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ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS
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.
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.
Gina Littlejohn, the campus campaign coordinator for Teach
PEACE CORPS
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(Miami, Fla.) The suspected leader of a Colombian cocaine cartel had planned to plead guilty Tuesday to a drug conspiracy charge, but opted at the last minute to go to trial instead because the deal prosecutors offered meant he would likely die in prison.
(St. Petersburg, Russia) Two leaders of a neo-Nazi gang were sentenced Tuesday to life in jail for a rash of hate killings that terrorized minorities in Russia's second-largest city.
An exasperated U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz warned Jaime Alberto Marin Zamora that the latest continuance in his case — the third — would be his last.
largest city. The St. Petersburg City Court said Alexei Voevodin and Artym Promkohrenko headed a gang that enlisted Russian supremacists and football fans aged 16 to 22 who preyed on non-Slavs with dark skin or Asian features, kicking and stabbing them to death.
The court also sentenced another 10 gang members to up to 18 years in jail for their roles in dozens of attacks over three years.
The June 20 trial — the first of many for a range of charges — will be open to the public, said Justice Ministry spokesman Kadhem Zine El Abidine. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali could face between five to 20 years in prison if convicted.
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