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Volume 71, Issue 98,
Monday, February 27, 2006
News Stretch reaches potential students Current students show hospitality, parents' concerns answered by REBECCA DAOUD
Alumni and staff from the Conrad Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management hosted the second annual Seventh Inning Stretch for potential students and their parents to inform them about the University's nationally ranked HRM program. High school juniors, seniors and transfer students who are interested in the HRM program at UH were given a chance to obtain information about admission, scholarships and courses while networking with Hilton alumni and meeting UH faculty. Prospective students also learned about the HRM experience from current students and toured the University campus.
From left, hotel and restaurant management junior Porcia Aldo and sophomore Angel Rideaux speak to potential students about their experiences at the University. Jim McCormick/The Daily Cougar The agenda called for the event to end with a barbeque next to Cougar Field before the baseball game against Monmouth University, but rain forced organizers to change the plan. Instead, visitors received lunch at Barron's restaurant inside the UH Hilton. Danny Arocha, director of enrollment at the Hilton College started The Seventh Inning Stretch last year to link the HRM with sports at the University, a relationship Archoa said is important. "The Hilton College will give you a family," Carl Boger, associate dean of the Hilton College said. Students and their parents were given basic information about financial aid by counselor, Rodney Jackson. "Beware when you go online to get your free Federal Aid application. You must enter www.fafsa.gov.edu, because if you type in fafsa.com or fafsa.org, you can be routed to private consulting firms that will charge anywhere from $80 to $1,500 for the loan application," Jackson said. Parents expressed their concern about recent proposals by President George W. Bush to raise interest rates on student loans, but Jackson said the proposed hike in interest rates does not apply to the federal loans and informed them that interest rates on federal student aid loans are set by the Department of Education. Two HRM alumni spoke about why they chose the HRM program and what helped them succeed in it. "I came to UH as an international student from Peru because I wanted a career that required me to travel a lot. I soon realized that I had a passion for the hospitality industry which is one of the key ingredients to succeeding in this line of business," Elena Sarango the director of human resources at the St. Regis Hotel in Houston, said. "In the hospitality industry, serving people with a smile on your face, meeting new people, and not taking things personally are what you have to remember," Sarango said. "There will always be people you don't necessarily like, but have to provide a service to." Lyle Hart, also an HRM alumnus, said he was attracted to his line of work because of the unique way people in the food industry meet other people. He said by serving good food and having fun, employees in the food industry go home with cash in their pockets. "Houston has such a competitive food industry and as a managing partner at Outback Steakhouse, I like to help build my employees' success," Hart said. Five of his current employees are in the HRM program at UH. Students and parents were given group tours of the University by volunteer HRM students. "You know you have a great program when current students
and alums volunteer their Saturday to give a little back to the University
that has given them so much," Arocha said.
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