STAFF EDITORIAL | HELP GIVE US A LIFT | FORUM, PAGE 4 TUDENT IFE THE SINDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OF WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY L IN ST. LOUIS SINCE 1878 VOLUME 129, NO. 40 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2007 WWW.STUDLIFE.COM Library software Graduate programs enjoy upgrade creates several high rankings confl icts, BY BRITTANY FARB Fudan University Executive executive positions around to create knowledge, inspire STAFF REPORTER MBA (EMBA) Program as the the world, the program at- individuals, and transform frustrates students seventh best international tracts about 75 percent of its business,” said Mahendra Even as undergraduate MBA program in the world. students from China. Gupta, dean of the Olin Busi- programs at Washington The EMBA program is a “China has a shortage of ness School, in a recent in- BY JOHN SCOTT can’t open them because she has University continued to be joint educational endeavor trained managerial profes- terview with the Record. “To CONTRIBUTING REPORTER the old version,” said Bierman. ranked 12th in the nation by between the Olin Business sionals,” said James Little, achieve our mission, we need Although the software was U.S. News and World Report, School at Washington Univer- the program’s academic di- to be consistently excellent As students prepare to spend available about a year ago, the li- the fall semester has seen sity and the School of Man- rector. “The economy has so that we attract the best hours in the library writing fi nal brary did not make the upgrade several prominent and im- agement at Fudan University grown so fast.” faculty and students and papers, many have found that a until August according to Bill proved rankings go to gradu- in Shanghai. The program For EMBA students in the provide the best learning ex- new version of Microsoft Word Fryman, manager of systems ate programs. was the first U.S.-Sino com- Olin Business School, the pro- perience.” is no longer compatible with operations and support at Wash- One of the world’s lead- bined program in China when gram requires them to spend The Financial Times’ rank- the older, more common format ington University. ing business newspapers, it was founded in 2002. 10 days in Shanghai complet- ings are based on surveys causing fi le-sharing issues. Fryman said that these types The Financial Times, ranked Or ig i na l ly desig ned to pre- ing joint course work. Microsoft released the Micro- of upgrades are usually done the Washington University- pare Chinese managers for “Our mission worldwide is See GRADUATE PROGRAM, page 2 soft Offi ce 2007 package earlier during the summer in order to this year as an upgrade from prevent negatively affecting stu- the previous Offi ce 2003. Docu- dents during the academic year. ments from Microsoft Word 2007 Dean for Technology Jeff are now saved in the “.docx” for- Huestis said that the University mat, but older versions, which waited to make sure that any ini- Beyond classes, research provides save in the “.doc” format, cannot tial problems with the software read the new format. were addressed. Some students like freshman “We do try to leave a decent academic opportunities Philip Bierman, who uses Word interval for bugs to shake out,” 2007, have encountered prob- said Huestis. “Of course in the lems because some students case of something like Offi ce BY MIRANDA MORIARTY and professors still use both ver- 2007, you do have this fi le for- CONTRIBUTING REPORTER sions of the software. mat issue.” “Occasionally, I send papers While the academic semes- to my writing teacher and she See SOFTWARE, page 2 ter—and the coursework that goes along with it—is draw- ing to a close, the multitude of students who participate in re- search will see their work con- tinue into next semester. Skandalaris Within Robert Kranz’s labo- ratory, which recently received a $1.2 million grant from the Na- tional Institutes of Health (NIH), Center offers fi ve undergraduates and one graduate student work with the professor of biology. Fifth-year graduate student internships for Elaine Frawley became involved with Kranz’s project through the Biology and Biomedical Science graduate program, a program social ventures that allows students to rotate between different labs before BY DAVID SONG but we include room and board joining one full-time. NEWS EDITOR here on campus,” said Lawrence Frawley described working Luscri, the student services co- with a professor like Kranz as Thanks to a recent donation, ordinator for the Skandalaris “a chance to learn great tech- Washington University’s Skan- Center. niques.” dalaris Center for Entrepreneur- The 20 interns, who will stay “I couldn’t have asked for a ial Studies will be sponsoring a on campus over the summer, COURTESY OF WUSTL IMAGES better lab project,” she added. summer