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Recent graduate praises internship for current career Matt Propeck reflects on friends, finance classes and his current career at a music delivery company BY CANEIA WOOD NEWS REPORTER Despite graduating from the Univer sity less than a year ago, Matt Propeck has already established a solid career, which would never have been possible without a summer internship. Propeck graduated from the Uni versity in December 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in political science. During summer 2003, he had the op portunity to intern for a music com pany in Portland called Rumblefish. The internship lat er led to a career. ^ ..... Propeck, director ^ of operations and catalog for the ■* company, has worked there for just under a year. Rumblefish is a music delivery com pany that provides other businesses with music for all kinds of uses, Propeck said. “As an intern I did bookkeeping and general office tasks ... I did everything I could, working long hours for free,” Propeck said. Upon graduating, Propeck was im mediately offered a permanent posi tion at the company, which he began promptly after completing his final day of classes at the University. “1 guess I was at the right place at the right time,” Propeck said. “It’s ten times harder, ten times faster, but ten times more fun than school.” Propeck encourages current under graduates to meet as many people in their desired profession as possible. “Start networking and growing pro fessional and business networks so you have resources to fall back on when you graduate,” Propeck said. Propeck said either accounting or a Japanese art history class he took was his hardest class at the University, but he really liked the personal finance class taught by Jeanne Wagenknecht. “The teacher made that class good; 1 took more classes because ot her, Propeck said. “Matt’s just a good guy, outgoing, fun-loving, just a really personable guy,” said Robby Schutte, one of Propeck’s longtime friends and a fel low University graduate who earned a bachelor’s degree in business marketing in 2003. In the future, Propeck hopes to go back to school to get his master’s of Business Administration. “I want to get my MBA and take it to own my own company,” Propeck said. canelawood@ daily emerald, com Where are they now? Health: Contraception availability is a third issue Continued from page 1 to choose,” he said. Furthermore, Feldkamp is against the federal funding of abortions, and supports parental notification for mi nors. He said he supports the Bush Administration’s bill to ban partial birth abortion because “technology is so far advanced you don’t need to use such a grisly procedure. ” State Senate, 4th District Democratic State Sen. Floyd Prozan ski said he feels sex education needs to be “very broad-based” and should in clude education on contraception as well as encourage abstinence. Prozanski said he believes the state should fund contraception for low-in come individuals through programs like the Family Planning Expansion Project because access to contracep tion should not be based on an indi vidual’s ability to pay. He said he would support making emergency contraception available over the counter if individuals received good information about the drug. He added he supports a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion but emphasized the importance of women having proper support net works to advise them in making the decisions. He also supports state funding to assist a woman in obtain ing an abortion under the Oregon Health Plan. Republican state Senate candidate Norm Thomas said, “If the family is teaching (sex education) as they should, 1 don't think the school needs to teach it.” He said he does not support state funding of contraception and feels that contraception should be “left up to the family.” He added, “It’s just en couraging things that should not be encouraged. ” He also said he does not support making emergency con traception available over the counter, saying unwanted pregnancies would not occur “if the families are teaching the proper values.” Thomas said he doesn’t feel he has “the right to choose for women what they want to do with their bodies.” He does not support state funding to assist women in obtaining abortions because he said people should start “accepting personal responsibility.” He added that he felt late-term and partial birth abortions “are appalling” and supports the Bush Administra tion’s bill to ban them. State Representative, District 8 Democratic State Representative Paul Holvey called abstinence-only sex education “archaic,” and said that information on contraception should be included in sex education. Holvey said he supported state funding of contraception through programs such as FPEP, citing that “as with all preventative health care, 1 think it’s a goodlnvestment.” He said he thinks emergency contraception should be made available because many cannot afford to see a doctor to obtain a prescription. Holvey said it should be a woman’s choice to have an abortion. “I think that's a personal decision and a philosophical decision that should be made by the individual.” He also said he doesn’t believe mi nors should have to obtain parental consent to get an abortion. Holvey added he supports state funding that assists women in obtaining abor tions. 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