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JCU students launch club that's all business and a little more

By Josiane El Khoury

ROME, March 4 -- Last semester, two John Cabot University students had the idea of forming a business club. The project proved too big, however, and it could not be sorted within a few months. 

After much planning, fulltime JCU students Dafina Lalevski and Alessandro Strolla say they are ready to finally lunch the project this semester. “Last semester we started with nothing,” says Strolla, “but today we have the foundation of our club.”

Their goal is to build up an international business society in JCU providing the students with business practice and a preparation for their future careers.

“We believe it is useful, because the theory we study in school needs to be applied somehow. Until you are there on the market you cannot understand,” affirms Strolla.

At the moment they are organizing a charity event for Kenya. The occasion is scheduled for April 8 in the JCU courtyard. Tickets and T-shirts are going to be sold around the school. Food, beverages and music are going to be provided for the night, and the group have invited the Kenyan Ambassador to Italy to give a speech. 

As the dollar declines, even pizza seems pricey

By Ashley Boyd

ROME, Oct 3 - A mixture of 50-, 20- and 10-euro bills slide out of a BNL cash machine to total 200 euros. The cash will be spent on pizza, pasta, café lattes and alcohol. Visiting students take note: 200 euros comes to a whopping 280 dollars.

According to admissions officials at John Cabot University, on average, 450 students attend JCU each
semester from the United States. Each semester students face the regular culture clashes, jet lags and, this year, currency exchange shock.

How are students preparing to survive in Rome on such a weak dollar?

Is there such a thing as bad PR?

By Elizabeth Schneider

ROME, March 7 - Now, more than ever, companies are paying princely sums to public relations firms, trying to preserve or project a wholesome image to the masses.  Is such an investment worthwhile?

A warning to politicians: bad news is costly

By Kim Bogachuk

ROME, March 1 – It is political news, more so than economic news, that causes volatility in the bond markets of emerging economies, Dr. Lauren Phillips said at a political discussion hosted at John Cabot University on Monday night.

Dr. Phillips, who recently received her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, presented her ideas in a forum called “The Price of Politics: Political News and Financial Market Volatility in Emerging Market Democracies”.