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DS Mangus

Lack of leadership
(Mass Media) Jun 12th 2003

Joseph Panciotti should have resigned as senate president when he didn't register for classes last spring. Vice president Fritz Hippolite knew, but he didn't tell you ... more

Club News   No blue Skye in this budget The $440,000 budget approved for FY2003 maintains Student Life staffing and retains the senators' beloved but dilatory webmaster. (Mass Media) May 1st 2003 Campaign promises The senators promise a newsletter and a website by mid-February. We're betting against it. (Mass Media) Feb 6th 2003 Underhanded and over the top "This is not a dead issue. If not outright illegal, it was borderline illegal." (Mass Media) May 22nd 2002 More Club News   Events   Play the market The UMB Economics Club invites you to compete in its first Securities Investment Challenge. Participants will create and manage a $500,000 virtual portfolio of publicly-traded securities for one fiscal quarter. Trading commences Monday, February 10th Jan 27th 2003 Economics soirée Mix it up with faculty and staff Oct 2nd 2002 More from Events   Notebook   Great expectations What's a lottery ticket really worth? Oct 8th 2002 More from Statistics Spendthrifts The developed world doesn't save like it used to Aug 2nd 2003 Pennies from heaven Could the Fed manage the money supply by dropping cash from the air? Oct 8th 2002 More from Macroeconomics Textbook case Textbook prices continue to increase faster than tuition, yet no significant used market has developed. Monopoly, or market failure? Oct 8th 2002 More from Microeconomics Pentagon halts trading in terror futures The Pentagon dropped plans to use prices in an online "terror futures" market to estimate the likelihood of terrorist acts (Reuters) Jul 30th 2003 Exponential growth Calculating future value, present value, discounts, and yields Oct 3rd 2002 More from Banking & Finance Ounce of prevention, pound of cure It can be cheaper to treat disease than prevent it Oct 3rd 2002 More applied economics   Academic track   Cheating in Cambodia Cops and commandos police national exam (Reuters) Aug 5th 2003 Class action Comparing colleges' courses Oct 2nd 2002 More from Academic Track

Here and there... Moolah from heaven Download this screensaver and watch money fall from the sky while you dither... more Statistics tutors are available through UMB. Free for you, cheap for them... more Capital ideas: national newspapers from Beijing, Tokyo, Paris, Ottawa, London, Bonn and Washington Tongue-tied? Internet translators put the world in the world-wide web At a loss for words? Merriam-Webster's online dictionary and thesaurus will even say the words for you   Books & Arts   John Singleton Copley: Mrs. Richard Skinner Bonnie McConologue analyzes this portrait by Boston painter John Singleton Copley Jul 28th 2003 The Authoritarian Specter A compelling quantitative analysis of the psychology of political repression puts Al Qaeda and the Ku Klux Klan on common ground (Harvard University Press) Oct 3rd 2002 More reviews   People   World War II (abridged) Patrick Katarousky's one page history of the Big One Jun 5th 2003 Hellas in a handbasket Edward I. David on ancient Greece and Hellenism Mar 10th 2003 More People   School Tools   A new computer for two C-notes? Add a $10 monitor from the Salvation Army, and for $225 you have a desktop computer Jul 31st 2003 Picture perfect Save a snapshot of a web page in a single file Oct 3rd 2002 More from School Tools   Diversions   More questions Only one answer is correct