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Wide range of options available for new graduates
BY CLAIRE MCINERNY editor@kansan.com
As some seniors are preparing for jobs and planning their lives after school,some students are experiencing a different scenario the end of college canic
Four vea degree kno
er. One opportunity that enables students to make that happen is through Teach for America. Teach For America is a program that allows recent college graduates to teach in public schools in low-income communities. The assignment lasts for two years.
Wiechman spent his two years in Saint Lucia doing community development. He helped a farmers' cooperative develop a grant proposal to get funding for a composting project from the United Nations and also taught reading and music at a school.
a way to prolong having to find a job, but rather look at it as a way to find new opportunities and new ways for students to use their passions. She said a lot of politicians who now work in Congress were in the program and are now fighting for education rights.
The Peace Corps was an attract- ion for Wiechman because
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BIG 12
Texas network controversial
BY MIKE VERNON
mvernon@kansan.com
The story that spanned across headlines throughout the conference coming into the Big 12 media days has some coaches upset, some neutral and some supportive; is it acceptable for the Longhorn Network to air high school football games?
DALLAS — No coach could escape the question.
The freshly-inked deal out of Austin with ESPN pays Texas $300 million for the rights to have an all-Texas network. The Longhorns, in hopes to fill time slots and gain viewers, were planning on putting high school football games in the state of Texas on live television.
The problem? Allowing a university-branded network to have that unique access to young players, along with having its name all over a high school football game, could give the University of Texas an unfair advantage in recruiting.
Missouri coach Gary Pinkel was the most vocal of all of the coaches and players on Monday about his issues with the controversial network.
"It's a lack of common sense there to think that the network, the university network can coach or have high school games on their network," Pinkel said.
Even though Pinkel spoke the loudest on the controversial topic, he has not been the leader in rebellion on the issue at hand.
Texas A&M called a board of regents meeting this past week to discuss the Big 12 conference. As an in-state rival and main recruiting competitor to the Longhorns, the Aggies are heavily rumored to have cried foul on the Longhorn Network. As rumor has it, Texas A&M even threatened the livelihood of the conference by apparently threatening to move to the Southeastern Conference. Coach Mike Sherman didn't comment on the network itself, saying he has enough to worry
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On the other side of the issue, smooth-talking Texas coach Mack Brown turned the issue around, making it seem like Texas would be helping the rest of the conference by airing the games -- giving exposure to players other schools may have never seen.
"I think the part that will affect recruiting is you've got a lot more opportunities for young people to be seen," Brown said. "So there's no question that the opportunity to show who you are on national TV at every practice, at every ballgame, on a network, is — I mean, it's a positive."
Brown even went as far as to say that the only people actually being hurt by the network were the high school players and coaches themselves, for they would not have the opportunity to showcase their programs on national television if it weren't for the network.
The only coach to side with Brown and the Longhorns was Baylor head
coach Art Briles, who turned heads in the room by saying that if the Longhorns can get a network of their own, they deserve it.
"Do I worry about it, not a bit. I mean, they're pretty hard to recruit against anyway," Briles said. "If people are going to pay for it, more power to them. Let them have it. If it helps the Big 12 if we have to recruit harder against Texas, we'll do a better job, work harder and see if we can get a little better."
The question that no coach could hide from didn't get too many answers Monday. Even though it's shaken the fragile Big 12 grounds, it proved to be a bit premature for the coaches to come out with final judgments on such a hot, ongoing topic.
One thing is for sure — the Longhorns will receive their money from the network, providing a bigger budget for recruiting dividends regardless of whether the Longhorn Network will show 100 hours of high football or zero.
FOOTBALL
Berglund enters plea in pretrial hearing expected to arrive in Lawrence Aug. 3
Freshman quarterback Brock Berglund will report to the Jayhawks' training camp next week, after entering a not guilty plea to a misdemeanor assault charge in Colorado.
Berglund entered the plea Monday in Douglas County, Colo. He is charged after third-degree assault after allegedly punching a man April 9 during a party in Sedalia, Colo.
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His attorney issued a statement Monday saying Berglund, who had enrolled at KU early but left the campus in the spring, will report to training camp Aug. 3.
His trial is not scheduled until Dec. 13, after the college regular season ends.