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Paul Janicek, co-founder and CEO of DocuLock LLC, speaks with students on the opportunity to start their own business with DocuLock’s partnership with the University. The students who are in the class will work on analyzing a company and finding things that might be a problem.
University offers opportunity with DocuLock partnership JAKE PRATER Asst.News Editor | @JakobLPrater
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orthwest has partnered up with DocuLock LLC, and through a course at Northwest, will offer a very special opportunity for potential entrepreneurial students. Late in the semester when the finalists are selected, they will be interviewed by DocuLock’s CEO and co-founder, Paul Janicek. Whomever Janicek selects will be able to start their own business right out of college, with the $43,500 franchise fee waived. Not only that, but the winner
will be able to choose the location of their new business and through the Small Business Development Center, will receive no cost-assistance in starting their business up. DocuLock is a document scanning and digital encryption company based out of St. Joseph, Missouri. DocuLock scans, preserves and protects important documents for digital use. DocuLock was founded in 2017 and has successfully secured over two million documents, saving an estimated $106 million amongst its clients. The course is Organizational Policy and Decision Making, taught by Dr. Ben Black-
ford, director of the Melvin D. and Valorie G. Booth School of Business. The opportunity is for students in the class who will graduate at the end of this semester. They can enter a competition within that class for a chance to start their own company from the ground-up. “I hope it’s a very popular project. It’s a great opportunity,” Blackford said. “Even if someone doesn’t end up being the one picked, just having the chance to be involved and go throughout the interview process, if they’re picked as a finalist, will still be a really useful experience as they prepare to graduate and pursue whatever they choose to do after
graduation.” Talks of the partnership began with DocuLock reaching out to Rebecca Lobina, director of the Small Business Development Center through Northwest, last spring. Blackford became involved about three months ago when the talks of the partnership turned to it being offered in a class. The students in that class will work on a project of company analysis where they analyze a company of their choice in one of eight industries to find a potential problem and identify three possible solutions and provide their recommendation on what to do.
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Einstein Bros. replaces Free Bagel Friday with happy hour SIDNEY LOWRY Managing Editor | @sidney_lowry
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Freshman Trista Bergers orders a bagel with schmear at the Einstein Bros. Bagels counter in the J.W. Jones Student Union. Einstein Bros. will now be having happy hour from 2-4 p.m. during the week to celebrate students.
Students walking into the J.W. Jones Student Union on Fridays would usually be met with a long line coming from the Einstein Bros. Bagels, but from now on, there won’t be any line to be found. The once beloved Free Bagel Friday promotion that Einstein Bagels held is now being replaced for a happy hour from 2-4 p.m. Every day will have a different special offered during the happy hours. The first promotion of the week is Macchiato Monday where students can buy any large macchiato for $3 and any medium one for $2. Every Tuesday the Twos-day promotion will be offering any bagel with schmear for $2. To celebrate students making it through the week, Wednesday will have halfprice sandwiches to symbolize making it to the half way point. Thursdays will be Treat Yourself Thursdays where
any medium drink and pastry is $4. And Friday, which used to offer a free bagel, is now “Free Upgrade Friday” where people can upsize their drinks, get a gourmet bagel or add an extra egg or meat to their sandwich for free. Aramark Food Service Director Sara Tompkins said these items were picked based on the most popular items on sales trends from previous years rather than picking items at random or ones they wanted to sell more of. “Usually if someone’s going to do a happy hour, they pick the thing they sell the least of and try to promote that,” Tompkins said. “We didn’t want it to be a sales gimmick, we really wanted it to be for the students to take advantage of.” Though Free Bagel Friday was a staple for the business, Lora D, who has been working at Einstein Bagel Bros for over seven years now, said the promotion wasn’t meant to be
more than a one-time thing. “Originally this was a promotion that was not going to be lasting as long as it had, but it went over really well so they continued it,” Lora D said. “But now they thought they’d try something different and see how the student body took to it.” When telling people about the change from Free Bagel Friday to the new happy hour, Lora D said there has been a majority of positive feedback. “When we originally decided to go to it, I was telling people what we were doing, a happy hour with drinks and various things, they were really cool with it. I think this has been a good thing,” Lora D said. Tompkins said she went to a meeting for Student Ambassadors to tell them of the new change and said she could tell they were a little upset about the change, but overall has heard good feedback as well.
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