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West Employee Impacts the Lives of International Students, Even at Home
Reprinted from the August 17, 2012 West News. Tribute to Ralph Rogers: Living West’s International Mission Ralph Rogers, West Assessment Coordinator Staff and faculty at Western International...
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Dim View of The Cold Light of Day (Review)
The Cold Light of Day. What an ironic title for a movie that doesn’t even bear scrutiny in the dim light of evening at the theater! This was a terrible film so this blog is to offer caution. Don’t get...
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Count Me Among the Miserable Ones
I was very fortunate to be offered a ticket to a performance of Les Miserables at Gammage. I don’t get to enough theater these days, so it was a treat–up to a point. The truth is that ten years ago,...
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Arbitrage is Supposed to be Riskless (review)
Finance students probably have the term in the glossary of their texts. Arbitrage is classically defined as a simultaneous and riskless trades across at least two different markets that exploit very...
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Prediction for Best Picture or Best Actor of 2012
I have only seen the trailers, but I can feel it. This movie has all the makings of a multiple Oscar winner: I sense it will win either best picture or best supporting actor or both. I am talking about...
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The Master Has its Masteries (review)
Paul Thomas Anderson made some very good films in Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, and Magnolia. He is clearly not afraid to take risks as a filmmaker, and he took risks in The Master. Some paid...
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Death and Taxes (Hurry up and give)
The latest political volleys about Mitt Romney’s tax returns demonstrate at least two principles that students of ECO301 (and perhaps some finance classes) should notice and retain. The first is that a...
View ArticleWest Career Webinar: Fall In Love With Your Job
Join us for a West Career Resources Webinar: Fall in Love With Your Job All Over Again! Date: Monday, October 15, 2012 Time: 5pm-6pm MST RSVP: By Friday, October 12 to laura.lee@west.edu...
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The Perks of Being a Moviegoer–and a Teacher (review)
My favorite character in the movie “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” wasn’t the English teacher Mr. Anderson, but he’s the one I identified with most. He handed out thin, paper-backed copies of...
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Free Markets Aren’t Free
As this article from Bloomberg today reveals, the tendency for wealth and comfort to flow uphill, from the “have nots” to the “haves,” is a consequence of free-market environments. In and of itself,...
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West Rocks the House at St. Mary’s Food Bank
Reprinted from the October 5, 2012 West News. West community rallies support at St. Mary’s Rock ‘n Box Event By Rebecca Thomas, West Student Western International University (West) students, staff,...
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You Might Be Bi-lingual and Not Even Know It
We really communicate on multiple levels today, depending upon the situation. Many of us could almost be bilingual to the extent that we switch-on and switch-off our formal speech and our informal...
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Seven Psychopaths Breaks Conventions and Holds Together (Review)
(Warning: This movie has some very violent scenes) A very innovative movie, Seven Psychopaths features some great actors and takes you on a refreshing, baffling and rewarding ride to a complete movie...
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Austerity is Not a Foreign Word
In Europe, “austerity” is a real word and it describes the process required by a significant percentage of the population to respond to the recent slowdown there. One anecdote from a friend explained...
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The Fed Meets, the Candidates Debate, We Listen and Watch
It’s getting a little scary now. The Fed is going to let us know tomorrow if they are going to try to pump more money into the financial system and boost the stock market. They don’t even hide it...
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The Diversity of Economics
A good education should bring form and clarity to the worldview of a student. And while, in this age of specialization (am I a man out of time?) we don’t see much demand for the “broad” or classic...
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Cloud Atlas is a Long and Engaging Ride (Review)
The concept of reincarnation is nothing new to at least a billion people when you consider that Hindus and most Buddhists subscribe to it. But it’s somewhat new as part of mainstream culture in the US....
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Denzel Operates Another Big Machine in “Flight”
I thought it was interesting from the standpoint of my ETH123 Diversity class that Denzel Washington didn’t play a “Black” pilot or “African American” alcoholic in the latest box office hit, Flight. He...
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New Student Delighted with West Experience
West Friends & Family Student Referral Program makes it happen! Reprinted from the October 19, 2012 West News. Claudia Henry, West Student, BS in Business One of our new students at Western...
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The Man With the Iron Head (review)
I don’t even know who RZA is, but he had enough money to make a martial-arts film and let himself direct and star in it. He got Quentin Tarantino and Lucy Liu and Russell Crowe involved, too. The...
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