Crain’s New York Business has an article today on Baruch’s entrepreneurial program:
http://mycrains.crainsnewyork.com/executive_inbox/2010/04/can-entrepreneurship-be-taught.php
Author: rormsby
ACC 3202 assignment information
Several students in Prof. Lapoolsa’s ACC 3202 class have inquired about the Warren case assignment at the reference desk and sought help. However, they didn’t have the assignment with them. One said it involves journal entries. I know what journal entries are, but having received a C- in financial accounting, I offer no help with journal entries other than to direct students to a number of books that help with journal entries in our collection. (Books 24×7 and accounting textbooks offer suggestions.) As there is nothing on reserve for the assignment, I contacted the professor who said it is for sale in the bookstore, and suggested any other inquiries from students be addressed to him by email.
Middle States Self Study-a source for information on diversity
A student came to the desk tonight who said she was a reporter from The Ticker working on a story on diversity at Baruch. She asked if I knew of a source of information. The newly released final version of the Middle States self study has information on the diversity of students and faculty.
Finding U.S. Supreme Court decisions with a dissenting opinion
When I came to the desk today a student asked for help in finding all U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the past 10 years in which there was a dissenting opinion or dissenting opinion. It turned out that the student needed only one U.S. Supreme Court decision in which there was a dissenting opinion for a presentation in a class.
(Dissenting opinions are when the court is not unanimous in its decision. A 9-0 decision means there is no dissent, although if there is a vacancy on the court, it could be 8-0. There are many decisions in which there is a dissent. A judge may dissent in whole or in part from a decision, and other justices may or may not join the dissent, in whole or in part.)
To find all the decisions with dissents, we went to Westlaw campus, selected U.S. Supreme Court decisions and limited the time to the last ten years. Then we added dissenting as a keyword. This resulted in 648 decisions. You can look at the decision and there is a brief summary of the case and then which justice wrote the majority decision and which justices wrote dissenting opinions, and if other justices joined them in whole or in part.
On Lexis Nexis, the same type of search can be done but the longest time period was 5 years. This resulted in 328 decisions.
I asked the student if there were a subject he was interested in and he said privacy.
So we did a new search, with the limits mentioned before, and added privacy as a keyword and dissent or dissenting. There were 32 results, which is much more manageable for the student.
Toner is needed at ref desk computer
The toner is very low at the ref desk computer. Thursday night I sent messages to Alfredo and to the helpdesk. I also shook up the existing toner container in a good to the last drop effort. Toner went all over; so I would advise not shaking it. I cleaned it the best I could. Rita
Vita tax preparation program in the lobby
I spoke with Kathy, the student head of the VITA tax preparation program today. She said they are still setting up but will have hours and a telephone number available soon. I’ll keep you posted.
Envelope left at ref desk for adjunct prof.
I have left an envelope for Prof. Ed Sermier, who teaches a grad course in SPA, at the reference desk.
article for Prof. Steve Lilien at ref desk
I have left an article for Prof. Steve Lilien,from the accountancy department, at the ref desk in the usual box for pickups. He will pick it up Tuesday. Rita
Access to BCTC for incoming students preparing for the Simnet exam
Some incoming students are taking the SimNet exam today. I confirmed with the BCTC helpdesk that if incoming Baruch students show the letter they received regarding their requirement to take the SimNet exam, they may gain access to the BCTC computer lab to prepare for the exam using the software on the BCTC computers.
History of Baruch’s tuition and fees
I recently was requested to prepare a history of Baruch’s tuition and fees by an administrator, and we were unable to locate another source within CUNY during the holiday period, and some other possible resources didn’t work out. I used the undergraduate and graduate bulletins, starting in 1968. I know this question has come up in the past, at least I have had it from students. So, I posted the results on the shared drive at \\Numan\Shared\Divisions\IS\Baruch tuition and fee history 1968-
Sheet 1 covers undergraduates and Sheet 2 covers graduate students
I didn’t include in the fees such things as late registration and bad checks or duplicate ID cards.
Please let me know if you have any questions. Rita
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