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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 manic.
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.
Four year degree later
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- nistion for Wiechman because
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Three activists trying to leave Greek island detained (Athens, Greece) — Pro-Palestinian activists say two Canadians and an Australian activist in Delhi that seeks to leave Greece for the Gaza Strip have been detained.
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David Heap, a spokesperson for a boat carrying dozens of Canadians that tried to leave Greece despite a ban, said Tuesday the three activists could face charges. He identified them as Canadians Sandra Ruch and Soha Kneen, and Australian Michael Coleman.
The boat tried to leave the southern Greek island of Crete on Monday, but was forced to turn back by Coast Guard vessels.
Cops find 1.1 tons of cocaine on the way to Europe in yacht (Berlin, Germany) German police say authorities have intercepted a yacht carrying 1.1 tons of cocaine worth some $60 million from the Caribbean to Europe.
Police said Tuesday that the bust was part of an investigation begun in 2009 with French and Spanish authorities.
French and Spanish authorities.
Two Germans sailing from the island of Grenada were stopped last week by French customs authorities. The cocaine was found hidden in the four-foot vault, and the suspects were arrested.
43-100 yacht, and the suspect.
In searches in Germany, police say they found $580,000 cash and $1.3 million in other assets.
Police say a South African man who was supposed to skipper the boat across the Atlantic was arrested Tuesday in the Caribbean. A Dutch man was arrested Tuesday in Spain.
British troops to begin leaving Afghanistan next year (Kabul, Afghanistan) British Prime Minister David Cameron is promising Afghanistan a surge in aid money even as British troops begin to withdraw from the war.
At a news conference on Tuesday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Cameron said he will confirm to Parliament on Wednesday that about 500 of the 9,500 British forces in Afghanistan will leave next year. He says all foreign troops would stick to a 2014 deadline to end their combat role.
Cameron says an additional 450 personnel, who were deployed on a temporary mission to Afghanistan, are also set to be pulled back by February.
Lance to Afghanistan, are also set to be put in charge. But he pledged an enduring partnership with Afghanistan and vowed to increase Britain's aid and help build an elite military academy modeled after England's famous Sandhurst.
Male sex of New Zealand penguin identified by cells from feathers (Wellington, New Zealand) — It's a boy.
(Wellington, New Zealand) — it's a boy.
DNA results are back for the emperor penguin nicknamed "Happy Feet" found on a New Zealand beach two weeks ago.
Wellington Zoo spokeswoman Kate Baker says the penguin's sex was identified from cells scraped from his feathers. Male and female emperor penguins outwardly appear identical.
outwardly appeal to them.
Baker said Tuesday the penguin is recovering nicely after four procedures to flush sand and de-
pounds of salmon daily.
Associated Press