THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF BENTLEY UNIVERSITY SINCE 1963
THE VANGUARD VOLUME LVII ISSUE XII
BENTLEYVANGUARD.COM
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2014
GrooveBoston Cohesion Tour booked for Bentley EDITOR IN CHIEF
After an amazing fall concert with Timeflies, Bentley students can look forward to another great upcoming event. GrooveBoston is coming back to Bentley this year with their Cohesion Tour, and Falcons have a lot to be excited about. For those who are new to campus, GrooveBoston is a reoccurring fall concert on campus where the entire Dana Center is turned into a full on dance club. Lasers, lights and EDM music- the full package. Last year they even had the biggest disco ball on the East Coast! One can only wonder what they’ll come up with this year. GrooveBoston and CAB are teaming up once again to create an unforgettable experience for Bentley students, with even more engagement than before. The GrooveBoston staff will be coming to CAB’s committee meetings in order to become more in-
volved with the process. The entire event is custom built for Bentley and as the GrooveBoston website states, completely scalable. What’s great is that they are open to changing the music and layout to match the needs of whatever school they are coming to. “I think it should be a lot of fun, I’m so much more ex-
cited after we met with the GrooveBoston team,” CAB Concert Co-Chair Grace Entwistle stated. GrooveBoston put a large emphasis on the experience as a whole and guarantees every detail is well planned out. In the past, GrooveBoston has occurred in late October and been Halloween themed.
This year, GrooveBoston will take place in November and CAB plans to take a new approach with the theme. Students can only anticipate what great idea they will come up with for the show! GrooveBoston is also partnering with House of Blues Music Forward Foundation for the Rage for a Cause initiative.
Courtesy of grooveboston.com
BY Melisa Kocarlsan
The Cohesion Tour will be coming to Bentley in November.
They are trying to implement a campaign to bring music to those who need it most. They will be taking $1 donations from students at the event and using the money to “invest in music education programs; create performance opportunities for young and emerging musicians; and inspire young people with practical experience in the music industry.” The Cohesion Tour looks like it will be a promising one. CAB has already gotten a sneak preview of the track lists and promises that it won’t disappoint. There will be a strong focus on musical acts and the use of different combinations of songs throughout the acts to get students more excited during the concert. There will also be a lot more pop songs that are remixed in as well so students will hear some familiar tunes. Without giving away too much of this renowned Bentley tradition, I hope you’re looking forward to one of the best events of the year. I know I am!
New rescources for careers in Information Systems BY Michaela Stephenson News Editor
This semester, Bentley students interested in careers in Information Technology will have even more resources at their disposal. The CIS Learning and Technology Sandbox here at Bentley is now not only a place to get help in all IT and CIS related subjects.The center has planned several alumni visits this semester, giving current undergraduate and graduate students an extra networking experience on top of Bentley’s already extensive career services. Students hoping to have a career in the technology field after graduation will have the chance to speak with Bentley alumni who are currently employed in the industry. Thus far, these sessions have attracted lines of students looking to ask questions and discuss career path options. One of the alumni, Colby Dayton ’09, talked with students about his own career path, particularly how early the job offer came. “That’s correct, things have worked out very well for me since Bentley,” Dayton said in a statement to the university. Dayton received a fulltime offer from the IT department
at KPMG at the beginning of his senior year. He majored in Information Systems Audit and Control and went on to earn his MSA in 2010. He’s back on campus now to discuss his experience and help students with their own futures, as Bentley Career Services helped with his own. “I tell [students] that I have been where they are, generally speaking… This is how I got where I am and you can do it, too.” Zhe Li is one of many students who came to the CIS Sandbox to get advice from Dayton. “I got a really clear picture of what the job is,” said Li. These sessions are just one of the many valuable resources provided by Career Services and the university as a whole, helping students set themselves apart from other undergraduate and graduate students around the nation. “I wanted a way to involve our best students in the CIS Sandbox community, which meant we needed to do more than offer homework help and Internet access,” said Mark Frydenberg in a statement to the university. “Every student wants a job when they graduate. By inviting alumni back to the CIS Sandbox to talk about their careers and the
The CIS Learning and Technology Sandbox are here to help in all IT and CIS related subjects.
technologies they are using, we strengthen relationships with alumni, and create a link between what students learn in the CIS Sandbox, and how their potential future employers value their knowledge and abilities.” Frydenberg is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Information Systems and director of the CIS Sandbox. Students at the alumni sessions cite these types of programs as one of the many qualities that put Bentley ahead of surrounding universi-
ties. “This is real world advice from industry insiders who took the same classes and did internships, and who can offer insight on best practices to develop job search strategies,” said Janet Ehl, Director of the Center for Career Services and Recruiting and Employee Relations. For Dayton, this was exactly what landed him a full-time position. He attended many networking events held by Career Services on campus. He networked
with a personal contact and interned at the company during the summer before his senior year. So far this semester, KPMG and Ernst & Young have visited the CIS Sandbox. In the future, students can look forward to talking with Philo, a local Internet TV startup based in Cambridge, Liberty Mutual and Deloitte Consulting alumni. “You need to be active on campus as much as possible,” said Dayton. “That’s the biggest thing, really. And, just go to events like these.”
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