From the monthly archives:

December 2004

Letter From the Editor

December 9, 2004 Uncategorized

Dear Bentley Community: After 3 « years, or in terms I’m more familiar with, about 85 issues of The Vanguard, it has finally become my turn to write the farewell Letter From the Editor and step down from my place in the paper. I first joined when I met Josh Marine at the fall activity fair in 2001, my freshman year.

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Frequently Asked Questions About the Campus Judicial System

December 9, 2004 News

Bentley’s policies and procedures can be found in the Student Handbook – which can be accessed at: http://ecampus.bentley.edu/shandbook/ What is Vandalism? According to the handbook, violations of college property encompass violations that are destructive or detrimental to the physical environment of the campus.

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Falcon Society: Bentley’s Highest Honor

December 9, 2004 News

Last semester, ten new Bentley students were inducted into the Bentley Falcon Society. The 2004 inductees were: Dominic Basile, Christina Brown, Yen Diep, Jason Kohari, Johnny Mayani, Mischa McFarland, Danielle Parsons, Jen Picardo, Stefanie Vestal and Jennifer Walker.

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BIG Hits $470,000 Milestone

December 9, 2004 News

The bullish trend that has been seen in all of the major American stock exchanges over the past couple of months have had their effects made on campus, as the Bentley Investment Group (BIG)’s share of the school’s endowment fund has been experiencing new highs over the past month.

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Judicial Action Summary

December 9, 2004 News

Judicial Action Summary

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Campus Police Log

December 9, 2004 News

A student reported walking to his car last Wednesday to find that the front passenger side tire had an inch-and-a-half slit in it. He had left the car in the parking lot behind Slade Hall for a few days, and the car was out of view of surveillance cameras.

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E-Campus Revamped to Improve Communication

December 9, 2004 News

The Bentley E-Campus webpage, which many students utilize on a daily basis for various reasons, will be completely revamped and improved for our benefit beginning next semester once students return from winter break.

This new E-Campus was designed to break down the communication barriers created by overloaded email accounts.

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MK 411: Re-defining Business Education

December 9, 2004 News

At many colleges and universities, it is rare for an undergraduate student to be able to partake in a course that allows them to see first-hand the inner workings of a company. It is even rarer to be able to analyze such workings, make recommendations based upon their observations, and actually have the company listen directly to the students and act on their recommendations.

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Tissuegate 2004

December 9, 2004 News

Controversy arose after the Bentley College Republican Club distributed tissue boxes with Bush Cheney logos on them to a group of 15 Professors and staff members on November 9th after President Bush won the election.

The tissue boxes had a photocopied Bush/Cheney bumper sticker taped on the front and back and the official logo of the Republican club on the sides.

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Political Face-Off – Republicans

December 9, 2004 Columns

Since the election, one of the most often asked questions is, “What constitutes a mandate?” That is to say, what percent of the population needs to vote for a candidate before he can claim to truly represent the ‘will of the people’? Was it the 51-plus percent that President Bush received? Is it 55%, 75%, or 90%?

What if I told you that in a Zogby poll from this past year, 91 percent of parents wanted their children’s schools to teach that “adolescents should be expected to abstain from sexual activity during high school years”? To everyone but the Democrat party, that would qualify as a mandate for abstinence-only education.

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Political Face-Off – Democrats

December 9, 2004 Columns

The sex education debate began with Ronald Reagan’s signing of the Adolescent Family Life Act into law in 1981. The law’s main focus was to prevent teenage pregnancy by encouraging “chastity and self-discipline.” This law began a long debate that still exists today on how we should go about sex education in the US.

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Classifying Bentley: College or University

December 9, 2004 Columns

In order to understand how an institution of higher education becomes a college or a university, it is first necessary to understand the organization that is recognized as the defining authority in such matters. This organization is the Carnegie Institute.

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