Baruch Community

The Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute hosts a public discussion regarding the Metropolitan Transit Authority's proposed plans to construct a Long Island Railroad facility on the East Side of Manhattan. Attorneys representing East Side neighborhood interests make a case against the proposal.

The event is introduced by Barry Hersh, Associate Director of the Newman Real Estate Institute and Robert Paaswell, Distinguished Professor at City College. Speakers include: Roger M. Roisman, Partner in the Real Estate Department at Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt; C. Virginia Fields, Manhattan Borough President; Michael D. Zarin of the law firm Zarin and Steinmetz; and Douglas Floyd, Toronto transportation administrator.

The event took place on March 17th, 2005.

Richard Merians, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Hygrade Integrated Logistics, Chairman of EOC Steering Committee, Mentor in the Baruch College Executive Student Partnership program, and Mentor of Baruch College Entrepreneurship Competition speaks on the topic of the central skills of leadership.

Professor Kapil Bawa talks about various aspects of teaching with technology incorporating his experiences using Blackboard, Kognito tutorial modules on statistics, and the PERMAP and Captivate softwares for courses he is teaching on Marketing.

As part of Ethics Week 2005 Professor Douglas P. Lackey, Professor of Philosophy at the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences speaks to Baruch's BioMed Society about the branch of bioethics that involves research on human subjects.

The lecture took place on April 14, 2005

at 17 Lexington Avenue, Room 404.

Two events take place: the final round of the first ever Ethics Bowl at Baruch College (and the winning team awarded $600) as well as the awarding of the Abraham J. Briloff Prizes in Ethics.

For the ethics Bowl, two teams debate ethical scenarios. Sarah Ryan, a lecturer in the School of Public Affairs hosts the debates. Judges include members of the Baruch community and invited guests, including Randy Cohen, author of the Ethicist column in the New York Times Magazine and Peter Vallone, from the New York City Council.

For the Abraham J. Briloff Prizes in Ethics, Baruch benefactor and alumnus Charles R. Dreifus speaks about the awards and Dennis Slavin, Associate Provost introduces the Briloff prize winners:

Kirsten Jansen, Don Plunkett and T.K. Das.

David Callahan, author of The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead, speaks on the topic of cheating in American culture, why it has become so pervasive and what can be done to stop it.

The lecture took place as a pre-ethics week lecture on April 5, 2005 at Vertical Campus 3-165.

Hank Schram, Chief Accounting Officer at The Chubb Corporation and Philip Terenzio, President of Warnaco International speak about their accounting careers and their experiences in the profession.

The event is introduced by Marilyn Kahn, Director of the Executives on Campus program and moderated by Edward Lee of the Zicklin Graduate Accounting Society.

A forum with members of Baruch College's faculty and student body discussing ethics in academia as part of Ethics Week. The discussion begins with a focus on Steven M. Cahn's book, Saints and Scamps: Ethics in Academia , and leads to panelists responding with their own experiences. The panel also takes questions from the audience.

Undergraduate representative Sime Marnika and Graduate representative Izha Sharon present gifts from the Class of 2005 to Baruch College.

CUNY Chairman Benno Schmidt greets the Class of 2005 on behalf of the CUNY Board of Trustees.