New NASCAR Internship Ofiered for Engineers
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www.insidevandy.com MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2009 121ST YEAR, NO. 11 THE VOICE OF VANDERBILT SINCE 1888 OPINION: Pippen announces her candidacy and platform for VSG senator — kind of. SEE PAGE 4 SPORTS: Men’s tennis team salvages weekend with victory over NC State Wolfpack. SEE PAGE 7 Two more New NASCAR internship arrested in Colas o ered for engineers murder case by EVE ATTERMANN by ALLISON MCDONNOLD students in the motorsports Managing Editor News Reporter program at their shop in Featheringill Hall. Two more people have been A new internship for “It was really interesting arrested in connection with Vanderbilt engineering to hear what they had to the murders of late Associate students interested in say,” Mayer said. “We’re Professor Pierre Colas and NASCAR racing has now hoping to be able to check his sister at his East Nashville been made possible thanks out their facilities, see how home in August. to a $10,000 donation from they do things.” According to Metro Police Dollar General. Actual training with booking, Lavonta Churchwell, e partnership includes Braun employees is 19, and Nathaniel Carson, 29, the Vanderbilt School of projected to start this were taken into custody late Engineering, Braun Racing summer. Some logistics Friday night. Churchwell, who and Braun Sponsor Dollar have not been nalized, faces six charges and a bond General Corporation, such as how many set at $210,000, has a court photo courtesy of VANDERBILT NEWS SERVICE whose former CEO, Cal students will be chosen date for Feb. 26. Carson faces Colas had been an associate professor in Turner Jr., is a Vanderbilt to work with Braun at 11 charges and bond set at the anthropology department for three years when he was murdered in August. alum. Braun Racing, a photos courtesy of VU MOTORSPORTS their headquarters in $250,000 and no court date as NASCAR racing team The Vanderbilt Motorsports team designed and built a car in the past year to enter in the Formula North Carolina this of press time. Gennyfer Dawn Hutcherson, based in Mooreseville, competitions of the Society of Automotive Engineers in April and May. The team, made up of several summer. Members e Tennessean reports that 35, live on West Sharpe N.C., has agreed to pass Vanderbilt engineering students, will compete against 40 teams in April and about 130 in May. of the motorsports the two are the fth and sixth Avenue, two blocks away from along equipment to the team expressed both suspects arrested in the case, Colas’ home. Suspects omas Vanderbilt Motorsports team, giving the students previously appreciation and excitement for things to come. and are being indicted on Andrew Reed, 20, and Michael unavailable access and the opportunity to work alongside “ eir sponsorship is really what’s keeping us going right now,” murder, robbery, identity theft Shane Holloway, 22, were industry professionals. Mayer said. and forgery charges. there with a group that sells President of Vanderbilt Motorsports Cody Mayer, a senior, said e motorsports team, which has worked to conceive, design Colas, who was an associate magazines and were staying most members of the team are car enthusiasts and would like to and build a racing car over the course of the last year, is currently professor of anthropology, at the La Quinta Inn. e four work in the automotive industry after graduation, but expressed preparing to compete in the Formula competitions of the Society and his sister Marie were shot know each other through a his reservations. of Automotive Engineers held in April and during a robbery at Colas’ relative. “It’s a hard industry to get into,” Mayer said. “And not necessarily May. e competitions in Virginia and home. Colas died that day, Colas joined the Vanderbilt realistic for everyone.” Michigan draw collegiate teams from while his sister, who was faculty in 2006 as an associate Generally, partnerships between companies and racing around the world. Vanderbilt’s team visiting from Switzerland, died professor of anthropology and teams tend to be in the form of monetary sponsorship. is will compete against approximately at the Vanderbilt University a scholar of classic Mayan internship, which was announced on the NASCAR Web site, is 40 other teams in Medical Center four days later. culture. He specialized in the unique because it combines monetary support with rst-hand April and about Four suspects were charged ethnography of the Yucatec training from mechanics, engineers and crew chiefs, the kind 130 teams in in August with double Maya of Belize and cave of experience that the owner of Braun Racing, Todd Braun, calls May. ■ criminal homicide after a archeology projects. He was invaluable. Braun said he hopes this training will help students police investigation led to also uent in six languages work their way into the highly competitive