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Letter from the Editor: Thank You, Goodbye & Welcome

April 29, 2010 Editorials

To the Bentley Community, It is stunning how fast this year has flown by! During my first semester as the Editor in Chief of The Vanguard, we’ve seen Project Haiti launch and raise tens of thousands of dollars for Haitian relief, our first campus stabbing incident, and more major renovations to campus dining facilities. Our [...]

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Letter to the Editor: BBM Continues to be Success

April 29, 2010 Editorials

Dear Editor, On behalf of the Bentley University Residence Hall Association and BEAR I would like to thank the community for coming to support Breakfast by Moonlight on Monday, April 26, 2010. The event, first started in 1991 has been held 38 times and continues to be a great success with faculty, staff but most [...]

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Serious flaws in SGA report

April 22, 2010 Editorials

When you read any study that is designed to address an issue, what matters is not only the recommendations made or the conclusions drawn, but the data collected and analyzed. When you question a study, you question the data and its analysis, whether it be a Harvard Business case, 301 project or Wall Street Journal [...]

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Home or abroad, registration unfair

April 15, 2010 Editorials

Picture this: It’s the day of class registration and you’re minutes away from making your selections. Frantically refreshing the page to ensure that your desired schedule hangs in the balance of one particular class, you realize that the course is no longer open. Frustration ensues as you scramble to design your less-than-ideal schedule. Believe it [...]

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MyBentley change a smart move

April 8, 2010 Editorials

Despite the consistently cloudy and grey skylines and the major monsoons from March, students should be pleasantly surprised to know that spring has finally arrived. With it comes warmer weather, the friendly reminder of an upcoming vacation, cookouts, and the usually consistent, yet subtle and almost anonymous, swearing that pierces dorm room walls. We’re speaking, [...]

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Enough with the signatures

March 28, 2010 Editorials

There comes a time in everyone’s Bentley career when you feel like the number of e-mails you are sending out, and your obvious importance, requires you to take a few shortcuts and permanently affix a signature to the bottom of each e-mail that comes from your “midas-esque” fingers. The thing about signatures, though, is that [...]

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“Complex Problems” plague CP/CS

March 18, 2010 Editorials

Complex Problems /Creative Solutions (CP/CS) started off to a very rough start, but may be making some improvements. But new initiatives can only show the potential of the CP/CS program, and whether or not they will be a success depends on the efforts of the students and professors involved. CP/CS was a pilot program that [...]

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Bring back our channels

March 4, 2010 Editorials

Written by: The Vanguard Editorial Board The Celtics-Cavaliers game last Thursday was perhaps the biggest game of the season for Boston so far this year. Millions of people tuned in to watch the C’s take on LeBron James and the Cavs, while Bentley students scoured the Web to try to find the game online. Why? [...]

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Wait, so when’s the housing deposit due?

February 25, 2010 Editorials

Written by: The Vanguard Editorial Board Who would have thought that anything could top the ongoing e-mails sent from such greats like Kristine Vidic, Cynthia Scott, Ernest Leffler or even Janet Kenney, but now there’s a new sheriff in town. There was been a new e-mail epidemic that took over the Bentley campus the past [...]

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A call for campus security

February 11, 2010 Editorials

Written by: The Vanguard Editorial Board Almost everyone reading this is already aware that our small community was rocked by an uncommon story of crime and violence on South Campus last Wednesday, but after a week, our Editorial Board has reflected on the situation. Bentley and its administration fortunately do not have to deal regularly [...]

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Technology fails to consider all options

February 4, 2010 Editorials

Written by: The Vanguard Editorial Board Convenience and time saving are what we expect from technology. We expect it to serve us well. At Bentley, we use technology for everything from shutting the window shades in classrooms to picking a place to live. But technology today cannot be intuitive, it cannot register the world beyond [...]

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Addressing GB Core Staffing Concerns

January 28, 2010 Editorials

Dear Editor, In December 2007 Bentley faculty overwhelmingly approved a revised General Business Core (GBC) to be rolled out for incoming freshmen in Fall 2009. The revised Core’s overall design and course features are intended to be innovative and to keep the GB Core reflective of Bentley’s evolving strategy. To insure that current students who [...]

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