. Pitge:-3 ~ ltRE' xQuri'tA'S•: ~~uiii-)?toft"9904 -' .·.-. ·. ·_,. Grant,.creates-. career \ center. for. associate students REBECCASEVERCOOL ''This computer program is re­ Students participating in the pro­ .. At the end of the semester, newal at the end of July. _ · ~ssfstaut News Editor ally unique on campus/' said Janet gram will be asked to· commit to a we'llhave a group session to go over • 'If we get the grant continually, Gi1roy, coordinator of admissions free, semester-long project, starting what the students ltave developed we can build up what we already A $10,845 state grant will soon for Hanley College. ..The whole February 5, in which they will use and to evaluate the program. have," Gilroy said. allow associate degree students of program malCes you look at a career the computer programs at least once ••we will also keep track of stu­ The grant was given by the Penn­ Dexter Hanley College will soon more realistically.• • a week. dents' progress after they leave the sylvania Department of Education's access to ~careerdevelopmentguid- '•rm very excited about the help "Mter they take enough diag­ program,'' Gilroy said. Bureau of Vocational and Adult 8JlCC center for vecational educa­ we can give to our students and to nostic tests,; we will sit down to­ Gi1roy and Lee Ann Eschbach, Educatiop. The University is donat­ tion. others in the community," Gilroy gether and work out a career plan,'' instructor of education, wrote the ing a matching amount to the pro­ The center is equipped with a said. "ThiS is anbther way the Uni­ Gilroy said. grant proposal, which is up for re- gram. computer and software, including a . versity is giving something back to program ~ed Discover, designCd the community.·' to help associ~ degree students at · The ·center,_Iocated on the third the University and throughout the floor of the Gallery, is staffed by Mcinerney chronicles life region chose a career. Gilroy _and graduate students en­ The program will help students rolled in the counselor educaiion in three areas-deciding what as­ program, who will receive intern­ of Am~rican writer in plays pects of a career are most important ship credits. to them, making the -appropriate "I will primarily be· doing the decisions to reach a· career goal and counseling, along with career serv­ STEVEN SURIANI matching their interests with Spe­ iees and the counseling center,'' Assistant News Editor Cific~~~ ~d career choices. Gilroy said. JohnM. Mcinerney, professor of English, is working on both a screen­ play and a one-man play on the life of Stephen Crane, a major figure in American fiction in the late 19th century. ''The advice I got was that if the one-man play version gets per­ fanned professionally, it would stir interest in both Crane and the screenplay,'' Mcinerney said. Crane has written such works as "The Open Boat" and "The Red Badge of Courage.'' In writing the plays, Mcinerney fmds "a challenge to fmd ways to stay close to the essential truth, but John M. Mcinerney to tell it in a dramatic form.'' Mcinerney, who has previously "A lot of things about the man horseback in Mexico and was aboard written plays ·that were produced struck me as modem,'' Mcinerney the Commodore, a boat smuggling locally, has already completed a said. ''For example, in covering the guns to Cuba, where natives were draft of the play. His agent in Los Spanish-American War we can see rebelling aga!nst their Spanish rul­ Angeles may have a professional the influence of the media on every­ ers. actor interested in doing the play. thing. It not only reports the events, Crane's boat sank off the Florida "I don't know where it will be but it makes them. Some historians coast, forcing him to spend several perfonned. There are a lot of theater argue that the war was created by the days banling heavy seas in a small groups actoss the country," Mcin­ press." dinghy. Crane turned this experi­ erney said. In addition to these military ex­ ence into "The Open Boat." Mcinerney became interested in periences, he also charged up San The writer died at the age of 30. Crane's "dramatic and colorful" Juan Hill with Theodore Roosevelt Crane came to Scranton in 1894 life while teaching one of his 'short and the Rough Riders. to do an article for McClure Maga­ stories in an English class. He was chased by bandits on zine on the life of coal miners. Raised on' the New Jersey coast, ·Crane's fllSt occupation was that of a reporter. 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