No fibs on the resume

ployers actually look at the skills column and expect you to really be skillful at them. Go figure.

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I can look outside every morning around 9:35 a.m. and see cars circling the Founder's Hall parking lot. Besides almost causing accidents, most of the peoPaul Williams pie give up and staff writer park at the Dixon Center.

There are problems with the parking lot of Founder's Hall. The next time you walk to your car, check out all of the glass lying around. Also, notice all of the people walking from the Dixon Center's parking lot all the way to Founder's Hall. I think that it's possible to avoid these problems.

First, the problem of too many cars in the parking lot can be easily solved. Make the parking lot a commuter lot during the busy hours of the day. I understand that this would mean that residents who drive to the parking lot would have to wake up five minutes earlier to get across the street from the dorms. Although that sounds terrible, it's not as if they have to wake up a half an hour or more before class, like most commuter students. The people living in dorms should be doing this already because they probably have a shorter walk from there, than from the Dixon Center. The same thing would go for the people living on campus in an apartment or house. The residents could still drive to school, but they would just have to park at the Dixon Center. This would free up space so that the commuters who were stuck in traffic can easily find a parking space and still get to class on time. The hours to have the parking lot closed to residents would be 8:15 a.m. to 4:25 p.m on the weekdays.

It was the first day of school last year and guess who gets a flat tire. I was mad because I could see that the only spots left in the lot were those covered with shards of glass. The last time I checked, the Wigwam wasn't selling alcohol products. I find it hard to believe that commuters are bringing Heinekens and getting drunk before class. That idea is highly unlikely. A more likely answer would be that the residents were having a party in the lot over the weekend. If they close the lot after classes on Saturday, and after 12:00 p.m. on Sunday, this would be the remedy for most of the glass in the parking lot.

Joe Holden copy editor

Have you ever been stuck in a lie? How about a small white lie? If you answered "yes" then read on.

If you answered "no" then move onto the special cryptogram to my left.

When you fill out your skills column on a resume, do you mark that you are fluent in Spanish even though you have only taken a semester? Are you an excellent typist only because you were the master of the home keys in grade school?

I just learned that when em-

Take my friend for instance. He had about a year of Spanish and wrote it in his skills section. A few months later his employer asked him to cover a Spanish news conference- all spoken in Spanish. He had to ask his questions in Spanish and then translate all of the news conference into English. The end result was a lot of visits to AltaVista.com.

The hard lesson learned here is to be honest with the material on your resume. If you cannot be honest with your resume, at least tell your boss that you would rather not go to a Spanish press conference when the only Spanish you know is "Where's the bathroom?" and "Food please."

Resume writing guidebooks line the shelves of local bookstores in abundance. Writing one is not as hard as you think. I did not go to the bookstore to write mine. I went to Cabrini's own guides for resume writing- Kristi Beucler and Nancy Hutchison. Pay them a visit in the Co-op office in Grace Hall. They will also suggest that you omit that you are fluent in Spanish, even if you have been Taco Bell- sorry amigos.

Little white lies can hurt you in the long run. Say exactly what you are good at on your resume. You never know who is going to see that you can drink a case of beer and still count to 12 in Spanish.

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