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The Battalion I 1.22.15
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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.”
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"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."
Srividya Ramasubramanian,
associate professor of communication
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