/ 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.
Four years of classes and one degree later, some students do not know what the
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.
Gina Littlejohn, the campus instructor for Teach
The Peace Corps was an attractive option for Wiechman because
right al.
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their time and hired new architects in the summer of 1969 to redesign the building. The new architect plan was four-stories high and priced higher than the previous plans. The new architect's plan included the parking garage but was cut for cost and made into offices.
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MYTH 3: There was a tunnel from Bailey Hall to the Kansas Union.
According to the National Register of Historic Places, was constructed in 1899 on what was then the far west end of campus. The national register has every detail of the building, what it is made of (limestone) to remodeling history. In 1956 the building was remodeled to add a new front entry and stairway, roof, and floors.
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morial Union frame was built in 1926. Additions to the building were made in 1950, 1958, and 1970. In the 1956 December issue of KU Alumni Magazine the column titled "A day in the life of a student union man" said there are six floors in the Kansas Union. The article mentions the bowling alley, bookstore, cafeteria, living room, and ballroom.
There is no mention of a tunnel in the historic data for either building. This myth is false.
MYTH 4: Strong Hall was built backwards.
This myth is false, but Strong Hall was not built the way its original architect designed. According to documents in the Spencer Reserch
Library, by 1904 Fraser Hall was too small to house everything and the University needed a new building for administrative offices and science classes. Architect M.P. McArdle designed a building with an emphasis on natural lighting provided by skylights and large windows. In 1909 the state gave the University money to build Strong Hall, but only enough for the east wing. The east wing was not complete until 1911. The west wing was built in 1908 and the center was built five years later. The photo (right or left) is how Strong Hall looked in 1922. In 1940 the four way entrance on the north side of Strong Hall was replaced with a new front entrance because the balcony and stairway were badly cracked. The building was always designed to face Mount Oread.
Contributed photo Spencer Research Library An artist rendering of plans for a much-taller Wescoe Hall show the truth in the oftquoted "myth" that the building was originally supposed to be bigger.