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/ GRADUATION GUIDE / THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2011 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
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 they want to do post-college and instead of turning rig!
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.
Gina Littlejohn, the campus campaign coordinator for Teach For America, said the program accepts people of all majors, and ana 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.
PEACE CORPS
Like Teach For America, the Peace Corps is another way for
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 attractive option for Wiechman because he did not have a clear direction for his future at the end of sol
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Weekly sports Trivia
Q: How many steals did LeBron James record as a teenager in the NBA?
A:202
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"What should I do? Should I make you laugh? Should I read you a soulful poem? Shoot me with your words. You may cut me with your eyes, but still like air, I will rise." WW—LeBron James
Fact of the Day
BASKETBALL
LeBron and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are the only players to win a pair of MVPs by the age of 25.
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18 Baseball
Read about MLB draft-picks Colton Murray and T.J. Walz.
See how the recent Jayhawk football coach's retirement will affect the team come the fall season.
19 Football
Former KU players advise campers
Former KU basketball player and current NBA player Cole Aldrich speaks to an estimated 700 children at the first summer session of Bill Self's Basketball Camp. Aldrich gave advice and answered questions. The camp is offered to children between 8-18 and continues until June 9.
BY HANNAH DAVIS editor@kansan.com
Success requires hard work from the individual, but one also needs love and support from friends and family. Tyshawn Taylor said when he acknowledged the help and impact of the people who surround him. This summer Taylor and other basketball players are ready to give back.
"My coaches have helped steer me in the right directions both personally and athletically my entire life. I look up to that, and I've always wanted to go into coaching. This week has been a crash course in coaching and motivation." Taylor said.
Taylor is working as a coach and mentor for boys ages eight to 18 at Bill Self's fourth annual Summer Basketball Camp. Taylor works with the youngest athletes, a demographic with notoriously short attention spans.
The campers greeted Taylor like a celebrity.
"I've got the eight and nine-year-olds." Taylor said: "I've got to tap back into my eight-year-old self. That's the best way to get through to them."
"When coach Self introduced me to the campers, they all started screaming and asking for autographs. It reminds you of what impact basketball can have on young people. I remember being that kid." Taylor said.
Seven-hundred adolescent boys shuffled into the Horejsi Family Athletic Center this past Monday afternoon to hear from a NBA basketball player and member of the 2008 national championship team, Cole Aldrich. Aldrich, a former all-academic and all-American, answered questions from the young hopefuls and urged the boys to focus on academics.
"Only a handful of this 700 is going to go on to play collegiate ball," Aldrich said. "That is why it is so important to do well in school. That accomplishment will help you for the rest of your life."
Aldrich answered ten questions, including, "What happened to your tooth?" and "How much do you get paid?"
Taylor wasn't the only basketball idol the campers worked with.
Jeric McCoy drove his son from their home in Burlington
to Lawrence for the camp this summer for the fourth year.
its all worth the smile on his face," he said. "It is something he looks forward to all year, and he's a better boy for it."
McCoy's son, J.J., along with the other boys, work on skills on and off the court. Campers are expected to make their beds, clean their rooms and be in bed by lights out, and failure to do so results in loss of free time. Coach Steve Henson addressed practical issues before introducing Cole Aldrich to the adolescent boys.
The next round of the sold-out camps begins June 12.
"Fellas, we've had some complaints about your smell. I walked into Naismith today and it smelled like an ammonia factory. Let's take showers, we're paying the water bill this week, so take multiple showers if you must," Henson said.
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Former center Cole Aldrich practices with men's basketball coach Danny Manning during a shootaround session Monday afternoon in the first session of Bill Self's basketball camp. The camp is offered to children and continues until June 9.