Bowling with BUSA and AKD

Just a reminder...

Bowling with the Berkeley Undergraduate Sociology Association and Alpha Kappa Delta Honor Society is this Monday, March 16th. We will be meeting at Albany Bowl at 8pm. It's $1.50 per game and $4 for shoes. There is a bar for those of you who are 21+ and you are welcome to check out the facebook event if you need more details.

Hope to see you there!

UC Berkley Sociology Research Symposium

The Berkeley Undergraduate Sociology Association is sponsoring the First Annual UC Berkeley Sociology Research Symposium on Friday, April 24.

Now, the Symposium is accepting papers to be presented that are “sociological,” papers that deal with society, social issues, social policy, etc. For example, if you have done significant research in the rhetoric of contemporary political philosophy, your paper would be very appropriate to present at the Symposium.

Of course, the benefits of presenting are numerous. If you’re applying to graduate school, presenting a paper at a UC Berkeley conference will look rather shiny on applications. Even more, by presenting, you’ll have the opportunity to share your research with the larger UC Berkeley community.

Now, some of you may not want to present. You may just want to support your friends who are presenting. Or some of you may want to present next year and might find it helpful, this year, to check out the level of research that defines academic excellence among UC Berkeley’s undergraduates. Or, some of you may simply like the idea of a free lunch.

Yes, that’s right, lunch and a light breakfast will be provided and registration is free.

The acceptance of papers may be competitive depending on how many students submit (although, really, it probably will not be). And for those of you who are just looking to attend the Symposium, be sure to fill out the registration form ASAP because we’ll only be able to accommodate a certain number of students on a first-come, first-serve basis.

http://sociology.berkeley.edu/symposium/registration.pdf

The deadline is Friday, March 13, and when you’re done filling out your registration form, please return it to 410 Barrows. Again, that’s 410 Barrows.

If you have any questions, you can always contact me, Aaron, at benzium2000@yahoo.com. Hope to see you there. Thanks!

General Meeting

Hey Everyone!
Just a reminder that we will be having a general meeting this Thursday (3/5) in 247 Dwinelle at 6 p.m. to go over the upcoming events for this semseter and to finally get a chance to have a proper meet-and-greet. Hope to see you all there!

Links

For the previous post:
http://career.berkeley.edu/Major2006/Rhetoric.stm

For the core site of the previous post (where you can look at the statistics for any major):
http://career.berkeley.edu/Major2006/Major.stm

What Can I Do With A Major In Rhetoric

What Can I Do With a Major In...? Rhetoric Four Year Profile, 2003-2006 More Majors This report profiles the information baccalaureate graduates provided us about their initial career choices following graduation. The primary focus is to provide students interested in this major with examples of the wide variety of employment and graduate school choices past students have made. Therefore, the data are presented as aggregates for the classes of 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. For more information on how the survey data was obtained, go to Survey Data Collection. Some percentages detailed in this report may not add up to 100% due to rounding. Response Rates Year Graduated Responded Percent 2003 60 20 33% 2004 56 24 43% 2005 83 27 33% 2006 94 27 29% Total 293 98 33% Activity Summary Year Employed Attending Grad School Seeking Employment Other Endeavors Total 2003 5 (25%) 6 (30%) 4 (20%) 5 (25%) 20 (100%) 2004 7 (29%) 5 (21%) 5 (21%) 7 (29%) 24 (100%) 2005 9 (33%) 4 (15%) 6 (22%) 8 (30%) 27 (100%) 2006 10 (37%) 9 (33%) 2 (7%) 6 (22%) 27 (100%) Total 31 (32%) 24 (24%) 17 (17%) 26 (27%) 98 (100%) Employment Sectors Year For Profit Nonprofit Education Government Total 2003 4 (80%) -- (0%) -- (0%) 1 (20%) 5 (100%) 2004 5 (71%) 1 (14%) -- (0%) 1 (14%) 7 (100%) 2005 6 (67%) 1 (11%) 2 (22%) -- (0%) 9 (100%) 2006 7 (70%) 2 (20%) 1 (10%) -- (0%) 10 (100%) Total 22 (71%) 4 (13%) 3 (10%) 2 (6%) 31 (100%) Employers Employer Title Accenture Analyst Akawie and LaPietra PC Administrative Assistant Alameda County Public Defender's Office Legal Assistant Aon Risk Services Associate Applebees Bartender Boeing Engineer Caltag Laboratories Tissue Culture Technician Cisco Systems Inc On-Site Vendor Lease Administrator Deloitte & Touche LLP Staff Auditor Drug Policy Alliance, Office of Legal Affairs Research Assistant Gordon Rees LLP Case Assistant Law Office of Rosenberg and Link Administrative Assistant Law Offices of James M. Rogers Paralegal Law Offices of Janet L. Dobrovolny Legal Clerk Leyva and Night Law Legal Assistant Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Financial Analyst National Park Service Park Ranger Naumann and Levine, LLP Legal Assistant Princeton Review Assistant Director of Marketing Proteus Air Services Inc Operations Manager Ralph Ehrenpreis Law Corp Case Writer San Francisco Downtown Magazine Editorial Assistant SBC Communications Business Sales Representative The Greenlining Institute Health Policy Program Manager Tiffany & Co Customer Service Representative UC Office of the President Abstracter/Library Assistant United Way Campaign Advisor University of California Berkeley Network Administrator Research Assistant Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro & Schulman LLP File Clerk Salaries Year Reported 75th Percentile Average 25th Percentile Median 2003 5 $32,000 $29,936 $22,800 $29,000 2004 7 $34,750 $29,365 $26,028 $32,000 2005 8 $50,125 $40,987 $28,724 $45,000 2006 10 $39,360 $37,198 $28,080 $35,250 Total 30 $40,000 $35,170 $27,010 $32,750 Graduate Schools Field Degree School City & Regional Planning Masters University of Pennsylvania Creative Writing Other San Francisco State University Education Masters Stanford University Other California State University-Chico Education, Elementary Masters University of California-Davis Fine Arts Masters University of Southern California Law JD Case Western Reserve University Harvard University Pepperdine University San Francisco School of Law University of California-Davis University of California-Hastings College of Law University of California-Los Angeles University of San Francisco Medical Science MD Northwestern University Pharmacology Masters Tulane University of Louisiana Pre-Medicine Masters New York University Public Policy Studies Masters Harvard University Religion Masters Fuller Theological Seminary Rhetoric PhD University of California-Berkeley

Voices of a People's History

Hey Everybody,

The Berkeley Undergraduate Sociology Association is putting together a performance of influential political speeches that come from Voices of a People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn, anyone?) and need some people to help get things going. When I heard about this thing I immediately thought, "This has Rhetoric written all over it." You can check out the blog for the event through either my page or Aaron's.
The performace is going to be next semester, sometime in April but to make it a really great event we'll need to get working on it soon. So please, consider how helping to organize a big event like this will look when applying to grad/law schools and get back to me before next Friday.

Elena Shaygan
Rhetorical Knights PR
eshaygan@yahoo.com

one more?

I know things are pretty crazy for everyone right now but i was just wondering what everyone thinks about having another event before the break?