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Current issue:  November 19, 2008
Central Connecticut State University 
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Against All Odds - The Journey for Graduate and Professional School Admission

For CCSU student Dave McKenzie, whose published name will remain a pseudonym, becoming a dentist has been his dream since high school.

Upon entering college, he chose molecular biology as a major that he would passionately submerge himself into for the next four years in preparation for the challenges ahead.

But even with a prestigious private university education, attaining top grades, involvement in diverse extracurriculars, countless hours of shadowing and volunteering , and scoring a standardized test score of what supposedly is the “magic” number, one thing has kept him from a achieving his dream… he didn’t get in, twice.
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NPR Brings the ‘Giant Pool of Money’ Down to Your Street

National Public Radio journalists Adam Davidson and Alex Blumberg spoke at CCSU on Thursday about the challenges and accomplishments of their journey from investigative reporting on the war in Iraq to the Wall Street finan- cial crisis.

But more importantly, they managed to break down the financial crisis and translate the cryptic terms of Wall Street for the everyday citizen.

“I am going to explain why war is more fun than a financial crisis,” said Davidson. “If you are journal- ists,” added Blumberg.
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Central Professor Speaks on Psychotherapy and Counseling

Carol Shaw Austad of the psychology department spoke at the bookstore about her book, “Psychotherapy and Counseling”, which combines theory, practice and research in a manor that students can learn to use when examining a mental health patient.

After years of experience performing psychotherapy, Austad has seen that students are being educated about psychotherapy models that have become out of context from psychology practice today. “It was important to me to integrate the kind of information into this textbook that a beginning student would want to learn about in order to use the thera- py models with the most efficiency,” she said.

Austad’s integration of theory, practice and research is unlike most psychology texts in that it uses all three elements together.
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Clinic Talk: ‘Choice’ May Not Always Mean Abortion

Hartford GYN Center administrator Jessica Wilson spoke to Central students at the Women’s Center on Thursday about the impor- tance of a woman’s choice and about abortion services offered by the gynecology center.

Having worked at the clinic for 27 years, Wilson did her college internship at the clinic where she found her passion for speaking to young women about abortion.

The clinic mainly offers abortion services and educates young women about the different choices available to them along with counsel- ing. Wilson is proud of the board-certified sur- gical staff, the safe environment and universal precautions that make up the Hartford GYN Center.
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