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2012-13 HIGHLIGHTS FROM FISHER ORGS PLUS: RESULTS FROM THE SUPERLATIVES SURVEY

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WHY FISHER STUDENTS ARE AWESOME

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Dear Reader,

Before we say our final goodbyes, we ask you to stop for a moment and look around you. Sometimes, amongst the hustle and bustle of being a student, it is hard to appreciate the extraordinary student experiences that surround us on a daily basis.

That is why this issue is the 2013 Yearbook Edition. So many students contribute to the vibrant Fisher Community throughout the year, and we hope we can help you pause and appreciate the wonderful things that happen because of students like you.

Flip to the back of the page to see a breakdown of our seniors, or if you’d like, check out the top ten reasons why Fisher students are awesome. If you fancy, try looking up your student organization and remembering the enjoyable activities that you contributed your time and effort towards this year!

After flipping through these pages, you’ll soon realize that you are part of a wonderful Fisher family of extraordinary students.

So, the 2012-2013 curtains are coming to a close—farewell to our first year of semesters, goodbye to chilly weather, and adieu once and for all until next fall!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Fisher and Sustainability

Sustainability through creativity, innovation and consumer insights

What’s new, Fisher?

Fisher Clusters

Going Greek

Student Spotlights

Bonding through Diversity

Making an Impact

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Cartoon Corner

Graduating Class

Web RedemptionMoving Forward

Industry Cluster Organizations

Fisher Fraternities

10 Reasons Why Fisher Students are Awesome

Fisher’s Cultural Organizations

SCNO and VITA

Spot the Difference

Fisher Farewells

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Fisher Forward is an organization dedicated to teaching business students through personal relationships how to stand out in the job interviewing process by utilizing Fisher’s resources.

A business school ranked in the top 20 nationally is undergoing a major online makeover. Having skyrocketed thirty positions from its previous year rankings, fisher.osu.edu, Fisher College of Business’ primary website is undergoing a substantial website redesign to celebrate its recent progress and become more user-friendly.

Joe Bellfy, Director of Web Marketing and Development, describes the importance of the project. “When we combined our reporting on website traffic with the regular anecdotal feedback which we receive, moving forward with improvements was really our only realistic option.”

Through research-based decision making, Fisher is conducting focus groups and other first-hand research by determining how the website is already used and in what ways the site can compliment existing information.

Bellfy explains, “Our strategy and goals, for both Fisher and for specific departments or programs, will be a natural byproduct of that research. This is leading us toward a cleaner, more intuitive design and a responsive environment that dynamically shifts based on the user’s device. It’s very important that our growing audience of mobile visitors have a richer experience in the future.”

At the moment, there is a formal group of twenty people comprised of staff, faculty, student representatives, and other on-campus partners suggesting improvements and operating with Information Technology Services. In fact, there are 65 people overall collaborating across Fisher working towards the enhancement of the website.

Bellfy concludes, “This goes beyond fisher.osu.edu: we’re looking holistically at the main website, as well as Fisher’s presence in social media and elsewhere, to improve the many ways people engage with us. That includes students, alumni, faculty, staff, recruiters, and others.” The enhancements are scheduled to launch this fall.

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During the 2012-13 school year, more than 200 first-year Fisher students had the opportunity to be paired with an upperclassman in Fisher Forward’s mentor/mentee initiative. At the beginning of the year, Fisher Forward had a surplus of older students who already had experience with the program and wanted to serve as mentors. To increase their number of mentees, Fisher Forward marketed its program to the freshman survey classes, which led to the addition of 70 new participants. With their mentor, freshman students had the opportunity to discover various organizations within the Fisher Business College as well as learn how to build resumes, basic interview tips, become QUIC Certified, and much more.

In the future, Fisher Forward plans on partnering with Fisher Citizenship Program and the Fisher Direct programs in order to help students directly admitted into Fisher as freshman. This organization expects to see an increase in members for the upcoming school year – especially with collaboration between Fisher Forward and the Fisher Citizen Program.

Looking ahead, Carina Tricaso said the following in regards to next year: “We are so excited to accommodate this big jump and continue to mentor these young students so we can make their transition into Fisher as easy and successful as possible.”


