NASDAQ ‘called’ her. She answered.

Diversity, equity, and culture senior analyst at NASDAQ[Photo by Hannah Goodfriend]

Hannah Goodfriend, a diversity, equity and culture senior analyst for NASDAQ, counts herself among the people for whom a career tracked them down rather than her finding a career.

As Goodfriend states, “Did not choose this career, this career chose me.” She said this because of how an internship turned into her full time job.

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Decolonization means more than what you think

Abel R. Gomez’ University of Oklahoma web profile. [Photo by Taj Inalsingh]

Dr. Able Gomez, a professor in the Native American Studies Department at the University of Oklahoma, gave a guest lecture in a University of Denver course called “Caste, race, colonialism” last week. Gomez works for the University of Oklahoma. The department he works in or his specialty is native american studies. 

His department also examines relations between sacred sites in California and also spends a lot of time discussing decolonization, a fitting topic for the class.

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‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ A Cinematic Masterpiece(SPOILERS)

I am very glad I used this opportunity to do a movie review because “Spider-Man: No Way Home” was so incredibly good and I can’t put into words how much I loved this film. This movie was absolutely incredible and flooded me with memories from when I was little.

 I grew up with older brothers, so when I was little they made me watch all of the original Spider-Man movies with Tobey Maguire, and the originals were always my favorite. Toby Maguire is the original Spider-Man and is who started my obsession with Spider-Man as a little kid. This obsession wasn’t just mine as even before I was born, my two brothers were obsessed with Spider-Man.

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Has COVID-19 made DU students more anxious?

By Taj Inalsingh

Student stressed over recent invitation
[Photo by Luke Patterson, with Taj Inalsingh]

The current pandemic has had major effects on everybody’s lives since it started two years ago. Whether it has affected people’s jobs or peoples family, everybody has felt the impact that COVID-19 has had on us all. One of the major impacts of COVID-19 was the effect that it had on our social lives.

COVID-19 has obviously had a huge impact on the world at large but also has had a much more localized impact as it has heavily impacted students here at University of Denver.

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