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Career Services hosts 40th job fair MIJA GARY

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The Office of Career Services at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is hosting their 40th annual career fair today. The theme is “Unlocking Your Potential.” Many companies were invited to the career fair. Students of many different majors have the opportunity to network with various recruiters and companies and market themselves. Many students have are pre-

pared themselves, and polished their resumes for the career fair because they believe it is beneficial. Students are seeking out internships, job opportunities, and even volunteer experience. “I think it’s beneficial since it helps a lot of people get internships as well as jobs. My goal is to get an internship for the summertime,” said Tiffany Richmond, a junior biology student from Winston-Salem, N.C. “The career fair has great opportunities for internships, and co-ops, and just places where

you can get experience before you graduate,” said Jasmine Taylor, a junior computer science engineering student from Atlanta, Ga. “My goal is to find an internship and if not an internship, just a place where I can learn something for my career and gain experience.” N.C. A&T houses many different majors for students to choose from. However, some students believe that the career fair only caters to certain majors. “I’m probably not going to

the career fair this year,” said Rae’Ghan Foster, a junior fashion merchandising and design student from Spartanburg, S.C. “Usually they don’t really have anything that fits my major, so nobody will be here for me to talk to. It is mainly for engineering and business majors.” “I didn’t plan on going to the career fair because they don’t have much that fits my needs,” said Alexa English, a junior journalism and mass communication student from Charlotte, N.C. “We go to an engineering school, so most of the people

Students share their 9/11 memories

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“I was in my second grade class when it happened. My teacher’s name was Ms. McIntosh and she was from Brooklyn. So when it happened I remember my teacher started crying because her family lives two blocks from the accident and I be- Taqiyah lieve she lost family members that day. I Shabazz wasn’t impacted directly because none of my family was there, luckily, because my stepmom had just left New York the day before,” -Jasmine Taylor, junior, Computer Science Engineering student from Atlanta “It didn’t impact me. I didn’t know anybody that was there. I was in elementary school and we were coming back from lunch, and it was on the screen. I am a big jokester so I thought it was a movie going on and I was like ‘this is a really cool movie’ and my teacher was like ‘No, this is not a movie there’s a terrorist attack,” -James Brown, senior, Supply Chain Management from Miami

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“I believe I was in the fourth grade when it happened and I was attending Fair Oaks Academy, a private school” that is in close proximity from the Pentagon. “It was announced over the intercom that the twin towers had been hit and then the pentagon had been hit also. I was so terrified because my mom would actually commute frequently to the Pentagon because she works for the government. Parents were rushing to school to pick up their children, and I was sitting there watching children run up to their parents, but I hadn’t heard from my mother yet. I remember being so afraid and lost. Then finally my mother came and picked me up and explained to Kristopher me that our country was under attack. I SMITH still think of how my mother could have been called into the Pentagon that day, and she would work on the side that was hit,” -Ashleigh Wilson, junior, journalism and mass communication student from Herndon, Va.

“I was in school and being that little, you don’t know what’s going on. By the time I got home all I knew was that my uncle worked in Manhattan and we couldn’t reach him. The lines were down. My aunt was a court official so we didn’t hear from her until the next day. My uncle worked on Wall Street and we didn’t know where he was either. It was messy and a little blurry at eight years old, but you really didn’t know what was going on.” - Taqiyyah Shabazz, junior, journalism and mass communication student from Queens, N.Y. “I remember it vividly. I was in the second grade. As soon as classes started, the people from the front office called me and told me I was leaving. I knew something had to be wrong. I started thinking, ‘I just got here! Who’s picking me up now?’ My aunt called everyone and she’s like ‘Oh my Gosh! The twin towers fell!’ I start thinking ‘Where is my mother and where is my brother?’ He went to high school in Manhattan, too. It was just really scary. My mom did not get home until 12 that night. I was relieved. It was the day before my birthday and everybody was crying. I just wanted to celebrate my birthday. From that day on I didn’t know if I wanted to back to Manhattan anymore. I didn’t know what was going to happen. I didn’t want to be in any tall buildings. I didn’t know if somebody was going to come blow it up. 9/11 just messed everything up for a while for everybody.” -Kaleema Williams, junior, journalism and mass communication student from Brooklyn, N.Y. “9/11 impacted me mentally because both of my parents are in the Army, so they had to get deployed quickly after the incident happened. The whole time that it was happening, I was worried for my parents. At the time, I was at school. I can’t remember all the details of what we were doing. All I remember is we were getting evacuated to get home,” -Kristopher Smith, junior, journalism and mass communication student from Montgomery, Ala.

Kamalipour is among 109 new faces the next level in academic excellence with the help of students, faculty and administration.” Dr. Kamalipour, who is Editor’s Note: This is part one of an ongoing series to in- highly educated within the comtroduce new faculty and staff to munication field, left Iran for America for the sole purpose of the Aggie community. education. In 1975, he obtained his A.A. For the fall semester of 2014, North Carolina Agricultural and in communication at MarshallTechnical State University hired town Community College in Marshalltown, Iowa. 109 employees, rangIn 1977 he received his ing from chairpersons B.A. in mass commuof specific departments nication with a focus in to Equipment Operapublic relations at Mintor’s for parking sernesota State University. vices. In1978, he obtained his M.A. in mass meOn Aug. 15 and Aug. dia with a concentra18 new and returning tion in radio and film faculty gathered to go from the University of over procedures for the Kamalipour Wisconsin. In 1986 he new school year. The completed his doctoral training on Aug.18 was program in communigeared towards helping new faculty become acquaint- cation with a concentration in ed with the system and setting radio and film at the University fMisouri. t h e mup with park-ing passes, o He has also taught at many Aggie one cards and reviewing universities across the Midwest. benefit information. Amongst the new hires, was Dr. Kamalipour, who has a genDr. Yahya Kamalipour, the new eral interest in global communichairman for the journalism and cation, has come right on time mass communication depart- to assist with N.C. A&T’s transformation to diversity following ment. Dr. Kamalipour, originally the Preeminence 2020 plan. “Creating a diverse, inclusive from Iran, recently left Purdue University in which he spent a and high productivity work cultotal of 28 years as a professor. ture,” said Linda McAbee, vice Fourteen of those years were chancellor for human resources spent as the head of the depart- when explaining the objective ment of communication and of hiring N.C. A&T faculty. Accreative arts and director of the cording to McAbee, diversity in thinking provides diversity in center for global studies. Intrigued by the current recruitment strategies, and prostandings of the journalism motion. As the university moves department, Dr. Kamalipour wanted to make a difference. ahead with plans of diversify“This department is in an ideal ing the campus, faculty is exposition. What attracted me was pected to contribute to giving what lies ahead,” said Kamali- students the extra push to move pour. “My goal is to transform this department and move it to  See Hires on Page 3 MEAGAN JORDAN Editor In Chief

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middle of the day,” Taylor said. “It’s kind of like you have to rearrange your whole day to get to the career fair. You have to sacrifice something like your classes to get there, opposed to it being on a day like Saturday or Sunday where you don’t have to compromise your schedule to go.” The career fair will be held in Corbett Sports Center from 9a.m.- 3p.m.

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Reported by Mija Gary

Other students had different recollections of the tragedy

that are at the career fair are looking for engineering students.” “There are not many companies for biology students because there are a lot of us who are going in to the medical field right after we graduate or wanting to go to medical school,” said Richmond. “There aren’t many options for us. It’s usually only one or two.” Although the career fair is a great place for students to market themselves, scheduling has become an issue for students. “The career fair is in the

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