Students sound off on Saddam Hussein’s hanging. theBARUCH COLLEGE, THE ticker CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Page 4. VOLUME 91 • ISSUE 1 WWW.THETICKER.ORG JANUARY 29, 2007 Citigroup Lower managing student director loan speaks to interest The Ticker rates BY ARI JAHJA STAFF WRITER n Rate to drop One of the alumni that dedi- from 6.8 percent to cated a room last Tuesday is Keith Anzel, a Managing Director of Tax 3.4 percent by 2012 at Citigroup Corporate & Invest- ment Banking. Th e Ticker was able to catch up with Keith to talk about BY JANA KASPERKEVIC his history and career path. STAFF WRITER Ari Jahja: Keith, would you please tell us about your back- Washington, DC — On ground and successful transition Wednesday, Jan. 17, during the to the fi nancial services industry COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT fi rst 100 hours of the Democratic by becoming a managing director From left to right: Felicia Anzel, Keith Anzel, John Elliot and Rosalind Anzel. Congress, the House of Represen- of Tax at Citigroup? tatives approved the College Stu- Keith Anzel: I graduated from dent Relief Act, also known as the Baruch College a little over 30 years Loan Improvements Act SB4907, ago, in 1976. I became interested in in a vote of 356 to 71. Under this the tax fi eld as a result of my fi rst Alumni make significant donations bill, the government would halve tax course with Professor Samuel the Federal Direct Staff ord Loans’ Dyckman. When I graduated, I ob- BY YURY MONAKOV to understand the generosity and Th e dedicated classrooms: current interest rate of 6.8 percent tained a job directly into the Tax BUSINESS EDITOR the distinguished careers that Ba- VC 10-125 Dedicated to Rosa- to a fi xed 3.4 percent by 2012. Department at Arthur Andersen ruch alumni have and what better lind & Bernard Anzel, parents of While many view this bill as ad- and I stayed there for seven years. I Last Tuesday, Kathleen Waldron way to do that than to ask our al- Keith J. Anzel ‘76 vantageous to students, others left AA as a tax manager to join one hosted several prominent Baruch ums and our generous friends to VC 10-165 Dedicated to Kevin worry about the eff ect that such of my clients, Salomon Brothers. alumni for four classroom dedica- donate funds to a class, and then (MBA ’90) and Karin Boyle a bill might have on the overall fi - For the next 23 years, I remained tions. Th e classroom dedication allow us to name that classroom af- VC 11-135 Dedicated to JoAnn nancial aid budget and, thus, oth- with Salomon, which merged with program started one year ago and ter them or their parents, and then Falcone Ryan BBA ’79, MS ’83 & Dr. er sources of fi nancial aid. Th ese Smith Barney, and then eventu- has signifi cantly contributed to the to put a plaque up in the room that Samuel G. Ryan Jr. MBA ’67, PhD concerns about the lack of fi nan- ally became Citigroup. During this resources that the school can off er will be a permanent fi xture on the ‘77 cial aid have come from the surge time, I had extensive experience in to students. wall so that students coming … VC 3-150 In memory of Cilka in student fi nancial aid spending During the ceremony, Waldron Weiss, beloved wife of Leon Weiss, since 2001, which has increased SEE CITIGROUP ON PAGE 6 commented, “We wanted students SEE ALUMNI BIOS ON PAGE 6 CPA‘58 by 400 percent from $9.6 billion to $48 billion, as reported by the Of- fi ce of Management and Budget. While Brian Riedl, a Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Bud- Professor publishes paper on 19th getary Aff airs in the Th omas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at the Heritage Founda- tion, is correct when he wrote in century medical breakthroughs Th e Washington Times that “low- ering the post-graduation inter- publishing in a new format — on exposition of complex ideas. For ar- est rate from 6.8 percent to 3.4 n Article printed the Web. ticles containing original research, percent does nothing to help af- Hansen said that while the for- the development of ideas is neces- ford tuition today.” Such interest in a 21st century mat humanities professors choose sarily more thorough. changes can help recent gradu- to publish in is changing, the change HistoryNow.org is a journal ates fi nancially, much sooner way, electronically is slower than with other fi elds. “In that reaches a wider audience after they graduate. Th erefore, the sciences there is more online than most scholarly publications. students would not have to worry publishing,” he said. “Th eir articles Geared toward college professors about paying off loans while try- BY SHERRY MAZZOCCHI are