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Chrizellenz 2014 “When champions go into battle, it is a war worth watching!” “Chrizellenz 2014” was a pan India Management Fest, in which Top B schools of the country participated and put their skills on display. It was an arena where they were given a chance to showcase  their managerial capabilities in front of a crowd of 2500 students  in a two-day event. The fest this year was held on 24 th and 25 th of January 2014. The theme was “prism” , which marks the convergence of talents from the corners of country at the lush greens of the Kengeri Campus. Chrizellenz 2014 was the prism that converged different flavors of events, students, strategies, mind work, management learning into one and above all gave the participants an exhilarating experience. Registrations had started flooding in since November 2013. There were 154 participants and 81 teams of management institutes from all over India. Most of the participants were from Institutions of Karnataka like St.

The students of the Master of Tourism Administration (MTA) programme under the Department of Tourism Studies, Christ University, Bangalore organized a two day national level inter-collegiate tourism fest, "EXODUS 2014" on 14 and 15 February 2014 . This was the fourteenth year of organizing EXODUS for the Tourism and Hospitality students across the country in order to interact, network, synergise and stay connected with one another.  The event was inaugurated by Dr Venu Vasudevan IAS, Director General, National Museum, Ministry of Culture, Government of India on 14 February at 09:30 am in the Christ University Main Auditorium. In his address, Dr Vasudevan shared his views on the present state and the future requirements of the Indian tourism industry. He inspired the students to build on their skills, competencies and attributes, and motivated them to think intelligently and initiate innovative and original ideas so as to empower them to play a more dominant role in

It is a well-known fact that India has been blessed with a youthful population, but in order to channelize this blessing as an effective resource we must look into our education system. The role of teacher, in this context becomes quite prominent. But does the current system of teacher training programmes inculcate the competencies required by an individual to function as an effective teacher?   To look into this very issue the School of Education, Christ University has organised a two day National Seminar on ‘Quality Concerns in Teacher Education’. The National Seminar was inaugurated by the chief guest Dr. Vasanth D. Bhatt, Dean of instruction RIE Mysore in the presence of Col. Dr Fr Thomas C Mathew, Vice Chancellor Christ University, Dr Katre Shakuntala, Former Dean of Science, Banga lore University, Fr T V Thomas, Director School of Education, Prof. Mallika Krishnaswami, Dean Humanities and Social Sciences, Prof. Jose Cherian, HOD School of Education, Prof Prakasha GS, Conv

Electronics Club organizes one awareness program every year under the event name “i 2 R”. This time, “i 2 R”, an awareness campaign on e-waste and its management was organized by the II year BSc (PME and CME) students on Friday, 14 February 2014 as a part of Electronics Club activities. There were about 20 teams from both PME and CME classes taking part in this campaign and campaign was held in the Christ University Campus. The students explained the significance of understanding the e-waste and its management to the visitors. They also showed the charts and power point presentations with a lot of statistics to highlight the harmful effects of the chemicals and materials present in the discarded electronics gadgets like mobile phones, calculators, televisions, PC mother boards etc. They handed over a pamphlet with a brief description on e-waste, responsibility of the user and also details about a few government departments and NGOs working in managing the e-waste.

Department of Media Studies in its 2 nd lecture/screening series ‘Utsav’-Celebrating 100 years of Indian Cinema witnessed one more stalwart from the Indian film industry on 30 th of January 2014. Shri Amol Palekar one of the most renowned movie icons of Marathi film industry was the chief guest this time.  The event showcased Amol Palekar’s critically acclaimed film ‘Quest’ which has been part of various national and international film festivals. The screening was then followed by an interactive session with the students. During this session Amol Palekar highlighted the importance of other language cinema and how these films are gradually getting neglected and how they face tough competition from popular hindi cinema for their survival. He appreciated the efforts of the Department of media studies in bridging the gap and felicitating filmmakers from regional cinemas through ‘Utsav’.       He also stated that the Indian movies have a great market in the International l