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April 20, 2014Photography

Holi Spring 2013 Photos

Every spring the Hindu Student Council hosts UMD’s Holi Celebration on the mall. This year’s was April 6, and I didn’t get to participate, but I went last year and took a few photos (and managed not to get paint on the camera!). You can, of course, find the full gallery on my Flickr. Full […]

March 20, 2014Behind the Scenes Stage Management

Building strengths through weaknesses

My weaknesses yesterday are my strengths today. This semester I am feeling incredibly accomplished as I’ve been working hard at both of the fields that I want to go into once I am done with college. This semester, I am a teaching assistant for News Editing for Public Relations, which I took last semester. Being a […]

November 5, 2013Behind the Scenes COMM232

Grunig Lecture: Ethics as Culture — COMM232

The Sixth Annual Grunig Lecture last week proved to be very rewarding for aspiring PR students looking for tips and pointers from 15 professionals from around the D.C. Metro area. Advice ranged from how to incorporate youth into PR campaigns to how to successfully enter the PR world on the junior level. The final piece of advice came from FleishmanHillard President and CEO Dave Senay’s lecture, “Ethics as Culture,” where he made it very clear that “Being in PR is not a spectator sport.”