AS I SIT here writing my last words in The Cavalier Daily, I can't help but remember how petrified I was when I came to write my first article during the first week of my second year.It was not that I did not want to write for The Cavalier Daily; I had wanted to do that ever since I went to the Newcomb Hall Crawl my first week at the University. But for some reason there was always something holding me back.
Although most of the debris from the recent Columbia space shuttle disaster has been found far from the University, effects of the accident are much closer.
Enron. Tyco. ImClone. The list of companies involved in corporate scandal seems to be getting longer and longer.
Despite economic woes across the state, athletic scholarships, which receive entirely private funding, are safe from the drastic cuts. University athletic scholarships are fully funded through private money from the Virginia Student Aid Foundation, which according to University Athletic Director Craig Littlepage is the only source of athletic scholarships.
Rarely do students get real-world stock market experience at running an actual stock portfolio. However, through the McIntire Investment Institute, students can accumulate funds and gain real investment experience. Although many other schools have investment clubs that usually study and hypothetically plan a portfolio, the MII is unique. One of the things that "makes us different from other student investment clubs is that we are entirely student run and we invest real money," fund manager Milgo Galaydh said. In recent years, the MII generally has performed at or above broad market averages. In years when they made considerable profit, the group gave money to the University and charitable groups.
Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, various groups have come together to try to offer services in the wake of tragedy.
On Monday, the U.S. Secretary of Education announced that the 2003 Education Department budget may include a $12 million increase in spending for historically black colleges and those that educate many Hispanic students.
Fewer undergraduates may be spending time on research projects this summer. Lack of state funding and the poor economy have forced the College to cut funding for summer 2002 undergraduate research.
In the wake of Sept. 11, state spending on higher education throughout the nation has grown by the smallest rate in five years.
A group of Colgate University students staged a sit-in at the school's admission office last Monday protesting a series of recent racially insensitive events at the school. More than 70 students, many of them black, were involved in the sit-in, which lasted for more than seven hours. Many Colgate officials, including the university's president, Jane L.
