/ 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 manic
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.
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.
The Peace Corps was an attractive option for Wiechman because
Four year degree late
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US breaks rules in detainee visit access, UN officials say
(Geneva, Switzerland) — The United Nations' torture investigator on Tuesday accused the United States of violating U.N. rules by refusing him unoffered access to the Army private accused of passing classified documents to WikLeaks.
Juan Mendez, the U.N.'s special rapporteur for torture, said he can't do his job unless he has unmonitored access to detainees. He said the U.S. military's insistence on monitoring conversations with Bradley Manning "violates long-standing rules" the U.N. follows for visits to inmates.
the U.N. follows for virtual invasions. Manning has been detained by the U.S. military for most of the past year in a case pitting the U.S. government against advocates of transparency in government. The Army private stands accused of being the source of a trove of sensitive documents about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
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Russia marks 450 years of St. Basil's Cathedral head
(Moscow, Russians) — He was naked, homeless and fiercely argumentative and his name is immortalized in one of Russia's most remarkable buildings, St. Basil's Cathedral.
Basil's cathedral:
An exhibition detailing the lives of St. Basil and other religious zealots known as "holy fools" opened Tuesday as part of ceremonies marking the 450th anniversary of perhaps Moscow's most famous tourist attraction.
After years of restoration work that cost 390 million rubles ($14 million) — including the reinforcement of the walls
US: Syria's Assad failed to prove himself legitimate
(Beirut, Lebanon) — Syria accused Washington of provocation Tuesday after the U.S. said President Bashar Assad had lost legitimacy and the American administration had nothing invested in him remaining in power.
u. S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton issued her strongest condemnation yet of Assad late Monday after mobs of hundreds of regime supporters attacked the American and French embassies in Damascus,
smashing windows and spray-painting obscenities on the walls. Three French Embassy employees were injured.
Embassy employees were The attacks also prompted withering criticism from France, which called for the U.N. Security Council to condemn Syria. Germany added to the pressure, as well, saying international law obliges Syria to protect diplomatic missions.
missions.
The U.S. and France both accused Syrian forces of being too slow to respond.
Although originally named the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin by the Moat, most know it as St. Basil's, referring to Basil the Blessed, a Muscovite "holy fool" who was buried on the original site before the present building was erected.
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Leon Panetta makes his shaky debut in Iraq (Baghdad, Iraq) — At once blunt and bubbly, poised but prone to gaffes, Leon Panetta showed on his first oversea trip as Pentagon chief that he has framed his agenda but not yet mastered the art of expressing it publicly in detail.
the art of expressing it publicly. In a talk to troops in Afghanistan he said he was the CIA director (his previous job). The next day he invoked the language of George W. Bush in saying the S.A. is at war in Iraq because al-Qaida attacked on 9/11 — a message that runs counter to view of his boss, President Barack Obama.
view of his boss, President Barack Obama. Panetta, 73, told reporters at the outset of his five-day journey that his main aim was to personally thank U.S. troops for their work and sacrifices over a decade of war. He is following in the footsteps of a popular defense secretary, Robert Gates, for whom troop welfare was a signature issue.
US strikes in Pakistan follow aid cut, kill 42
tall sites in New York. Until now, it was opened several times a year in coordination with the Israeli military, but because of its sensitive location, it had not been regularly open to the public since Israel captured the site from Jordan, along with the rest of the West Bank, in the 1967 Mideast war.
That war left the site in a heavily mined no-man's land along a hostile frontier until Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty in 1994.
(Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan) — Four suspected U.S. missile strikes in northwestern Pakistan in less than 24 hours killed at least 42 alleged militants, an unusually heavy barrage at a time when relations between the two countries are badly strained, Pakistani intelligence officials said Tuesday.
Leon Panetta makes his shaky debut in Iraq
The location, where many believe John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the waters of the Jordan River, is one of the most important sites in Christianity.
(Uasr El-Yahud, West Bank) — Israel opened the traditional baptism site of Jesus to daily visits Tuesday, a move that required the cooperation of Israel's military and the removal of nearby mines in the West Bank along the border with Jordan.
The strikes follow the Obama administration's announcement that it is suspending more than one-third of U.S. military aid to Pakistan until disagreements are worked out. The attacks indicate the White House has no intention of stopping the drone program even though the attacks have increasingly caused tension with Pakistan.
Israel opens traditional Jesus baptism site in West Bank
Gorvak village in North Waziristan, killing at least 20 alleged militants, said two Pakistani intelligence officials. Two other Pakistani intelligence officials put the death toll at 23. The village is very close to the border and is often used as a route for militants to cross into Afghanistan.
rine barrage began late Monday when suspected U.S. missiles hit a house in
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