VOL. 50 ISSUE 14 | SINCE 1967
JAN. 24 2017
THE SENTINEL KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY | THE SENTINEL
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COFFEE Kyani Reid Contributor Students were presented with “Deconstructing Coffee: A Talk and a Cupping” in the Sturgis Library on Jan. 21. The event’s host, Aajay Murphy, began his presentation by addressing a myth that many coffee drinkers believe. “Coffee is not a bean like all of us think,” Murphy said. “Coffee is a fruit.” Murphy pulled from his experience working as a barista at local coffee shops to explain the different levels of the coffee industry. “You can be a consumer, you can work in a coffee shop, you can be an importer on a farm, or be a picker,” Murphy said.
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Students meet with CEOs and other business leaders to gain valuable knowledge about becoming an entrepreneur.
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BUSINESS LEADERS NETWORK WITH KSU STUDENTS Sabrina Kerns Staff Writer At an event hosted by the Shore Entrepreneurship Center on Jan. 19, students networked and interacted with leading entrepreneurs from the Atlanta area. Four business-owners answered students’ questions in a “speed dating” style, giving groups of students a limited time with each entrepreneur before moving on to the next. Doug Shore, a member of the Coles College of Business Advisory Board, founded Shore Communications in 1982. He shared with students
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his experience with starting the company, including the challenges and hard work that came with keeping it up and running. When students asked Shore why he eventually sold his company, he stressed the importance of having an “end game” or a future plan for the business. “When you’re young, you think you’ll live forever,” Shore said. “You don’t even think about stuff like that. As you get older, if you’re lucky enough to get older, you learn, ‘I’m not immortal. Someday I will leave
my business.’” DynamiX Web Design founder and CEO, Jeff Jahn, answered questions about his experiences at Berry College and what motivated him to co-found six different companies. “While I was at Berry, I worked during all of my classes,” Jahn said. “I got so much value out of it by not thinking of school as school, but by thinking about it as how much value can I extract from these professors to really
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Kennesaw State University celebrated MLK week with a speech on Jan. 15 that praised the works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The African-American Student Alliance and the Black History Committee hosted the presentation. The common theme throughout artist and activist David Banner’s speech was that African-Americans need to take back control and be the creator of their own destiny. Banner wants more businesses and jobs to be owned and created by blacks. Banner asked the audience, “Is anybody from the hood like I’m from the hood?” He insisted that the audience members raise their hands and that there was nothing to be ashamed of. Banner told those from the “hood” that they have to be the difference in their neighborhoods. “Nothing is going to change in the hood if you don’t make a point to change it,” Banner said. “If I’m like anybody, I’m like Martin Luther King before he died. How about you?” Black Activist continued on pg. 4
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