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SONALI MADIA, a representative for Marakon Associates, talks to a student at Wednesday’s career fair.
CAREER FAIR from page 3 pursue a graduate school degree or spend time working for a non-profit organization instead of trying to get a job immediately after graduation. “The economy has forced me to strongly consider going to graduate school in order to make myself more marketable when I enter the job market and hopefully give things some time to recover before I start looking for a career,” senior Ashley D’Uva said. Seniors are not the only ones affected by the drop in campus recruiting. Junior Megan Murphy lamented the decreased availability of summer internships from the companies participating in this year’s fair, and sophomores are also beginning to look to the fu-
ture with apprehension. “As a sophomore, I’m just exploring my options right now, but I’m really not sure how many positions are going to be available to engineers in the near future,” said sophomore Justin Shapiro, a student in the Pratt School of Engineering. “We’re all just standing here crossing our fingers that things will be better in two years.” Despite the concerns, Halasz remains optimistic about the job prospects facing this year’s senior class if graduates don’t have their hearts set on one particular job. “As long as Duke students work hard and aren’t too selective, they will get a job,” Hallasz said. “They may not be able to specify the exact type and location that they want as much as in the past, but opportunities are out there, and the Career Center is here to help students find them.”
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midaftemoon from a staging point in neighboring Ghana. Plane ramps came down and U.S. forces secured the tarmac of the forest-lined airstrip in Yamoussoukro, clearing the way for Humvees that came rolling out. American soldiers humping duffel bags and metal boxes rapidly set up a post at the strip, a base for French troops who arrived earlier to move in on behalf of Yamoussoukro’s foreigners. American officials would not say what the soldiers were going to do next. About 300 Americans live in Bouake, Ivory Coast’s second-largest city, which has been cut off from water, electricity and food since last week’s rebel takeover. “Our idea is to get as many out as possible,” Richard Buangan, a U.S. diplomat helping to coordinate at the staging area, said ofAmericans in Bouake after another night of firing outside the International Christian Academy on the city’s outskirts. About 100 well-armed French troops reached the whitewashed compound of the mission school at midday. “Everyone there is ecstatic,” said Neil Gilliland, speaking by telephone from the affiliated Free Will Baptist Missions in Nashville, Tenn., minutes after the troops’ arrival. The school houses 200 teachers, and children ages 5 to 18 of missionaries based across Africa. Firing broke out again on both sides of the mission Wednesday, after rebels breached the walls of the campus and fired from its grounds two nights earlier.
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“Nobody was firing at them, but there was gunfire all around,” Gilliland said of Monday’s shooting outside the school. Armed French troops escorted the teachers, staff and children back to Yamoussoukro, where U.S. forces were waiting. Waving U.S. flags and with many wearing U.S. flag T-shirts, the relieved children cheered out the windows at a French convoy headed the other way. “Vive la France!”—“Long live France!” they hollered. In Bouake, tense residents reached by telephone Wednesday said rebels still controlled the city and could be seen cruising the streets in commandeered vehicles. In Korhogo, rebels armed with guns and rocket launchers went house to house, rounding up any paramilitary police and soldiers not yet captured, and confiscating their weapons. Trapped in their houses, with no sign of a promised
government offensive to rout the rebels, residents were becoming increasingly frustrated. “All my activities are paralyzed. I’m having trouble feeding my family,” said mechanic Souleymane Coulibaly. “If this continues, it is us who will go dis-
lodge the mutineers.” As foreign troops tried to ensure the safety of Westerners, thousands ofworkers from neighboring Muslim countries were far more vulnerable in the uprising, which has created deadly rivalries between the mainly Muslim north and the predominantly Christian south.