sport. the discovery of several high- and researched hieroglyphic Braun’s head engineer and crew chief have already met with ticket items being purchased characters as a means of from local businesses with understanding the political Colas’ identi cation. e and religious structure of four suspects were seen Mayan society. Colas earned smiling and laughing on store his Ph.D. at the University of Study abroad positive addition to resume surveillance tapes. Police were Bonn and the University of able to make the arrests based Cologne in Germany. ■ by ALEX HELMAN on a description of the car used News Reporter during the purchases. Suspects Judy Wang contributed George Eugene Cody, 29, and reporting to this article. Beyond logistical concerns of studying abroad, like time and money, students must consider one additional factor in their decision as to whether or not to leave the Refugee infl ux country to study — their career. According to Brooke Meisner, a career coach at the Vanderbilt Career Center, studying abroad can look very good to spurs student employers and give students an advantage in interviews. NICOLE MANDEL / The Vanderbilt Hustler “Employers are de nitely glad to see Senior Daniel Kosbonm leads a study abroad general information session for undergraduate students considering study abroad. groups to action it on a resume,” Meisner said. He said he considering the nature of today’s job market, concern for students studying abroad is they has heard that some of the larger rms according to Meisner. might not be aware of di erent recruitment by OMAR ELKHATTABI population and their families. and companies actually have separate “A typical length of time that someone dates and deadlines and therefore might News Reporter With the recent in ux of deadlines and application processes for stays at a job is two to three years and that’s not be as prepared as others. He said this refugees into the surrounding students who are studying abroad. For a lot of switching around,” he said. “ e is something that can be easily addressed, Nashville will soon become area, more students have also example, instead of having a deadline in workplace is changing, the jobs people however, through proper research and host to more refugees as some become involved in the e ort the January or February, they will have an are doing are constantly changing and preparation. of the nearly 60,000 displaced to help the refugees. application for the semester before. “ at having the international perspective can Senior Austin Rissler, who studied in Italy Bhutanese make their way Senior Jennifer Hirsch, the in of itself shows interest in the candidates,” help someone adjust and adapt to drastic during his junior year, said he has already to the city, e Tennessean president of Students Taking he said. change.” had positive experiences with employers. reported on Feb. 3. As a result, Action Now: Darfur, has spent According to Sarah Schlachter, a study Nevertheless, some employers see this “I interviewed for a nancial rm, and student groups have taken much of her undergraduate abroad adviser in the Global Education adaptability as a red ag, Schlachter said, even though (the employer) didn’t directly notice. career working to aid refugees O ce, having that kind of experience tells especially if it is not presented the right way. say ‘Hey you studied abroad. at’s going Nashville has become all over the world to assimilate employers a lot about a candidate. She said she has heard some companies to help you here,’ he did say ‘I see you home to nearly 3,100 refugees in Nashville. She said she has “ e No. 1 thing we think studying abroad may view students who have studied abroad studied abroad, I’m sure you grew a lot since 2002 and is now ranked recognized an immense growth provides (students) is exibility and problem as “ ighty” and potentially less committed personally, that takes a lot of con dence 28th in the nation for refugee in student interest in helping solving,” Schlachter said. to staying with the company for a long and independence, and that can be very resettlement, according to State the refugees around the city “When an employer sees (study abroad) duration of time. good for this job,’” Rissler said. Department statistics. over the past few years. on a resume, that person comes across as “I haven’t heard a lot of employers e GEO and Career Center will be teaming With a large population She said she thinks the 400 adaptable. Just the fact that you’re living in necessarily say that,” Meisner said, “but I can up for a seminar on “How to articulate your of Sudanese and Somalian students involved with STAND a situation where so many of the rules that see how the question can come up. I think Study Abroad experience in the resume and refugees especially, several testify to the willingness of normally apply don’t, that can be a pretty a person who has studied abroad should be interview process” later this month.