FISHER

FRESHFACESXiali TianAsst. Prof. of Acct.& MIS

Robert LaneSenior Lecturer, Finance

Blair KidwellAsst. Prof. of Mark./Logistics

Deborah Mitchell, Ph.D.Clin. Assoc. Prof., Marketing

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NEW TO FISHER

NEWLINEUPBelow is the complete list of professors and senior lecturers* new to Fisher College of Business.

*some senior lecturers were promoted from within OSU

Justin Birru, FinanceHarold Green, FinanceJoe Irvine, FinanceJan Jindra, FinanceMingyu Joo, Market/LogisticsBlair Kidwell, Market/LogisticsRobert Lane, FinanceStephen Lundregan, Man. ScienceDeborah Mitchell, Market/LogisticsBirsel Pirim, FinanceAlvaro Taboada, FinanceMike Tanner, Manag. ScienceXiaoli Tian, Accounting/MISXue Wang, Accounting/MIS

What was your first impression of Fisher?DM: “When I arrived on campus to give my job talk I was impressed with how much things had changed--I was a business major as an undergraduate at OSU back when our classes were in Hagarty Hall!BK: “It’s an amazing 6 building complex that just feels extraordinary and substantial. You know instantly that this is a place where the brightest young minds from across the world come learn about business.”XT: “My first impression of Fisher is great. I like that faculty offices are arranged together.”RL: “What hit me when I first joined the Fisher Faculty was how nice everyone is and that people treat each other with respect and dignity. I totally subscribe to the fact that the faculty and staff are totally dedicated to enhancing the student experience.”What have you learned in your short time at Fisher?DM: “I've taught undergrad students at Wharton, University of Wisconsin--but my favorites are OSU students. The combination of smart, hungry and down-to-earth is unbeatable.”BK: “The students are as good as any I’ve ever come across. They are incredibly hard working and bright. I have been pleasantly surprised at how engaged they are and how they take their academics seriously. I’ve also learned that they are exceptionally friendly and genuine students.”RL: “There is no shortage of things to be done. I

am the faculty advisor for the Undergraduate and Graduate Finance Associations. This year I had the opportunity to serve as a judge for the Marketing internal MBA competition, the first Innovation internal MBA competition and Dan Oglevee and I took a team to MIT in Boston and competed in the Venture Capital Investment Competition.”What types of things have you had a role in at Fisher thus far?DM: “I have been teaching at every level of education we offer: undergrad, full-timeMBA, Working Professional MBA, Executive MBA and (non-degree) Executive Education.”BK: “I have had a role in recruiting new faculty to hire as colleagues. I’ve also had a role in selecting new doctoral students in the department of marketing to continue on the great tradition of strong placements of future academics. I’ve also accompanied our doctoral students to a prestigious symposium at Indiana University to present their research.”XT: “I have been teaching introduction to taxation this semester and I am working on my research.”RL: “Currently, I teach the Financial Cluster Program and also two sections of the Corporate Finance IV course which is a Capstone Course for Finance Majors who are seniors. Another role which I enjoy is working with Dr. George Pinteris who is the faculty director for the Specialized Master of Finance program and I provide assistance in Professional Development.”


ENERGYANDSUSTAINABILTY

STUDENT ORGS

INDUSTRY CLUSTERS

TRIPLETRAINING FOR THE

Getting down to business is difficult, but even more so when considering a triple bottom line.

The triple bottom line is the notion that companies must measure and be measured on how well they use economic, natural, and human capital – often abbreviated as a focus on “People, Plant and Profit.” This new focus on natural resources and capital has led to a demand for people who are knowledgeable on energy and sustainability. In fall 2010, Fisher lecturer Neil Drobny expanded his sustainability courses into a new program for undergraduate students, the Energy and Sustainability Cluster.

As one of the first industry-focused programs offered at Fisher, the E&S Cluster captures high achieving business students who have a passion for learning about sustainability. Students learn about sustainability and corporate responsibility, and develop the skills necessary to impact future business practices.

Kelly Wheeler, an E&S Cluster student, is currently working on a marketing project with The Dow Chemical Company. “I like my business classes,” says Wheeler, “but energy and sustainability is new and constantly changing. This goes beyond going ‘green.’ I feel I have obtained a unique perspective [through the E&S Cluster] that the average student may not have.” The E&S Cluster meets twice a week for a full academic year with the expectation of at least 10 hours of work outside the classroom.

