Although Matt Soja of Baruch cross-country won the 2006 CUNYAC Cross-Country Championships after dominating the entire season, the competitive scholar-athlete still remains unsatisfied with his remarkable success. Meanwhile, Head Coach Mel Kerper of Hunter’s Women’s Tennis topped an amazing 19-0 season when his team took their championship and secured the conference’s first automatic bid to the NCAA Women’s Tennis Championships this spring. Plus this week’s wrap-up.

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The Baruch Business Report offers a conversation between John Elliott, the Dean of Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business, and Terrence Martell, Saxe professor of Finance and International Business in Baruch’s Zicklin School of Business. The discussion starts with the results of the third quarter “Chief Financial Officers Outlook Survey,” which is conducted quarterly by Financial Executives International and Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business, and continues into a larger economic analysis. Elliott and Martell also discuss the expected impact of the new Pension Protection Act. The survey results are described on Baruch’s website at http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/cfosurvey/

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Ann Kirschner, Dean of the William E. Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York discusses her varied professional path, including a stint as at the National Football League where, as head of new media, she founded NFL.COM. Also about her book ” Sala’s Gift: My Mother’s Holocaust Story” which was published in November to critical acclaim.

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It’s green card lottery season and the deadline for applicants is soon: December 3, 2006. Winners will be granted permanent residence for a year, beginning May 2007. Allan Wernick answers questions on who is eligible and why it’s important to enter even if you’re not feeling lucky.

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In his latest book, “Buried Caesars and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing”, Robert Viscusi has unearthed the Italian American experience through literature. And how, for better or for worse, Italian Americans will forever be haunted by the Mafia myth.

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Veteran cross-country runner Cynthia Sandoval of York College really knows how to keep up. She’s able to balance the demands of work, a rigorous training schedule and the intense study regimen of a math major. Plus rookie runner Dario Rosales of City Tech and the week’s highlights.
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Daniel Okrent became the first public editor of the New York Times in the wake of the Jayson Blair scandal, which forced the resignation of the paper’s executive editor Howell Raines. Mr. Okrent, who recently published a collection of his columns in Public Editor Number One , talks about the position of the public editor, his sometimes contentious tenure and why it took a major scandal to force the NY Times to join the ombudsman movement.

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Antigone Tzakis serves up a win for Hunter College tennis, helping the team keep it’s perfect 4-0 record untarnished. But that should come as no surprise– the relentless Antigone hasn’t lost a singles match in three years. Plus, Val Lang of Hunter’s undefeated women’s volleyball on facing arch rival Baruch for the number one seed in the conference and a recap of last week’s highlights.
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Financier and philanthropist William E. Macaulay recently gave the University the largest donation in its history. The $30 million gift will be used to buy a landmark building on the Upper West Side, which will serve as the new home of the Honors College. An honors graduate of City College, who today heads one of the ten largest equity firms in the world, discusses why he chose CUNY and recalls his own experience as an economics student.

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Globetrotting David Shin first became a footballer growing up in S. Korea before he went on to be captain and star athlete at his high school in England. Now the US born soccer midfielder is back on his native soil kicking it up for Baruch. Also, Matt Soja won three cross-country meets in September while maintaining a 3.95 GPA as an Economics major in Baruch’s highly reputable Zicklin School of Business making him the easy choice for the Scholar-Athlete of the Month. Plus all the week’s action.

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