DANI LIMOSStaff Writer It’s Monday at 8 a.m., and the financial management class sits in the CCB watching a magnified presentation on private loans. All seems normal— another lecture, another chapter, another painfully early Monday— except one thing: there is Mission Impossible-esque music booming out the speakers. Dr. Vassilis Polimenis is not your typical professor. While … [Read more...] about In his class, music livens up finance
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New students ponder the Hero’s Journey
GREG LEEStaff Writer An introspective study of Carl Jung’s philosophy, and how it relates to narrative film, bears a sophisticated and intricate connotation. However, for 15 freshmen in Professor Susan Salas’ seminar class, that philosophy is the staple of their first year of college. The first-year seminar class was designed as an adjustment tool for students to be paired … [Read more...] about New students ponder the Hero’s Journey
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