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"aqEttt-t-iut0tNRtmttaa,t-tr+tttl0lMMBt1e, Ian Kim Chronicle Staff Wanted: companies interested in helping commerce students from other nations learn about business and capitalism Cana- dianstyle. In return, you'll bene- m from the skills and knowledge of someone educated in a foreign university and learn about another culture. Please apply to A.I.E.S.E.C. at Wilfrid Laurier University. AIESEC (pronounced EYE-mek) is a French acronym for the International Amiation of Stu- dents in Economics and Commer. Founded in 1948, the organiza- tion now turinate, in 64 coun- tries, at 632 universities and involving 50,000 students. It claims to be the largest non-prof- it, apolitical student organization in the world. The" local branch was founded in 1975 at WLU by two business professors, and has grown over the years to today's membership of 130 members, says President Janice Picket. 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Of course, the local chapter can The local chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation is thrilled this week 'tttar harm that a fundraising Silent Auction at the Croatian Hall Saturday . t raised in excess of816,000 for JD? Mich. Fantastic volunteer and community response played an enormous role in the success of the night, according to JDF chapter president Valerie Truscello. “It's simply well beround our dreams of what we had hoped to raise," said Truscello. “and I'd like to formally thank everyone who contributed to that We" Many unique items were auctioned off, including sports memorabilia and an opportunity for private use of the statt’s box at a Toronto Blue Jay game which brought in 8289 from the succsssful bidder. JDF Silent Auction enormous success AIESEC program valuable business tool send overseas only the number of students that it nnds, spaces for in Waterloo area businesses. If Wil- frid Laurier students f1nd nine local spaces for AIESEC members in other countries, they can send nine of their members overseas. That's where local business comes in. "We have a company data base of about 200 companies," says Picket. This year we approached about 90 to invite them to take a student." Of the ninety, about 45 express- ed enough interest in the group to warrant an invitation to break- fast last month. They hope to get at least nine placements this year, up from seven last year. And while many of the groups who have taken part in ex- changes in the past are larger businesses - such as NCR and Manufacturer's Life - this year the club is emphasizing the " vantages to small business in participating. "Small businesses in particular could use the skills of our stu- dents," says Jeff Hebel, a second- year rsnance student who is this year's vice-President for media relations. Agnieszka Adamkiewicz is a 23-yearold MBA student from Lodz Poland who is spending her work term at Manufacturers Life Insurance Co. in Waterloo. She likes her exchange job "very much. It’s not possible to get such experience just through a university program. You really learn at work." Adamkiewicz is mainly in- volved in accounting work at Manufacturers Life "with some stress on investment and the behavior of the company in the stock market." Manufacturers their ' is equally experiences with AIESEC Manufacturers Life sees AIESEC as an opportunity to invest in the development of people, says Brent Lemmki, the marketing communications. Also, "we do believe that we are getting a valuable resource for a period of time. The exchange provides someone to do work we might not otherwise have got done, and also to ml in where ,I\ In Uptown Waterloo theres so much to do t.rtttt6ttgttherto “VG” ATM“? Brietqyoyrsi-ttre-'iicuelma" nnttpiltmottmrm. 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