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One name, two fates: SMU’s 2013 Common Reading
Two boys with the same name were born within blocks of each other and less than a year apart. Both grew up fatherless in the same poverty-stricken Baltimore ghetto. Both experienced the same hazards of urban youth: racism, violence and trouble with … Continue reading
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Tagged academic initiatives, Class of 2017, Common Reading, Harold Stanley, The Other Wes Moore, Wes Moore
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The Big Short discussion continues with expert panel Sept. 13
SMU continues its conversation about the 2012 Common Reading with a panel discussion on issues raised in Michael Lewis’ The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. The discussion, featuring both campus and business leaders, begins at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13 in SMU’s DeGolyer … Continue reading
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Tagged administrators, Common Reading, Cox School of Business, Cullum Clark, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Finance, Fischer & Company, free events, Friends of the SMU Libraries, James Linck, John Duca, Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility, Mike Condon, Rita Kirk, The Big Short
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SMU grad offers investor’s perspective on The Big Short Sept.10
SMU’s 2012 Common Reading discussion continues at 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10, with the first Gartner Honors Lecture of the academic year. “The Financial Crisis of The Big Short: An Investor’s Perspective” features University alumnus John Phelan, co-founder and co-managing partner … Continue reading
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Tagged Common Reading, free events, Gartner Honors Lecture Series, John Phelan, lecture programs, MSD Capital, The Big Short, visitors
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Common Reading 2012: Anatomy of a financial disaster
By the time the public learned of the 2008 U.S. stock market crash, it had been happening for more than a year. Author and journalist Michael Lewis sought out a relatively obscure handful of Wall Street hedge-fund managers – minor … Continue reading
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Tagged academic initiatives, Class of 2016, Common Reading, Harold Stanley, Michael Lewis, The Big Short
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Calendar Highlights: Sept. 21, 2011
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Tagged Abigail Disney, Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development, Common Reading, Dedman College, Embrey Human Rights Program, Fred Grinnell, free events, Gartner Honors Lecture Series, Graduate Liberal Studies, lecture programs, Michael Phillips, Think with Krys Boyd, visitors
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Common Reading 2011: The price of immortality
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Tagged Center for Teaching Excellence, Central University Libraries, Common Reading, Diana Grumbles, Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot, Ron Wetherington
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Tune In: Students get ready for Common Reading 2010
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Tagged AARO, Common Reading, Dave Eggers, Eva Parks, New Student Programs, new students, video, Zeitoun
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Calendar Highlights: Back-to-School 2010
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Tagged academic calendar, academic ceremonies, Common Reading, Faculty Senate, Fall Break, Family Weekend, General Faculty Meeting, holidays, Homecoming, Mustang Corral, Opening Convocation, Rotunda Passage, William Tsutsui
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