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NEWS The Battalion I 1.22.15 3 New financial planning classes to feed growing field’s demand for professionals By Eva Gilpin A new series of finan cial planning classes have been made available this se mester through a partnership with American online broker company TD Ameritrade. Nathan Harness, assistant professor and TD Ameritrade director of financial planning, said the sponsorship is aimed toward offering financial planning classes to the entire campus and will likely be ac companied by the addition of an undergraduate minor by fall 2015. Harness said the academic standing of Texas A&rM, as well as its geographical loca tion in relation to financial job centers, were factor's in the partnership. “Our proximity to Dal las, Houston, Austin and San Antonio creates a natural market of opportunity that many other universities don’t have,” Harness said. Jeanie Long, agricultural economics program man ager, said students who aren’t in a finance or business major are able to take financial plan ning classes too. “Some students take our courses for personal knowl edge, learning valuable skills like money management and investment planning,” Long said. “But many students will complete all six courses with the goal of sitting for the CFP Exam and becoming a Certi fied Financial Planner.” Long said the financial planning industry is rapidly growing, and there is an immediate need for young financial planning profes sionals with a variety of back grounds. “Some students automati cally think financial planning is about analytics, numbers and spreadsheets,” Long said. “In fact, financial planning is about building personal re lationships with clients and helping them plan for their future needs and goals with sound financial decisions.” Harness said employers are calling him every week looking for students who can come to work in their com panies and create pathways to ownership. Mariel Braun, senior agri cultural economics major and Student Financial Planning Association president, said she hopes the program will also help to meet the need for growing the number of women in the field. Harness said the Bureau of Labor estimates financial planning to grow at a rate of 27 percent for the next 10 years and that this growth will come from a younger generation. “I think there has been a perception among the younger generation that fi nancial planning is a profes sion for 50-year-olds who love numbers and spend all day selling on the phone.” Harness said this stereo type is simply not the case, and that he and his team are creating a website campaign titled “This is Our Profes sion” to showcase the differ ent backgrounds many finan cial planners have. “Our desire is to show stu dents the story of young, di verse financial planners from across the country who are painting a very different pic ture,” Harness said. Long said as the word gets out, they plan on creating other ways for students to get involved. “We also offer an ex tended learning program for those students who have already graduated from col lege and wish to fulfill the requirements for the CFP designation, but don’t need academic credit,” Long said. OSCARS CONTINUED the nominators say, ‘You can’t expect a bunch of black film nominations if a bunch of black films aren’t being made,”’ Humphrey said. “This points to the concern that there aren’t as many films being made by and for black people as there ought to be.” Srividya Ramasubrama- nian, an associate professor of communication, called this exclusion “symbolic violence” and said this ex clusion has fostered gender and racial stereotypes. “Blacks are commonly associated in films as the comic, or the sidekick role,” Ramasubramanian said. “They are frequently cast into roles associated with criminality, or are the buffoon, or reinforce stereotypes such as lazy, villain ous and violent- prone.” Ramasubramani an said other minori ties are also subjected to these misrepre sentations. “Statistics show that there is a mis match between fig ures that we have of crime and what is portrayed in film and actually an overrep resentation in film of the amount of crimes and violence in mi nority populations such as Latinos and Arabs,” Ramasubramanian said. Ramasubramanian said these misrepresentations in film can lead to a distort ed view of these minority groups. “These cultural stereo types can become implicit stereotypes that we are not aware that we have,” Ra masubramanian said. Wendi Bellar, a commu nication graduate student, said social media sites like 1 witter play an important role in questioning and criticizing a lack of diverse representation in film. “Social media is the per fect outlet for criticism,” Bellar said. “For the first time, anyone can critique problems that they see, not just celebrities, or news re porters.” Bellar said she felt the #OscarsSoWhite trend was “a good start to critique the system of underrepresenta tion in the film industry.” However, Bellar said the three-word trend is just a small part of a much larger issue — one that questions how the media affects so ciety’s view of women and minorities. Humphrey said the in dustry, which is predomi nantly operated by white males, should be more in clusive. “I’d say the entire system needs to try harder to hire people of color and women for major roles,” Humphrey said. “Women don’t get hired for directors for major films — and that’s another major concern.” Ramasubramanian said society should become more culturally inclusive and viewers need to be more socially aware and supportive of diverse films and become more literate of the media. Ramasubra manian said viewers need to understand how to interpret the films and television and be more cognizant of who the content creators are. “It is not such a simple solution,” Ramasubrama nian said. “But I am glad to see that the issue of diversity in film and media is a discus sion.” Lindsey Gawlik —THE BATTALION Brig. Gen. Joe Ramirez Jr., Homer S. Boone and officer Russel Rogers unveil the lost Reveille I painting Wednesday afternoon. REVEILLE CONTINUED was able to contact the former rommate of the person thought to be in to be in possession of the painting,” Johnson said. “This former roommate provided contact information for this individual, who was working out of the country at the time.” Johnson said Rogers — with the help of two UPD communications officers — contacted many of the leads he re ceived about the case and reached out to the person who was thought to have the painting on Dec. 5. “Several hours later, Rogers received a call from that individual who stated that he was in possession of the paint ing and that it was in a storage facility,” Johnson said. “Officer Rogers and our communications officers went through several more weeks of following up on the case to try to validate all the infonna- tion they were receiving.” On Dec. 30, Johnson said Rogers received a call from the individual who had the painting and made arrangements to meet. Rogers said the, case was the most in teresting case in his 10-year service for the UPD. “A lot of the people I dealt with hap pen to be former students and they were extremely helpful and extremely coop erative, and they wanted it back just as much as I did,” Rogers said. “I was glad to be a part of this investigation. It’s not everyday you get to investigate some thing that happened when you were 10, much less a painting that is probably worth more than my annual salary.” Rogers confirmed the painting was found in a storage unit in San Antonio, but said he can’t say much more on the matter other than no charges have been filed and everyone was extremely coop erative. “It is remarkable that we were able to recover an item that had been missing for over 24 years,” Johnson said. Ryan Kreider, handler of Reveille VIII and sport management sopho more, said it means a lot to the Corps and Company E2 to have the painting returned. “It’s definitely, I mean any kind of artifact that connects us back to the past history of Texas A&M is huge, because it reminds us where we come from and the achievements that we have had and it’s a beautiful thing, it just means a lot to me,” Kreider said. Ramirez said it means a lot to all of Texas A&M to have the painting re turned. “I want to thank officer Russell Rog ers form the University Police Depart ment and all the others who had a role with finding this painting and bringing it back to where it rightfully belongs.” V "Blacks are commonly associated in films as the comic, or the sidekick role. They are frequently cast into roles associated with criminality, or are the buffoon, or reinforce stereotypes such as lazy, villainous and violent-prone." 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