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
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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.
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Fashion, maybe politics, and own sox appeal: Brandeis longhairs turn to toils (pony and rat)
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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