designed for undergraduates who may be experimenting indecision regarding the relationships of their personal and academic goals with opportunities in the work world. The purpose of the course is to help the undergraduates understand themselves and the decisionmaking process.
[Jr. William Spino. assistant dean of the School of Education said, "Basically, this course is designed with the purpose of helping students take a look at their college work and relate to it in the working world.”
"I think this course meets a need in today's society," Spino said. "The University is a big place with many possible majors, and it gets confusing for a student to decide what to pick out for the future. A student can get choice anxiety from so many things to choose frtjm."
EDP 100 try tries to generate an awareness of individual values and attitudes which influence an individual's view of the world of work.
"One assignment is to go out and interview a person in your interested profession," Spino said. "One girl interviewed a buyer and learned a great deal about career opportunities and options.
"Another girl is having difficulty interviewing a social worker But I feel it is definitely still a worthwhile activity."
The course provides a systematic review of individual aptitudes and abilities which constitute a basis for exploring many career pathways.
"We took the Strong Campbell Interest Inventory test in class. This test does not test your aptitude or your motivation, but it measures your interest. I found the test to be definitely beneficial." student Sharon Silver said.
The class is designed to expand the students’s awareness of current societal trends in relationship to work and leisure, as well as their awareness of economic trends which influence the availability of work in our society.
"Some people are accused ol being •workaholics,’" Spino said. "This course also teaches how to balance one's work and leisure."
EDP 100 provides students with basic tools necessary for approaching prospective employers.
"We help students learn how to identify resources on campus to help find a job," he said, "as well as focusing on how to prepare resumes and interviews for example.
"Any student at the University is eligible to take this course. Freshmen to seniors from every school are represented There is a total University flavor to it."
It will be a valuable elective for undecided students who have not selected a major and are unsure about their choice and for students who may be experiencing academic diffi*
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\\ innie The Pooh!
Floats representing almost every University organization and group paraded down Miracle Mile last Monday night. Pictured is the 9«>0 Corn-
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plex rendition of Winnie the Pooh in spectacular colors. The float truly managed to capture the Homecoming Theme of ‘A Salute To Disney, • and also proved to be a crowd pleaser. The parade winner will be announced tonight at the Homecoming Dance at the Sheraton Four Ambassadors Hotel, featuring Chubby Checker. The dance will conclude this year's Homecoming festivities.
By CYNTHIA I.CH1EFA
N«wj Editor
Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) President’ Allan I.ubel played the piano, Senate Speaker Jose C'antillo sang, and administrators ate boxed lunches, while Vice President for Student Affairs William Butler, assisted by Director of the Bureau of Measurement and Research William Goodwin verbally and visually planted the seeds for "An Environment for Student Retention."
At a topic luncheon Monday in the Student Union, Butler and <¡oodwm discussed the problem that haunts every university—attrition.
Goodwin began the two-hour presentation with the results of a survey carried out last semester by the Office of Student Affairs and results of a telephone campaign in which freshmen who failed to return to UM this year were asked to state the factors which affected their attrition.
"According to the American College Testing Program, to maintain a stable enrollment, the University must attract 2.5 new students for every one that drops out. At a time when competition among colleges to attract good students is increasing and at a University which depends on tuition dollars to meet its budget as ours does, this relationship under-, scores the fact that attrition is a campus wide problem. It affects everyone who is a part of this University," Goodwin said
Goodwin said that, in the telephone survey, it was revealed that the main reason that males leave is because of financial difficulties, and females leave because they want to attend universities closer to their homes
"When the personal reasons which students Rive tor lesvlna were analyzed through ln-depth exit
interviews," Goodwin said, "several trends emerged: 1. Isolation—stu dents report they are unable to make friends They have little in common with other students. They' don't feel that they belong
2.	Boredom—students complain of overlap with high school and uninspired teaching.
3.	Irrelevance—students report they can't see that they are making progress toward their career goal or they are not making progress toward gaining a career goal
4.	Dissonance—the University wasn't what they expected The University didn't care about stu-
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First H hitr Miss Si. Croix
Student Selected In St. Croix Pageant
By BARBARA BALOGH
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Sevena Steinmann. the first white woman ever to be narnetl Mi»s St Croix came to UM from an island in
the Caribbean Sea. but she's not going back except to visit She camr here, from St Croix, only 28 miles long and 10 miles wide, but it Is the largest of thethree major U.S. Virgin Islands.
“Eve outgrown there, and I wouldn't have opportunity for advancement in my chosen field," she said.
