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
The Phone Call
He was feeling depressed that day, although the weather was wonderful. The sun was shining, and it was hot enough for some of the kids to put their swimsuits on and head for the small lake. He was intrigued too, but he could not get used to the lake’s water and its color. He wanted the blue of the sea, not that opaque greenish water, which reminded him of a swamp. So, he grabbed his cup of coffee and headed for the kitchen to arrange the menu.
As he entered the big room, he noticed the open windows and how the sun rays burst in, with an intensity that was almost blinding. The stained glass window was closed, and the… Continue reading
Georgian dance group returns to campus
The Merani Artistic Ensemble of the University of Tbilisi performed Georgian national dances in the Pierce College Theater on Friday, September 21.
The Merani Artistic Ensemble is one of the best dance groups Georgia has to offer. They have performed in Greece, both in Athens and Thessaloniki, as well as other countries in the Balkans and the Middle-East. The Merani Ensemble does not charge for its performances and they also take part in fundraising events.
The Merani Ensemble performed this year in order to raise money for the victims of this year’s deadly forest fires.
The show left spectators awed at the sight of the youngsters’ incredible strength and finesse. The Merani Artistic Ensemble, who danced magnificently for hours, was… 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.”
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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
Debating tournament attracts international participation
The XXXIII Invitational Debating Tournament was hosted by the Deree College Debating Club on the Aghia Paraskevi Campus from April 20-21. University and high school students from Greece , England , France , Israel and Turkey participated in the tournament.
Fifty-two teams competed in five preliminary rounds, with the final eight including a team from France and a team from Israel, and a Deree team composed of Maria Avgitidis and Moshoula Krambousanos.
The tournament was won by two students, George Katritsis and Pantelis Diplas, who will participate in the World Schools Debating Championships in South Korea this summer. Katritsis also won the best speaker trophy.
The event is the largest debating competition in Greece , offering the chance to university… Continue reading
Deree Students celebrate Spring
The Office of Student Affairs, in cooperation with many Deree College Clubs, Societies and Organizations, will be holding its annual May Fest on the Aghia Paraskevi Campus on May 18. The event features bands, entertainment and food from around the world.
But the first, and perhaps the most important, event of the day will be the blood drive , organized by the S.E.R.F. team in cooperation with the Hellenic Red Cross. Students, faculty and staff will be able to donate their blood at the Student Lounge until 1:30 p.m.
The festivities will start at 12:00 on the 200-level patio, near the Central Office, with a focus on lunch:
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Ambassadors and Accounting and Finance Society barbecue
Cultures & Languages Club… Continue reading