The Picador Volume 8, Issue 6
A PUBLICATION BY HOLDERNESS STUDENTS FOR THE HOLDERNESS SCHOOL COMMUNITY
January 18, 2013
Goals for Green Cup Challenge there was ever a time to get in the habit of making a conWhat are we worried about? scious effort to recycle plastic Snow has fallen this winter, bottles and paper, it is now. and we can go skiing, so…no This fall there were 67 schools global warming, right? Not competing, 45 of which quite. We may not feel the showed improvement over the effects of our waste and pollufour-week span. Last year over tion today, but it will not be 116 schools participated in 22 long. Our careless actions will states and saved over one milbe felt down the road for years lion kWh and avoided 1.5 miland generations to come. We lion pounds of carbon dioxide are not responsibly taking care from releasing into the atmosof our home. phere. It is for this reason that so Even though we did not parmany schools have begun to ticipate this fall, we did do the participate in the annual Green challenge in 2011. Again, we Cup Challenge. We have endid not do so great. Out of the tered the Challenge in years four weeks of the challenge, past but unfortunately, have we only beat our baseline put in very little effort in relaonce. In fact, our overall usage tion to many other schools. If went up slightly from our starting values. This year we are setting a goal to noticeably decrease our energy consumption over the four weeks. Our baseline during the last challenge was at 34,844 kWh, and one week we managed to reduce it to 30,790 kWh. This year we want to lower these values. By Jeff Hauser ’13
Over the next four weeks many different calculations (Continued on page 3)
Inside This Issue: Welcome New Students ………..……...Page 9 Celebrities in our Midst………………...Page 6-7 The Dorm Reports are Back!...................Page 8 A Big Cup Challenge…………………...Page 5
College Degrees that Don’t Pay By CJ Sansing ’14 As many students take the next step into college, they must decide on what major will help them gain a long and successful career. Yet not all majors and degrees will land you a dream job, and in today’s economic situation, landing a job is more important than ever. This article names the worst three degrees to obtain, because they are associated with high unemployment rates along with low median salaries for recent graduates. According to Kiplinger.com and Payscale.com, anthropol-
ogy (the study of humankind) is ranked number one as the worst college degree to help you get a job. It is associated with a higher unemployment rate than the national average and has only around a 10% employment rate for graduates. Financially, the median income for anthropology majors is about $28,000 which is less than the national average for students who have only a high school diploma. Despite the current low demand for anthropology majors, the field is projected to grow by 21% by the year 2020. Fine arts is ranked second on the list for worst degrees. It has a high unemployment rate amongst recent graduates with an average of 12% which is slightly higher than anthropology and the national average. It does, however, have a higher median pay of $30,000; that is still lower than the national average for (Continued on page 2)