Steinmann is a Communications major and hopes someday to have a
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By CYNTHIA I. CHIEF A
N*WY Editor
Sunday morning may be a time of rest for the dormitory maintenance staff, but it wasn't a time of rest for Vice President for Student Affairs I William Btiller and A ssni i.iiDirec*
i'or for Physical Environment Jack Sargent, who last Sunday took an k a m walking tour through all five dorms in order to assess damages and maintenance..
"It is quite evident lhal when Physical Plant did their review of the housekeeping program in the dorms, and concluded lhal they could cut hack, they grossly underestimated what was needed to keep the dorms clean, especially on weekends, and this must be corrected," Butler said.
Last spring the University originated a program initialed SMAC (Student Maintenance Advisory Committee) which Is purposed to inform Residence Halls through student representatives of the areas in need of maintenance in the dorms At the same time, the maintenance was cut on weekends. When Butler was informed of this, he asked that work-study students be employed to at least pick up unsightly trasti. This program received very little cooperation from the work-study students, and maintenance was again virtually non-existant on weekends On the tour, Butler and Sargent s*io they were shocked gt things that Sunday morning student risers
take for granted
A chair was throw n off the sixth floor of Pearson an air conditioner leaked cooling fluid over Mahoney’s floors, water fountains were ripped off the walls, wall paint was peeling in the towers, refrigerators were literally ripped apart as were vending machines in f*Hl), a window was broken in Eaton Hall and repaired with old Hurricanes, and a fire hose was tampered with in Eaton Hall.
"There is no reason for this. There has been a gross neglect, and what is needed is an infusion of workers to at least do some cosmetic work," Butler said.
Sargent said that there just is not enough help on the weekends to-keep up with the damage and mess that accumulates during this time.
While on this tour. Butler received the germ for the "Awareness Weekend" which he consequently announced at the topic luncheon on Monday afternoon.
Any interested administrators or facultv members who wish to spend Nov ik and 1» in the dorms beginning with Happy Hour and ending with lunch in the cafeteria, can sign up in my office or call x-4922," Butler said	.
-I think what is needed is an attitude of cooperation among students, maintenance and the Administration." he said.
Butler also mentioned that Hous-
Miami Hurrican* ALAN JAY MARCUS
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Vice Prebidenl Butler Examines Vending Machine
. . . student i andalism 'inexcusable'
career in radio and TV broadcasting
Prior to 1917. when the U.S. took control of the three islands, fhe Danish West India Comapany controlled them.
"The public has only been able to vote for governor in the past few years." she said Before that, the President of the U.S. appointed him.
Steinmann said, that there are racial problems in St. Croix, which is 85 per cent black, but that the conflict is among the younger generation.
"Life is better for the lower class blacks than here in the U.S.," she said.
The school system is operated In the same way as in the U.S. consisting of public, parochial and private schools. The only difference is that there are two shifts in St. Croix
Steinmann said the public schools in St. Croix are terrible and there are some children who are still illiterate after graduation.
“Drug and alcohol problems arp no different in St. Croix than for teenagers in the U.S.," Steinmann said.
"Alcohol is very cheap in the Islands. and several rum factories are located in St. Croix." she said
"Tourism is our main industry, but one of the largest oil refineries is in St. Croix," she said.
The native language spoken in St. Croix is Cruzan. a very fast broken English combined with Spanish and French.
"The people eat a lot of chicken, fish and a native dish called 'johnny-cakes,' which is a deep-fried mixture of water, sugar and flour." Steinmann said.
Three major types of music are calypso. reggae and soul, hut Steinmann said that the natives prefer calypso. which is played most often.
All U.S. holidays are observed in St. Croix, including "famous person" holidays, when notable people of St. Croix are honored.
Steinmann said that at Christmas time they have a ‘village' set up around a stage, where the merchants sell all types of festival items.
"We also have tramps, which are steel bands dancing in the streets," .she said.
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Hurricane
Elections
Applications for the jxisitions of Editor and Business Manager of the Hurricane for the Spring 1978 semester may be picked up in the Hurricane Business Office, Room 221 of the Student Union.
Elections will take place at the Board of Student Publications meeting on Nov. 18, and the deadline for filing will be noon on the 18th.
All candidates must be screened by Hurricane Senior Advisor George Southworth before the selections take place Southworth may be reached in the L-l Bldg . or by calling the Communications Department, x-2265.
All students who wish to apply must be full-time undergraduates with a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.0