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Theater students face job market By Sam Stachurski Staff Reporter With the economy in the shape it is, some students have a hard time finding a job right after graduation, specifically one that relates to their major. For Performing Arts students, it can be even harder to find a job. However, there are steps that are taken to help these students prepare for the job market ahead of them. Performing Arts students may have years of hard work ahead of them as far as auditioning goes, but Jay Berkow, director of music theatre performance at Western Michigan University, said the faculty does as much as they can to prepare their students for real work experience. “The Musical Theater program is a BFA program, so it is our goal to prepare the students so that they leave the university and are ready to work,” Berkow said. “The intention is not that they’re to move onto grad school. Some of them choose to, but the intention is that they are ready to face the job market, to audition competitively in the industry and get work. Many of them are doing very, very well. We’ve had very good results with students who are leaving here and can convert their education into real working opportunities.” In addition to classes on auditioning and stage reading, the seniors in the Musical Theatre Department have their own specific class to help them with auditioning professionally, Berkow said. “Their senior fall we have a showcase class where we prepare our seniors, and it’s like an advanced workshop on auditioning,” Berkow said. “They have a song that they will in fact sing, and audition with in New York and then we fly our entire class to New York City for about four days. We have a showcase where we invite casting directors and agents from New York to come see them. We also offer several workshops while they’re there, with a couple different casting directors to try to help them jumpstart their career. Once the auditions are done, students will also have the opportunity, if the agents are interested, to meet with them and hopefully get their careers rolling in New York. Berkow said they have a lot of students that get work specifically from the New York Showcase. Casting directors, managers and agents
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WMU students Lauren Skrzyniarz and Kaitlyn Renee perform a dance together in Studio B of the Dalton Center at Collideoscope, the School of Dance’s senior show for the spring 2011 semester. tend to be the people who primarily come to the showcase. Berkow said they bring all those people to the showcase, so there are also a lot of casting directors who will call students back right away and offer them roles, right out of showcase. Or else, several months will go by and they will cast a project where they might remember one of the students and they will call them back. Regardless of the outcome, dance major Genna Carey said auditions are intense. “A dancer has to be prepared for
anything to happen. We never know what could happen in these auditions with choreographers,” Carey said. “I have been put in a situation where a choreographer takes about three minutes or less to throw out multiple eight counts of intricate choreography and then asks to start the audition in groups of three with one chance to perform it, and then cuts half of the people right after.” Carey said she has been asked to run across a room over and over like she was stepping on shattered glass and that would be what a choreographer would base the audition
on. “It is different every time and dancers are in a room full of 80 or more trying to be selected for the same part by usually only one choreographer,” Carey said. Performing Arts majors need to have a resume prepared with them, although the resume is quite different than a typical one. “Besides the basic name, age, height and weight, a performer’s resume consists of choreographic works that they have performed, choreographers they have worked with, the different places they have
performed and the places they have studied at and under the direction of a specific teacher or teachers,” Carey said.
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Student band draws inspiration from youth By Craig Manning Staff Reporter Over the past few years, Blake Morgan, a junior Vocal Performance and Music Education major at Western Michigan University, has been involved in a plethora of musical endeavors, both personal and academic. Morgan, who participates in both the Gold Company and the University Chorale (two of the school’s most selective vocal ensembles), has also gained an eclectic musical palette over his two and a half years at WMU and many of those foreign sounds and genres color the sound of his latest project. That project is an EP called Sleepaway, recorded under the moniker of Goodnight Mr. Max, a tribal-infused, orchestral freakfolk project that Morgan formed
with his longtime friend and collaborator Graham Liddell. The two celebrated their album release on Jan. 7, with a show at the Plymouth Coffee Bean. Morgan and Liddell, both natives of Livonia, booked the Plymouth Coffee Bean months in advance for a cozy, intimate concert setting. The coffee house was packed with audience members and half a dozen musicians, including a string quartet and additional vocalists from WMU. Morgan and Liddell played the EP from start to finish, bringing in other musicians to recreate the studio work they did for the project. “We brought in 12 to 15 different musicians to play various instruments or sing harmonies,” Morgan said. “My dad and my girlfriend both sang on this record.” In addition to employing a full slate of musicians to flesh out their
sound, the duo, who cite Animal Collective, Sufjan Stevens, Fleet Foxes, Anathallo and Beirut among their influences, employed a completely collaborative songwriting process throughout the creation of the record. Morgan described how both he and Liddell influenced each other, employing many of the skills they have gained in their college studies. “Graham majors in Creative Writing at Grand Valley, so he wrote most of the lyrics and I did most of the music,” Morgan said. “I drew on a lot of what I’ve learned about music theory in the making of this record, especially in writing the instrumental arrangements and vocal harmonies. Many of the tribal sounds we use on this record were inspired by a class I took at Western called Non-Western Music, and the vocal harmonies were influenced by my experience from
singing in ensembles, from jazz to classical to barbershop.” Morgan also cited his experience from Music Education classes as useful, especially in the preparation and management of musicians he had to oversee in coordinating the album release show. The name Goodnight Mr. Max is a hybrid of children’s book references, alluding to Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd’s “Goodnight Moon” and Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are,” and the album’s lyrical content reflect themes of both books. “I started writing the lyrics in high school, so there’s a fair amount of angst in a few of the tracks,” Liddell said. “In ‘Where the Wild Things Are’, Max discovers that there’s no line between childhood and adulthood where everything starts to make sense and I found myself in that situation. I used to
just shut off and go into a hibernation process rather than face my issues, but I realized that it’s better to face them head on. The last track is me waking up to that realization.” Morgan elaborated on the band name, the meaning behind the children’s book allusions and the album’s structure. “‘Goodnight Moon’ and ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ were two of our favorite books as children, and both have themes of growing up and a loss of innocence,” he said. “The record is a cycle of sleep and dreams and it’s basically about growing up and saying goodnight and goodbye to our childhood and innocence.” Sleepaway is now available online at http://goodnightmrmax. bandcamp.com/album/sleepaway for $7.
