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...While it still emphasizes training medical scientists and, in fact, has a new program to attract top-notch students who will commit themselves to research but not practice, UCLA will no longer train students to practice medical "subspecialties," such as cardiology and nephrology. Says Fogelman: "We have told internship applicants during the past two years that UCLA was a great place to be trained as a generalist or a [research] scientist. But if the applicant wanted to practice subspecialty medicine, we stated clearly that ucla was not the place...
...Inroads, which is a program that gives minority students an internship for all four summers with high-powered firms," Torres says. "You get paid a lot. It's a really sweet deal actually, but I always felt like I was getting a job solely based on the color of my skin, so I quit...
Three Harvard upperclass students will receive cash awards for public service internships they intend to pursue in the near future. The $750 award, sponsored by the J.W. Saxe Memorial Fund, is meant "to enable students to gain practical experience in public service by taking a no-pay or low-pay job or internship during a summer or other term," according to a fund press release...
...Well, I think job searching is a part of it; in the past three years, many are the newspaper internship posters I have seen that say "minorities especially encouraged to apply" or "this program open to minorities only." This phenomenon has become relatively common. Think that the furor over "reverse discrimination" might die down soon? I doubt it, not with colleges turning out kids accustomed to thinking of themselves as disadvantaged in the job market--because they're white...
Anne Harkavy '95 was sick for nearly eight months. She stayed in bed all summer, giving up a Washington, D.C. internship...