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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 span.
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.
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 attraction for Wichman because
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Pope tweets for first time and gives blessing (Vatican City, Italy) Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday tweeted for the first time, announcing the launch of a Vatican news information portal
Warden allegedly supplying inmates with arms
(Caracas, Venezuela) — Venezuelan authorities have arrested a prison warden for allegedly supplying an arms and explosives to inmates staging deadly riots over the past 11 days.
Benedict's tweet read: "Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised me our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Bene-
self by tapping an iPad, said Thaddeus Jones, an project coordinator and an official with the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. Moments later the pope sent the tweet.
The 84-year-old pontiff was then shown the portal and its features in greater detail.
The portal www.news.va for the first time aggregates information from the Vatican's various print, online, radio and television media. It's the latest effort by the Vatican to bring its evangelizing message to a greater, Internet-savvy audience and follows forays into Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Jones described him as "interested and impressed," and "clearly enjoying it."
The country's attorney general says warden Luis Aranguen was arrested Friday along with a National Guard captain whose unit patrolled the Rodeo II prison. The two men were charged with corruption, criminal association and supplying arms and explosives to inmates.
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Authorities also arrested the subdirector of an adjacent prison for facilitating arms and explosives and illegal drug trafficking.
Benedict put the site online him
Venezuelan soldiers have battled inmates at the facility, leaving at least one inmate and two soldiers dead. The bodies of another five inmates have also been removed from the prison.
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(Manila, Philippines) — The Philippines has pledged to intensify its battle against human trafficking and welcomed a U.S. State Department report crediting its recent efforts to combat the problem.
The country has been upgraded to Tier 2 in the annual U.S. Trafficking in Persons report, indicating it does not fully comply with minimum standards to eliminate trafficking but is making progress.
Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said Tuesday the Philippines is committed to ensuring that Filipino workers overseas are given full protection and to strengthening its efforts against human traffickers.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacienda also welcomed Monday's report, which noted a rise in convictions of offenders to 25 from nine the previous year.
China to track pandas record every ten years
(Beijing, China) — China has counted its 1.34 billion people and now is giving pandas a turn.
After conducting a census of its human population last year, China is about to start a once-every-10-years count of pandas in the wild.
particular in the NW. The China Daily said Tuesday more than 60 trackers have been trained at Wangling National Reserve in the southwestern province of Sichuan.
Director of the reserve's administrative bureau Chen Youping was quoted by Xinhua News Agency as saying they will collect panda dropoffs for DNA analysis. That will allow zoologists to track individual pandas and accurately estimate the population.
Almost 1,600 wild pandas were counted in the last census. The endangered species native to China is threatened in the wild by a loss of habitat, poaching and for being poor breeders.
Report indicates Aborigines need help from country
(Canberra, Australia) — Fabian Brown, known among Aborigines by his tribal name Jabangardi, is usually jobless, added to alcohol and has been in and out of prison since he was 17.
His story is all too common among Aborigines in Australia's Outback. A parliamentary report last week called the situation a national crisis, noting the imprisonment rate for indigenous Australians has soared 66 percent in the past decade.
At the time of white settlement in 1788, the Aborigine population was estimated to be as high as 1 million. Their numbers crashed dramatically because of new diseases, brutal treatment from colonists, the loss of traditional lands as well as social and cultural disintegration.
The report underscores how little progress Australia has made — despite more than 40 years of targeted federal policies — in lifting up a section of its population that is beset by crime, poor health, domestic violence and alcoholism while living on the fringes of society.
Associated Press