Detroit Tigers hold luncheon at Kalamazoo By Bryan Paas Staff Reporter If a student has ever wanted to sit down to lunch with the 2011 American League Central champions, the Detroit Tigers, then Friday is the chance. The Detroit Tigers will be on Western Michigan University’s campus Friday, Jan. 20 for a noon luncheon that will take place inside the Bernhard Center. The event is being put on by the WMU Family Experience who will host 16 Tiger players, as well as WMU alumni
and current Tigers general manager David Dombrowski. Some of the big name players in attendance will be All-Star catcher Alex Avila, third baseman Brandon Inge, outfielder Ryan Raburn, starting pitcher Rick Porcello, relief pitcher Joaquin Benoit, and outfielder Delmon Young. First base coach Tom Brookens, infield coach Rafael Belliard and bullpen coach Mike Rojas will also be in attendance. “The event is being put on for current WMU students, alumni and anyone else who is interested
in the community,” said Kelsey Haering, manager of the WMU Family Experience. The event will kick off at 12:15 p.m. with Dan Dickerson, the Detroit Tigers radio announcer, opening the event with a speech. The event will move into a 30 minute promotional video that will be played during the luncheon. Dave Dombrowski will also be speaking at the event about the upcoming 2012 season. No personal pictures or autographs will be allowed at the event, but fans in attendance will be able
to take pictures during the event and will be able to enter a drawing for Tigers memorabilia and ticket packages. “This event is just a great way to get people on campus talking,” said Haering After winning the American League Central for the first time in 24 years and making their first playoff appearance since going all the way to the World Series in 2006, there is excitement among the fans about the potential this team has in the 2012 season. The Tigers will start their sea-
son this year most likely with their reining AL Cy Young Award Winner and League MVP Justin Verlander taking the mound on Thursday, April 5, at Comerica Park when the Tigers open the season up against the AL East power Boston Red Sox. If you wish to attend the event, you can contact the WMU Family Experience at (269) 387-8746. Tickets for the luncheon are $10 and during the event all parking around the Bernhard Center will be free for people attending the event.
Professors connect MLK legacy to students By Nathan Palcowski Staff Reporter Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy still resonates with students today who use his platforms to address economic injustice in the higher education system, according to social work professors. The topics were discussed on Wednesday, Jan. 18, as part of a presentation about the legacy of MLK and his impact on today’s society. A crowd gathered in a classroom in Brown Hall at Western Michigan University, to hear the presenta-
tion. In the hour and a half event, people in attendance were treated to speakers such as Kalamazoo City Commissioner Don Cooney, along with Dr. Allen Webb, a social work professor at WMU. “Dr. King’s vision was to save the soul of this great country,” said Cooney. Speakers juxtaposed MLK’s vision and actions with current economic injustice in the U.S. They discussed how MLK would have tackled these topics. “MLK would have been involved in Occupy Wall Street,” said Webb.
“He would have felt like he had to.” This event has been ongoing for many years and is put together by many sponsors, such as the College of Education and Social Work along with the Department of English and History. The focus of the event was MLK, but it also brought together students who were interested in teaching or social work. “I just came for a class, but I learned that MLK’s words easily correspond to today,” Dan Blake, a junior at WMU majoring in social work, said. “That’s just crazy to think about.”
