Student-Managed Investment Fund presentation
Students of the Dillard College of Business will give a presentation of their experience in the Student Managed Investment Fund class tonight at 7 p.m. in Dillard 101.
Ricky Randall, junior in finance, said this is the biggest presentation of any of the business classes.
“There’s a class that’s comparable to it, but it’s with fake money,” Randall said. “This is the one with real money and we have to make real decisions with it. Our constraints and stuff like that are a lot stricter than what they do.”
Randall said the fund began with a $400,000 donation from Kay Dillard.
“The fund is now worth over $460,000,” Randall said. “We’ve just been keeping it going.”
Randall said students must take the class for a year so there is a presentation at the end of each semester.
“It just covers what we’ve done since we took it over, so all the trades we’ve done, what stock we bought it with, stocks we sold and how the money is doing right now,” Randall said.
Randall said the semester began with a scare as everyone’s stock went down on the first week that they bought it.
“We bought them in October when the government shutdown was affecting the market,” Randall said. “So everybody’s stock went down the first week.”
Randall said the presentation will bring together everything the class has worked on, which required many hours of work.
“We only have the class once a week but it’s the hours that we put in when we’re not in class. I know this week we’ve probably spent 20 hours each and we’re only two days into the week,” Randall said. “People will see how much work we’ve actually been doing.”
Mass Communication senior screenings
Graduating seniors of the mass communication department will debut their capstone documentaries “All For the Applause” and “Drum Major, Is Your Band Ready?” this Friday at 3:30 p.m. in Bolin 100.
Landry Russell, senior in mass communication, said the screenings are an opportunity for anyone not involved in the department to see what mass communication students have been working towards during their time in the program.
“They can see we know how to shoot video, we know how to edit it, we know how to interview people,” Russell said. “This is our capstone project. This is the culmination of everything we’ve learned in the last four years.”
Russell said the screenings give him and his classmates something they can show to future employers to demonstrate what they learned in college.
“For us, it’s a chance to show what we know. You can tell people, for my final project in school we made a documentary,” Russell said. “We spent three months working on this documentary and it shows that you are dedicated to something.”
The students will give an introduction before they show their film, after which a panel of mass communication professors will provide a critical review of the documentaries.
“This is your footprint on MSU,” Russell said. “This is your last work here.”
Senior Art Exhibition opening reception
Senior art students will host the Senior Art Exhibition on Friday from 6-8 p.m. in the Juanita Harvey Art Gallery.
Kristyna Butler, senior in photography, said the exhibition gives the students the chance to show their best work as well as answer any questions about their process and pieces.
“It’s pretty much the epitome of what we do the whole time we’re in school,” Butler said. “It showcases everything that you’ve learned and everything that you’ve learned to love at the same time.”
Butler said this year’s exhibition is special because each concentration of the department will be represented in the show.
“There’s painting, printmaking, photography, graphic design, sculpture, and metals,” Butler said. “It covers literally everything that MSU has.”
Butler said because each concentration of the art department is represented in the show, it gives the public the chance to see everything the department has to offer.
“It shows what the art department is capable of because everybody that’s in the show is very good at whatever their medium is,” Butler said. “It shows the diversity of what you can learn in the art department. Even in the printmaking they do a bunch of different processes. It’s not just one process.”
Admission is free to the public and the exhibition will run through Jan. 10.