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This year Founders’ Day Weekend added a new performance program, , featuring presentations by faculty, students, staff and alumni.

The program offered opinions and ideas on topics ranging from NSA wiretapping, to civil rights, to a whimsical exercise in giant origami.

Videos of the presentations will be posted soon.

The TEDxÌÇÐÄvlogÊÓƵ team is partnered with ÌÇÐÄvlogÊÓƵ’s Office of Development and External Affairs to present Inside ÌÇÐÄvlogÊÓƵ Powered by TEDxÌÇÐÄvlogÊÓƵ during Founder’s Day Weekend on April 11, 2014.

Speakers and Their Subjects
(Names are linked to their presentations.)

• | Staff | Student Affairs: "The World Changers We Shape"
• | Student | Lyle School of Engineering: "The (Non) Technical Development of Humanity"
• | Alumni | Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences: "The Importance of Persistence"
• | Faculty | Simmons School of Education and Human Development: "Why Businesses Should Work Like a University"
• | Student | Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences: "Braiding Red Riding Hood"
• | Faculty | Perkins School of Theology: "Dying to Live"
• | Faculty | Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences: "The Heroes of Counterinsurgency"
• | Faculty | Lyle School of Engineering: "Educating a New Generation of Failures"
•  | Faculty | Dedman School of Law: "Good News, Bad News, Who is to Say!"
•  | Student | Meadows School of the Arts: "Quartet-a-tete with The Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet"
•  | Faculty | Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences: "Civil Rights: A Journey"
•  | Faculty | Meadows School of the Arts: "Ending Genocide in the 21st century"
•  | Student | Lyle School of Engineering: "Creating Giant Origami and Shaping Lives"
•  | Alumni | Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences: "NSA Wiretapping: A 4th Amendment Violation?"
•  | Staff | ÌÇÐÄvlogÊÓƵ Athletics: "My mother's funeral... a lesson in kindness"
•  | Faculty | Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences: "Realms of Gold"

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