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Editorials

Advice to the Class of 2015

September 22, 2011 Editorials

Welcome to Bentley, Class of 2015! We’re sure you’ve heard lots of different advice on the college experience from friends and family, but we thought it would be important to give you advice from the people, both current students and alumni, who have lived it. If they could go back and do things differently, what [...]

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SETs should be better utilized in evaluating professor retention

April 28, 2011 Editorials

As the semester draws to a close, the age-old tradition of student evaluations of teaching (SETs) begins to kick off this week. The juniors and seniors have been doing SETs since rating was on a five-point scale, were all completed in class with a pencil and required bubbling in responses on two separate, blue and [...]

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Letter to the Editor

April 28, 2011 Editorials

To the Editor, As outgoing seniors who serve on the Student Government Association, we were extremely disappointed to read in the April 21st Fireside Chat the opinion that in the past four years SGA has failed to make a “single positive change.” We would like to take the opportunity to point out a handful of [...]

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Government needs to lower deficit

April 14, 2011 Editorials

With the government on the verge of shutting down last week, a deal was finally reached in the 11th hour, literally. The issues with the government on the verge of shutdown have little to do with your party affiliation, and ultimately the budget should never have been strung out this long. Congress needs to learn [...]

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Letter to the Editor

April 14, 2011 Editorials

To the Editor, As the funding board for recognized student organizations on campus, the Allocation and Internal Audit Committee (AIA) is no stranger to criticism and backlash regarding our allocation decisions. The recent editorial, however, contained certain inaccuracies and areas of concern for the board that we felt were necessary to address to clear up [...]

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ABA & AIA need to cut back red tape

April 7, 2011 Editorials

Although a minority of Bentley students will have any direct interaction with AIA and ABA, it’s important that they understand what is happening with their student activity fee, which, theoretically, should benefit them directly. Although these issues only have a direct impact on organization presidents, there is ultimately a trickledown effect which affects students who [...]

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Spring Day artist selection in need of diversification

March 24, 2011 Editorials

Spring Day. Every Bentley student looks forward to it, and few colleges can compete on the level that Bentley’s Spring Day turns out to be. It has become such a popular event that last year’s Spring Day with Ludacris and Jay Sean was closed off to any non-Bentley students. But that certainly didn’t stop students [...]

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Letter to the Editor

March 24, 2011 Editorials

To the Editor, SGA acknowledges the misrepresentations in the recent Vanguard article about our proposed reorganization. Two Executive Sessions were called during our General Board Meetings in past weeks so our members could internally discuss the draft elements of a Reorganization Proposal that was presented to students for discussion at our General Board Meeting on [...]

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Giving freeloaders the pink slip

March 10, 2011 Editorials

One of the hallmarks of a Bentley education is the abnormally high amount of group work students have to do in virtually every class, from your GBs to your Philosophy and Literature classes. It’s one of the most dreaded aspects of any class, especially when you can’t pick your own groups, and as anyone who [...]

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Koumantzelis in dire need of a renovation

March 3, 2011 Editorials

After Bo Burnham rocked the Koumantzelis Auditorium this past Sunday, it was a shock to find out that he is one of the few comedians who hasn’t made fun of the venue he has performed in. Everyone from Bentley’s own Brandon Schug to nationwide headliner Stephen Lynch has made fun of how embarrassing the auditorium [...]

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Letter to the Editor

March 3, 2011 Editorials

Dear Editor, All students received an invitation this week from the Counseling Center and the Peer Educators to the second annual Fat Talk Free week of events. What is “fat talk?” It surrounds us. How many times have you heard someone complain that some item of clothing, or a certain color, or a horizontal stripe [...]

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Facilities gets the job done

February 24, 2011 Editorials

We regularly comment about different areas of campus which we feel can be improved, but oftentimes these improvements are not because the campus is in a crazy state of disrepair. In fact, it’s almost always the opposite, where we’ve gotten so used to such high standards that we often gripe and complain when these standards [...]

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