The Collegian Volume 109 2011-2012 Article 13 12-6-2011 Volume 109, Number 13 - Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Saint Mary's College of California Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.stmarys-ca.edu/collegian Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Saint Mary's College of California (2011) "Volume 109, Number 13 - Tuesday, December 6, 2011," The Collegian: Vol. 109 , Article 13. Available at: https://digitalcommons.stmarys-ca.edu/collegian/vol109/iss1/13 This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by Saint Mary's Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Collegian by an authorized editor of Saint Mary's Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. RECEIVED DEC 0 8 ZOii SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA INSIDE .. NlWS: ASSMC President's Comer ... SPOm: Men's basketball wins Shamrock Classic www.smccolleg an.com Moraga, California IJ facebook.com/smccollegian Tuesday, December 6, zo11 . :J @SMC_collegian Volume ro9, Number 13 / Career Center Gaels advance to Elite Eight, fall to #1 Tar Heels offers vast help Students encouraged to use Center's resources by Jency James Assistant News Editor Many students rely on the col­ lege and career center of their high school when it comes to standard­ ized test help, college advice, decid­ ing on a major, career planning and more. Yet, they seem less inclined to use the career center in college even though it, too, offers standardized test help, college advice, decid.ing on a major, career planning and more. The Saint Mary's Career Center can help students in their freshman year to decide on a major and stu­ dents in their senior year when it's time for them to start interviewing for jobs. Specifically, the Center offers one-on-one career counsel­ ing, an internship finder, career information nights, workshops on resume-writing, interview etiquette and more. "There's so much help we can of­ fer if students just come out to us," said Internship Coordinator Paula Comad. "There's a perception we only help b'usiness majors which is absolutely not true." Courtesy of Jeffrey A. Camarati and tarheelblue.com The Center also reaches out to Emmanuel Sarabia, above, and the Saint Mary's- men's soccer team defeated three ranked opponents students through a mQbile career in the NCAA Tournament before falling to North Carolina, 2-0, in the Elite Eight. See Sports, page 8. center where volunteers will go out into the school and hand out infor­ mation on upcoming events and services the Career Center is-hosting. Occupy movement continues with Lounge campout Students who make use of the Robert Slaughter speaks publicly on arrest, reggae artist Keznamdi performs on Lawn career center walk away satisfied and much more confident in themselves. in front of the De La Salle statue This was the first time Slaughter there are 1,000 people in back of "We have students who come in for by Charlie Guese emulating the protestors making spoke of his incarceration publicly me?" Staff Writer interviews and are really nervous," ·headlines from Z11ccotti Park in at Saint Mary's since the incident. Slaughter· continued to recount Comad said. "'But we offer work­ The final Lounge eveii.t of the New York City, as a crowd gath­ "Next thing I know, there are his horrifying evening at the Santa shops so they learn what types of year on Thursday night was not ered to listen to various performers probably 100 officers from the Rita Jail in Dublin, the charges questions to expect and have a held in the usu~l Hagerty Lounge, express their attitudes toward the Oakland Police Department on being pressed on him, and the chance to prepare and to think of but rather on the Chapel Lawn. Occupy movement. the front lines approaching us in perpetual intimidation from law what to say." The change in location reflected Robert Slaughter, the Saint military fashion with their batons, enforcement despite his purported She added, "One comment we this particular event's focus in the Mary's senior who was arrested their guns, the whole nine yards," restraint and composure through­ get from interviewers is that our growing solidarity with the nation­ November 11 at an Occupy dem­ Slaughter described. "They're tell­ out the arrest and detention. students are better prepared than al Occupy movement. Select Saint onstration in Berkeley, spoke ing me, 'Move back! Move back!', other college students." Mary's students camped overnight passionately about his experience. but how can I inove back when see OCCUPY, p3 Students are not the only ones who can make use of the Career Center. Alumni are also welcome to Project Green takes root, seeks to promote on-campus sustainability make use of career counseling and Club to hold