Tuesday, March 19, 2013 // Issue 90, Volume 78
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Step it up METROrail LIFE+ARTS Fighting apartheid in stride The fourth annual Israeli Apartheid Week started Monday, which will offer events throughout the week. The students have displayed mock walls in comparison to the real apartheid wall in West Bank that’s 430 miles long and 26 feet tall. The goal is to educate and raise awareness about Israel’s apartheid policies toward Palestinians. —Dina Kesbeh/The Daily Cougar
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Student sellers succeed
Rising in ranks Chrystal Grant Staff writer
and then judged by a panel on needs identification, approach and communication skills among other sales criteria. Several companies attended the event to meet talented sales students and potential recruitment. “This was more than just a school competition,” Pinkelman said. “What we learn here is real life. It shows that if we can do it here then we can sell anything to anyone. It shows that we have the knowledge and skills to be successful.”
The UH Law Center ranks No. 48 in the national ranking of law school executed annually by U.S. News & World Report, with two of the law school’s specialty programs, health law and intellectual property law, remaining to place in the top 10 nationally. The law school ranked 57th in the previous year, and specialty programs are ranked by faculty who teach in the field, said UHLC Interim Dean Richard Alderman. The Law Center’s intellectual property law program ranks No. 7 and health Law ranks No. 8 in the latest guide. “We are glad our numbers continue to improve, but Alderman our main focus is to provide an outstanding legal education for our students, as well as, employment,”
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A team of four students faced pressure and anticipation as they went to Kennesaw State University in Georgia to represent the most recognized school in the 2013 National Collegiate Sales Competition. Competitors from the Program for Excellence in Selling at the C.T. Bauer College of Business were Nicole Pinkelman, who placed fifth overall, and Ricardo Guerra, who placed in the top 15. With their team alternates, Raul Giron and Juan Rueda, they represented UH at the competition and claimed third runner-up out of 67 schools from the U.S. and Canada. UH holds the title of being the only school to have won three national championships in NCSC history, and two of the titles were received consecutively, Marketing lecturer Amy Vandaveer, who has been coaching PES teams for the past five years, said in a press
UH is the only school win three championship titles in the National Collegiate Sales Competition’s history — two of which were won back-to-back. | Courtesy of UH.edu release. “It is a great thing to be able to compete at a national level to represent the program that has given me so much,” Pinkelman said. “The experience not only gave us sales experience and personal branding, it gave us the chance to defend the title that we have the best sales program in the nation.” The 134 students participating were required to individually prepare a sales presentation on the mobile app powered by ADP, RUN, for a client whose profile they had been given prior to the competition. Each competitor was recorded
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