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OPINION: Unpaid internships are something to avoid
|Students, professors, columnists and social scientists are all talking about the rise of the so-called “new normal” is the unpaid internship.
Unpaid labor has always been in existence, yet, more than ever, the unpaid internship has taken a prominent position in American economic culture.
According to the Association of Colleges and Employers, over 63 percent of the nation’s class of 2013 had an internship or “co-op” of some kind. Of those who had an internship, 48 percent worked without monetary pay.
[COLUMN] Amid Super Bowl win, Ravens still competing for attention in new sports hotbed
|[Updated Feb. 4 11:58 a.m.]
On first mention by most Americans, Washington D.C. is labeled as the political center of the free world while Baltimore is heralded as the setting of the HBO TV drama, The Wire along with being the unofficial home of crab cakes and football.
Over the past year, the area known as the DMV has become a hotbed for competitive and successful sports teams following years of futility and just downright mediocrity.
Local music scene members sit down for round table discussion
|In a round table discussion about the Washington D.C. metropolitan area music scene, members of such local bands as The Independent, The Automatics and former members of other bands as well as regular concertgoers and venue employees talked about their views and experiences.