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February 13, 2020 Collegedale, Tennessee
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SMARRT Fund provides opportunity for students to manage $500,000 endowment fund
Vol. 75 Issue 14
Parents Weekend: What You Need to Know Cheyenne Wilson Staff Writer
The SMARRT Fund Team Photo by Danielle Laurent
Elise Deschamps Lead Reporter
Fund team also will have the opportunity to receive a Bloomberg Certification. While the money is still held by the university, the SMARRT Fund student committee will get to decide how it is invested with the help of faculty advisors. The money is 1% of a recent assets sale by the university, according to finance professor
The Student Managed Asset Risk and Return Training Fund (SMARRT Fund), officialized in October of 2019, will give Southern students an opportunity to help manage and invest a half million dollar endowment from the university. Students who are a part of the SMARRT
Project Refresh works to bridge gaps in the Adventist church Madi Reinschmidt Staff Writer
Project Refresh, the Carolina Conference asked Southern to be a sponsor. Isaac James, Southern’s director of Marketing and University Relations, said he likes the initiative and wants to see Southern’s logo beside this content so more young people may be attracted to the project. “Project Refresh answers hard questions that will help college students be more prepared for life, both academically and for their careers, but also spiritually--the power for their minds and souls,” said James, referring to Southern’s motto. Rachel Beaver, a December 2019 public relations graduate, interned with Project Refresh for the past two summers. Beaver says Refresh’s goal is to encourage healthy conversation. “We [Project Refresh] want to show that we’re listening. The big issues are being talked about and not just swept under the rug, like so many younger people believe that church higher-ups do,” Beaver said.
Southern’s Marketing and University Relations has recently decided to sponsor Project Refresh, an initiative created by the Carolina Conference of Seventh-day Adventist in 2018 that produces online content for young adults in the Seventh-day Adventist church. This project was created by Rebecca Carpenter, the Carolina Conference’s director of communications, to connect generations within the Adventist church. Carpenter came up with the idea to make content for young people, specifically from the ages of 18-35, because she saw how many are uninvolved or even leaving the church. Project Refresh includes a variety of content, such as “The Loop” vlogs that include how-to’s on adulting, a podcast called “Echo” that discusses difficult topics within the church, and “Tiny Chair Talks,” which addresses subjects that no one is readily willing to discuss. In order to continue the work of
ECHO is a podcast where panelists share their personal perspectives about God, spirituality, and the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Real. Honest. Refreshing. Adventist.
This video series will chronicle what happens when a person experiments with positive life choices. “What if I extend my prayer time?” or “What if I put off procrastinating?” etc.
The Loop is a vlog about “adulting,” with how-tos that take the mystery out of tasks such as buying a car, dealing with insurance, creating a budget, etc.
in partnership with
theprojectrefresh.org a ministry of the Carolina Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
ReFresh campaign poster. Provided by Marketing Department See ReFresh on page 2
Dennis Steele, one of the faculty advisors for the fund. Steele said being a part of the team would involve economic analysis, understanding how both local and global economies work and knowing how what is happening economically around the world affects certain financial sectors. Prospective members also
have access to the Bloomberg Terminal, a market analytics database that usually has a $24,000 annual access fee. Through this, students can choose to take the Bloomberg Market Concept course that teaches them how to utilize the database and receive a Bloomberg Certification. See SMARRT on page 2
According to administration assistant for student development, Teri Reutebuch, Southern is expecting to host 200-250 family members for its biennial Parents Weekend, giving students’ parents the opportunity to experience campus with their children from Feb. 14 through 16. Once parents register at Talge or Thatcher Hall, they can attend classes, vespers and a mission expo with their children on Friday. Families can also walk the campus trails, visit the Student Park Cave, watch the Rees Series Basketball Finals or listen to a concert on Saturday. The last event will be on Sunday in the dining hall where families can attend Christian comedian Kerri Pomarolli’s performance “[Parents Weekend] is an opportunity for students to invite their parents to see what they do on a day-to-day basis, meet their friends, professors, and bosses,” said Kari Shultz, director of student life and See PARENTS WEEKEND on page 2
Southern senior to present cuban research at national conference
Suny Gomez. Photo Courtesy of Suny Gomez
Young Gerzom. Photo Courtesy of Suny Gomez
Kelly Gustrowsky Staff Writer On Feb. 22, senior Spanish major Suny Cárdenas-Gómez will present at the national conference of the National Association of African American Studies, or NAAAS, in Houston, Texas. The NAAAS is a body of scholars who study many different cultures and bring their research together.
My grandfather was 15 or 16 when the revolutionary government came into place in Cuba; now he’s almost 80. The stories that we don’t gather now are lost forever. At the conference, Cárdenas-Gómez will present her senior project titled, “Family Violence and Change: a Diologic Analysis of Gerzom Gomez’s Memoir.” Her grandfather authored the memoir, which details his life in Cuba before the
country’s revolutionary war. The core of the project compared his memoir and the writings of other authors on a similar topic. “Once my grandfather told the family that he had finished his memoir, I thought I might as well take this opportunity to learn more about my history,” Cárdenas-Gómez said. Although Gómez’s memoir covers his entire life, Cárdenas-Gómez focused on her grandfather’s childhood in a poor rural community in western Cuba before the Cuban Revolution. According to Cárdenas-Gómez, she was not expecting the invitation to speak at the NAAAS conference. Originally, she presented a condensed version at the School of Journalism and Communication’s Research Showcase. Afterward, she was approached by Victoria Joiner, associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication, about submitting her research to the NAAAS. Cárdenas-Gómez sent the conference an abstract of her work, and they accepted it. “It’s kind of unreal still,”
Cárdenas-Gómez said. After graduating, Cárdenas-Gómez wants to attend graduate school, studying either art history or Latin American studies. While research will not be her main career focus, she intends to stay in the research community within Hispanic culture. “I hope this is the beginning of something I’ll get to do periodically throughout my career,” Cárdenas-Gómez said. “The history of the Cuban Revolution is sort of an emerging topic because Cuba is more connected to the world now than it has been in the past.” According to Cárdenas-Gómez, many stories from Cuba have been hidden for decades due to isolation. Research is important for continuing to find and document these stories from Cuba before those who lived them are gone. “[My grandfather] was 15 or 16 when the revolutionary government came into place in Cuba; now he’s almost 80,” Cárdenas-Gómez said. “The stories that we don’t gather now are lost forever.”