/ 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
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.
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.
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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.
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This tension between us in our sex class is ridiculous. Just say something to me!
Hormones out of whack at this school. That's why I go to KU.
I'm moving to Hawaii to go to graduate school. I will miss Kansas. Does that make me a wierdo?
Orgy, Southpark, 9 p.m. Be there.
I'M DRUNK.
Wow. College kids getting drunk. How novel. Congrats.
"Excelling at K-State is worse than sucking at KU"-Josh Selby to Jacob Pullen
Iaco Bell was the wrong answer. I have to go sit on the toilet for a couple hours
Sororities have plenty of good looking tacos.
And some pretty bad looking ones, lol.
How many ethnic stereotypes does it take to screw in a light bulb? As many as necessary to reinforce my prejudiced assumptions.
I pay for sex... with a groupon.
You probably don't even think about me anymore but just so you know, I still really miss you.
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Laws violate reproductive health rights
ABORTION
Last week, New York took an important step toward an equal society, one in which the state protects the human rights of its citizens. Unfortunately, Saturday morning, the state of Kansas was also in the New York Times, but for a far less-encouraging reason.
The new string of abortion laws, in particular the license law, passed by the state legislature are already having a detrimental affect on important and necessary clinics in the state.
the said. The New York Times reported of the three abortion clinics in Kansas, two are expected to be denied renewal of their license. Planned Parenthood said it would probably happen even if the clinics met the requirements seeing as the main goal of the legislation is to shut down the clinics.
Talk about embarrassing. There was our state in all its anti-reproductive-health-rights glory, side by side with New York's leap forward in LGBT rights.
BY KELLY COSBY
kcosby@kansan.com
before the fetus can sustain life on its own), the state cannot pass limitations that interfere with a woman's right to privacy, including the right to have an abortion.
The legislators can argue all they want that this is protecting maternal health and that it is strictly about having adequate safety standards, but frankly, that's not of the least importance in regard to these politicians' and interest groups' agenda. It is clear that the only purpose for these new limitations is to shut down the clinics in Kansas.
This is a blatant violation of reproductive health rights. The Supreme Court has ruled in previous cases regarding state abortion laws that before viability (meaning
Whether or not you support the legality of abortion, those are the facts. This is what the Court has ruled, and states should be adhering to those standards, especially given that this is an issue of the right to privacy.
The state is quite obviously attempting to circumvent the rulings of the Court by passing these laws under the guise of safety regulations. These are not minimum standards for safety, and they are simply being used as means to an end: closing clinics.
this has been obvious since the passage of these laws, but now the effects are becoming very real. The Aid for Women clinic in Kansas City, Kan, was denied its application to continue abortions Friday. This was before an inspection had even been performed, and so it
was simply unable to meet some of the unnecessary standards imposed by new laws without the support of any funding. With its license discontinued, the clinic to close.
Planned Parenthood understands all too well the disconnect between enforcing strict limitations on clinics while also providing no federal funding. The legislature has removed all family planning funding from Planned Parenthood in an effort to undermine the clinic's ability to provide services to women, from legal abortions protected within the right to privacy to other vital services such as family planning counseling and birth control.
Time will tell if the Kansas government can get away with evading protections on privacy rights specified by the Court.
Cosby is a senior in English and political science from Overland Park.
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New York's marriage equality symbol of more tolerant climate
The legalization of same-sex marriage in New York is not just another step toward lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) equality; it is evidence that, perhaps, legislative processes are becoming a more viable institution through which to secure the rights of LGBs.
in 2004, Massachusetts began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that denying same-sex marriages conflicts with the due process and equal protection clauses in the U.S. Constitution.
California was second to follow, but, after the Supreme Court of California's May 2008 decision in favor of marriage equality, an initiative overriding this decision was placed on the upcoming ballot as a state constitutional amendment literally, with the title, the Eliminate Rights of Same-Sex Couples to Marry Act. (At least they were forthcoming in claiming to take away the "rights" of a group.) This amendment, commonly called Proposition 8 or
BY JAMES CASTLE
jcastle@kansan.com
"Prop 8," passed.
In October 2008 and in April 2009, the Supreme Court of Connecticut and the Iowa Supreme Court respectively ruled in favor of same-sex marriages. These four states (including California, albeit briefly) all achieved marriage equality through judicial processes, a venue typically used when an issue cannot be supported by a majority.
cannot be supported by a majority. On June 24, the New York State Assembly was able to push its same-sex marriage legislation through the Senate, and the second state body passed the bill with a 33-29 vote. New York is the third state to
pass such a bill through legislative processes (following new Hampshire and Vermont), though it is the first highly populated state to do so.
In a highly populated state, it can be reasonably assumed that the population and its government more closely resemble the population of the country as a whole than do states with small populations. If a state as dense as New York can indeed succeed in passing a bill allowing same-sex marriage, it may also be possible that, rather than more State Supreme Court rulings, we see more success in passing same-sex marriage measures in other large states (provided U.S. Supreme Court never rules on same-sex marriage), as well as other pro-gay measures in New York.
pro gay measures in New York Perhaps we are witnessing a change in the political climate since the California initiative just three years ago, and it is that same-sex rights legislation fares much better in 2011. Even the federal administration has shown signs of exhaustion on gay rights issues. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates supported
the repeal of Don't ask; Don't Tell (DADT) in 2010, and Barack Obama, only a few months ago, announced his apathy toward the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
defend the 1980s.
Although I believe marriage should be an exclusively religious institution and that only rights and benefits are important (The Kansan, March 3, 2011), marriage equality is no doubt a symbol of a more democratic and tolerant political climate. That we are now seeing this equality achieved through negotiations and the support of a majority of elected officials in big states says a lot about how much our culture has changed, and how much it is changing..
— which federally defines marriage as a union exclusively between one man and one woman and allows states to reject same-sex marriages from other states — refusing to defend the 1996 law in court.
James Castle is a senior from Stilwell in political science and human sexuality
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