internship program for will either work with established (Left to right) Cindy Richard-Fogal, Ph.D., research scientist in biology, Elaine Frawley, graduate research as- The grant is a renewal award University students. businesses or pursue projects sistant and Robert Kranz, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, examine an E. coli culture. With his latest for Kranz’s research in bioenergy “The compensation package involving their own business or is $2,500 dollars over 10 weeks, social venture. grant, Kranz has now received funding from the National Institutes of Health for 22 years. See RESEARCH, page 2 A student who wishes to pursue the internship with his own entrepreneurial project experiences limits, as the busi- ness must qualify as a “start- After slow start, sorority registration picks up up” business, and therefore is constrained in terms of revenue, employees and funding. Other- BY GREGG RE Greek Life Web site. to the homes of all freshman wise, the student would simply CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Morlan said that the glitch women,” she said. work with an existing large com- might have prevented women Earlier in the year, the Pan- pany. Earlier this semester, the from registering. hellenic Executive Board adopt- Luscri stated that although Greek Life Offi ce implemented “The system cut off for a ed a new policy called Positive the individual who made the do- changes to increase the num- couple of hours on the last day Panhellenic Contact. The policy nation did not do so anonymous- ber of women participants in of registration,” said Morlan. “It allows sorority women to inter- ly, his name will not be released sorority recruitment. After an came back later on in the after- act more freely with prospec- until the end of the week. extension of the registration noon.” tive recruits. Luscri also explained the deadline, the number of wom- Though administrators sent Previously, affi liated and Skandalaris internship in detail, en that have registered now an e-mail to students inform- non-affi liated women were not noting that it originated from matches last year’s total. ing them of the glitch, Morlan allowed to communicate with the Entrepreneurship Council, Approximately 250 women says she does not think there each other during the recruit- on which University Chancellor signed up during women’s for- will be a signifi cant increase ment process. Administrators Mark Wrighton holds a chair. mal recruitment in 2006. This in recruits because of the short were concerned that this policy Students selected as interns year, less than 200 had regis- duration of the downtime. alienated recruits who wanted will work both with each other tered by the fi nal week of No- The Greek Life Offi ce has im- to learn more about Greek life and individuals outside the Uni- vember. plemented signifi cant changes on campus. versity. LUCY MOORE | STUDENT LIFE Lucy Morlan, coordinator for to the recruitment process this Morlan said that change “Part of the program includes chapter development, said that year to make joining a sorority from this traditional method Senior Elisabeth Rennell, junior Tiffany Bruckert and senior Katie Booth, a collaborative component where there have been many more easier and more transparent of recruiting, which has taken members of Gamma Chi, help sorority recruitment efforts at Wohl Center. the students get together with registrants towards the end of for women. place at other colleges in recent Recruitment was recently down but with the new extended deadline, it other interns—we bring some- the recruitment process than Mimi Shaffner, vice presi- years, would take effect gradu- went back up to average numbers. one from the companies or an there were last year. dent of recruitment on the ally over the next few years. entrepreneur and do a presenta- “Things started out slow,” Women’s Panhellenic Council, “We’re having less decora- tion to have a networking event, said Morlan. “Now, we’re at 250 said that sororities have tried tions and food, and we’re mov- ing really well so far,” she add- ward to an exciting week,” said once a week,” said Luscri. “The [recruits] again so far, which is to communicate more with pro- ing to a recruitment process ed. Shaffner. “They will meet tons business will be a part of that exactly what we had last year.” spective students in an effort that is more conversation- Recruits will return to cam- of new people and really get event; we choose representatives Recruitment was scheduled to increase enrollment. based,” she said. “The plan is pus on Jan. 7 for initiation ac- to see what each individual from those businesses and bring to end on Dec. 1 but was post- “We greatly increased our to eventually have a no-frills tivities that end on bid day on chapter stands for. It is a crazy them together.” poned to Dec.