Manos Moschopoulos
Activities Week connects students and societies
The Student Government organized its second Activities Week on April 8-10 at the Aghia Paraskevi Campus, gathering the interest of dozens of students who interacted with student leaders and participated in a number of events planned for their entertainment.
The Activities Week unites the student groups on campus every semester. It provides Clubs, Societies and Organizations with an opportunity to showcase their events and achievements and gives them a platform to increase their outreach to the student body and enlarge their membership base.
The groups participating in this edition included the Accounting and Finance, CIS, International Business and Marketing societies, the Debating and Ski clubs and the Student Emergency Response Force, who organized events as diverse as video games tournaments… Continue reading
Deree reaches another debate final
Deree scored another debating success in the Belgrade Open. Defending champions Manos Moschopoulos and Matt Simunec reached the grand final of the competition, losing to the team from the University of Ljubljana in a 3-2 decision by the adjudication panel.
The Deree team was assigned the task of defending the criminalization of genocide denial, using examples from recent events and stressing the importance of shared cultural memories. The event was organized under the auspices of the OSCE and was one of the democratization activities the organization undertakes in former Yugoslavia.
The Debating Club was also represented in the World Universities Debating Championships, where the same team reached the top 16 of the English as a Second Language Category with Moschopoulos… Continue reading
Faculty research seminar lecture looks on Metaphors in Aristotle
Deree Professor Joanna Patsioti addressed students and faculty on Aristotle’s study of metaphors and their use in both classical and contemporary contexts. Patsioti elaborated on the definition of metaphors in Aristotle, who was “the first to offer systematic study of metaphors and their connection to analogy”.
She also referred to classical texts by Isocrates and Plato, as well as more contemporary thinkers, who argued that metaphors play a role that’s not only decorative but also substantial in our language.
She said metaphors are often a reflection of the culture that produces them. In maritime Britain, for example, metaphors related to the sea abound.
In the discussion that followed the lecture, audience members noted the aesthetic aspect of metaphors in language… Continue reading
College thanks fire watch volunteers
President Dr. John S. Bailey honored the students and staff that guarded the campus against forest fires during August and early September.
The Mayor of Aghia Paraskevi, Vassilis Giannakopoulos, the Naval Commander of the neigbouring Eastern Mediterranean Military Command and the Captain of the 4th Athens Fire Brigade also hailed the contribution of the volunteers and the College towards protecting Mount Imittos. “It’s the only forest we’ve got left” said Giannakopoulos, who began talks with local educational and research institutes to coordinate activities against natural disasters.
Manos Moschopoulos, the President of the ACG Student Government, stressed the importance of extracurricular activities in creating a sense of volunteerism among the students as well as the initiatives taken by student leaders at… Continue reading
Intramural tournaments get into swing at Deree
The Athletics Department will hold basketball, tennis, table tennis, chess and swimming intramural tournaments during this month. Students who participate in their favorite sports might also have the chance to make it on to the College’s intervarsity teams.
In the first tournament of the year, seven teams will contest the intramural basketball trophy. Teams such as past winners The Benchers played well during the preliminary rounds. The scoreboard and fixtures list is available on the poster boards.
George Rossidis, last year’s tennis champion, will try to retain his title against this year’s competition, while Artur Khotenovskiy is contesting the chess tournament, hoping to recapture the title after losing last year’s final. They are joined by a number of students that… Continue reading
Falling for The Girl in the Café
An aging, high-ranking, workaholic public servant meets a young girl in a London coffee shop, starting a story which balances on an unlikely romance and a powerful political message.
Lawrence, portrayed by Bill Nighy of The Pirates of the Carribean and Love Actually , is a senior adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or the British equivalent of our minister of finance. He personifies the stereotype of the elder, brilliant bureaucrat who is clueless when it comes to socializing with other people.
Kelly McDonald (Trainspotting) plays Gina who is a mysterious young woman seeming as if she represents a totally different world in the beginning of the film, despite her loitering in the same coffee shops as executives… Continue reading
Deree College Ambassadors: Truly international?
New enrollment in the Deree College Ambassadors has added to the Organization’s diversity in terms of nationality and ethnicity.
The Deree College Ambassadors are a 12 year old Organization that has been representing the College effectively and efficiently throughout these past years. There has been little change in the number of international students attending Deree College and the Junior College but there has been an increase in the diversity of international students in terms of nationality.
In the beginning the DCA comprised almost entirely Greek students, but the organization adapted to the changes of the ACG student population. The Deree College Ambassadors now comprise in large part international students and other students with family ties and relations with other countries.… Continue reading
Student Government collects items for fire victims
The Student Government is collecting items ranging from clothing and personal hygiene products to notebooks and Greek literature books for the victims of this September’s devastating forest fires in mainland Greece and the Peloponnese.
Items collected include soaps, shampoos, toothpastes, toothbrushes, notebooks, pens, pencils, linen and canned food and other edibles that do not require refrigeration such as beans and pasta.
All gathered aid will be delivered by College community members to local authorities, while the Student Affairs office has contacted local educators in order to better determine the needs of the local high school students.
As one professor from the Ilia prefecture said in an e-mail in September, local educators “can’t even ask [their] students to purchase notebooks.”
Items… Continue reading
Student leaders meet with trustees
Two ACG Student Government members and other members of Clubs, Societies and Organizations met the Chairman and two other members of the Board of Trustees to exchange views about the present and the future of the College.
Chairman Peter Thun and members Charles Cook and Dorothy Mitchell met with students representing virtually all major areas of study within Deree to discuss the everyday life of a student at the College.
The students were drawn from the governing bodies of the most active clubs, societies and organizations on Campus: the Art History Society, the History Society, the Debating Club and the Ambassadors.
Chairman Thun said that the process was beneficial for the Trustees. More meetings are expected to be scheduled soon.
Communication senior project selected for festival
Deree student Aggelos Bousbouras saw his senior project selected for screening at the Athens Video Art Festival 2007, which took place from April 27-29.
Bousbouras, who goes under the nickname of “Substant,” competed with 1200 submissions from all over the world, from which 400 were selected for presentation based on their creativity and originality.
The project, supervised by Professor Christina Polyzou, is a video clip named ” Neuronal Forest ” that depicts a forest being paralleled with the human brain in the context of a dream. The movie was constructed using original footage and still images from a digital artist. Bousbouras used a first-person angle.
The music used in the movie comes from Bousbouras’ band, “Abstruse,” an experimental progressive metal… Continue reading