However, as Drobny explains, “Students are actually putting in twice the amount of work and sometimes even more on their projects. I don’t even have to take attendance because these students are so

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“The cluster is such an awesome opportunity. Those involved ensure you are constantly invested, learning, and understanding the experience as a whole,” Wheeler says.

passionate, highly motivated, and very accomplished.” During their second semester in the program, students work in four-person teams on projects provided by the focus companies. This year’s class is working with The Dow Chemical Company, Alcoa, and Owens Corning on projects dealing with issues such as rates of aluminum recycling, packaging of consumer products, and uses of alternative fuels.

Students are selected into the E&S Cluster program as third years, and will continue to develop with the program through industry related speakers and projects. “The cluster is such an awesome opportunity. Those involved ensure you are constantly invested, learning, and understanding the experience as a whole,” says Wheeler.

The E&S Cluster draws attention to how eliminating waste and ensuring sustainability can save money. Drobny notes, “This cluster focuses on creating awareness about career opportunities that can change society.”

ORG SPOTLIGHT

Net Impact was able to see the Columbus zoo from a different angle, learning about its efforts toward sustainability. “I took away a greater understanding of how sustainability principles are applied to real-life management situations: for example, how funding may be obtained to create sustainable systems and how those systems provide substantial return on one’s investment, “paying for themselves” through increased energy efficiency. Some of these energy-saving systems included warming the water in the polar bear enclosure using geothermal energy, lighting the zoo warehouses using skylights instead of/in addition to electricity, and switching the “zoo lights” from incandescent to LED lighting.” – Net Impact member on Columbus Zoo “behind the scenes” tour.

Zoo Perspective


CONSUMER PACKAGED GOODS

The Health Care Cluster focuses on development, distribution, and delivery of business operations and functions within health care companies and hospitals. This year, students worked on projects with Nationwide Children’s Hospital, OSU Wexner Medical Center, the James Cancer Hospital, and Ross Heart Hospital.

The Consumer Packaging Goods Cluster specifically discusses various strategies like organization, innovation, and marketing. Companies like to concentrate on teaching students the importance of decisions and how it may be implements. Companies include: Smucker’s (The J.M. Smucker Company), Procter & Gamble, and Kroger.

The Financial Services Cluster teaches students how to integrate commercial banking and insurance. Currently, cluster students are working on projects with Morgan Stanley, Keybank, Nationwide Insurance, and UBS.

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CONSUMER PACKAGED GOODS FINANCIAL SERVICES

Being a part of this elite program requires a committment of time and effort. This industry cluster program is designed to give students the opportunity to participate in case dicussions, solve real-world problems, discuss current events, and work on projects with a designated company. As a result, the program allows students to gain valuable knowledge about future careers, and a better understanding of the industry, and while providing them with a network of business professionals who help them compete for job-seeking opportunities.

ABOUT THE CLUSTERS

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“Our highlights include being able to successfully host/participate in 8 different professional events both on and off of fisher campus and 8 community service events. The highlights of our service events include the 2nd annual Kory Kirkpatrick 3on3 Memorial Basketball tournament, which raised funds for a scholarship fund set up in honor of a Fisher student who passed away two summers ago. We also hosted the first annual Queen and King of Fisher to benefit an orphanage in Thailand.”

“A great high point was the number of members who participated in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program and the connection we formed with the Kipp School by working with Ernst & Young. Both of these events allowed us to reach out into the community and really make a difference, one with adults and the other with children. Each was very rewarding and especially working with the children at Kipp created a bond that we hope to continue.”

“We like to strive to ‘flex the muscle,’ a.k.a. do our best in all that we do, and use all of our strengths as an organization to reach these goals.”

“We are connecting students and professionals interested in excelling in Financial Services.”

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ORG SPOTLIGHT

The Professional Development Program (PDP) has been on a mission to help students find their perfect match, in a company that is. They have been hosting a speed-networking event the past four years to connect students to companies in a fun, new way. “Similar to speed dating, students shuffle from one table to another in order to meet Fisher alumni from many different companies,” says PDP President Bradley Ross. This year, PDP teamed up with FisherDirect to host the event, in order to increase student and alumni turn out. Held at the Mason Hall rotunda on February 22nd this year, the reception-style event garnered much success and will be held again next year.

