/ 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 panic.
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.
The Peace Corps was an attracti tion for Wichman because
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Only four freshmen/sophomores have ever left KU early for the NBA. Three of them are currently with the Memphis Grizzlies.
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On the cover
A rapper performs as part of an April 20 show at the Granda Theater, 1020 Massachusetts St. The hip-hop scene in Lawrence is thriving. More about it on page 12, in next week's Kansan and on Kansan.com. Cover photo by Travis Yanyi/KANSAN
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Cover photo by Travis Young/KANSAN
Quote of the Week "This land is your land."
— Woody Guthrie
Fact of the Week
— census.gov
Thirty-one places have "liberty" in their names. The most populous one as of April 1, 2010, is Liberty, Mo. (29,149) Iowa, with four, has more of these places than any other state: Libertyville, New Liberty, North Liberty and West Liberty.
ON THE RECORD
KU public safety officers responded to:
- A domestic battery occurred in Stouffer Place Apartments at about 2 a.m. Monday. Officers made an arrest at the scene.
- A minor was caught in possession of alcohol just after midnight on Sunday in the 1400 block of Ohio Street.
- Someone sprayed graffiti on Learned Hall sometime on Thursday.
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