The Red and Black

Issue date: 4/25/07 Section: News

Terry grad students win $50,000 cash in Venture Competition

Four graduate students in the Terry College of Business are attending competitions and winning the top prizes in order to start their small business after graduation.

Jay Mullis, Fred Maidment and Chad Peterson took first place and a $50,000 cash prize at the University of Oregon Venture Competition on April 14.

The award is the largest on the MBA business plan competition circuit nationwide.

Mullis and a fourth team member, entomology graduate student Ryan Asylworth, won $10,000 at the Northwest Venture Competition at Boise State University in early March.

The team is eligible to enter the 2007 Fortune Small Business Competition and the Moot Corp Competition to be held May 2-5 in Austin, Texas.

The team plans to produce and market Green Dragon Roach Kill, an environmentally friendly roach poison that is less toxic than other products.

The team's goal is to become a market leader in the development and sale of a variety of insecticides throughout the United States and to reduce the quantity of pesticide toxins introduced into the environment.

- Carolyn Crist

Recruitment main goal of Foundation

The Arch Foundation approved more perks for qualified professors.

The goal of the initiative is to help retain and recruit professors at the University.

The first professorship of $250,000 has been approved and will come from the Arch Foundation's general funds.

There are plans for additional professorships and the amounts will be determined by the school and college.

The professorships can be an addition to the salary, support for research, or travel expenses and may be given in many forms, including checks or real estate.

- University News Service

Univ. Quiz Bowl gets tough at tournament

The University Quiz Bowl Team B including Nick Rolader, Jonathan Okon, Colleen Cotton and Samantha Kaplan, earned an overall 7-6 record at the Division II Intercollegiate Championship Tournament, placing them out of 32.

The championship was held at the University of Minnesota April 13-14. For their first two games, the team was matched against the first and third place teams, Maryland and Yale, forcing them to start off against the hardest opponents.

"We played a lot better on the second day of the tournament when it was already too late to affect our results much," said captain of Division II Team, Rolader. "A lot of that has to do with the format of the playoffs which didn't allow us to advance that far."

The team felt that individual scores were not important in relation to the outcome.

"The record of the team is all that matters," said Okon. "Academic bowl is not a game that you can play selfishly."

- Shelby Jones

Marrow and blood needed in free drive

The National Bone Marrow Registry and the American Red Cross are holding a free drive today at Georgia Hall in Tate from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The screenings for bone marrow donors will use a new technique - cheek swabbing.

Janett Jarrett from the American Red Cross said potential bone marrow donors will be added to the national registry free of charge. It usually costs $80 to join the list, she said.

- Shelby Jones

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