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Vol. # 96, Issue
May 29, 2012
An evening with the queens A major
decision
The most and least valuable college paths revealed By AVERY CONNOLLY and GABRIEL CHARLES TYLER Contributing Writers
MATT HARDER | The DePaulia
Act Out, Spectrum DePaul, Trans*(formation) DePaul and Residential Education hosted the third annual ‘What a Drag” show Wednesday, May 23 in the Lincoln Park Student Center. Left to right: Sheru, Kitty Lepore, Britney Shears, Davina Minx, Krispy Kumming, Funion Lay, Cookie Dough, Brianna Powers and Rita Rottencrotch.
Playing the waiting game
Abstinence on the rise among young adults By KASIA FEJKLOWICZ Contributing Writer
Movies such as “Friends with Benefits” and “No Strings Attached” perpetuate the idea that we live in a hookup culture. It may seem that young adults, especially college students, are having sex, but are they really? Research shows that more young adults are saying “no” to sex. MSNBC reported that a new federal study proposed that more young adults ages 15-24 are remaining virgins longer. Twenty-seven percent of men and 29 percent of women in this study said they’ve never had sex of any kind. In 2002, only 22 percent of both of these groups said they were virgins. During a lecture at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Penn., Lisa Wade, a sociologist, explained what she found in her study. Wade discovered that 25 percent of college students never hookup, while 30 percent hookup with three people or less in four years.
“[Abstinence] is a choice that will require should really think about is who and what a lot of self-control and also a willingness to their partner means to them. be selfless …We live in an extremely self“Now sex has turned into a biological satisfying world. A choice to go against urge. That is not what the act is … it is a that is groundbreaking to say the least – See SEX, page 3 it’s unexpected,” said Diana Zawojska, a sophomore at DePaul. Zawojska has been dating her boyfriend since her senior year of high school, and she is waiting for many reasons. One of them is because she wants to share everything with that one special person – after the ‘I-do’s.’ In her mind, it’s the epitome of love, being selfless, committed, patient and encouraging while abstaining with the person you love. “People give away such an important part of themselves that they don’t even realize,” Zawojska said. “Love I think is something greater and more meaningful, and people most of the time unfortunately are caught up in the moment.” Joseph Ferrari, a Vincent de Paul professor of psychology, said, “Love is not an emotion, but a decision … you decide to give yourself to this other [person].” He believes that when people engage in sexual activity they are making themselves vulnerable. What they
Graduation season has finally rolled around and new packs of college graduates are being thrown from the nest and into the real world. The last few years have been difficult for college graduates who have found themselves facing challenges their parents and grandparents did not have to face, including a deep economic recession and record levels of college debt. While some have found success in life after college, others have struggled to market their degrees in this tough economic environment, posing the question: All are degrees worth the same? Last month, The Daily Beast released a study based on research from Georgetown University ranking the most “useful” and “useless” college majors. The university’s research team drew from two years of census data to determine the prospects for myriad majors, narrowing down their list to over three dozen popular college majors. Stemming off of Georgetown’s research, The Daily Beast used data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics equally weighing the following categories to determine current and future employment and earnings potential for their final ranking: recent graduate employment, experienced graduate employment, recent graduate earnings, experienced graduate earnings and projected growth in total number of jobs between 2010 and 2020. It is no secret that a college degree is not a pass to financial stability, but in the past few years, conditions for college graduates have been bleak, if not nonexistent. According to research from Georgetown University, unemployment for students with new Bachelor’s degrees is an unacceptable 8.9 percent, and the combined unemployment rate for both recent college graduates and experienced Bachelor’s degree holders is 5 percent. While the research from Georgetown is alarming, it has brought questions regarding the value of college majors to the forefront, claiming “not every degree is created equal.” Among the most “useless” majors, journalism debuted as the eighth worst major for college See MAJORS, page 4