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Connexis news ■ MGM on Snow seminar in Italy Snow and finance in Folgarida From the 14th January until 22nd, the students of the Master in General Management (MGM) were in the Italian Alps for the traditional Finance Seminar under the lead of professor Luc Keuleneer. During a dizzy week, the students went skiing or snowboarding by daylight and followed intensive finance classes in the evening. Afterwards, there was always still plenty of time of course for the obliged ‘après-ski’ that brought together students, professors and coordinators sharing a Vlerick drink. The bus left Belgium charged with enthusiastic MGM students on Friday the 14th January. After a long trip, the students arrived in the Dolomites, in the North of Italy. The weather was excellent and so, some students immediately went exploring the ski runs. For the students who had never been on a ski run before, the school had hired two experienced ski monitors. It goes without saying that all the students enjoyed themselves snowboarding or skiing down the beautiful mountains of the Dolomites. In the evening, professor Keuleneer taught the MGM students all about balance sheets, the creation of shareholder’s value, options, warrants and other financial fireworks. Most often, the students received a harsh case during the lessons that they had to solve afterwards in their rooms. After they had handed in the cases, the students could finally start their night activities together with professor Keuleneer who regularly joined them for a campari drink. During one of the first days, the students organized a big quiz that was called the ‘battle of the sexes’. The quiz was ultimately won by the boys, but according to MGM-girl Cindy Rooms ‘the boys were twice as much in the quiz and in addition, the girls had let win the poor boys’. A bizarre activity organized by the students was a gin luge tobogganing that was possible thanks to some delicious sponsorship. According to the gossip, the skiing the day after was at the same level as on the tobogganing! D.S ■ Master programs organize thrilling X-mas party Collective hangover to celebrate end of term Some weeks ago, on Thursday the 23rd of December, the three master programs (MGM, 3M and MFM) organized a X-mas party as to celebrate the end of the first semester. Place to be was the Au Bain, the stylish lodge of the well-known Van Eyck swimming pool in Ghent, near the Vlerick headquarter. After some four months of continuous harsh work and other ‘ora et labora’, the Master students had finally arrived at the Christmas holidays. However, before splitting up for about two weeks and starting the endless series of end-of-year indigestions, they wanted, once more, to indulge in genuine hedonism. With groovy music, DJ Thang invited the Master students on the dance floor. The music as well as the décor of the party were very much appreciated. As a matter of fact, the Van Eyck swimming pool has won architectural prices in the past. In addition, it is the 32 oldest Belgian swimming pool that was built at the end of the 19th century by the 'Société Anonyme des Bains et Lavoirs publics de Gand'. From the dance floor, one had a beautiful sight on the empty and spooky pool. In the week before the X-mas party, the MGM (PUB) students had got acquainted with one of the most legendary business games known at Vlerick, namely Gulfways. For sure, after more than three days and nights pursuing the sharp deadlines imposed by the Operations Department and professor An Vereecke, some students could use a good night of sleep. However, students would not be students if they would not know that life is a party and that parties aren’t meant to last. So, all MGM and other master students were present on the X-mas party. The day after, some mothers and fathers most have been wandering why their children constantly felt asleep while Magazine Alumni Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, March 2005 enjoying the traditional Christmas dinner with the family or why their beloved got to be immediately after midnight. Some things are not to be explained I guess. D.S
■ IMBA learns how to dance salsa Rhythm is a dancer! On the 7th of January 2005, IMBA Leuven organized a Salsa Initiation where students both from the fulltime and the part-time MBA’s in Leuven were invited to. The idea behind was on the one hand, to learn the basic principles of this hot Latino dance that absorbs characteristics of rhythm and blues, jazz and rock, and on the other hand, make a lot of fun of course with the Vlerick classmates. The event took place in the Rumba, a well-known place among Leuven students and a genuine dance temple. As female students are a bit less numerous than the male variety in IMBA and as you need couples to be able to dance salsa, the student’s partners were also invited to the Salsa Initiation. In total, there were around 25 couples showing up in the Rumba & Co disco in Leuven, a 10 minutes walk from the Leuven campus and 50 metres away from Leuven’s vibrant Old Market that is - according to student and other legends - the longest bar of the civilized world. Under the professional guidance of Joao ‘El maestro’ from salsaflash.com, the people were initiated into the secrets of Salsa and Merengue, a ballroom dance of Haitian and Dominican origin. According to IMBA student representative Kurt Vanderlinden,‘people were having such a good time that the event lasted 2.5 hours instead of the planned 1.5 hours’. He adds that he and his colleague student representative François Lecocq ‘received very good reactions from a lot of people’. And indeed, if one looks at the pictures of the event, they show nothing but extremely happy faces, which prove that they are having the time of their life. D.S More pictures on: www.kilrah.org/Pictures. ■ MMM follows exchange program in Madrid Marketing students dynamize Madrid! Connexis news From Saturday the 15th of January until Saturday the 22nd, the 3M students were in Madrid for an interactive marketing module with ESIC, the Escuela Superior de Gestion Comercial y Marketing. This exchange program is new within the Master in Marketing Management and it was only decided in October last year. In this way, it was a first try out for the marketing students as well as for the School. No need to say, the students enjoyed their Spanish trip very much and not exclusively from an educational angle. As a matter of fact, they made a lot of fun in Europe’s probably most exciting capital. The bus left very early on a Saturday morning. A Virgin flight later, the 3M students landed in Madrid at noon with a summer temperature of 20 degrees! On Saturday afternoon and Sunday, the students had a free weekend and they organized a first excursion in the Spanish capital. As from Monday, the lessons started and the students got acquainted with the ‘Spanish way’ of teaching marketing. During the evenings, the MMM students continued their intensive explorations of Madrid which was – of course – harsh to combine with the courses. Since the courses finished on Thursday, the students still got plenty of time as to visit Madrid and its typical tapas bars. In addition, they went to a swinging Erasmus party and to the most famous discothèque out there (la Capital, near the Retiro parque). They also quenched their cultural thirst by visiting some museums like el Museo de Arte Reina Sofía. At the end, everyone was quite satisfied about the trip smoothly organized by 3M coordinator Katelijn Cornelis. D.S , Magazine Alumni Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, March 2005 33
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