HUMOR CAUGHT ON CAMERA HUMOR There are certain things one should There was an angry bride at Beer Warning to America! Ben French got not do when an OppyCam is Blast recently. Leah Nosnik catch- his license back! Witness the horri- about, and licking qualifies. Hayle es up with costumed Beer Blasters fying details, including a visit by Chun lists ‘em on Page 16. on Page 19. Craig T. Nelson, on Page 14. VOLUME 35, NUMBER 6 NOVEMBER 9, 2004 Checking in on Charity Ball Nears, Tickets Still Available Stern Alumni by Addy Spiller, addy.spiller Ball are available for purchase and bid- VH1 Classic gifts, a Virgin Mobile mes- ding NOW! Come bid on a 5x7 glossy of senger bag made out of a VM billboard Worldwide he 7th Annual Stern Charity Ball Professor Silber; a three hour test drive and more! Raffle tickets can be pur- by Dean Thomas Cooley presented by Scorp and spon- at the Infineon Raceway in beautiful chased in the lobby from 12:00 pm to Tsored by American Express is just Sonoma, California; dinner and drinks 1:30 pm and from 4:30 pm to 6 pm all kay, its true - I’ve missed quite a days away! Please come out and show with Dean Cooley; a poker lesson from this week. few of the recent beer blasts. No, I your support for this great event and its your 1st year VP - the list just goes on! All proceeds from the event, silent have not given up beer and it isn’t charity, Minds Matter. There are only a Students can bid on their favorite prizes auction, and raffle will go directly to O few tickets left so go to in the lobby between 12:00 p.m. and 1:30 Minds Matter, a New York based non- because I have been so caught up with the Red http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~scorp/fall- p.m. or between 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. all profit organization dedicated to bringing Sox’ historic odyssey. I have ball/ now! this week and up until 10:30 pm on the bright and motivated inner city high been busy on an odyssey of Even if you are unable to attend the night of the event, November 13th. school students together with dedicated my own, meeting alumni event, you can show your support by bid- Raffle tickets are one for $5 or three mentors to achieve academic excellence and prospective students in ding on the silent auction prizes and for $10. Some of the prizes include great and expand educational horizons. Paris, Milan, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. purchasing raffle tickets. Raffle tickets DVDs from Comedy Central, five copies We look forward to seeing you at It is a time consuming activity, but it is very and silent auction prizes for the Charity of Microsoft Office 2003, some cool Tavern on the Green this Saturday! rewarding. In late October, Stern alumni from 20 different countries convened in Paris to Alumni Council attend our Fourth Annual Global Alumni Conference. High-caliber speakers, from Appoints New Chair the President of the European Central by the Office of Alumni Affairs Bank, to the sixth generation head of Hermes, to our own Nobel laureate, he NYU Stern Alumni Council Professor Robert Engle, shared their works closely with the Office of insights into the future of the European TAlumni Affairs to engage alumni Union, explored the reasons behind the in support of the NYU Stern School of successful introduction of the euro curren- Business mission of educational and insti- cy, examined the marketing of luxury prod- tutional excellence and to develop and ucts, and explained Nobel-prize-winning enhance initiatives and activities that research in layman’s terms. strengthen relationships and build an This event is just one example of the inclusive community among alumni, stu- rich programming that our Office of dents and the School. Christine Alumni Affairs, under Executive Director Schneider, MBA ’94 and Vice President at Jeanne Marano, has put in place to connect, Oppenheimer Capital, was recently and re-connect, our alumni to Stern. We appointed to the position of Chair of the are putting a great deal of attention and NYU Stern Alumni Council. Ms. resources behind our alumni network – Schneider, who has been a member of the now nearly 70,000 in number – because a Alumni Council for two years, will serve strong network of committed, engaged as Chair during the 2004-2005 academic alumni is a powerful asset and contributes year. Her predecessor, Susan Jurevics, mightily to the excellence of the School. MBA ’96, completed her one-year term as It was not always so. Perhaps because Chair and will remain an active partici- of Stern and NYU’s early history as a com- pant in Council initiatives. muter school, we tended to take our alum- “We are delighted that Christine has ni for granted. Four years ago, a small but accepted the invitation to lead the Alumni dedicated number of Stern alums of our Council,” noted Jeanne Marano, Block 6 MBA1s “cowboy up” at Beer Blast. For more pictures, see pages 10-11! Executive Director for Alumni Affairs. CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 INSIDE THE OPPY 3 Professor Phil Meer unveils his Grand MO Unification Theory. 