Speed Networking


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“This past year, our Chapter reached ‘Silver Chapter’ status among all other PSE chapters nationwide. Our previous executive board worked very hard to make this happen by submitting detailed reports and updates regarding our professional activities and successful projects. We also hosted the first annual ‘Best Pi on High’ competition where campus pizza vendors provided free pizza to OSU students, who then voted on their favorite pizza, giving bragging rights to that pizza parlor for the whole year.”

This year AKPsi boasted several accolades, including sending 16 members to the AKPsi national All-Academic Team. AKPsi also was awarded for having the highest pledge retention rate while earning first place in the East Central regional standing. AKPsi participated in the Fisher Textbook Exchange and collaborated in coordinating the Fisher Fall Career Fair. This year there were 39 initiates and 300 rushes, twice the number of rushes AKPsi had last year.

“Family. We pride ourselves on the tight-knit community we foster and many members say that they meet their best friends in PSE.”

“Through programs, mentorship, and workshops, we develop the business leaders of tomorrow.”

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REASON #2: WE INNOVATEREASON #1: WE FOLLOW OUR PASSIONS

ORG SPOTLIGHT

This year the Buckeye Operations Management Society (BOMS) found a fun and educational outing for its members at the Columbus Zoo. BOMS members had the opportunity to go on a behind the scenes tour of the zoo to see how it operates. “We like to give members the opportunity to learn about how operations processes are applied in businesses around the area,” says President Claire Gordon.

Fun and Education

STUDENT SPOTLIGHTS// Recent Fisher graduate Zach Friedman created his own major through the Fisher College of Business in order to follow his passion for the environment. Friedman co-founded Net Impact at Ohio State, lectured for a MBA sustainability course, and is now working on a permiculture and organic agriculture farm in Israel before he begins working in September 2013.

For the past two years, Alec Janda has worked with Fisher and Ohio State to install a water conservation system on campus.

“The system is composed of three blad-ders, which are filtered and recycled to water the plants,” says Janda. “I came up with the idea as a freshman and attended the Undergraduate Admis-sions’s First Year Experience Conference. They were focused on becoming fully sustainable and yet there was no water conservation system, and that is when I saw the demand for it.”

Senior Adam Windnagel is President of Student Consulting for Non-Profits. Unlike other volunteer organizations, SCNO is exclusively dedicated to assisting local non-profits to meet their business needs.

“We think that the volunteerism that we do is exponentially more impactful than basic volunteering,” Adam Windnagel, president of SCNO, says. “Students develop analytical, creative, and teamwork skills while the

community benefits from economical and high-quality consulting from college students.”

When it comes to the environment, you can bet that Richard Makiuchi will do the right thing. Makiuchi was one of fourteen participants selected out of over 2,600 applicants to attend a selective conference in California called “Green University.”

Makiuchi reflects, “I am now able to look at sustainability from a professional aspect. We learned how to run a meeting with the focus on sustainability as well as coming away with an understanding on how to use these meetings to focus and create ideas into functioning green projects.”

REASON #4: WE DO THE RIGHT THING


REASON #7: WE HELP OTHERS

REASON #8: WE ARE GENEROUS


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Senior Taylor Reves will join the community of local business owners when she graduates this year in Marketing. According to Reves, the role of a small shop owner bears a lot of responsibility. “From Fisher, I learned more about the subtle strategies to running a business, but sometimes working as a small business owner is just a lot of hard work. I have to be responsible for maintenance, ordering, inventory, and product displays. Because we host many events, a storeowner has to do things you do not immediately think of when it comes to ‘small business owner’.”

David Miracle, a Fisher senior, helps inspire students to action through coordinating the Alleviating Poverty through Entrepreneurship Summit with the Business Builders Club. The purpose of the summit is to educate students and the local community on ways to use business as a tool to end poverty. Through the efforts of dedicated students in the BBC, admission to the APTE summit is provided free of charge to all OSU students.

Marrygrace Ashdown is filled with enthusiasm and positivity, and she can’t wait to share it with you. Ashdown founded the Boo Radley Society in 2012, which is a club dedicated solely to creating random acts of kindness around campus. “I think people are surprised and not expecting for people to give without wanting anything in return,” she says. “It is the goal of the Boo Radley Society to encourage others to believe in themselves and start a ripple effect so everyone is doing random acts of kindness to each other across campus.”