The main keynote speaker was Commissioner Cooney, who is also a social work professor at WMU. Cooney related MLK’s visions and spoken words to college students today and gave some friendly advice. “Work hard, because this could be your only shot,” said Cooney. “Don’t just be here to pass classes, but to learn.” Cooney, along with Webb, spoke of the impact of economic injustice on college students and how MLK impacted the nation that students live in today.
“Dr. King had to deal with injustice back in those days too,” said Webb. “It’s a scary thought that since then, injustice has just been rising.” Webb has also created a website for WMU students called teachMLK.com. On the website is information about MLK and his life. As for Cooney, the invitation to speak was a no-brainer. “I love coming and speaking to young college kids about topics like this,” Cooney said.
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Interning leads to job opportunities By Nathan Palcowski Staff Reporter
“To get ahead of the game, internships are the best way to go,” said Wade Cutler, a communication professor at Western Michigan University. In today’s job market an internship can be the key to landing a job. “Internships provide stu-
dents with wonderful opportunities to extend the knowledge and skills they Internships are a way for have learned in their classstudents to get ahead in toes,” said Dr. Jocelyn Steinke, day’s society. They allow journalism advisor. students to gain valuable Though internships are experience in the profession not required by all majors, they choose to go into in admany are adding then to the dition to making the resume curriculum. The College of more desirable. Education, for example, requires that you have an internship in order to graduate. “If you want to get your teaching degree, you at least have to have one or two semesters of internships,” said Lynn Lee, director of field placement at the College of Education. As for the Journalism program, JRN 4900, which Kallie Strazdas/Western Herald is a class for jourBFA photography major, Mario Lamancusa, said his internship nalism majors, is a with the wood shop is helpful when it comes to making frames fast track to gaining vital work experifor his photography classes.
ence. “All the students who have been seeking internships for JRN 4900 this semester have found placements with organizations,” said Steinke. The number of internships available is infinite. Whether you are a freshman or a senior, they are seemingly always available. However, many require deadlines to get information like resumes and cover letters in. “Some national programs have deadlines late in the Fall semester or early spring semester,” said Steinke. “Students need to think of applying for internships in the fall.” They can be a very selective process and quite hard to get. Specifically for freshmen, the internship market is slowly decreasing. “It’s so hard trying to get an internship as a freshman,” said Bronson Goodell, a 19-year-old majoring in pre-law. “It’s like they don’t take me seriously.” Some have found intern-
ships a way to experience the world in which they want to have a profession in. Carter Campbell and Mike Noblet, alumni of Western Michigan University in 2003, had that opportunity. “We got to have a summer internship with Senator Carl Levin in Washington D.C.,” said Campbell. “It was an amazing experience and it Kallie Strazdas/Western Herald really set me Lamancusa builds a frame during his up for my fuinternship for a photography class. ture.” Though Internships can lead stusome internships are not dents down a path of new paid, the connections stu- possibilities and open the dents make throughout can door to exciting, new opultimately lead to a job in portunities. the future.
Experience is key to finding a job By Kassie Charnley Staff Reporter Students are reminded seemingly everyday of the job market that awaits them upon graduation. Endless amounts of websites advertising the best job listings are updated daily and another is hitting the web. With a collection of tutorials and helpful articles on how to write the proper resume, Experience.com is a website that Western Michigan University students can use to look for a part-time on or off-campus job, an internship or even a fulltime career. In addition to resumes, Experience.com provides articles about preparing for interviews, what companies graduating students should be looking to work for, as well as the option to search for jobs or internships through the site. “More than a bank of resumes or a traditional job board, we
help people understand their email the company in showing ininterests and aptitudes, and how terest in the job posting. Under the About Us tab on Exthey can apply their talents in perience.com, it says, “You can acthe workforce. Our community, at its core, empowers the next cess our network, data and leadergeneration workforce to access a ship team today to help guide Gen world of possibilities,” the About Y into the working world, because unlocking potential is the key to Us tab explains about the website. An estimated five million success for every individual and students and recent graduates organization… and success comes use the Experience network to w i t h Experience.” With five millook for entry-level jobs and get lion students and information for life after college recent graduates and the professional world. WMU Michigan’s is just one of 3,800 colleges and unemployment logged on and universities nationwide that are in rate the Experience Network. The one thing that Experience. com stresses is that the website is not just a typical job board with job postings from employers. The site claims to “bring the employers to the people.” Some job postings allow of grads move for users to upload their reback in with sumes right to the posting their parents and apply from there, while others require users to call or
using Experience.com in their job searches and 130,000 employers hiring college graduates through Experience, students can log into such a site and start searching their options and hopefully, one day, reach success through Experience.
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Taking non-prescribed drugs can lead to death, doctor says By Katie King Staff Reporter For many students, big tests, midterms and finals are a time when studying and concentrating become vital. Some turn to coffee and energy drinks; others take Adderall, a prescription pill.
