2009 Highlander Vol 92 No 6 December 8, 2009

Regis University ePublications at Regis University Highlander - Regis University's Student-Written Archives and Special Collections Newspaper 12-8-2009 2009 Highlander Vol 92 No 6 December 8, 2009 Follow this and additional works at: https://epublications.regis.edu/highlander Part of the Catholic Studies Commons, and the Education Commons Recommended Citation "2009 Highlander Vol 92 No 6 December 8, 2009" (2009). Highlander - Regis University's Student-Written Newspaper. 279. https://epublications.regis.edu/highlander/279 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at ePublications at Regis University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Highlander - Regis University's Student-Written Newspaper by an authorized administrator of ePublications at Regis University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Looking for a study break'? Movie reviews, study tips, internship profiles, and a c,elc,ef bulldozer••• Visit the Student Center to rent This year in photos. movies and video games from the new see the backpage kiosk! Rent movies and games at your Just some things to beep you own leisure with no late fees for only $ 1 .50 a day, with about 300 titles to avoiding your finals! choose from. Previews are available. 5end suggestions to [email protected]. pages 2 and 3 REGIS UNIVERSITY e a biweekly publication 1 an Serving the Regis community since 1888 Volume 92, Issue 6 www.regishighlander.com Tuesday December 8, 2009 LEARNERS LIVING AS LEADERS AT REGIS Ben Closson remembers from this semester were Alumni from the Magis learn each others' names. The students StaffReporter Sandra Mitchell, the assistant vice Freshman Experience have agreed to participated in leadership, teamwork president of diversity, and Dave Law, continue programming for current and trust-building activities that facili Around campus there is a the director of Student Activities. Magis students. Some juniors and tated this process, but more impor group of freshmen that do everything Magis, meaning "more" in sophomores that were in the program tantly brought them together as a com together. They eat most meals in the Latin, was started in 2007. At first, as freshmen volunteer to organize munity. same dining hall, and for variety often there was no weekly class. The handful community service events and other This past September, one of go together to local restaurants. They of students that were in the program outings. These Magis alumni make up the Magis service events involved the sleep in the same residence hall, with that first year met during their free what is called the Magis Dream Team. greater community by picking up trash the entire community residing in adja time every week to discuss how to get Chelsea Coalwell, a Magis at Red Rocks Amphitheater and Park. cent rooms. They study together, often the most out of their college experi- alumna and member of the Magis The participating students offered a in the same study room, helping each couple of hours of their time lessening other achieve academically. They even the impact visitors have on the envi take a course together. They are known ronment. Another service event was as the Magis kids. the Race for the Cure. The Freshman Magis Magis students are also Experience is a group of students that involved in other ways. In class, they live together in the same residence made blankets to donate to a group of hall, take a one credit course together senior citizens living with Alzheimer's and participate in programming tliseiibe. Some students then volun events, a portion of which are based on teered to make even more blankets in community service. For the past two order to meet the substantial need. and a half years, the Experience has Lastly, two groups went separately to been located in West Hall, giving volunteer at the Denver Rescue freshmen students the opportunity to Mission; some 600+ homeless men live in upper class residence halls. were fed with the help of these student However, this is not an inte volunteers. gral aspect of what it means to be in In the words of current Magis Magis; Magis is a group of freshman student Jackie Mohr, "A group like who want to live as a tight-knit com Magis can have a greater impact that munity within the broader Regis com one individual attempting to do com munity in order to have a support net PHOTO BY Grant Lundberg munity service on their own." work as they orient themselves fresh Magis Dream Team and current Magis students with Njal Lundberg (front and center) While the Magis Experience man year. This program for first-year may move to a freshman residence hall students is about grouping like-mind ence. This was a new program, sepa Dream Team, says that doing commu next year (either O'Connell or ed individuals together: learners that rate from the Honors program, which nity service together as a group is "like DeSmet), this is certainly not the end want to take their education to the next focuses on "interdisciplinary study, extreme bonding." She also points out of the program. Magis means "more" level through leadership, academic small group interaction and individual that students chose to join Magis not than just having your own bathroom as achievement and service to the broad student initiative." The Magis only to do community service that they a freshman. The future of the program er community. Experience focuses more on leadership could accomplish on their own time, is certain: with the profuse support Guest speakers for the Magis and community service. Any overlap "but also because Magis focuses on network alumni have bequeathed to program have been Diane Cooper, between students in the freshman reflection, which is another important the heirs of their experience, the Magis dean of students, and several coun Magis program and students in the Jesuit principle." legacy is sure to flourish for years to selors from the Office of Counseling four-year Honors program is purely Another way Magis students come. and Personal Development. Tidenek coincidental. There is a separate appli bonded this year was the retreat they Haile-Selassie, a freshman in the pro cation process for each, and the two went on before the start of term. This g~am, says that the speakers she most organize activities separately. event at a basic level helped everyone Beyond the classroom, internships at Regis Amber Alarid the break is searching for an internship who get a late start are excluded from possibility in the spring, but only for Editor-in-Chief for the Spring 2010 semester. this opportunity. According to Detra, elective credit. Sophomores looking to Sophomores can also get a jump on the deadline to register for an academ get credit towards their major must The semester is drawing to an internship opportunities for the Fall ic internship is the same day as the instead look to the not so distant future end, which means that Winter Break is 2010 term. It's never too early to add/drop deadline for the Spring 2009 of their junior year. nearly here. With the holidays fast apply! semester, Jan. 26, and if students start approaching and many heading home In an ideal world Joy Detra, now they still have a chance to secure to spend time with family and friends, with the Academic Internship pro an internship before then. See "Internships" page 2 the break will no doubt provide much gram, suggests that students begin Early birds and sophomores to keep students busy. However, the searching for an internship at the alike, though, have the perfect advan break can indeed provide time for stu beginning of the semester before they tage to begin looking for an internship dents to get ahead. One productive would like to get an internship. This for the Fall 2010 semester. For sopho way for juniors and seniors to spend does not, however, mean that those mores academic internships are still a 2-TUESDAY DECEMBER 8, 2009 NEWS Internships continued from Frontpage Academic internships are a advocacy unit and the Fourth Judicial common way for students to gain work District Attorney's office. "[I've experience and impress future employ learned] that the law is about people, ers. In fact, the Academic Internship and I think it's something that's under Program claims that one out of every emphasized .. .lawyers are asked to two Regis graduates has done an apply the law to real people in real sit internship, and those who have com uations." pleted an internship are said to receive Academic internships require a wage averaging about 8.9 percent at least 120 hours over the course of higher than those who have not. Yet the semester, but both Shugarts and the experience provides more to stu Gohl exceeded those hours. Gohl dents than just a possible pay increase. attributes this to the fact that he did "I learned more in the work both his internships in the summer environment than in an actual class and he was passionate about the work room," says Angela Shugarts, a junior that he was doing. However, Shugarts communication major interning at is currently at her internship, balanc CBS, " .. .I've gotten to work with people ing 12 credits in the classroom along who work in the television industry with her three credit internship. This everyday... which was interesting and meant that she worked nine hour fun [because I could] hear what they shifts, three days a week. Both bal had to say [ which was] very education anced their internship with other al. I have studied journalism through demands such as part time jobs or a out my time at Regis, so being able to regular class schedule.

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