From the monthly archives:

February 2012

Over a thousand students flock to CAB’s Super Bingo

February 23, 2012 Headlines

Dana Center filled to the brim with eager students looking to win prizes By Kristin Tomasi Last Friday night, CAB sponsored Bentley’s annual Super Bingo event in the Dana Center, a tradition that has been around for over five years. About 1,300 students participated in the event, hoping to win prizes that included a 42-inch [...]

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Students speak up for their Bubble

February 23, 2012 Headlines

By Lacey Nemergut In recognition of the value Bentley students place on the Bubble, the administration is conducting thorough focus groups to better understand and accommodate the needs of students. “We developed the focus groups as a general assessment tool for the Student Center as well as a more specific tool to gather information that [...]

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Pancakes, sausages & tater tots break the record for fundraising

February 23, 2012 Headlines

By Anh Duong RHA Breaking the Fund Raising Record though Breakfast by Moonlight! Last semester, The Residence Hall Association raised $2,086.53 from the 41st Breakfast by Moonlight event to donate to Chesterbrook, a Learning Center located in Waltham. With that number, last semester’s Breakfast by Moonlight officially became the event that collected the highest amount [...]

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Better Place has high hopes for greener transportation

February 23, 2012 Marketplace

By Nicholas Lee Three years ago at the 2009 TED Conference, Better Place CEO Shai Agassi asked the crowd “how would you run a whole country without oil?” He then began to outline his company’s business model, demonstrating that making the electric car a global standard is a possibility. Better Place wants to provide the [...]

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April’s Advice

February 23, 2012 Columns

By April Gammal Question: It’s so difficult to be fashionable in the winter time because all I want to do is wear layers upon layers of clothing and then I look like a snowman. Is this a winter-fashion faux pas? First of all, no. It’s the winter and it is cold outside. You wear all [...]

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Network dramas making comeback with Revenge

February 23, 2012 Features

By Meghan Ryan Network television dramas have suffered in recent years. In the past five years there has not been a single Emmy in the category for best television drama for a network television series. Their only recent hardware is one Golden Globe award. These dramatic failures have had networks scrambling to produce an award [...]

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Bentley alumni mix business with pleasure to give students edge

February 23, 2012 Campus Life

By Brenna O’Connell As a college student and young professional, have you ever had a burning question that needed to be answered FAST? For example, you just made an embarrassing mistake at work and need to do damage control immediately. Thanks to the development of Aheaders.com by two Bentley alumni, you can get important questions [...]

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Audiences wage war on This Means War

February 23, 2012 Features

By Kelsey Miller This Means War opened on the seventeenth, earning a little over $17 million in its first weekend. Complete with a star-studded cast, the movie delivers a little for everyone, including action, humor, and definitely romance. FDR (Chris Pine) and Tuck (Tom Hardy) are two CIA agents who have never had much trouble [...]

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Notes from Abroad – Brussels, Belgium

February 23, 2012 Notes from Abroad

Question: “What new perspectives have you gained about the U.S. during your semester abroad?” By Brady Del Pozzo Socially, I have learned that although Americans are perceived as lazy by other countries, this is not necessarily the case. I believe that the reason Americans are seen as lazy is due to the fact that we [...]

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Police Log

February 23, 2012 News

Sean Harrington and Brian Shea Drunk in the Trunk Late last Friday evening, University Police came across some students who seemed to be taking a quick brake by parking themselves on their car. When the officer approached the vehicle, he saw what appeared to be a girl with her head shoved in the trunk of [...]

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Scratching the Surface: Washington, D.C.

February 23, 2012 Columns

By Moussa Hassoun A few weekends ago I had the chance to travel down to Washington, D.C. and see the capitol. I was staying at George Washington University with my boyfriend Andrew, and I had the opportunity to traverse the city; this was my first time traveling down, so he wanted to show me the [...]

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The Grammar of Happiness

February 23, 2012 Features

By Jessica Hughes The Grammar of Happiness, a short film produced by our own Dean Daniel Everett, is a documentary-type movie that depicts his relationship with the Piraha people in South America. Located along the Maici River, these people have been a large part of Dean Everett’s life ever since he was a young man. [...]

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