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I’m The Buzz, and I’ll be your server tonight: Recent college graduates with bachelor’s degrees increasingly must take lower-wage jobs that don’t make use of their liberal arts educations.

Universities, it’s time to prepare students for the working world by adding “Food Safety Concepts” to the core requirements of all liberal arts majors.

Meanwhile in politics: In a primary race closely followed by no one, President Barack Obama will clinch the Democratic nomination for president Tuesday.

Reacting to the news, Newt Gingrich announced he has switched his party affilliation and carry his fight for the Democratic nomination all the way to the convention in Charlotte, N.C., in early September.

Don’t know much about history: On this day in 2005, the first video was uploaded to YouTube: “Me at the Zoo,” 18 seconds of YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front of an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo.

About a year later, around the time Google purchased YouTube for $1.6 billion, Karim posted a follow-up video: “Me at the Ferrari Dealership.”

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff

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