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Women’s Ultimate team approved as club sport

October 28, 2010 Campus Life

Written by: Lacey Nemergut The Bentley Women’s Ultimate Frisbee team has finally received club status after waiting anxiously for a moratorium placing a limit on the number of official Bentley club teams to be lifted. After two years of efforts from the unofficial organization’s e-board, led by President Karalyn Spadaro, the team can now enjoy [...]

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Delta Phi Epsilon’s annual charity Pasta Dinner lends hand to two organizations

October 28, 2010 Campus Life

Written By: Brenna O’Connell The Epsilon Tau Chapter of Delta Phi Epsilon hosted their seventh Annual Pasta Dinner this past Sunday to fundraise for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. This year, the sisters added the Association for Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD), making the event a success for two causes. The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is [...]

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Do professors care about RateMyProfessors.com feedback?

October 28, 2010 Campus Life

Written by: Lacey Nemergut A website for students across the nation, RateMyProfessors.com serves not only as an open forum for the Bentley community, but also as a collective resource for students to get a general assessment of what a certain class entails. But some professors do not take the site’s ratings so seriously. Bentley University [...]

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Club Profile: BMA

October 21, 2010 Campus Life

Written by: Cameron Furlong The Vanguard recently sat down with Persa Konomi, a senior and the president of the Bentley Marketing Association. What is BMA? BMA is the Bentley Marketing Association. It has been around for a couple of years, but ever since last year when I took it on a lot of things have [...]

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Blackout Challenge: Dorms compete to save the most energy

October 21, 2010 Campus Life

Written by: Kristin Tomasi October is the month of the Blackout Challenge at Bentley, where dorms compete to conserve the most energy. The project compares each dorm’s energy usage for the week to its average energy usage from September. The focus is on reduction rather than total energy use in order to make the competition [...]

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Annual 5K Harvest Haul attracts students of all kinds

October 7, 2010 Campus Life

Despite low attendance, the event brought the Bentley community together for competitive fun Written By: Matt Somma Avid and recreational runners awoke to a beautiful Saturday morning on October 2 in anticipation of the afternoon’s events. It was the third annual Residence Hall Association Harvest Haul 5k, and competitors could not ask for a more [...]

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Keeping Riley rocks the Pub

October 7, 2010 Campus Life

Written By: Isaac Potvin Despite their delayed arrival to Bentley due to unfavorable driving conditions, the band Keeping Riley entertained a packed audience in the Student Center Pub last Friday evening, October 1. After hurriedly entering the Pub, the band took only a matter of minutes to set up their equipment on stage, eliciting a [...]

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Service Learning holds conference for aspiring leaders

October 7, 2010 Campus Life

Written By: Sindhu Palaniappan “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader” – John Quincy Adams, as cited in the introduction to Bentley’s Leadership Conference held this past Saturday in the Executive Dining Room. Bentley’s Service Learning Department put the conference together for high [...]

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Professor Profile: Alicia Amaral

September 30, 2010 Campus Life

Written by: Derek Smith When it comes to being busy, Professor Alicia Amaral definitely fits the bill. She is a new professor here at Bentley University, and she teaches two sections of GB-112, Tools and Concepts in Accounting and Finance. In addition to teaching here as well as at Tufts University, Professor Amaral is also [...]

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Bentley welcomes prospective students at Fall Open House

September 30, 2010 Campus Life

Written by: Angela Diaco Open House was held this past Sunday, September 26, 2010, marking the official beginning of fall here at Bentley. While many of you were enjoying a lazy Sunday afternoon, parents and nervous high school students roamed around campus in search of finding out what the Bentley life is all about, not [...]

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Dining Services has a new captain

September 23, 2010 Campus Life

Sodexo hires a new General Manager for the Bentley operation Written by: Brian Lofrumento Food on campus is set to take a new direction ever since Jason LaPrade assumed the role of Resident District Manager for Sodexo on campus. One key component of every student’s college experience is the food, and LaPrade’s influence will certainly [...]

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Comcast continues to deprive campus of cable options

September 23, 2010 Campus Life

Written by: Brian Lofrumento While Bentley enjoyed many positive changes over the summer months, one issue that has left students unhappy is the continuing problem with Comcast cable on campus. Last school year saw Comcast’s premium services and high-definition coverage disappear from televisions across campus, and as fall approaches students will have to prepare for [...]

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