REASON #6: WE KNOW BUSINESSREASON #5: WE INSPIRE THOSE AROUND US

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Peter Von Der Vellen has been a lifetime volunteer through Optimist International. When he discovered that OSU did not have its own Optimist International volunteer branch, Von Der Vellen took matters into his own hands to make sure that the volunteer

organization existed on campus. At an event for incoming Fisher students, Von Der Vellen approached Fisher’s Executive Director of Undergraduate Programs, Jackie Elcik, about starting the Buckeye Optimist Club, and

within a week persuaded Elcik to become the organization’s advisor.


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FISHEREXCHANGENETWORK

ASIANBUSINESSSTUDENTASSOCIATION

HISPANICBUSINESSSTUDENTASSOCIATION

Fisher Exchange Network is celebrating its third year as a student organization. Although it is a relatively new group in Fisher, it has been able to connect a lot of students with an interest in international relations. Whether it is helping an OSU student get advice on where to live in Italy from a student already studying at a university in Milan, or pairing an exchange student from Australia with a current Fisher undergrad to help them adjust to American student life, FEN has had a lot of success bringing students together to form a very diverse network of Buckeyes.

FEN members and the exchange students gain by expanding their business networks and also creating meaningful and long-lasting friendships with peers from all over the world.

2013 HIGHLIGHTS


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The highlights of the Asian Business Student Association are the events that it hosts for general students to educate them about Asian cultures. Two events that ABSA hosts annually are Chinese New Year Event and Diwali. Chinese New Year is always one of the more popular events and draws the biggest crowd, but many people don’t understand what Diwali is. The goal of Diwali is to advocate students about this Indian tradition and open their minds to other cultures. ABSA hosts these events in collaboration with the Fisher Citizenship Program, which entices younger members to attend for their Diversity Stamp.

“Diversity. The diversity of our members definitely gives our organization a desirable view among companies and recruiters.”

2013 HIGHLIGHTS


“In August of 2012, we had eight students attend our national conference in Las Vegas. We always view the national conference as the highlight of our year. During the school year, we co-hosted our annual Thanksgiving dinner with the Latino Student Association and Sigma Lambda Beta Fraternity to feed over 100 college students while raising over 100 pounds of canned goods for the Mid-Ohio Food Bank. For our general meetings, we were able to bring in eight Fortune 500 companies during Fall semester to speak to our members.”

“Becoming business leaders while embracing the Hispanic culture!”

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“This last fall our vice president and I were able to attend an LGBTA conference in Boston Massachusetts where we were able to speak with various companies that are LGBTA friendly. We were also able to listen to some great speakers such as Dan Savage and Julie Goodridge (Goodridge vs. Massachusetts) that really resonate in our community. While attending other fun events hosted by Reaching Out MBA, we were able to connect with like-minded individuals within our community that come from all walks of life.”

The Out in Business Association was designed to meet the growing need for support, networking and awareness of the GLBT community within Fisher College of Business.

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“This year, UBWA had the opportunity to partner with Big Ten Network to host an event to support breast cancer awareness. The event, originally named Cooking for a Cure, consisted of volunteers making crafts and assembling care packages for cancer patients. UBWA was featured on Big Ten Network’s Live Big Facebook page for the event; one member even wrote a blog for the Live Big website. UBWA was honored to collaborate with Big Ten Network, and we hope to continue a partnership with them in the future.”

“Undergraduate Business Women’s Association is an organization dedicated to uniting women studying business or interested in business to form a network of both business professionals and friends.

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FISHER’S IMPACT

Students Consulting for Nonprofit Organizations (SCNO) is a national organization and the Buckeye branch has been making huge strides in the community for four years. SCNO offers complementary consulting services to local non-profit clients, while simultaneously providing students with the opportunity to apply business and analytical skills to real world problems.

Upon selection after the application and interview process, SCNO associates work in project groups for their assigned nonprofit client for a semester. Major clients in the past have included the Columbus Symphony, the Mid-Ohio Food Bank, and the Linden-Cleve Theater.

A major SCNO highlight from this year involved their partnership with AKPsi in sponsoring the Spring Case Competition. The event included a professional networking dinner at the Blackwell for the first time, and all of SCNO’s sponsors were in attendance. Over fifty students participated, making the event a huge accomplishment.

