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.
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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. He doesn’t think “we should
limit the ability of that individual to
have a procedure. ”
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