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teSSa CoGman
StAFF Writer
Campus life canget addicting. Thebeautiful landscape,friendly faces, and helpful faculty can make a student feel safe andat home. We have spent years at school,networking and becoming famil-iar with everyone here. But oncegraduation arrives, the bubble
bursts, reality comes crashing down,
and students are thrown into thereal world, job or no job.I will be graduating fromCamosun this April from the Ap-
plied Communication Program and
I am getting antsy myself. Quite afew of my peers will be moving onto university, but I will be entering
the real world in hopes of pursuing
a career.But when April arrives, my stu-dent loan money will say “bye-bye”and I will be working two jobs just
to keep food in the cupboards while
searching for an ideal position.
Some students enter programs
they have no intention of pursuinga career in, but for students with a
clear goal in mind there’s a tendency
to lose your head after that gradua-tion cap hits the ground.Printing off resumes for Mc-Donalds and Fairway Market isn’t
very appealing, but to keep the cash
flowing until a career is found asnazzy uniform might be an un-fortunate possibility.But you can stop having res-taurant job-related nightmares,because there’s hope.
Each year, college graduates aresurveyed nine months after the end
of their program.The 2008 survey respondents
said they were 80 percent employed
at a job or business. Of these stu-dents, 88 percent reported they found their job within two monthsof actively looking and 73 percentsaid they were in a job directly related to their studies.Phew! That’s very good news.But with the job losses in BC, howaccurate is that survey this year?The economic crisis has every-one’s panties in a twist, but it’s notlike it’s going to last forever, folks.There’s an economic crisis every other decade and the world hasn’tcome crashing down just yet.Until we get past the mess leftby Bush’s mistakes, it might be alittle harder to find a career, butdon’t give up.Instead of printing off four-
dozen resumes and applying every-
where and anywhere, apply to the jobs you want and apply early.
Be professional, include a cover
letter, and don’t be stuck with no-where to go come graduation. And
hopefully Camosun’s employment
success rates will be even betternext year.The earlier we brace ourselvesfor the road ahead, the softer theride will be.
L e t t e r s
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Would you like fries with that?
andy roBertS
Contributing Writer
For the second Friday in a row,I step into the Campus Caf at Lans-downe, only to nd the sandwich
display empty, the soup urns downto their dregs, the pasta selection re-
duced to smithereens, and the pas-
try selection limited to a few mufns
that have seen better days.
My only choices seem to be deep-
fried junk, overpriced pizza, the
somewhat pathetic Euro Baguette,
or a rather pricey salad.
I ask about sandwiches and am
told some are being made; 25 min-
utes later there stands a row of ham
sandwiches, perfect for someonelike myself who neither eats hamnor red meat.Enough is enough. I’m tired of having my food selection whittleddown to nothing on a Friday after-noon or late in the day. I’m alsosick of Aramark touting their corncutlery and other recyclable condi-ments as a reason to charge higherprices—a responsible company should be eco-friendly as a matterof course. Aramark is a food provider forpeople of limited means and it con-
sistently fails to listen to customers
or serve customers’ needs.
It suddenly dawned on me whatI needed to do, and the solution wasstaring me in the face—boycott the
Caf completely.Rather than ll out surveys orwrite a letter, I decided to hit Ara-mark where it hurts by not givingthem my money. Ever.From now on, I’m bringingfood from home every day, withgranola bars, rice cakes, and fruitas a backup if I’m running late.
I’ll buy my coffee from a nearby coffee shop on my way into campus,
and anything else I need will come
from the bookstore, which is priced
lower than the Caf and alwaysdoes their utmost to stock itemson request.
Better still, I’ll exercise my right
to eat this stuff in the Caf right in
front of their noses. Big, hairy mam-
moth balls to you, Aramark.
I’ve heard enough excuses from
Aramark and refuse to believe they don’t make a prot or can’t lowerprices and raise quality.I’m pretty sure any other fran-
chise could make a prot and supply
a decent quality of food. If anotherfranchise set up a mobile cafe andpulled up in the parking lot oneday, an awful lot of money wouldbe made.So long, Aramark. You failedme for the last time.
Put the“e” back in womyn
I was a little con-fused when readingthe recent story,
Not a
gentleman’s club
[Womyn’s Centre
column, Feb. 4 issue], by ChloeMarkgraf.
At rst I thought there were just
shitloads of typos, but I soon real-ized the spelling of “womyn” wasintentional. What’s with that?Do they not want the word“men” involved with anythingfeminist? Lame! If I were a racist
(keyword “if”), would I change theway I spelt “Caucasian” to “Caucey-
sian” so that the word “Asian”didn’t appear? I don’t think so.Changing the way you spell“women” just so the word “men”doesn’t appear is ridiculous andimmature.I totally support equality foreveryone (men and women, andthe people in between), but stuntslike this make people think femin-
ists are just a bunch of bra-burning
yahoos.
eriC mCveiGh
CAMOSUN STUDENT
(Ed. note: For an explanationon the spelling of womyn in the
Womyn’s Centre columns, see Chloe
Markgraf’s column in the Jan. 21issue.)
Historical boo-boo!
Re:
Cameras offer powerful tool
for Palestinian struggle
, Jan. 21issue.Thanks for running this very interesting article. I was in Heb-ron myself once and remember itvividly.However, you need to print acorrection.In the accompanying article,
An endless struggle
by Staff WriterBrendan Kergin, he states, “Anagreement was struck with thePalestinians already living on theland to split it with the refugeesfounding Israel.”I fear Kergin has made a his-torical boo-boo! The Palestiniansagreed to no such thing.The United Nations imposed
the division, after much lobbying by
Jewish populations and, I believe,the British government.
SuSan SCott
COMMUNITY MEMBER
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