4 Argentina will be in a world of trouble if they disrespect creditors. 5 Will Kolb gets to the heart of the CCWP. 6 Memo from Pam Mittman: Keep working with Career Services! 12 MBA2 Vic Guss is living it up in Barcelona. Aren’t you jealous? 13 Angi Salomon has the perfect way to free your music from the memories of evil breakups. 17 Sorry, but your horoscope isn’t looking too good right now. PAGE 2 STERN OPPORTUNITY NOVEMBER 9, 2004 OPPY KNOCKS In the past few weeks, the students-complain- ing the water out of your hair. Trust us, bad ing-about-workload index has reached a 6.8, things will happen. And whatever you do, if so we must be heading into mid-November. your hair freezes, do not play with it too much This means two things: (1) It will be impossi- – it could break. ble to find an empty desk in the Reading Room until January, and (2) The weather will 3. Be careful walking on anything concrete be turning cold soon. when it’s icy. Ah nevermind … you’re going to fall on your butt at least twice this winter. “An Abstract and Brief Chronicle of the Times.” For native New Yorkers and international stu- There’s no stopping it. dents from Scandinavia, this isn’t a problem. Co-Editors-in-Chief Eric Brown (efb219) Manhattan isn’t Alaska. However, many of 4. During the first snowfall of the season, Rob Du Boff (rd835) you come from tropical environments – rush outside and immediately start pelting California, Miami, India, Baltimore – and you your friends. This is a requirement. If you fail General Manager Rafiu Abina (raa249) may not know what to expect when white to do this, you’ll be sent to Tahiti in a crate. stuff starts falling from the sky. Editor-in-Chief Hayle Chun (hc468) On the other hand … Tahiti sounds pretty Emeritus Therefore, we here at the Oppy are proud to tempting … present our tips for having a jolly, jolly winter: Webmaster Alison Merrill (aem286) 5. Yellow snow is not “lemon-flavored”. We’ll Senior Writers Angi Salomon, Javed Siddique 1. Get a warm hat, gloves, and scarf. You let you figure this one out on your own. could have the biggest, phat-est Gore-tex Contributors Dean Thomas Cooley, Javon Frazier, jacket on, but if your ears are uncovered in 6. Do not expect to feel the sun’s warmth until Ben French, Jackie Gallagher, Vic Guss, freezing weather, you’re going to be miserable. Spring Break. Don’t mean to depress you … Will Kolb, Kimberly Manney, Phil Meer, but it’s the truth. Pam Mittman, Mysterious OPP, Leah Corollary to 1: Your hair will be unkempt for Nosnik, Office of Alumni Affairs, Office the next three months. Wool hats are nice, but 7. Ice-skate at Rockefeller Center! As an of Public Affairs, Amanda Plotkin, they mess up your hair. Deal with it. Call it added bonus, you can pretend that you’re the David Salpeter, Adam Schrager, Ron stylish “bed-head”. protagonist of a really cheesy movie starring Shah, Auntie Silber, Baljeet Singh, Meg Ryan. Addy Spiller. 2. Don’t rush out of the shower into sub- freezing temperatures without at least shak- -Eric Brown Check us out on the Internet EQUAL OPPORTUNITY http://www.sternopportunity.com/ New Yorkers are always complaining. On another note, the election is finally over. Publishing Schedule Whether it’s traffic, the Knicks, or the ban on You may have noticed the noise pollution smoking, there is always something wrong that was filling up the neighborhood recently and always someone willing to be extremely – something like “George Bush is slaughter- Issue Submission due Date Publication Date vocal about it. Students are another group ing pregnant Al Qaeda women and not even that is known to complain here and there. saving their fetuses for stem cell research. 7 November 16 November 23 And why shouldn’t we? All MBA1s have to Support John Kerry!” Well, no more. The 8 December 7 December 14 take MO, I don’t have to say anymore. But people have spoken, and our country is ready 9 January 18 January 25 lately, there are reasons for some of us to be a to be united once again under the Big W.