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The fight is on SU students bring cartoon
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entrepreneurship program for veterans focused on recycling. Page 3
law banning dog-fighting and animal cruelty videos. Page 5
Rautins has finally left Syracuse. And now the next step is preparing for the NBA Draft. Page 16
creations to life in virtual combat game “Grafighters.” Page 9
Athlete panel speaks about stereotypes
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Program to offer degree in teaching
By Susan Kim Staff Writer
Mikela Almeida, a junior on the rowing team, was at a party one weekend night when she felt violated. The boy she danced with was drunk and made her feel uncomfortable. So she asked one of her male athlete friends to help her out, and he took care of the situation. “It was a situation I was never put in before, so I commend (my friend),” she said. Nearly 50 students gathered at Goldstein Student Center on Monday night to discuss sexual assault on campus with a panel of nine Syracuse University athletes. The
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By Andrew Swab Asst. Feature Editor
taylor miller | asst. photo editor Amadou gueye, chandler jones and lucy schoedel , a freshman member of the track and field team, a junior football player and a senior women’s hockey player, respectively, discuss sexual assault on campus during a panel with six other Syracuse University student-athletes Monday night.
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ilic Stevanovic, a senior finance and accounting major, always knew he wanted to go into business but was nervous about entering the job market. “I honestly did not see myself graduating and getting a job right off the bat just because the economy was so bad, and I was getting rejected left and right,” Stevanovic said. With the unemployment rate currently at 10.2 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the outlook for seniors to graduate and immediately enter the job force is bleak. Students are turning to internships and undergraduate programs to bridge the time between graduation and full-time jobs. Despite a difficult job market, the prospects for this year’s graduating class look a little better than last year’s.
When Stevanovic was offered a paid internship with accounting firm RSM McGladrey and Pullen, it seemed like a good way to build his résumé and spend a summer before returning to school to pursue a master’s degree in accounting. He said this is becoming a standard procedure for students planning to become certified public accountants. “Everything so far has been going according to plan, and after graduation I’ll be interning at RSM and hopefully be offered a full-time position for after graduate school,” Stevanovic said. Michael Cahill, director of the Center for Career Services at Syracuse University, said most seniors who visit Career Services plan for jobs or graduate school after graduation, but there has always been a willingness to accept an internship with a company if it leads to a job offer. Traditionally, more seniors enter graduate school
SU seniors face bleak job market, turn to internships in place of full-time jobs
during poor economic times, Cahill said. About 21 percent of the Class of 2009 planned to go on to graduate school. “At this stage, that’s not the preference students would have,” Cahill said about the opportunity for seniors to take internships. “So that’s not the priority of seniors to look for internships. They’re still looking for permanent jobs. They would prefer to have that, but at the same time they may be looking at opportunities that will bridge the summer while they continue to look for full-time jobs.” Summer internships are a lastminute opportunity to help build résumés or provide an opportunity to “try something on” before looking at it seriously as a job, Cahill said. He has only talked to a handful of seniors looking for internships and does not consider there to be too many more students accepting internships post-
The New York State Board of Regents unanimously voted April 20 to approve a pilot program allowing non-university institutions, such as Teach for America, to create their own master’s degrees programs in education. “In a sense, we’re trying to promote a revolution,” said Saul Cohen, an at-large member of the Board of Regents. Under the program, a student teacher will be granted a master’s degree in education from the Board of Regents after receiving on-the-job training through alternative educational groups like Teach for America. But officials in Teach for America and education schools said they are unsure of the program’s potential effectiveness. The program was created in response to increasing criticism about the underpreparedness and lack of practical training education schools provide to teachers. Teach for America recruits college students to serve as teachers in low-performing schools throughout the country, and the New York City Teaching Fellows program recruits people from different professional backgrounds with no teaching education. The point of the program is to ensure internships and classroom experiences are integral parts of new teacher training. It will follow a medical model, in the sense that medical professionals need to undergo a residency period in a hospital to practice medicine, Cohen said. The hope is that this program will have teachers undergo the same experiential training in a classroom, he said. “I don’t know how I feel about it. I think you should have a formal education, actually,” said Jen Britton, a freshman elementary and special education major. The majority of the funding will come from the U.S. Department of Education’s “Race for the Top Fund.” The fund is for “states that are leadsee degree page 6
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graduation than normal due to tough economic times, he said. SU typically sees about 75 to 80 percent of students employed full time within six months of graduation and 15 to 20 percent moving onto graduate school, Cahill said. Statistics from the Class of 2008 show 77 percent employed and 18 percent entering see internships page 6