Category: A & M San Antonio
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Monday Feb 13, 2012 Marketing Lecturer Lisa Siegal notes that the annual AMA Student Day is February 22. Click to go to the website, events are planned all day nad into the evening. For those that cannot make it on a Wednesday, I note that there is a social media workshop featured notables from Linked In and…
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Sunday Feb 12, 2012 I introduced cinema as an art form Saturday evening. We then viewed The Paper Chase.It has been a while since I watched the entire movie. I do have several specific thoughts. Well other than gee we wore our hair long then. But I will withold all that. My students can…
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Sunday Feb 12, 2012 I erred in previewing the movie Adrian Guardia will show in April. It is not Stand by Me but Stand and Deliver. This is the story of teacher in a drop out prone school district. He convinces his students to stay and study, yes, calcuus. Join Adrian April 14, it…
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Saturday Feb 11, 2012 A few articles of note in the Weekend WSJ Page A 11 – Art Laffer notes states are leading a pro growth rebellion. We viewed On the Waterfront in the Ethics class, the Dems have sided wtih unions for this election when union membership is smaller and Indiana just passed a…
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Saturday Feb 11, 2012 Plan to arrive in time so that you can take your seat by 6 PM. There will be plenty of seats. The film wil be shown in the large auditorium located on the north side of the Brooks Campus building. The featured film is The Paper Chase. If you have teenagers this…
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Wed Feb 1, 2012 Professor Jim Hackard, Finance, Dennis Elam Accounting, and Lisa Siegal, Marketing are the Scholarhsip Committee. We are calling for sutdent submissions for the scholarship that will be shortly awarde via FEI. Students will prepare their own information packets and submit them the old fashioned way, on paper, to one of the…
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The first one is Saturday, Feb 11. All films will be shown in the large auditorium at Brooks. DATE MOVIE RATING FACULTY HOST(s) February 11 Paper Chase PG Dennis Elam March 10 Moneyball PG-13 Tracy Hurley & Douglas Carter April 14 Stand and Deliver PG Adrian Guardia
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Originally posted Oct, 2011 Today Jan 31, 2012 Thanks to an alert student for noticing the Six Blind Men link did nto work, I had copied this and the link did not copy, it works now. Jean Shepherd's Chirstmmas Story has become the 'new classic' Christmas Video displacing Miracle on 334th Street and It's a…
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Tuesday Jan 31, 2012 The 2008 financial crisis was the result of too many people unable to pay their mortgages and too many banks and brokers leveraging a bet that the could or would be backstopped by the government. I have mentioned in class that the next crisis will likely be student loans. This article details…
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Monday Jan 30 2012 Welcome to our first audio post on Professor Elam. Today we highlight articles in the Monday Jan 30 WSJ. The idea is to explain why and how students would profit from a WSJ subscription. With your computer speaker turned on or your headphones plugged in you should be able to hear…
