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GRADUATION GUIDE / THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2011 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
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 time.
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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.
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.
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.
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Eldridge House Hotel, Fall 1867
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701-703 MASS. ST.
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The Eldridge House Hotel, 701 Mass. St., replaced the Free State Hotel in 1866, after it was destroyed in Quantrill's Raid. The current hotel was built in 1924 after the previous one deteriorated and was torn down, according to the Lawrence Downtown Historic Building Survey. The Jayhawker Bar and TEN at the Eldridge Hotel were an office and a barber shop in 1883. And the basement of the hotel was a popular hangout for college students before the sixties. The hotel lagged business and was converted into apartments in 1970 and was renovated into the hotel again in 1985. Mike Conner, a graduate student from Shawnee, said he enjoys going to The Jayhawker Bar occasionally on Thursday for half price martini night.
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Weyemuller's Pool Hall, late 1920s
708-710 MASS. ST.
The Fairfax Hotel building, 710 Mass. St., was originally a restaurant on the first floor and the Lawrence Journal-World was on the second and third floors. In 1912 it was turned into a moving picture theater, making it the first community west of the Mississippi to have one, according to the Lawrence Downtown Historic Building Survey. The building also housed a billiards hall, automobile company, café, furniture store and meat market, among others.
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Spectators today
Millers Hall, 1856-1858
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Goldmakers Fine Jewelry today