Parents and Family Weekend Student Senate Shines Again by John Logan This Contributing Writer It’S That Time of Year Again Where We Have to Clean Our Dorm Rooms
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Volume 81, Issue 7 Smithfield, RI November 1st, 2013 Inside Parents and Family Weekend Student Senate shines again By John Logan this Contributing Writer It’s that time of year again where we have to clean our dorm rooms. What exactly edition am I talking about? Well, the majority of you already know since you read the title of the article, but yes, I’m talking about Parents and Family Weekend. I’m sure you probably noticed it wasn’t your typical weekend here at Bryant. Business: Families were invited to attend different Why buy a musical, educational, and entertaining events while also re-connecting with their sons or newspaper? daughters since the beginning of the school year. If you were like me, you probably updated your parents with grades, teachers, and social life. Or maybe you even showed Page 6 them the new Fisher Student Center. Or, if you were lucky, you and your family attended some of the events, which started as early as Friday night! Sports: Friday - Comic mind reader Eric Bulldogs vs. Dittelman started the weekend off in Student Senate at Parents and Family Weekend. Colonials Football Salmanson Dining Hall. Dittelman did a fantastic job performing different routines will go for two See “Parents and Family Weekend,” page 5 straight Bryant Ventures: opening doors By Stephen Fox Ventures – a Bryant supported feedback you can ask for as an fears were baseless. Moreover, incubator full of student entrepreneur. It is too easy to the enthusiasm exhibited by Contributing Writer entrepreneurs. get attached to your ideas and the Bryant Ventures’ members Having no clue what to expect, not realize your mistakes or combined with the friendly Entrepreneur: a person I cautiously accepted Professor oversights. atmosphere really captured the who starts a business and is Potter’s offer to check out the At this point, I was fairly best aspects of getting involved willing to risk loss in order incubator. Regardless of my nervous about describing my - it inspires confidence and Page 7 to make money. Nowhere in fears, I went to the first monthly idea. I had no business model certainty that you can indeed this quaint classification does meeting. My first impression or prototype, and I certainly did create a viable product or service. Merriam-Webster mention the when walking into the meeting not have a speech on hand (not If you are interested in numerous perils surrounding was how many people were that any of the other members starting your own business, entrepreneurship: the fear of present – there were enough to did; they were all just very well then I strongly suggest you give failure, a limited understanding fill most of the classroom’s seats. spoken). Unfortunately, my Bryant Ventures a look. There Opinion: of an industry, and working with We started off rather idea involves a lot of technical are over a dozen ventures that Gossip - why it minimal resources, rushing to informally by introducing material. have launched since 2010. Take functions as social beat larger and more experienced ourselves and our “ventures”. As much as I enjoy talking the Bryant Venture’s website for competitors to the market – the These ventures ranged from about the inner workings of instance (http://bryantventures. currency list just goes on. rough edged prototypes to finely automotive design, I knew others org). It was completely designed It should not be shocking that crafted and running business might not. Again, to my surprise, by Cyclone Strategies, which such anxieties derail students’ models – such as Cape Codders’ I received plenty of questions was started a year ago by Bryant dreams of starting their own environmentally-friendly sun and suggestions from many graduates working through the businesses. That is not to glasses, MyCampusStuff’s of the members – most whom Ventures program. Feel free mention everything else that is student oriented online market would not describe themselves as to drop by an open meeting stacked against you as a student place, and Pear Printing’s website gear heads. I was not expecting (November 6th at 4:00 pm in entrepreneur, things such as design and printing services. this level of reception given my Room 267) with your idea and class work, club responsibilities, I was astonished by the inexperience and my complex see what you think. and sports team commitments. amount of work and effort put concept. As an entrepreneur, you will Even taking the time to sit down into these startups. I was also From personal experience, have to take many risks and, and outline your idea can be caught off guard by members’ I know for a fact you cannot down the road, have to make at Page 11 difficult, as we study and strive to interest in each other’s ventures. force people to ask questions least a few difficult decisions. graduate. While most feedback was or to be genuinely interested in However, there are no risks to A month ago, this was positive, members also focused an idea, let alone something as meeting some very experienced exactly how I perceived on providing critical evaluation. technically dense and foreign and passionate people and entrepreneurship. I had ideas They call their technique “open as my automotive concept. receiving insightful feedback. So, and concepts, but knew no one circle”. Obviously, no one This is what really sold me on RU 1? Variety: who could help me bring them to particularly enjoys criticism, this group. Consequently, I Navigating the fruition. Trying to research ideas but it can be the most valuable discovered that my previous endless world of on my own was also challenging – even Netflix if I found relevant information, how could I apply that to my own idea or use it to create a business model? Luckily, I Bryant Ventures met Professor Sandra Potter, Director of Bryant’s Global Entrepreneurship Page 15 Program and the HELPING ENTREPRENEURS TAKE THE NEXT STEP advisor to Bryant page 2 News November 1, 2013 Campus Calendar Staff November Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Kelsey Nowak Editor-in-Chief 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Assistant Editor-in-Chief: Sara Elder Editorial Assistant: Kat Larsson Business Managers: Paige Rovnak, Jillian Bonafede Web Editor: William Allen Photo Editor: Felicia Thomas News Editor: Ashley Esper 10am- Analytics 8:30am- Mojo 3pm- Mitch Albom 9pm- Chocolate Opinion Editor: Autumn Harrington Symposium Mondays- Amica Relaxation Variety Editor: Lauren Kordalski Night- Papitto Sports Editor: Justin Beaucage Business Editor: John Zeiner Copy Editor: Marisa Ebli InDesign Guru: Kyle Ebersold PR Manager: Haley Jones Advisor: Daphney Joseph Technical Advisor: Larry Sasso Contact Us If you need to contact The Archway of any staff member, please feel free to use the contact information listed below. 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Department of Public Safety Log EMT CALL EMT CALL / MEDICAL SERVICES DRUG ACTIVITY Vehicle Stop (DRUGS) RENDERED Oct 23, 2013-Wednesday at 00:49 Oct 25, 2013-Friday at 20:39 Oct 21, 2013-Monday at 14:09 Location: RESIDENCE HALL Location: JACOB’S DRIVE Location: SENIOR APARTMENT VILLAGE DPS responded to a report of drug activity in a Residence Detective Sergeant Michael Smith of Smithfield Police DPS received a call from the Smithfield Fire Hall.