"From my experiences participating in the SCNO Case Competition last year and helping plan it this year, I truly believe that it is a great opportunity to network with industry professionals as well as improve on many different business skills. Both planning and participating in the competition have taught

me many things that I would not have learned in the classroom," says Monika Lanno, VP of Corporate Relations for SCNO.

In addition to the success of the case competition, SCNO was able to expand the number of their projects, target high-profile nonprofits, and effectively build SCNO’s brand. In the future the organization is looking to diversify the scope of sponsors even further and place more emphasis on feedback from clients after project cycles. The hands on experience with non profits through consulting and solving case competition problems explains why Alex Doane, SCNO’s president, frames the organization as “Professional Development Through Hands-On Experience”.

HANDS-ON HAND OUTS

DEATH, TAXES AND SERVICEAt Fisher, business students can use their specialized skills to make a serious impact in the lives of others. For Honors Accounting students, their tax knowledge is being put to use to benefit the local community through a national program called VITA.

VITA, Volunteer Income Tax Association, is a program that brings together graduate and undergraduate students from all different backgrounds to help low-income individuals complete their taxes. Undergraduate OSU student can participate if they are in the Honors Accounting program and members of Beta Alpha Psi, who has a national partnership with the VITA program.

The majority of the volunteer students have previously taken tax classes and intend to pursue a career in taxes. However, some volunteers just want to help others by using their limited tax experience. “It was really great to see everyone come together in attempt to help the people of Columbus.” said Emma Nimps, a current student in the Honors Accounting program and VITA. “The experience of helping someone with something as serious as their taxes is very rewarding.”

A challenge that many of the volunteers faced was using only the limited knowledge from a single tax class to assist their clients. This program helps OSU students develop an appreciation for client service and interaction, while giving local residents a way to save money that otherwise would have gone to for-profit tax preparers. The program also brings significant amounts of tax refund or credit money back into the local economy that otherwise may not have been collected.


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SP T THE DIFFERENCECan you find the five differences between these two pictures?

KEEP SCORE5Members of Fisher Exchange Network pose after a group soccer outing.

Answers: Jersey number is changed from 72 to 73. Ball is changed to orange. GTL is changed from green to blue. White wristband is removed from middle. Nike swoosh is removed from sock


CARTOONCORNER

LIKE, LITERALLY.Can you guess which idioms these images are referencing? Answer on p. 2.

A sudoku puzzle consists of a 9 × 9–square grid subdivided into nine 3 × 3 boxes. Some of the squares contain numbers. The object is to fill in the remaining squares so that every row, every column, and every 3 × 3 box contains each of the numbers from 1 to 9 exactly once. Answer on p. 2.

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Fundraising is never easy, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun! Fisher’s American Marketing Association has hosted Dunk for the Cure two years in a row now, raising money for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. The event features a huge dunk tank where individuals can contribute to the cause in exchange for the honor of getting dunked or getting to dunk someone else. “This is a really unique event that helps a great cause, and it is also a lot of fun getting to see various individuals from athletes to AMA E-board members to random pedestrians on the street getting dunked in a huge tank,” says President Lucas Costanzo. The event was able to raise over $400 for the foundation.

AMA Dunk for the Cure

#TIME TO SAY GOODBYE//

There are one thousand business seniors graduating in May 2013. This begs the question-- who are they? Fisher Ink asks our undergraduate programs office to help us break down the numbers.

FISHER INK SENIORS

ORG SPOTLIGHT

Alex Quintero Genie lee BriAn Koesters

Major in Accounting Major in Finance and Man. Info. Sys., Minor in Studio Art

Major in Finance and Accounting

Financial Analyst at Johnson & Johnson

Technical Services at Epic Systems

Rockwell Automation – Architecture & Software Division

“Little things make big things happen.”- John Wooden, former UCLA men’s basketball coach

“We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over.”-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”-Socrates

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Accounting

Economics

Finance

Human ResourcesInformation Systems

Logistics Mgmt

International BusinessInsurance

Marketing

Operations Mgmt

Real Estate8 Special Majors/ Other

1000 GRADUATING SENIORS//675 in-state grads106 out-of-state grads219 international grads

of grads will graduate with honors

grads will graduate from a cluster program


Fisher Ink.

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Fisher College of Business

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elcome

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Free Pizza Joint provided

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