With the Commencement for the Class of 2012 on May 13, 2012, the 21st Academic Year in the history of AUBG was officially brought to a conclusion. The class was made up of 238 undergraduates and 24 graduates, who received their B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) and MBA (Master of Business Administration) diplomas.

Elena Fominykh, Valedictorian. Courtesy of e-79.com.

The ceremony was attended by around 2000 people — students, alumni, Faculty and Board members, honorary guests, parents, relatives, friends.

The Valedictorian and the Salutatorian of the class were announced during the ceremony. Vadzim Marasanau from Belarus, who majored in Business Administration and Economics, had the second highest GPA in the class — 3.98. Valedictorian, with a GPA of 3.99, became Elena Fominykh from Russia, who also majored in Business and Economics. Continue reading…

The first semester in the life of the newest medium on campus, the Daily, is over. It wasn’t even a full semester. It has not even been a full three months after we launched the website on Feb. 20, 2012, with this allstud email that everyone received with a 12-hour delay at around noon. Only an hour later the server went down… It was not going to be an easy start, but we were prepared for that. A week later we figured out how to fix this sporadic server error and it hasn’t occurred since.

Many people were skeptical about a daily media at AUBG at first. They said it’s too much work and that we wouldn’t be able to keep it going for too long. It is a small university, some said. There won’t be news every day, others said. (The latter actually disturbed us, as well, but we soon realized that there is so much happening on our campus that we can hardly cover half of it.) Even the Student Government didn’t want to give us funding for an entire year in the beginning, but then, I guess, we passed the trial period. Continue reading…

1st Place Poem

Nikolay Iliyev

Night and Day

   A brother and sister
forever astray,
siblings so distant
the night and the day; Continue reading…