THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF BENTLEY UNIVERSITY SINCE 1963
THE VANGUARD VOLUME LVI ISSUE IV
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2013
BENTLEYVANGUARD.COM
A Certain Something: Remembering Dr. Diane Moul
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Members of the Bentley community reflect on life of devoted professor
Moul was a Senior Lecturer in the English and Media Studies Dept. BY NAThan MARCHAND COPY EDITOR
Whenever misfortune strikes our community, our sense of unity and compassion is reaffirmed by our reactions and resilience. We have endured many hardships and when we lose one of our own, we are re-
minded of our fragility. Professor Diane Wellins Moul of the English and Media Studies Department lost her courageous battle with cancer on Friday, October 4 at age 63. Dr. Moul’s students, friends and colleagues have since described the indelible mark she left behind. Their eagerness to
profess their admiration for Dr. Moul is evidence that her impact was profound and her legacy will be long-lasting. “Professor Moul was widely respected, much admired and truly loved by students, faculty and staff,” said Gloria Cordes Larson, president of Bentley University. “Diane had a deep impact on many, both inside and outside the classroom and she will be very much missed. I know the entire community joins me in sending our heartfelt thoughts and prayers to her husband, Andy, as well as to other family members and friends.” Moul was a resident of Providence and went to high school in nearby Cranston. She went on to get her Bachelor of Arts in English and Masters of Business Administration in Marketing at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Moul returned to Rhode Island to complete her doctorate in English at the University of Rhode Island while starting
her 23 year teaching career Moul worked for 11 years in throughout Rhode Island and marketing at Procter & Gamble Massachusetts. Dr. Moul held and Needham, Harper & Steers adjunct positions at Rhode Is- where she gained valuable field land College, Bryant College, experience which she later Clark University and Bentley brought to the Bentley classUniversity where she started in room. “I was Diane’s officemate the fall of 1999. “Throughout her illness, Di- when we were both hired as adjuncts in the early ane missed “Throughout her 2000s,” said ProBentley greatly illness, Diane missed fessor Traci Aband wanted very Bentley greatly and bott. “Diane almuch to come wanted very much ways impressed back to teach. to come back to She cared about me with her teach. She cared the students treenthusiasm for about the students teaching, commendously and tremendously...” loved the envibined with her Professor Joan Atlas ronment at Benthigh standards ley and in the English and Media for herself and her students. She Studies Department in particu- did not shy away from complex lar,” said Joan Atlas, department topics, but enjoyed teaching adjunct. “As a former adjunct students to appreciate both the herself, she was always greatly complexity of a book or film and supportive of the adjuncts in our their ability to comprehend it. department.” Her upbeat and optimistic naMoul was promoted to Lec- ture was also effective in engagturer in the fall of 2005 and Se- ing students, because she was nior Lecturer in 2010. SEE MOUL, PAGE 6 After completing her M.B.A,
CAB hosts Color Run University to cluster courses T-shirts went from white to bright as over 100 Bentley students were covered in paint this past Sunday morning. The CAB-sponsored Color Run was a huge success despite the cool and rainy conditions. A group of eager runners gathered at the upper green space in anticipation to be blasted by 250 pounds of chalk paint. The course was a quick 1.5 mile jog around the upper campus loop route. Volunteers stationed at tables throughout the course were armed with modified fire extinguishers to blast dry paint. This is one of the many events that Allie LeBrun and Jack DeTonge, Sports and Recreation Co-Chairs, have been working on since getting back to school this fall. LeBrun commented saying, “We are very happy with the turnout. The event sold out on MyBentley very quickly.” 200 spots were available online for the first to sign up. Runners who did not have a chance to reserve a spot on-
line were allowed to register on Sunday morning. Campus Police was notified and was fully cooperative with the event. Coordinators set up cones that marked the route along Forest Street and the sidewalk. All runners were advised they had to follow along the designated path and medical help was available if needed. The paint used in Color Run events is non-hazardous. As proof DeTonge demonstrated on fellow coordinator LeBrun, who was somewhat unwilling, by dousing her with smurf-blue dust just before the race began. Apparently, it didn’t taste horrible. A Bentley event would not be complete without Andrew Scopes behind his DJ equipment. Scopes added a little life to the sub-par Sunday. “This weather is awful so someone has to keep these people happy” he jovially remarked. He did just that by flooding the green space with some feel good party tunes. CAB president, Bobby Smith, helped out at one of the SEE COLOR RUN, PAGE 6
Option will allow students to fuse business and arts BY MICHAELA STEPHENSON VANGUARD STAFF WRITER
Starting next semester, Bentley students will have the opportunity to take part in “fusion” courses, which will combine an existing business course and an existing arts and sciences course together into a 6-credit cluster. The fusion courses will be offered as a double-block that will meet twice a week. Last semester, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, Juliet Gainsborough and Associate Dean of Business Programs, Dorothy Feldmann, teamed up to introduce this new concept of fusion courses. With the help of the other associate deans, the two reached out to faculty, requesting proposals for potential clusters. “Bentley’s curriculum has long emphasized the integration of business and arts and sciences,” said Gainsborough, “These fusion courses are another way to take advantage of the unique education available at Bentley.”
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Funding from UTC will support resources for honor students. Gainsborough and Feldmann acknowledged the current integration of business and science, citing the successes of the Liberal Studies Major (LSM) and the Business Studies Major (BSM). The two programs allow students to pair business and arts majors together. However, Gainsborough and Feldmann wanted an even more narrowed approach of fusion, going straight to the courses
themselves. The LSM and BSM provide a broad connection across the curriculum, but there isn’t any sort of link at the individual course level. “A business professor and an arts and sciences professor [will work] together to connect two courses and highlight the intersections and common threads,” said Gainsborough. SEE CLUSTER, PAGE 6
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