Summer internship time is approaching. Any college student worth his/her salt is shoving down thoughts of freedom and beaches and all the beautiful things summer break used to mean, and is working any angle he/she can think of in order to land a sweet summer internship gig. Seriously, no one has a summer job delivering pizza any more. There seems to be some theory in the offing that insists theres a direct correlation between ones future trajectory and ones summer break activities.

Lindsey Pollak has some advice about how to turn an internship into a job, and Hack College has a new and improved way to .

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I recently led a business writing workshop for a group of writers who had very complex information to share with their readers. Wisely, they used headings throughout their documents, so their readers could scan to find information quickly.

Unfortunately, the headings were not placed well.Each heading was thesame distance from the information above it as below it. Sothe formatting didnt make astrong visual connection between the parts that belonged together.

This sentence and the following linesillustrate theformatting they used, whichdoesnt work.

Sentence Structure

Effective business writing is made up of clear, concise sentences. Experts have found. . . .

Besides not making a strong visual connection,double-spaced headingsstretch out a document unnecessarily.

Below is an example of stronger formatting, with the heading just above the content it introduces.

Sentence StructureEffective business writing is made up of clear, concise sentences.

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The arbitrary interval of 100 days has become a commonplace (even tiresome) measure for judging a new presidential or gubernatorial administration. In keeping with that tradition, John Hickenlooper has called a 9 a.m. news conference in the Capitols west foyer to discuss his first 100 days as Colorado’s chief executive.

• He chose Joe Garcia, president of Colorado State University-Pueblo as his running mate and when they took office announced Garcia also would be director of the Department of Higher Education.

• In January, he announced creation of an Education Leadership Council (a variation on something Gov. Bill Ritter did), but members haven’t yet been named nor the group convened.

• In February, Hickenlooper proposed a $332 million cut in K-12 spending, a number the legislature has reduced to $250 million and is seeking to shave even more. The gover

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Have you ever hung out with a group of second-graders during lunchtime? I have, and what all the high-stakes, high-pitched, frantic trading, its the elementary-school version of the New York Stock Exchange: “Ill give you my trail mix – it has M&Ms! – for two Oreos.” “Ill trade you my vanilla pudding for your Gatorade.” “No way will I give you Doritos for an apple!”

The allure, and even pressure, for most kids to have some good ole American junk food – the trans-fatty, sugar-and-salt-laden, over-processed, artifical-colored-and-flavored beauty of it all – packed into their school lunch bag is fierce. And, woe to my two poor kids whove begged, begged me to put, at the very least – geez!!! – to put Fruit Roll-Ups in their lunch. (“OMG!Thats so not fair! All the other kids at school get them. And theyre not un-healthy. Theyre called fruit roll-ups because theyre full of fruit!” Um, no theyre not, but will my kids listen when I say that an orange is a fruit; an orange-colored rubbery strip is not? No, the

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Tomorrow at 1 PM in Stern Center 206, students from the joint M.A. Program in English will present their latest research in front of an audience of peers, faculty, and (hopefully) you! Thats right; this event is open to the public!  If youre curious about the English program and the kind of work our graduate students do, attending the Graduate English Association Symposium would be the perfect opportunity

Even if you cant be here, feel free to take a peek at the Symposium Program

On a recent Sunday I went out with my family for breakfast at a pancake house. We were seated at a table next to a family made up of a mother, a father, a young boy in a booster chair, and an infant in the mother’s lap.

Before we had even opened our menus, we heard the parents make these remarks loudly to the boy, whom I will call Joey:

• Joey, don’t take such small bites. Take big bites, Joey.
• Joey, sit up straight in your chair. Don’t slouch.
• Joey, don’t hold your fork with a limp wrist.

I can’t tell you more about the commentary on Joey because I discreetly asked the host to move us to table in a different part of the restaurant. I wanted to have a pleasant meal, and I couldn’t stand hearing more feedback on Joey’s behavior.

Management guru Ken Blanchard said, “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” I don’t think Joey would agree. My moments near his family made feedback seem like the breakfast of losers. It was all negative

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With preliminary Senate approval behind them and a final OK expected Monday, supporters of the ASSET bill are looking ahead to a tougher challenge in the Republican-controlled House.

The Senate Friday gave preliminary approval to Senate Bill 126 on a party line 20-13 vote. A final vote is expected Monday.

The debate of more than two hours was the most spirited so far this year on an education bill.

Supporters, led by Democratic Sens. Angela Giron of Pueblo and Mike Johnston of Denver, argued that the bill represents basic fairness to students whove graduated from Colorado high schools but face high financial barriers to attending college. They also said putting more students through college would be an economic benefit to the state.

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