Adderall is a prescription pill that is a central nervous system stimulant. It affects chemicals in the brain and nerves that contribute to hyperactivity and impulse control, according to the National Library of Medicine. “When people take prescriptions without an appropriate clinical evaluation, they are putting their health
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and life at risk,” Lisa Marshall, M.D. at Sindecuse Health Center, said. Regardless of the type of drug, antibiotic or Adderall, Marshall said, taking non-prescribed medication is potentially harmful and may be considered drug abuse. “[Adderall] can be a very addictive drug if not used correctly,” Matt Kujawa, a senior at WMU, said. “Adderall can really mess with your body which is the reason why I have been trying to take it less and not be so reliant on it.” Kujawa was prescribed Adderall six years ago and has mixed feelings about it. “I think that it is very helpful to me because when I haven’t taken [Adderall] for the day I have a hard time trying to stay on task or focus,” Kujawa said. “Without it I would have hard time trying to get anything done.” “It does have its downsides though,” Kujawa said. “It causes me to have trouble trying to fall asleep at night and there are many times when I forget to eat because I lose my appetite.” Clinicians dose and prescribe drugs based on provider expertise, according to Marshall. Various factors such as body measurements, exam findings, and
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medical and drug allergy history are taken into account before writing prescriptions, Marshall said. “Never take a prescription medication that has not been prescribed by a licensed clinician,” she added. “I feel that only you should be taking your medicine,” Kujawa said. “They were meant for you to take, so that is the only person who should take them.” There can be health consequences of taking another person’s prescription medication, according to
Marshall. The bodily consequences include drug rashes, seizures, abnormal heart function, difficulty breathing, mental status changes, and death. Other consequences can include financial stress related to emergency room visits; legal issues, poor academic performance, and missed class time, Marshall said. “Prescription drugs should only be taken with direction from a trained health professional.”
(located in the Dolomite Mountains of Northern Italy). Jeff Moore, a communications major, is the first student from WMU to participate. He is in Italy this semester. The CIMBA program started in 1985 and has grown over time. More than 1,200 MBA graduates around the world and 700 students attend each year. Students personally develop skills such as confidence, leadership, and the ability to stay connected at global levels. The international experience gives students a chance to explore Europe, embrace Italian culture and enhance your resume. “They keep you busy during the spring and fall semester. They have two long weekends during the semesters to allow students to travel around Europe. Everyone we talked to would say, ‘I’ve been to England, to London, to Spain.’ It’s another
part of the experience students are excited to be a part of,” said CarasTomczak. There are currently 36 universities that participate in the CIMBA program and all are accredited by AACSB. These include University of Michigan, Purdue University, Rutgers University, University of Missouri, Louisiana State University, Iowa State University and University of Iowa. For more information about this program, you can visit the main website at CIMBAItaly.com, the Haworth College of Business Global Business Center located in Room 2320 Schneider Hall or visit the WMU study abroad office located in Ellsworth. The summer 2012 trip’s deadline to apply is Feb. 15.
WMU students study abroad in Italy By Catie Dymond Staff Reporter Western Michigan University has recently joined the Consortium Institute of Management and Business Analysis, the CIMBA Italy study-abroad program, that allows students to travel with majors in business, journalism and communications. This CIMBA program is one of the largest study-abroad programs for business students and has the ability to easily transfer credits through the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). “This program is so organized and so well run, that there are no questions that go unanswered. You don’t have to worry about things such as where to live, what to eat or where to get medical attention. They really take care of you,” said
Barbara Caras-Tomczak, advisor of both the MBA Program and the Global Business Center. This opportunity is offered spring, summer and fall semesters to undergraduates, graduate students, or faculty on CIMBA’S campuses. The summer study abroad is shortened from May 14 to June 8. Students have an opportunity to work summer jobs back home after the program since it runs for under a month. The cost is projected to be about $15,440 for spring and fall semesters (without scholarships or financial aid). Tuition, on-campus residence living, book rental, linen and towel fees, housekeeping, bus rides to train station for travel breaks, dinners and three gourmet Italian meals are part of the whole study-abroad package. The summer semester cost is $5,490 for session 1
and $3,390 for session 2. “Another great advantage to interested students is the available option to apply as a resident assistant in the dorms while in Italy. RAs receive around a $3,000 deduction from the overall cost. Business majors may also receive an additional $2,000 scholarship,” said CarasTomczak. Every semester has a list of different classes offered like global consumers, international marketing, travel writing, Italian for travelers and managerial accounting. Students must have at least a 2.75 GPA, be 18 or older, own a passport and enroll for at least six credit hours. The undergraduate programs take place in Paderno del Grappa, Italy, while the MBA executive and summer graduate study abroad programs are located in Asolo, Italy