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    THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015 I SERVING TEXAS A&M SINCE 1893 I ©2015 STUDENT MEDIA I ©THEBATTONLINE
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ENGINEERING
The first career fair of the semester, the Student Engineers'
Council Career Fair, had the largest number of recruiters to date
with 504 booths Tuesday and Wednesday.
Go get hired:
Career fair tips
Texas A&M Career Center advisors
offer their tips on making the most out
of upcoming career fairs.
By Nikita Redkar
Look prepared, be prepared
“You should come to the career
fair dressed in business professional
attire — typically, a suit — and have
a confident, positive attitude,” said
Lisa Burton’ career coordinator at
Mays Business School. “Pay careful
attention to minimize jewelry,
makeup and cologne. Never forget
to have a simple, polished pair of
shoes — preferably black.”
Burton also highly recommends
bringing multiple copies of a peer-
reviewed resume.
Prepare necessary documents
Katie Stober, associate director
for graduate student services, said
one mistake students make is
writing their resume as if it were
a biography. Rather, it should
function as an advertisement.
“You want to tailor the resume
to show relevant experience. What’s
relevant to one employer may not
be to the other,” Stober said.
Stober said an effective elevator
pitch should never be memorized
and robotic — rather it should
specifically include details related to
the company.
“To put in perspective, an
advertisement for McDonald’s that
airs in the middle of the day looks
entirely different from a McDonald’s
ad that airs during prime time, which
looks different from what they air
during Saturday morning cartoons,”
Stober said. “It’s the same company,
but with different viewers. That’s
how you want to see yourself.”
Do your homework
No matter the major, Stober said
it is always a good idea to research
companies beforehand. Stober said
to study the companies present at
the career fair, narrow down choices
to a list of top 10 and take a few
minutes to look at the companies’
websites.
Scott Sladecek, supply chain
management senior and vice
president of Business Student
Council’s career fair committee,
said students should find out general
details about the company they are
interested in.
“What do they do? How many
employees work there? Where
are they located? If the company
is public, what is their stock price
trading at?” Sladecek said.
Burton said companies are
interested in people who are
interested in them.
Interactions
Overall, Sladecek encouraged
students to do research, memorize
random facts and, if necessary, keep
a printout of it all in a portfolio.
If interactions go worse than
intended, Burton said take a moment
to regroup and reconsider the
presentation style before moving on.
CAREER FAIR ON PG. 3
BATT ASKS
What do you wish
you knew before your
career fair?
"I wish I knew how to tie a tie.
Freshman year I went with clothes
that didn't fit and a horrible tie
and I did not get any jobs."
Haegen Spring, industrial distribution
senior
"I was actually prepared for the
career fair itself but I wish I was
prepared to know that I was
going to meet the love of my life,
which was a recruiter I began
talking to.
Yash Chitneni. computer science senior
" I wish I would have known a
more appropriate color scheme to
wear, I didn't know that everyone
would be wearing such muted,
boring colors."
Sandy Kamp, biomedical sciences senior
"I wish I had looked up the
schedule for my career fair cause I
was at the wrong one."
Kumarshivant Singh, engineering
technology senior
Vanessa Pefta— THE BATTALION
[THROWBACK
Thursday
BUSH SCHOOL
Public opinion researcher talks
French unity after tragedy
Alhson Bradshaw —THE BATTALION
Martial Foucault, a researcher from France, spoke Wednesday
about public opinion following the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
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Western democracies
show similar trends in
national sentiment
By Lindsey Gawlik
Public opinions in France mir
ror those seen in America in
2001, according to statistics shown
by a visiting French professor
Wednesday morning.
The lecture kicked off the “Eu
ropean Politics and Democracy
Seminar Series” by the Bush School
as part of the Texas A&M Grand
Challenge “Strengthening Democ
racy” initiative. The seminar, “The
State of the French Democracy,”
was given by renowned researcher
and french professor Martial Fou
cault and focused on public opinion
regarding the French democracy.
Foucault touched on trends in
public opinion after the Jan. 7 attack
on the satirical newspaper Charlie
Hebdo that killed 11 and injured
11 more, discussing how the attacks
have brought together the country
— at least in the short term.
Foucault said he has noticed po
litical and national unity between
almost all political parties in France
since the terrorist attacks, including
a Jan. 11 national march.
“There was this huge march, a
demonstration, on [Jan. 11], with a
lot of people, four million French
people in the street, a lot of political
leaders, international political lead
ers and so during this timeline from
Jan. 11 to today it seemed that the
first reaction or the first interpreta
tion of political unity was to make
the demonstration that democracy
could be a strong barrier to any in
ternal or external threats,” Foucault
said.
Immediate unity and reaction
doesn’t always lead to any long
term changes, Foucault said.
“I’m not necessarily convinced
that such national unity is directly
connected to a new world or a new
democracy for France,” Foucault
said. “I mean that national unity is
probably easy to be implemented
FOUCAULT ON PG. 2
THEATER
Team of five to reimagine
Macbeth on Rudder stage
The Actors from the London
Stage return to Texas A&M
By Olivia Knight
The Actors from the London
Stage will return to Texas A&M
Thursday to perform one of Shake
speare’s most tragic plays, “Mac
beth,” or in theatre terms. The
Scottish Play.
Michael Greenwald, professor
in theatre arts, said referring to the
play as Macbeth is considered very
bad luck.
“Some Brits just call him ‘Old
Harry’ too,” Greenwald said.
“There’s a lot of fascinating stories
about Macbeth, you know it deals
with witchcraft and the occult.
There’s stories of seeing a fourth
witch on stage, people getting hurt
doing it, it’s really kind of fascinat
ing in itself.”
Greenwald said “Macbeth” is
one of Shakespeare’s most intrigu
ing plays as well as the shortest. He
said he is intrigued to see how the
Actors, a group of only five per
formers, will stage the production.
“They can only use in terms of
costumes and props what they can
fit in a suitcase to bring over here,”
Greenwald said. “To watch five ac
tors play these huge roles and even
these small roles and constantly
shifting, is some of the most reward
ing theatre I’ve ever seen in my life.
It’s a real challenge for the actor, but
it’s what they love.”
Because the Actors from the
London Stage consist of three men
and two women, it’s very likely au
diences will see the actors playing
more than one role during the pro
duction. Laura Estill, assistant pro
fessor in the Department of English,
said this gives the audience a new
perspective on the play.
“As soon as you have one actor
play two characters, you have to
ask, ‘How are these characters simi
lar?’ and, ‘How are these characters
different?’” Estill said. “The practice
of having one actor play two roles
is called doubling, and the London
Actors take that to the extreme.”
Estill, an editor of the World
Shakespeare Bibhography, said
Shakespeare wrote “Macbeth” at
the height of his career and could
have been influenced by James
VI of Scotland taking the English
throne and becoming King James
I of England after Queen Elizabeth
I’s death.
“Macbeth is a tale of revenge and
greed and lust for power,” Estill
said. “It’s set in Scotland, a fictitious
historical period in Scotland, but it’s
still not considered a history play.
To be considered a history play
for Shakespeare, it has to be set in
England in the medieval past, as op
posed to this distant Scottish past.”
MACBETHON PG. 2