Vol. 105 Issue 32
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Thursday, September 18 , 2014
JOBS
GETTING FRESH AIR
Campus reps gain experience Sarah Police Staff Writer
Shantanu Vyas, a freshman computer science major, practices his skateboarding in the plaza. Heather Tennant | Staff Photographer
CAMPUS
From such great heights: Grads honor Pitt in video Emma Solak Staff Writer
Before Jingjing Xu and Othman Alshehri put Pitt in their rearview mirrors, they spent their last semester trying to capture the campus from a much higher angle. After three months of filming, international students Xu and Alshehri uploaded their commemorative “Farewell video to Pitt” to YouTube last week. The three-min-
ute-and-27-second video, set to the sentimental song “Hold Onto the Memories” by Corey Tynan, features both still photos and videos of Pitt’s campus. The duo took pictures and videos around campus using Alshehri’s drone, according to Xu, who graduated last spring with a math and finance degree. “This was shortly after my graduation and soon before Othman was leaving, so he came up with the idea of making a video
of our time here. I thought, ‘Why not?’” Xu said. Alshehri, who attended Pitt’s English Language Institute from 2013-2014, attached a GoPro camera — a brand of camera often used in extreme action video photography — to his drone and flew it over Pitt’s campus. Alshehri purchased the equipment from
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Perri Ripps used to spend a lot of her time on campus telling people about scarves. Ripps is a former campus representative for Donni Charm, a high-end scarf line created by former University of Arizona student Alyssa Wasko. Ripps’ position is one that has become a growing presence on college campuses — word of mouth has expanded its reach, usually spreading between friends. Students are taking advantage of working as campus representatives for many different companies to help them pursue their individual fields of study. “As a marketing major who is interested in learning about the fashion industry, I thought it would be a great fit,” Ripps said. According to Ripps, a senior, she found out about the position at Donni Charm through a member of her sorority, who was a campus representative at the time. After Ripps left campus to study abroad last year, she, too, passed along the position. Ripps said her duties as a campus representative included spreading the word about Donni Charm around campus through social media and other efforts, hosting trunk shows and staying up to date on all of the latest merchandise. According to Donni Charm’s website, the company is named after Wasko’s late father,
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