Subsidizing the Internship

By SARA LIPKA

College coffers let students take — and employers give — unpaid jobs

Jonathan K. Cardinal has built his résumé on thousand-dollar stipends.

As a government major from a working-class family, he couldn't have afforded to take the unpaid internships so common in his field. When he got one with the Canadian Parliament, however, St. Lawrence University gave him a grant. He made ends meet by driving 60 miles home from Ottawa each weekend, to