Café’s re-opening is rescheduled
The re-opening of the Garden Room Café at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia as Café Trumps at the Garden, scheduled to take place last week, has been postponed.

“Due to an unforeseen problem with equipment delivery, Café Trumps at the Garden did not open on Oct. 5 as planned,” says Lisa Kennedy, public relations director for the -Botanical Garden. “The new opening date will be announced as soon as the problem has been -rectified.”

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Cinema scholar lectures here Oct. 14
Ed Dimendberg, scholar of cinema, architecture, urban history and modernism, will speak at the English Department’s Lanier Speakers Series Oct. 14 at 4 p.m. in room 265 Park Hall.
Dimendberg’s lecture, “ ‘These Are Not Exercises in Style’: Alain Resnais, Raymond Queneau and The Song of Styrene,” includes a screening of a short film made in 1958 by Resnais. The film, Le Chant du Styrene, is an industrial documentary about the manufacture of polystyrene with a commentary in rhymed alexandrine verse by French writer Queneau. According to Dimendberg, the film is “visually stunning, poetically brilliant and very rarely shown.”

Dimendberg is associate professor of German studies, film and video studies, and architecture at the University of Michigan. He is currently a visiting associate professor of film and media and visual studies at the University of California, Irvine, where he teaches film history and theory and visual and spatial theory.

The talk, film screening and book signing are open free to the public.

M.B.A. students reach case finals
For the first time, an M.B.A. team from the Terry College of Business reached the finals of the National Black M.B.A. Association Case Competition, this past month in Houston. Two rounds of competition pit teams from 35 different M.B.A. programs nationally.

Second-year M.B.A. students Wesley Cox, Oyin Enoch and Tamara Jordan, along with team alternate and first-year M.B.A. student Redick Brown, had four weeks to analyze the case, come up with a strategy and present their solution to the business problem posed by contest sponsor Daimler Chrysler Corp.

This is the 12th year the case competition has been part of the annual conference of the National Black M.B.A. Association, but just the third year that a team from the Terry College has entered.

“We wanted to carry the torch forward from the Terry M.B.A. team we worked with and learned from last year,” Enoch says. “We practiced every day leading up to the competition. We practically colonized room 313 [in Sanford Hall].”

The case revolved around customer relationship management issues for the financial services unit of Daimler Chrysler. For their strong showing, the team was awarded a crystal trophy as finalists in the competition. The other business schools to reach the finals were from the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, the University of Maryland, Baylor University and Georgia State University.

The team members shared credit for Terry’s highest finish yet with the faculty and M.B.A. staff who advised them. Professors Srinivas Reddy and Kimberly Grantham advised the team on marketing strategy, Marc Lipson helped with the finance side of their plan, M.B.A. programs director Mel Crask helped the team hone their presentation, and M.B.A. admissions director Anne Cooper traveled to Houston and supported the team in competition.