Diversity Cafe 2009 "Exploring Diversity Through Cinema"
 Now Showing: Finding Forrester [ February 2009 ]Event Details: Thursday the 19th in Conference Room "A" & Friday the 20th in Building 549 Conference Room "B" Time: 12:00 p.m. Starring: Sean Connery, Rob Brown, F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin Because of scoring exceptionally high on a state wide standardized exam and being an exceptionally good basketball player Jamal Wallace is sent to a prestigious prep school in Manhattan. He soon befriends the reclusive writer, William Forrester. The friendship leads to William to overcome his reclusiveness and for Jamal to overcome the racial prejudices and pursue his true dream - writing. |
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 Now Showing: Outsourced [ January 2009 ]Event Details: Tuesday 20th & Wednesday 21st in Building 549 Conference Room "A" Time: 12:00 p.m. Starring: Larry Pine, Asif Basra, Ayesha Dharker, Josh Hamilton, Matt Smith (V), Jeneva Talwar Todd Anderson spends his days managing a customer call center for American novelty products in Seattle, until his job, along with those of the entire office, are outsourced to India. Adding insult to injury, Todd must travel to India to train his new replacement.As he lands in India, Todd is assaulted by the sights and sounds of a completely different culture. Navigating through the chaos of Bombay, Todd must train the most unlikely team in the ways of America and American novelty products. Between accent and culture training to education on the cheesehead hat and hot dog toaster, Todd frantically tries to increase the effectiveness of the Indian office, so that he can return home to Seattle.However, it is through his team of quirky yet likable Indian call center workers, including his friendly and motivated replacement, Puro, and the charming, opinionated Asha that Todd realizes that he too has a lot to learn--not only about India and America, but about himself. Todd soon discovers that being outsourced may be the best thing that ever happened to him. |
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