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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2005
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
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ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR, ISSUE 141
Peak past at Career Center as year ends by
Grad School apps up from 'O4
Meg Bourdillon THE CHRONICLE
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With less than three weeks until graduation, most of the visitors to the Career Center are looking for Baccalaureate tickets, notjobs. Things are winding down as the academic year draws to a
close, and the center’s only major upcoming
event
is a sym-
posium Friday for science and engineering Ph.D. candidates. An oversized wall.calendar in the Page Building office does not even extend past April 24. “We stay busy pretty much through the majority of the school year, when students are here,” said Kara Lombardi, associate director of counseling and programs. She noted that most students are spending their time studying, not looking for career advice, in the
lead-up to exams. Tuesday afternoon, the resource room closed its doors SEE CAREER ON PAGE 11
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Last Ddy of Classes
In preparation for tonight’s Last Day ofClasses performances, featuring Collective Soul and Weekend Excursion, a stage was erected Tuesday on the Main West Campus Quadrangle. Another stage near Clocktower Quad will showcase student bands.
Tiffany Webber THE CHRONICLE
In what Graduate School Dean Lewis Siegel called “the second-largest year ever,” applications to the Graduate School increased to nearly 7,400 for the 2005-2006 academic year, up from 7,080 last year. Graduate School officials said it is unlikely that applications in the next few years will eclipse the record 7,900 it received two years ago. For the first time in several years, the Graduate School received more domestic applications —4,174 —than it did foreign applications, Siegel said. Foreign applications rose to 3,220, up from 3,092 last year. “The market for other professions is not as good as it was a few years ago,” Siegel said, adding that an increasing number of college graduates are pursuing Ph.D.s rather than
professional degrees.
SEE APPLICATIONS ON PAGE 6
Humanities alumni LeFew seeks student activism struggle to find jobs BY Orcun Unlu THE CHRONICLE
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Julie
Stolberg THE CHRONICLE
After four years of college, 10 years of graduate education and the investment of a small fortune in studying the larger questions of the humanities, how are the job prospects? Dismal. Anne Whisnant, project manager for programs funded through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, said she is concerned by the dearth of positions in academia for Ph.D. recipients in the humanities, especially in light of the trend of replacing tenure-track positions with adjunct or professor of the practice positions. Whisnant has found that while the gates of academia seem to be
closing more rapidly than graduate school entrants ever anticipated, there is a market for humanities Ph.D. holders outside of the ivory tower. But the external market, Whisnant explained, may not be the answer to all of the problems humanities Ph.D. recipients encounter in a society that financially rewards the sciences more than the humanities. “The social value placed on the humanities, just in the crassest market terms, is low. I mean even [for] people who go outside [academia],” Whisnant said. “It’s really a problem that goes beyond the University to, what does our society value financially?
William LeFew, recentlyelected president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council, isn’t afraid to admit he uses buzzwords. “Evolving” and “mentoring” are at the top of his list, as he aims to move GPSC forward by engaging students and increasing their interaction with administrators. He believes that GPSC has come a long way over the last five years, but it still has a long way to go. “It’s not that we are doing something wrong, it is just that we want to do new good things,” said LeFew, a third-year applied mathematics doctoral student “We had a lot of strong leaders who opened a lot of doors with the administration,” he
SEE PH.D. ON PAGE 8
SEE GPSC ON PAGE 10
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William LeFew, the new GPSC president, discusses his plans to bring positive changes to the organization and graduate and professional studentlife next year.