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Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country

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Now is the time.

When CIA meets Corporate America

If you watch much TV, you may associate the CIA with lots of security intimidating tactics and private isolated individuals.

The Central Intelligence Agency more commonly known, as the CIA is one of the largest, most elite US agencies of the country. According to its official website, the CIA is responsible for providing intelligence on a wide range of national security issues to senior US policymakers.

It prides itself on going far beyond the measures of other US agencies and accomplishing what others can not.

Recently, on Tuesday, November 30, the CIA visited the University of Mississippi’s School of Business Administration to meet with undergraduate business students and MBA students. Two informational sessions were available.

There, many career opportunities and benefits for business majors, from internships, co-op programs to future careers, as well as skills and traits, were discussed.

“I saw the importance of being able to communicate effectively and fluidly with people. Many CIA careerists rely heavily on their ability to connect and communicate to others naturally,” said Kennedy Horton, MBA Candidate.

“It is very important to be able to listen to others and communicate your own thoughts and positions effectively so that a mutual understanding can be established. Being able to connect to others well in one-on-one situations is important and skills we can all benefit greatly from.”

The CIA hopes to provide students with life-altering experiences. No specific classification is needed. However, the agency is in pursuit of finding a younger audience like freshmen and sophomore.

Most internships and career opportunities are based in the Washington, D.C. area. Each opportunity is a 90-day program with a $20,000 stipend and is highly competitive.

During the visit, the agency put great emphasis on the following positions:

· Operations Officer- This career recruits and handles sources of foreign intelligence.

· Collection Management Officer- A person working as a CMO manages the collection, evaluation and dissemination of the CIA intelligence information.

· Staff Operations Officer- This career guides, coordinates and supports overseas intelligence collection.

· Collection Management Officer—Headquarters Specialist- A person has extensive interaction with US intelligence customers like personnel from the different US departments like the FBI and Homeland Security.

· Language Officer- This career applies advanced foreign language skills, experience and expertise.

“During the session, I learned most positions with the CIA, in particular the sensitive ones, require a tremendous amount of writing. It seems like many CIA employees spend a good chunk of their careers time writing and editing reports,” said Horton.

“I also was reminded of how important accounting, finance, and writing skills are.”

The CIA, however, looks for no particular field.

“They are really looking for the right individual rather than a specific field,” said Tony Ammeter, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs.

The CIA, under the National Clandestine Services hopes to hire well-rounded individuals. It offers fast-paced careers with a variety of work experiences and environments.

For more information on careers and internships, please visit www.cia.gov or visit UM’s School of Business Administration

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Winter break is around the corner and soon we will be done with finals, going home, and enjoying good food and good times with friends and family. What would you do if family and friends were almost 10,000 miles away?

That is the question that many international students at Ole Miss are faced with. Stay in Oxford? Go home? There are many variables that make these students decisions. Is it a financially viable option? Is the time spent traveling worth the time that they would be at home? Will life in Oxford be easier than going home?

Many of the international students live in Guess Hall on campus. To much disappointment, Guess Hall will close on December 11^th and reopen January 2^nd, forcing these students to relocate to another dorm on campus for 3 weeks.

“It’s not really easy to international students to move every time,” said Ahra Lu, a transfer student from Korea. “I decided to go to a friend’s house.”

Without much information being shared by the Office of International Programs to the students, many are left without direction and need to make plans for themselves over the six-week break. Studying seems to be on the agenda for many international students who will be staying here for winter break. Some are choosing to leave Oxford and experience other places in the United States.

Other international students are traveling home, choosing the comforts of their own beds and the culture that they are more familiar with. “I am going home. I want to see my friends and family,” said Sayuri Nishinaka, a transfer student from Japan. “I miss my family and friends. I miss my boyfriend, too. As much as I like Oxford, it’s not as good as home.”

Approximately 3% of the student population at Ole Miss is international students and that number triples when talking about Ole Miss faculty, according to Tayla Burns and Jean Robinson of the Office of International Programs.

