Who gets to use a public restroom has become a big news story this year.

Where will you sit at lunch?” Anyone who is now or has ever been a high school student can relate to that question.

When I picked up my son’s high school graduation announcement cards from Fairfax High School last week, it reminded me of other graduations, and I found myself thinking back to 1985, when I graduated from the double master’s program at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, in what was then called “Jewish communal service” (now nonprofit management), and also at USC, in public administration.

In today’s uncertain economy, most of us need to work for a paycheck as long as possible.