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By: Ahsan Latif

Posted: 9/30/02

Job Fair provides opportunity for deadbeat students to 'get off their duff'

Scheduling job interviews, answering want ads and networking can be a real drag when you're still in college. Which is why Career Services is making it possible for students to present their credentials to 60 of the top employers in Kansas City in a matter of minutes.

This unique opportunity is open to job seekers on Wednesday, Oct. 2 at the Greater Kansas City Job Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Swinney Recreation Center.

The event is sponsored by UMKC and a consortium of 26 other colleges and universities from a four-state Midwest region. Sponsors have worked hard to draw more employers to the event to give job seekers a better opportunity of connecting with a job.

The participants in this year's Greater Kansas City Employer Fair include: A: Able Employment/ Riojas Enterprises Inc., ACCENT, L.L.C., U.S. Air Force, American Express Financial Advisors, American Family Insurance Group, AmeriCorps B: BeckerConviser CPA Review, Black & Veatch, Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin C: Cerner,Comforce Staffing Service, Commerce Bank, Community Living Opportunties, CommunityAmerica Credit Union, Cornerstones of Care, Coro Kansas City D: DaimlerChrysler Services, Defense Finance and Accounting Service E: Emerald City Gymnastics/ Bump City, Enterprise Rent-A-Car F: Federated Insurance, FedEx Ground, Ferrellgas, Fred Pryor Seminars and CareerTrack G: GARMIN International, Inc. H: H & R Block, Hallmark Cards, Inc. I: Internal Revenue Service J: Japan Exchange & Teaching Program, John Deere K: Kansas City Kansas Police Department, Kopatich Enterprises, KU Med L: Labconco Corporation M: Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C., Missouri Air National Guard, Missouri Department of Corrections, Missouri Dept of Revenue, Missouri Public Service Commission, Modern Woodmen of America N: NASD, Navy Officer Programs, Northwestern Mutual Financial Network/Hames Financial R: Rockhurst University S: Smith & Associates, Sprint, State of Kansas Div. of Personnel Services U: UMKC Law School, UMKC-Admissions, UMKC-Bloch School of Business & Public Administration, United Parcel Service, University of Phoenix -Kansas City Campus, UNMC Physician Assistant and Physical Therapy Program, U.S. Army ROTC, US Bank, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers W: Wells Fargo Financial, Worlds of Fun Y: Yellow Technologies.

Be there, or risk remaining unemployed.

Kansas Citian makes his mark on local Bloch

The Bloch School of Business and the children of Henry and Marion Bloch recently presented Newton A. Campbell with the Henry and Marion Bloch Community Service Award. The award, created by the Bloch children to honor their parents' exemplary commitment and service to metropolitan Kansas City, distinguishes exceptional individuals who live by the same high standards of service as the Blochs. Campbell was honored earlier this month at the Scholarship Reception held at the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration.

Campbell received his master of business administration from the Bloch School in 1970. He was appointed chairman and chief executive officer of Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, where he served for more than 41 years. A lifelong Kansas Citian, Campbell now serves as executive-in-residence for the Bloch School and provides independent consulting services. His professional and community services include serving as director of the UMB Financial Corporation (the holding company for the UMB banking system), chairman of Science Pioneers of Kansas City, director of the YMCA of the Rockies, and a UMKC trustee.

The award was presented to Campbell by Thomas Bloch, eldest son of Henry and Marion Bloch, and newly appointed Bloch School Dean O. Homer Erekson. The event was attended by more than 70 guests and included scholarship donors, recipients, faculty and staff.

Students make life safer, more pleasant for KC community residents

Switching between daylight saving time and standard time isn't the only thing that happens like clockwork every fall and spring. There's also Community Service Day, when nearly 150 students from the University of Missouri-Kansas City set aside a Saturday to help clean up neighborhoods, install smoke detectors in homes, plant trees, conduct beautification projects and a host of other needed chores.

UMKC students will hit the streets of Kansas City communities again from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5. To begin Community Service Day - now in its fifth year - students first meet in the cafeteria in UMKC's University Center on 50th Street and Rockhill Road to sort out the various work assignments throughout the Kansas City metro area.

The list of agencies the students will be serving this year includes: Boys & Girls Club, City Union Mission, the Don Bosco Center, Ivanhoe Neighborhood, Rockhill Ridge Neighborhood, Ronald McDonald House, the Rose Brooks Center and the Salvation Army.

UMKC's Student Life Office organizes Community Service Day each October and April, and the event is co-sponsored by the UMKC Student Government Association.

For more information or to arrange interviews with students, please call Chad Keller at (816) 235-1087 or Christopher Strelluf at (816) 235-1084.

Spanish, English meet in special showdown for two nights

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures will present two lectures on the "Splendors of Moorish & Baroque Architecture in Spain and Latin America" next week.

Both are sponsored by the Bernardin Haskell Foundation and will take place Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 7:30 p.m. and Wednesday, Oct. 9 at 4 p.m. Dr. Maria Luisa Fernandez y Espinosa (who holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University), a professor of architecture of the Universidad Simon Bolivar (Caracas, Venezuela) and a research affiliate at the Center for Urban Development Studies of Harvard University, will speak at the invitation of Dr. Louis Imperiale, associate professor of Spanish.

The first lecture, presented in English, will focus on the application of mudejar and Baroque architecture in Spanish America during the 16th -18th centuries. The second talk (in Spanish), will explore tradition and modernity in the works of two presitgious architects, Antonio Gaudi (Spain, 19th century) and Luis Barragan (Mexico, 20th century). Both lectures will be accompanied by illustrative slide shows.

Mudejar art and architecture refers to Islamic artistic traditions which developed in the Iberian Peninsula in the 12th -15th centuries, when Spain was ruled by the Moors. Kansas City's own Country Club Plaza has been built according to designs resulting from the fusion of Baroque and mudejar architecture. The Plaza Tower, one of the most recognizable symbols of the city, is a replica of Seville's Giralda bell tower, itself a former minaret.

Students, faculty, staff and members of the general public who want to learn more about the development of Spanish and Latin American architecture from the 16th century to modern times are welcome. The location for the Oct. 8 lecture is 106 U-Center. A reception will follow to give audience members an opportunity to meet and talk with Professor Fernandez y Espinosa. The Oct. 9 lecture, in Spanish, will be held in 207 Scofield Hall at 4 p.m. Both lectures are free, but seating is limited. R.S.V.P. to 235-1311.

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