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“Maverick Icons: Leaders with Big Ideas” The Pnyx JOSHUA SCHUETZ Staff Writer
Maverick alumnus speak about leadership and their success
MARIA LY Staff Writer To celebrate 70 years of success since its founding in 1948, the College of Business hosted an event this past Thursday on October 4th, “Maverick Icons: Leaders with Big Ideas.” Four former alumni spoke about their experiences in a fireside chat style interview with the Dean of the College of Business, Brenda Flannery, as the host. The event was equal parts inspirational, informational, and insightful with four big guest speakers: Daren Cotter, Rhoda Olsen, John Frawley, and Robyn Waters. The Dean took the stage and presented the first speaker with a video introduction. The first speaker was Rhoda Olsen, class of 1981 and owner/CEO of Great Clips, who spoke about her experiences at
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MNSU and what led her to her current position. Majoring in sociology and psychology with an intention to go into counseling, she was told by her psychology professor that she’d make an awful counselor because of her bossy demanding nature. However, she claims
that her major in sociology and psychology influenced her career in business and ultimately aided her in building relationships. She was recruited into Great Clips by her brother and became president of the company in 1998. Her story showed that even though she
began with a different future in mind, connecting the two helped her build strong relationships that helped in her success.
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Holocaust survivor recounts life under Nazi rule members, including his young cousin, then not even four years old, to the death camps. He himself came to the US as a child, in 1939.
JOSHUA SCHUETZ Staff Writer The Ostrander Auditorium was packed to the brim on Tuesday afternoon for a presentation by Fred Amram. Amram is Holocaust survivor and storyteller who has traveled to numerous universities to recount his experiences under the Nazi rule. Amram lost many family
Holocaust. He noted that much of the focus in discussions about the Holocaust tend to focus on the death camps. “When you hear about the
“At first, Jewish people weren’t allowed to use the same benches at the park. Then, they weren’t allowed to use the park at all.” In his presentation, Amram sought to change how students perceive the
Holocaust, you tend to talk about Auschwitz.” While that is an absolutely
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vital part, Amram said that such a focus can obscure how Germany got to that point, with all of the little steps taken by the German government, one by one, to segregate, dehumanize, and eventually kill the Jewish people living under their rule. “We don’t immediately come to Auschwitz,” Amram said. Instead, the first stages of the Holocaust had been economic and social. The Nazis encouraged the boycott of Jewish businesses and institutions to disenfranchise
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Congress recently passed a bill allocating funds for drug addiction treatments in the wake of the worst addiction crisis in American history. The opioid epidemic has, since the late 90s, killed around 700,000 Americans, but that’s likely an underestimate. It’s not getting better, either: in 2017, over 72,000 people died of drug overdoses. It’s worth asking, why such high numbers? And will the new bill do much good? The short answer: Because of the increase in fentanyl use, and no, probably not. Our popular image of an opioid epidemic victim is a middle-aged, blue collar worker who was injured on the job, was prescribed opioids by a physician, and was unable to stop using them after treatment ended. The problem is that this image is misleading. Middleaged and elderly people are more likely to become addicted to prescription painkillers, which has been the focus of most media attention and policy thus far, but opioid deaths are being driven by the illicit use of heroin and fentanyl. Why? Heroin is cheaper, fentanyl cheaper still. Young people are less likely to be able to get opioids through legal means. Heroin and fentanyl are also much stronger than garden-variety painkillers. Statistics bear this out. The CDC reported 72,287 deaths from opioid overdoses in the US in 2017. Of those, 29,418 were from fentanyl, versus 15,950 and 14,951 from heroin and prescription painkillers, respectively. But most policies have to do with restricting the supply of opioid painkillers. This isn’t a bad thing, but it won’t do much good for those addicted to heroin or fentanyl. It might backfire, by leading those taken off of prescription drugs (including chronic pain patients) to try more dangerous drugs.
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