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Real World Engineering
RESUME REVIEW: IEOR
junior Wayne Fong got his resume critiqued by a Career Center
staff person during Real World Engineering, the College’s
student career conference, on February 22. “I definitely
can improve my resume,” Fong reported after the critique
was over. “Just having this opportunity to get my resume
looked at was really nice.” The conference featured more
than 50 alumni panelists talking about their careers and
answering student questions. More than 100 students showed
up to learn about different engineering fields and network
with alumni at the sushi reception. RACHEL
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Before 2002, blind voters couldn’t cast a secret
ballot. They needed assistance either from a friend or poll worker.
That all changed when Congress passed the Help America Vote Act, which
required at least one electronic voting machine at every polling place
for individuals with disabilities. Since then, e-voting machines have
become ever more widespread — and controversial — mainly
because they don’t provide a paper record of votes. Altogether,
voter rights groups and computer scientists charge that current machines
fail to provide a secure, reliable and assured method of voting. [FULL STORY]
“Starting high-tech startup companies… one semester
at a time.” That’s the motto of a new club on campus, the
Berkeley Venture Group (BVG), which was cofounded by ME senior William
Cheung last November. “My friend [Political Science senior] Josh
Palmer and I were looking for an informal forum to get undergraduates
from different disciplines together to share ideas and start companies,” Cheung
recalls. “Of course, once we got a group together, it wasn’t
that easy.” [FULL STORY]
Jayashri Srikantiah (B.S.’91 EECS) loves to ask what’s
fair. Is it fair to imprison a Muslim man without due process? Is it fair
to deport an undocumented Mexican woman who has testified against her
husband for abusing her? As director of Stanford Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights
Clinic, Srikantiah confronts these questions every day, helping law students
protect the rights of noncitizens.
“I think immigrants’ rights are a major civil rights issue of our
time,” she says. “I really connect with that movement, and that’s
where I get the passion for my work. [FULL STORY]
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