much shorter. Four pages in bi- and history teachers at high school ing to fi nd a job and moving onto STAFF WRITER ology is long.” and elementary school levels, the the next stage in their lives. Crafting an article for publica- publication has articles that are Th e Herald of Arkansas State When did the practice of medi- tion on a Web site is a diff erent useful in classroom teaching and University states, “Th e Chronicle cine enter the modern age? Baruch process than writing in a book or even has suggested lesson plans for of Higher Education reported on College history professor Bert Han- journal. Reading a book is a tangi- teachers. Jan. 17 that college tuition is in- sen pinpoints the emergence of ble, physical experience. It is easier Hansen asserts in his Histo- creasing more rapidly than the modern medicine in an online his- to keep a place in a book, see how ryNow that while the fi rst use of infl ation rate, personal income, tory journal, HistoryNow.org. many pages are left and fl ip back to ether for surgery in 1846 was a ma- consumer prices and the cost of Th e adage for most professors re-read specifi c passages. “With a jor breakthrough in medicine, the health insurance.” Considering is “publish or perish” — either long page on a screen, it’s hard to real introduction to the modern era this, the Act will be of great help publish books, articles or papers tell where you are,” said Hansen. was the development of the rabies to recent graduates and will also on new topics in one’s fi eld, or be For the online publication, vaccine by Louis Pasteur in the mid JUDGE ease the minds of current stu- denied tenure or prestigious place- Hansen specifi cally used shorter 1880s. “Pasteur Cleveland Vaccinating dents when making decisions ments at colleges and universities. sentences and tighter paragraphs. But, for the fi rst time, professors are What was sacrifi ced was the longer SEE MEDICAL PAGE 2 Democracy,” published February 1886. SEE FINANCIAL PAGE 2 INDEX FEATURES ARTS LEISURE SPORTS On exhibit: Exclusive Spring Fashion Bearcats bas- Opinion . 4 these wildly interview Preview! Break ketball make Business . 6 lifelike sculp- with hot out the animal a comeback Features. 8 tures, at the country prints, plaid after some Arts . 12 Brooklyn band, Little skirts, and brief losses. Leisure . 16 Museum Sports . 20 Big Town platform heels. Page 8. Page 12. Page 16. Page 20. NewsPAGE 2 | THE TICKER NEWS JANUARY 29, 2007 On campus network power- Financial relief for outage causes concern students to come soon ß CONTINUED FROM FRONT BY MUNIRAM PERSAUD mation for personal reasons, then the network doesn’t reload itself, STAFF WRITER the network fails to fulfi ll its pur- the network might crash.” Th e staff concerning fi nancial aid and their pose in this situation. Nonetheless, also stated that the outages should future. Th e Baruch network is sup- the network is a place where clas- stop in one week. Even though the Th e White House announced in posed to be a non-stop service with sifi ed information is being held. If outages might have caused the its press release that it would not limited errors. However, the BCTC no one can have access to this in- network slow down, it proves to support the Loan Improvements staff stated in an announcement on formation, troublesome problems be a useful asset because it forces Act because, by reducing student Sunday, Jan.21 that “the network can arise and unnecessary actions the Baruch network to improve loan interest rates funds would go has recently experienced a power could take place. its status in the future. Much like to college graduates rather than outage due to damaged hardware” Technology is paramount in all other updates, the more that is to students currently enrolled in during the January winter interses- both a student’s social and aca- added to the network, the more the school. sion. Th e BCTC staff also reported demic life, especially at Baruch overall system improves. Th e net- “Student debt loads have soared that “the network just shuts down College, which touts the availabil- work is not frequently used during in recent years, and it is not clear for a while because it needs to ity of computing resources both winter intersession; it is mostly in that encouraging more loans is a reboot itself.” Like most network on and off campus. Among these demand during the fall and spring wise course,” the release stated. connections, the hardware must services Blackboard, DegreeWorks semesters due to classes and ap- “Instead, the administration would be correct and identifi able to act and WebMail are just a few of the- pointments from transfer students.