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- 2013-04-21 13:59:42
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JMC Rocks marked their 10th anniversary and celebrated the Journalism and Mass Communications Major on April 18th, gathering faculty, alumni, and current JMC students.
This year the celebration was divided in two parts. The first portion of the event was a cocktail party, closed for majors other than JMC, while the second followed in Piano Bar and was open to all majors. Asya Paniutsich, an AUBG graduate from 2011, said that she liked that there is a separation of the official and the informal part. “I like it because it gathers people from all years of study,” she said. “It is all about the people.”
What she liked better during the years when she was a part of JMC Rocks, was that at one point they had a symbol at the party - a magic eight ball. “A person was dressed in a papier-mâché coustume and was going around.”
Another alumnus, Elitsa Nacheva, graduate of 2012, said that she was impressed with the professionalism that the event conveyed. Nacheva added that students have to appreciate what they have at AUBG and “to make the best out of it.”
The only concern people had on the event was with some sound and technical problems, related to the technical equipment. “I could not hear anything,” Gergi Petrov, graduate of 2012, said. But his overall opinion was positive.
The JMC Rocks team took the time to distinguished for their achievements and awarded students from every student media on campus. The awarded students were Tamuna Gachechiladze (AUBG Daily), Alena Usacheva (The Purple), Hristiana Kirova – Hipo (AURA), and Zhana Mustafina (Defacto).
At the end of the ceremony Dinka Spirovska, Head of the JMC Department, announced that she will no longer hold her position starting from next semester. She passed the title to Melody Gilbert, who is now an associate professor at the department.
The celebration continued in Piano Bar, where students from all majors joined their colleagues. Daniela Manova, a second-year student said that this was her first experience with JMC Rocks and she enjoyed it. " It was really nice to see all of the JMC students in one place," she said. "I enjoyed the event very much. It was full of surprises and excitement."
Enjoy the photos by Irma Geldiashvili:
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