Artwork meets Nature

Many of the students at The University of Mississippi who majors are in art posses a unique creative ability. There is a quote that states, a picture says a thousand words. These students create the art that speaks to us.
When you walk through the halls of Meek, there is an unidentifiable odor that roams the air. Easily identifiable are the sometimes unusual art works that are displayed in Meek. Like the claw foot bathtub filled with dirt and flowers made with linen and wire growing from it, the wedding dresses designed from garage bags, or the see through individual attempting to scale the front of the building with a rope. That we can all see.
What viewers generally miss out on is the chance to know the behind the scenes stories of these pieces.
The Art Department has exhibitions of students art work in the gallery that is located on the first floor of the building. There is generally a new exhibition every two weeks that includes a reception. Students are given a chance to showcase their work, and people are able to ask any questions about the process of the artists.
Currently being shown in the gallery is the thesis of four graduate students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts. BFA majors Jamie Johnson and Priscilla Harmic are two people whose hard work has been awarded this honor.
Johnson and Harmic both themed their thesis around nature by taking photos of butterflies and other insects. Johnson got the idea to work on this theme from just walking around campus. “I saw all the butterflies outside and I thought how could I represent this really amazing moment which is also something that you are always doing with photography. You are trying to capture these moments” says Johnson.
She elaborates more saying “…so I got this idea to just start taking photographs and try to think of a way to represent the fleeing, the fragile transcend nature of all these things I’m seeing.”
Coming up with the idea to do their thesis on nature was really just the beginning of the process they had to take to getting their work up and ready to be shown. I spoke with a friend of Harmic and she gave detail as to how much work really goes behind these things. She says “Priscilla has gone above and beyond starting with these images of culture that she has grown herself.” She went on “You know it wasn’t something that she went out and took photos off the internet or went to the biology department……it started with her extending her project from multiple semesters starting doing the screen prints, doing minor cuts and stamps to these Van Dyke prints.”
The same goes for Johnson, along with taking two other art studios this semester that all require the same amount of attention for detail and personality. She says she spent roughly over 45 hours a week after school in preparation for her thesis.
It is truly amazing the amount of time and sweat that these students put into something that goes up and captures our eyes for maybe only the day but places stills within our minds forever.

Sources Paper
Jamie Johnson
BFA Artist
Jejohns7@olemiss.edu
601-795-3432

Priscilla Harmric
BFA Artist
phamric@olemiss.edu

Thomas Grosskopf
BFA Artist
662-871-7173
grosskopfthomas@hotmail.com

University of Mississippi Art Department
662-915-7193
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/art/current_exhibitions.html

Campus Ministries Helping Others

Eric Lee

FCA gets involved with the community

Community involvement is very important to the athletes and members of FCA. Ole Miss’s Campus Ministries are trying to do more for the good of the community. All the ministries are trying to reach out in new and different ways to make sure they are giving rather than giving.

One such group is Fellowship of Christian Athletes. FCA leaders have worked hard to find ways of helping others in the community. More than a meal(Tuesdays) and National walk a kid to school day(Wednesday) are two ways they are helping reach out to others.

FCA leaders found ways to make homeless and underprivileged people in the community feel at home. These leaders and athletes help with More than a Meal on Tuesday nights. This is very important to these athletes because they see how much their involvement with underprivileged people affects others. They go to the meal and interact with everyone there. This makes all the attendants feel comfortable because it makes it seem like these students are there for support and friendship. These athletes spend a great deal of time trying to get everyone to blend in to the community. This is just one small step that can turn a community around for the better. These student athletes have become well equipped for the life that is ahead of them just because of their willingness to help others more than themselves.

Many of these Christian athletes think that being a role model is extremely vital for younger kids that are overweight. These athletes walk these kids to school every Wednesday in hope that the next generation will learn that each step is important. These athletes hope that their presence in these kids life will give the young children a boost to want to get out and be active. Athlete’s involvement with these children affects the way kids look at their own life especially since they look up to college age athletes. FCA is a part of the larger project which is nationwide, that helps overweight kids all around the country.

Another Campus Ministry that is trying to reach the community is Reformed University Fellowship. They provide people that attend their services with many outreach programs from helping kids in school to visiting nursing homes. To learn more about RUF and their ministries check out their website, http://www.olemiss.ruf.org/.

Sources: Garrett and Alan-FCA Leaders, Ole Miss RUF ministry