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Career Day helps students network Staff Report The annual fall semester Career Day was held Wednesday 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Atwood Memorial Center Ballroom. Career Day is a campus-wide job fair organized to provide students a way to explore career opportunities in a variety of employers, including internships, part-time and full-time employments. This year, SCSU Career Services Center, the organizer of Career Day, partnered with School of Public Affairs (SOPA) and brought more than 80 employers to the student job fair. Career Day was also sponsored by SCSU Business Student Executive Council (BSEC), Criminal Justice Association (CJA), and Herberger Business School (HBS). Companies in attendance included Best Buy, Cargill, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, IBM, Minnesota Department of Human Services, Northwestern Mutual, St. Cloud Police Department, UnitedHealth Group, Viking Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Walgreens, and Xcel Energy, among other employers. According Career Services Center, Career Day is an excellent opportunity not just for students to get connected, PRAVIN DANGOL/ ASST. VISUALS EDITOR
The students were given the opportuinity to talk to employers from different companies for a job or internship.
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Spend a day “In Her Shoes” Vicki Ikeogu NEWS EDITOR
The choice to leave is much harder than many would think. This recurring theme was what event organizers behind the Women’s Center’s “’In her Shoes”’ event wanted participants to take away. As part of October’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month, SCSU’s Women’s Center teamed up with Anna Marie’s Alliance to allow students and faculty to experience what it would be like walking in the shoes of a woman suffering from domestic violence on Tuesday. Taking over Atwood’s Glacier room, participants were assigned a particular woman’s story and followed it through multiple stations. At each station they were greeted with new challenges and new decisions that had to be made. “Each character or situation will have something happen,” said Women’s Center’s master of social work intern, Kelly Yang. “And you will have to follow what choice you make. It could be court or CPS (child protective services). You will move from station to station making choices.” Women’s Center staff chose to make participants go through as partners. Allowing for some interaction and somethis approach would garner more insight into the plight of battered women. Along with the going from station to station, the 75-minute experience provided students with about a half hour of
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Guinta-Bates describes the common ways in which women may be abused by their partners
for participants to have the chance to express how they felt going through this situation. “It is not as easy as leaving. It doesn’t necessarily stop the violence,” said coordinator of Community Education and Connect Initiative for Anna Marie’s Alliance, Debra Schroeder. “There are hoops to jump through, especially if there are children involved. And people don’t understand how much you are torn down by the abuser.”
sometimes they suffer in absolute silence,” Schroeder said. “We do have the opportunity to break that silence. Violence is not the normal.” “I learned how much of a cycle that situation was,” said freshman Katie Rothstein. Describing the struggles of her character having been abused and having her children being abused, Rothstein’s character made the decision to leave. - However, she said her character didn’t have a lot of options. “This experience shows how careful you have to be in eder said she feels domestic violence is one of the biggest having a relationship. And how if you are in a similar situasocial issues of our time. tion, try to get out the best you can,” Rothstein said. “I think a lot of people go through this in their lives. And
“If you are not in the situation, you don’t realize all these programs that turn you down,” said junior mass communications major Wokie Benson. “Everyone’s story is not the same. Domestic violence happens, but it is not the victim’s fault.” “Sometimes the places we expect to get help from, it makes matters worse,” said senior biomedical science major Abi Akin. “But you should never be afraid to get help.”
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Federal government partially shut down Meg Iserloth ONLINE EDITOR
Days go by. Tourists gather outside of national monuments and parks, only to be greeted by closed gates. “Nonessential” workers, told to stay home without pay, and hold their breath across the nation. Meanwhile in the White
tions to the debt issues that have been plaguing the U.S. for years now. How does a nation avoid a default on a $16.7 trillion debt within the month, exactly? That’s one of the main question to be able to agree. Though problems began when Congress could not agree on a budget, spurred by Tea Party members
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refusing to fund Obamacare, the issues presented have blown up to much larger proportions. House Republicans have now begun to pursue a broader strategy which “would go beyond reopening the government and putting 80,000 furloughed workers on the job,” USA Today reports, as well as removing the prospect of “default” altogether; all an effort to achieve bigger changes to reduce the debt. But what caused this to happen? Tumblr user spontaneousmusicalnumber explains with the following: “Say two people share an iPad. One of them wants to install a system update, totally upgrade the entire system to shared iTunes account. The other person doesn’t want the update, they already have everything organized and running the way they like it. They would rather spend the $20 on songs or apps. “To compromise, they smash the iPad.” The very baseline for the shutdown sounds almost as
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simple: faced with issues like the Nation’s debt hitting the limit known as the “debt ceiling” and Obama’s proposals to overhaul the entire healthcare system, Republicans and Democrats couldn’t agree on a spending plan for the new on pause until a solution can be found. But of course, these things are always much easier said than done. The last shutdown was 17 years ago under the Clinton Administration, and it lasted 21 days. It’s nearly impossible to tell how long this shutdown will last, but one thing’s for sure: the longer it takes Congress to reach a conclusion, the more the Nation will suffer in its economy and well being. During the shutdown the U.S. Postal Service will keep deto receive checks, as they’re deemed as “essential” programs
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Pachanga Society plays SCSU
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Stearns County Pachanga Society brings their unique music to campus.