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Sindhu Palaniappan

WBTY Radio experiencing rebirth

April 22, 2010 Campus Life

Written by: Sindhu Palaniappan The Vanguard took a moment to sit down with President Mike Repsch and Music Director Nic Smits of Bentley’s WBTY radio station and found out a few interesting things. What is WBTY? The campus radio station, for those of you who don’t know, is 105.3 FM, even though you can’t really [...]

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A chat with BES

April 22, 2010 Campus Life

Written by: Sindhu Palaniappan The Vanguard sat down with Bentley Entrepreneurship Society (BES) President Zakary Ewen, an Economics and Finance major and Global Sustainability liberal studies major, in order to learn more about BES. Tell us about BES BES was founded relatively recently in 2002, which makes it a fairly young organization. Our goal is [...]

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Professor Profile: John Tommasi

April 15, 2010 Campus Life

Written by: Sindhu Palaniappan Name: John Richard Tommasi What field does he teach? Mainly economics, for freshmen through seniors. He also used to teach GB 101 until the curriculum changed. Why did he choose teaching? Because it’s really fun and he genuinely enjoys it. He even tells his students than when he “gets up in [...]

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Women’s Center takes back night

April 15, 2010 Campus Life

Annual Take Back the Night event fights  back against sexual assault and rape Written by: Sindhu Palaniappan The Women’s Center hosted its annual Take Back the Night event this past Wednesday and this year was co-hosted by Delta Phi Epsilon and Campus Police. The event began at 7 p.m. when all of the attendees gathered [...]

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Diversity highlighted at Festival of Colors

April 8, 2010 Campus Life

Written by: Sindhu Palaniappan While some students may think diversity at Bentley is rare, this wasn’t the case at the Festival of Colors Kick-Off last Sunday night. The International Students’ Association hosted and coordinated the event, which featured many different acts as diverse as the opening flag ceremony. According to the actual host of the [...]

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First Global Microfinance Summit held at Bentley

April 8, 2010 Campus Life

Written by: Sindhu Palaniappan Seminar in Micro Lending, a new course first offered here at Bentley last year, paved the way to create a brand new organization here on campus. Spear headed by some determined and business minded individuals teamed with Professor Roy Wiggins, the group has become an established name on campus and in [...]

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Bollywood Blowout: Great success

March 28, 2010 Campus Life

Written by: Sindhu Palaniappan This past Saturday night, the South Asian Student’s Association went over the top with hosting their spring show, Bollywood Blowout. The event was held in the candlelit EDR complete with a lit stage, hand-made decorations, catered ethnic food, and of course a cash bar. Since it was a charity ball, audience [...]

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Why don’t you consider giving a year?

March 18, 2010 Campus Life

Written by: Sindhu Palaniappan We see the flyers everywhere, but what exactly is the “Give a Year” program? It’s a unique partnership between City Year and Bentley University, the only university that has such a partnership with this non-profit organization. Owen Bacewicz, a fifth year MBA student, is coordinating the marketing campaign for the program. [...]

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Professor Profile: David Carhart

February 4, 2010 Campus Life

Written by: Sindhu Palaniappan As I walked into his office on Thursday morning, Professor David Carhart was having a discussion with two students about Bentley being changed from a college to a university. One student stayed for math help, and I had the pleasure of witnessing Carhart’s eyes light up when the student experienced a [...]

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Scaling Mount Kilimanjaro: just your average adventure

January 28, 2010 News

Written by: Sindhu Palaniappan When prompted with the question of what I did for winter break, I usually respond with something like, “I relaxed – worked a little – and saw some old friends, pretty standard.” If you ask Greg Bucci the same question, his answer will be slightly different. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Pretty [...]

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Congratulations to the 2010 Editorial Board!

December 16, 2009 News

Announcing The Vanguard’s 2010 EDITORIAL BOARD!

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A sit-down with a trio of brothers, rock band Boyce Avenue

November 5, 2009 Features

Written by: Sindhu Palaniappan Florida’s rock band Boyce Avenue played a heartfelt and intimate acoustic set at the Hard Rock Café in Boston on October 26, and I got a chance to sit down with them before the show and ask them a few questions.

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