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Running With Bulls and Bears At Georgia Tech, stu dents make money the old-fashioned way: they gamble on the stock market. A $100,000 grant last year from a millionaire alumnus helped kick off the 34-member non profit Georgia Tech Student Foundation, which gives sur pluscash tostudent projects. So far the group has raised $32,000 in additional pledges. Investments tend toward the conservative, with half of the portfolio in relatively low-risk stocks, a third in fixed-income securities and the rest in the bank. Management major Jamie Evans says, "The people who donated this money ex pect it to stay there." The bull market was kind: last May the body gave $4,300 to groups, from the rowing club to the orchestra. Campus organizations are not theonly beneficiaries. "You can learn things here that you can’t learn in the classroom,” says Evans, who chairs the in vestment committee. The stu lii CHOICE" dent trustees gain hands-on experience in areas such as fund raising. Evans says he needed several rehearsals to propose the foundation to the alumni because, at first, "when it came time to say, 'One hun dred thousand dollars,' I just mumbled.’' Sporting the New GQ ’Do Time was when most men with ponytails were prob ably just biding their time until the next Grateful Dead tour. But lately a slicker version of the old hippie hair style has become, well, a grow • ing trend from the State Uni versity of New York, Stony Brook, to Houston to Berkeley. The men who sport the new ’do may be following the lead of women, who adopted the Amadeus look some time ago Or they may be inspired by such tonsorial trendies as de signer Karl Lagerfeld, model Attila and Oklahoma football hero Brian Bosworth, who ac cents his mohawk with a blond rattail. And others may hope their hair makes a social or po litical statement. Some wom an doubtless find men whose coifs are more elaborate than their own to be a dubious at traction—but to the rest, the ponytail packs all the allure of the forbidden Brandeis jun ior Susan Fellman opines that longhairs "can be really sexy. Short hair is clean-cut and at tractive and reminds you of the kind of man your mother wants you to marry." Hair to day, gone tomorrow, of course. Now fashion’s minions may suffer the unkindest cut: at Tulane, hip guys have already shorn their summer rattails. ^ hi AIK STAR Fashion, maybe politics, and own sox appeal: Brandeis longhairs turn to toils (pony and rat) ll.U’STKATiON MART fNMKNTHAl. Romancing the (Moon) Stone It’s gray. It’s a rock But is it lunar? An alum's exotic Rift to Texas Tech this fall has put the Lubbock school be tween a moon rock and a hard place—no matter which an swer is correct. The stone's earthly travels are even stranger than its alleged trip from the moon Supposedly, according to the donor, it began its journey in 1969, when an unnamed NASA staffer passed it on to a simi larly anonymous Tech alum nus with NASA connections The alum skipped the stone over to Tech buddy Merle Rase in appreciation for his tak ing the rup for a dormitory prank 50 years before. Rose in turn decided that W B. (I)ub> Rushing deserved a piece of the rock for giving him a much needed job back in the 1930s While Rose took shavings from his half for Tiffany's to sell. Rushing donated his hulf to Tech, which put it on display. If the prize is real, Tech has a problem: federal law prohib its private ownership of lunar material So far, NASA offi cials insist that since there are no moon rocks at large, they