energy-saving contest in spring, encourages shift in community consciousness other services. Each of the Career Center coun­ by Elizabeth Novotny least amount of resources per teer at the Legacy Garden and lieve that they are actually doing selors specializes in a certain field Contributing Writer such as alumlli outreach, diversity person in their dorm. The main the farmers market during the a good thing by throwing away outreach, scholarships, internships Students of Saint Mary's Col­ goal, said club Co-President Community Time barbeque. Two their leftovers but they are actu­ and graduate school, but all do basic lege might be surprised to know and senior Lindsay Fukui, is to of the board members also work ally supposed to leave food scraps career counseling. there is a club devoted to keeping spread awareness of ways to be with the sustainability committee on their plates .. The kitchen staff The Career Center is located in the campus and community as green on campus. on campus. then loads up the scraps which Brother Urban Gregory Hall and green and sustainable as possible. The club, which has been The board currently consists of are transported to a bio-digester students can make appointments by It's called Project Green. around for the last five years, seven officers, five of which are in Oakland. The digester creates calling(925) 631-4600. Walk-ins are Some of you may remember has become more visible on freshman. Fukui said she thinks nutrient rich fertilizer and is a also welcome. their largest annual event: Flip campus this last semester. This this is a representation of change renewable source of both electri­ "We can't physically grab them the Switch. This contest is held past week they helped facilitate in generations, even over a short cal and heat energy. but we want them to come in," Con­ between dorms in the spring. The the Tap In event regarding the four year span. Thinking of getting involved rad said. "Those who come do seem amount of energy used in each quality of the tap water on the One of the club's .most recent with Project Green? Besides do- genuinely appreciative for what we dorm is monitored for one week Saint Mary's campus. They also projects is the bio-digester in do for them." to see which building can use the hold bi-weekly meetings, volun- Oliver Hall. Most students be- see GREEN, p3 OPINION ODOUR News pg. I Crime Beat pg.z Detour pg.4 Movie Review pg. 5 Obama to send troops to Australia Editors' picks for top albums of 2011 Opinion pg.6 Letter to the Editor pg.6 pg. 6 pg.4 · Sports pg.7 Player of the Week pg. 7 This is 9fre ~" last issue of the semester. we will return with two issues during January Term, on Tuesday; January 1 O and Tuesday, January 24. 2 Tuesday, December 6, 2.0n The Collegian E INSIDE PA Occupiers plan economic blockade this month President's Protestors 'striking back' against police violence, camp evictions Corner bY Corev Fedor shut down their local Port. It just a few weeks away, this could Staff Writer ASSMC gives can happen, as evidenced by the effect corporate investment in As of November 27, 2011 , estimated 4,500-60,00 (depends an immeasurable way. Faced updates on progress the Occupy movement in every on who you ask) people who with the enormous profit loss shut down the Port of Oakland major West Coast port city: LA, that countless compan.ies across b Damaris Nielsen San Diego, Portland, Tacoma, on November 2, which quickly the United States and the world ASSMC President and Seattle have joined Occupy became the model for the West could encounter, it is safe to Oakland in calling for and orga­ Coast efforts. assume the Occupy movement As the semester comes to end, nizing a coordinated West Coast As seen in the 2002 dockwork­ will face a swift response from the Associated Students of Saint Port Blockade and Shutdown ers dispute, disruption of West the establishment. Mary's College would like to THE on December 12. Other West Coast ports can amount to a bil­ Organizers warn that if po­ . bring you some updates on the Coast Occupies, including Oc­ lion dollars per day in economic lice attempt to disrupt the port status of the student govern­ COLLEGIAN cupy Anchorage and Vancouver, impact, considerably more if blockade or if there is police ment. prolonged. A disruption of the At its core, the main goal of Saint Mary.'s C<>Oege of California Canada are planning to join the violence against any city partici­ economic blockade and disrup­ Asian supply1ine would have di­ pating, they will only extend the ASSMC is to ensure that we, as 2008Wmner tion of the one percent on that rect and immediate impact to the duration of the blockade up and the governing student body, are serving and voicing the students' Associate Collegiate Press date.