/ 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.
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.
--opinion
Four year degree later
The Peace Corps was an attract-
tion for Wiechman because
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Wow. All optimism regarding Kansas is gone.
F*** you, Kansas and f*** you, Brownback.
Get that DNA test, love. I bet you it's not even yours.
It came out my vagina.it better be mine.
Kansas is kind of bumming me out lately.
Does anyone else think it's weird to date someone with the same name as your sibling(s)?
I can't really relate. Nobody I dated would have my sister's name because her name is very feminine and I'm only interested in men
What I think is even weirder is dating someone with the same name as you. WTF is that?
I would tell you how I really feel, but I kinda need to ask you out first, so I will.
People love me. True story
I am having girl trouble; the bltch is pressing charges.
A bltch has to do what a bltch has to do.
It's a tangled web, I'll admit that I wove it. It just really sucks.
When using asterisks to censor yourself, you typically censor out the vowel. So it should be "AMERICA! F*CK YEAH!
--irresponsible again.
Close your eyes and it's almost paradise
SUMMER
Summer time and the living is easy. For some of us, summer means sleeping in, letting our KU Outlook Express inboxes fill to bursting, and going to the Bahamas to get drunk with our siblings. For the rest of us with jobs or summer school, there simply isn't time for us to leave the country to vacation.
Cue in, a substitute vacation. There is a place where one can go for an hour or two on a Wednesday with just a handle of tequila and a bottle of baby oil. It is the working stiff's utopia, the summer studier's retreat, the poor man's banana cabana. It's a laxily guarded apartment building in south Lawrence will make you feel
BY LIZ STEPHENS
editor@kansan.com
What is it about this low-grade paradise that keeps the KU study body coming back for more? It is its near-exactness to what you may get in a resort on any given day in the Bahamas that is so appealing. See first the pool, the
rich turquoise paint on the basin glimmers in such a way that one may think he is looking into a Caribbean that has been sprinkled with dead spiders and used band-aids. The glistening bodies dipped into or lounging around the pool could perhaps be world travelers, although they are all the same age and wear the same style of Victoria's Secret swimsuit but in various colors.
aggressively with medical grade soap after submersion.
Multiple beer pong games, vomit clinging lazily to a bush in the background, a drunk guy peeing in a fountain contribute to the air of affordable luxury. A word to the wise, the pool is heated only by human urine. It's my recommendation to scrub one's genitals
Go now as you can get in without any sort of identification or apartment key. Enjoy yourself. Have a mouth-a-rita and spit half of it on the concrete. Make out with someone in the lukewarm hot tub and forget about it in two hours. Just like McCormick brand vodka works — but just barely — as a substitute for Grey Goose, this apartment complex will do the same to scratch your vacation itch with minimum side effects.
Stephens is a junior in English from Dodge City.
COMMUNITY
Company's mission is one that spreads hope and inspires many
During my freshman year at the University I dove into as many different clubs and activities as I could. I learned how to swing dance, cheered on sports teams and struggled through a French conversational dinner. All were important and added to my college experience but the most significant event I attended, one that helped alter the course of my life, was listening to Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS Shoes, speak at the Lied Center.
The organization began as a shoe company in 2006 with the idea that for every pair of shoes sold, one would be given away to a child in need. In September 2010, the TOMS organization celebrated its 1
BY JESSIE BLAKEBOROUGH jblakeborough@kansan.com
millionth pair of shoes sold, just four years after the company was founded.
founded. But TOMS didn't stop there. June 7,2011 the company announced its introduction of TOMS Eyewear. For every pair of sunglasses sold, one
person is helped to get their sight back through medical treatment, prescription glasses or sight-saving surgery.
Not everyone can afford a pair of TOMS, which range from $40 to $65, or a pair of the new sunglasses that average between $135 to $145. I have to save up my money and remind myself that I am really buying two pairs of shoes — I just don't get to wear the other pair. But picturing a child getting his or her first pair of TOMS at a shoe-drop or wearing them on his or her first day of school makes it worth it for me.
The best part about TOMS is that it involves you. This isn't a charity, it isn't just a shoe company and it
most certainly isn't a fad. TOMS is a movement, a One for One movement to be specific. But I think it's even more than that.
The TOMS organization, movement, whatever you want to call it spreads hope. It touches everyone from a blind man in Nepal to a seven-year-old girl in South Africa who has never owned a pair of shoes and even, upon occasion, has the power to inspire an 18-year-old girl in Kansas to become a part of something bigger than herself.
Blakeborough is a junior in international studies and journalism from Baltimore.
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