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.
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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.
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 lowincome communities. The assignment lasts for two years.
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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.
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ODD NEWS
Two nab doughnuts, not dough, in robbery
HYANNIS, Mass. --- Police say masked and armed men in Cape Cod thought they were nabbing a bag of dough.
They did just not the kind they wanted.
Three Hyannis men are facing armed robbery while masked charges after police say they robbed a Dunkin' Donuts with knives and a hatchet on Wednesday and only ended up with a bag of doughnuts.
According to police, the men demanded a paper bag that was in one of the worker's purses, mistakenly believing she was carrying cash from the day's receipts. But police say the men never looked inside.
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The men were captured on video and police were able to track them down on Thursday. Arrested were 19-year-old Nicholas Mercurio, 21-year-old Lukas Peterson and 20-year-old Charles liffe.
20-year old the ordeal in
It was unclear if any had attorn-
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Angry birds on attack against police officers
EVERETT, Wash. — Officers at a Seattle-area police department have found themselves in a flap with some unusual suspects — an angry flock of birds.
suspects in the attacking police in the parking lot of an Everett Police De-
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parkment precinct station. They've been swooping down and dive-bombing the officers as they walk to and from their cars.
Zinged.
"They're like velociraptors," Johns said.
Lt. Bob Johns said he recently was flanked by the aggressive birds and, "got zinged."
sad.
One officer used his siren to try to scare away the crows, but it didn't work.
The birds responded by decorating his car with droppings, The Daily Herald reported.
reported State Fish and Wildlife Department biologist Ruth Milner said the birds are simply protecting baby crows that have been kicked out of the nest and are learning to fly.
learning to fly.
"All they're doing is defending their nest," Milner said.
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