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June 2-8, 2010 \ Volume 20 \ Issue 22 \ Always Free Film | Music | Culture SUMMER READS To Flip Over ©2010 CAMPUS CIRCLE • (323) 939-8477 • 5042 WILSHIRE BLVD., #600 LOS ANGELES, CA 90036 • WWW.CAMPUSCIRCLE.COM • ONE FREE COPY PER PERSON Join CAMPUS CIRCLE www.campuscircle.com NO LINES • NO ATTITUDE • NO COVER! “Voted Miracle Mile’s Favorite Neighborhood Bar” Join us for… Mon 9pm: Karaoke • Tue 8pm: Drinko Bingo • Sat 8pm: Live Pub Trivia NBA Finals • World Cup Soccer • MLB Baseball Package on 5 screens 757 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles (1 Block South of Wilshire Blvd.) www.littlebarlounge.com UCLA grads! Must present UCLA student ID. Offer good thru 6/30/2010 2 Campus Circle 6.2.10 - 6.8.10 Join CAMPUS CIRCLE www.campuscircle.com “L.A.’s most romantic restaurant” campus circle INSIDE campus CIRCLE –Best of City Search June 2 -June 8, 2010 Vol. 20 Issue 22 10 Off Vine has come home… Come on home with us! 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Photo Credit: Raul Rubiera/Miami Herald/KRT Campus Circle 6.2.10 - 6.8.10 3 CHORUS LINE • PANTAGES • 4.870” X 5.900” CAMPUS CIRCLE • PUB DATE: 6.6.2010 NEWS FILM MUSIC CULTURE EVENTS DVD GAMING SPORTS MEDIA BLOGS Campus News College Central Local News U.S. News CAMPUSNEWS Campus Circle > News > Campus News fate. College recruitment efforts at some companies are at an to a new wave of men and women starting computer- and unfortunate standstill, which means the recent grad needs to home-based companies. YOU’VE explore many opportunities on their own time and dime. This time, there is a focus toward “the mom and pop” A number of former students have begun to get inventive, business model, as opposed to seeking corporate-sponsored adopting Ferris Bueller-type tactics to make good use of their revenue or venture capital. GRADUATED. newly gained academic freedom. Between 2007 and 2008, Internet giant eBay saw its “I went to a life coach,” says Anna Christou. number of online registrations jump a whopping 51 percent. Christou recently married her college sweetheart and says This is due, in part, to an increase in online merchants selling NOW WHAT? that her husband was the one to encourage her to find her products and services to its built-in customer base. bliss. Companies such as GoDaddy.com and Yahoo may “At [Academy of Art], we were really focused on art and have recently announced an increase in their domain name BY EBONY MARCH, NEWS EDITOR design,” she explains. “But the jobs just aren’t there the way I acquisition fees, but this has not thwarted the public. thought they’d be.” A new company can be started in just a few quick steps: So, she scoured the Internet and found a life coach who THE CLASS OF 2010 HAS ENDURED FOUR YEARS has helped her pick up where her mom and dad left off. 1) Choose a name and register it online. of heaven – or for some, hell. They’ve experienced dorm life, “We just talk about where I want to be in life, and she 2) Set up a corporation, LLC (limited liability company) campus food, keggers, rush week, pledging, audits, parking helps me with practical ways of getting there. I do a lot of and/or dba (“doing business as”). woes, football games, sex, drugs, rock ’n’ roll, hip-hop and the creative visualization. I focus on the good stuff and spend less 3) Acquiring necessary sales permits worst unemployment rates in nearly 26 years. time obsessing over the disappointments,” says Christou. 4) Scout a great business location (or work from home). The scholastic landscape has seen its ups and downs as For others, it’s less about the metaphysical pursuits and 5) Hire staff. well: A number of colleges and universities have expressed more about doing something awesome for the environment concern over the small number of minority graduates, and for those less fortunate. Unlike the 20th century, when start-up capital was all including Hispanics, who are the fastest-growing section of Idealist.org is an organization that promotes volunteerism the rage, a new company can be founded with a little elbow the population. across the planet. The site aggregates information about grease and a few hundred dollars. And since the most valuable Even medical school grads (once thought to have a lock everything ranging from internships to fundraising demographic in e-commerce is the 18- to 34-year-old market on employment) are feeling the pinch, with many doctors campaigns that need your helping hands, money or other (in which students and graduates fall), a simple notion could around the country announcing that their practices are resources. easily turn a recent graduate into the next big captain of crumbling under the immense pressures of a bad economy. To date, Idealist.org lists nearly 19,000 volunteer industry. So many recent grads will become unnamed statistics in a opportunities throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, North Remember, a life is only worth living when it’s lived to world spiraling out of fiscal control. America and the Pacific, including Australia. Registration is the fullest. No one expects any of us to have it figured out just Welcome Class of 2010: This is your future. free. because there’s a diploma on the wall. For students, landing a six-figure salary is at the top of A growing trend among recent graduates is entre– So strike out and find your place in this world. Years from their wish lists, but most don’t know how to obtain such a preneurship. The Internet boom of the 1990s has given way now, you’ll be happy that you did. COLLEGECENTRAL Campus Circle > News > College Central takers to use as a resource (“But professor, it’s not plagiarism if I paid for it!”). Lastly, you can even have your semester project HELPFUL published before you turn it in for credit. Remember, “good looking projects = good looking grades.” STUDENT SITES allbystudents.com Speaking of semester-long projects, All By Students (ABS) BY LYNDA CORREA Notebooks started as a class project business plan at Northwestern University. The idea was simple: to target a AttN E TION COLLEGE KIDS: SUMMER MAY BE “SO company’s marketing efforts into a freebie for students that Kevin Jagger close, yet so far” for some, while others are already basking in aren’t a Livestrong-esque bracelet or branded paperweights the sweet sun, but just to remind you: You’re still a student, and (who actually uses those anyway?). ABS gives millions of Trojans with their free allbystudents.com USC notebooks. you can benefit from these cool Web sites. dollars worth of free school supplies to college students across the country. campus sales reps to bring in new advertisements (Trojans, lulu.com What? Free stuff? Now you’re listening. ABS signs an convince La Barca to give discounts. And Bruins, get Diddy We’ve all been there – putting effort into those grueling exclusive contract with all of their schools giving them rights Riese to give free samples.