Briefs

Trustee committee meets:The Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets in Manhattan today, April 8, at 12:30 p.m. at the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St. The public session will include a report from President Jeffrey Lehman and an update on the state budget.

Stock pitch second:A student team from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management was the first-place winner April 2 in the second MBA Stock Pitch Challenge. Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, which hosted the competition, came in second. They competed for two days against teams from nine other top U.S. business schools and were judged by a blue-ribbon panel of Wall Street stock-analysis experts on the buy and sell sides. The Kellogg team won a cash prize of $3,000, and the Johnson School team won $1,500. Members of the Johnson School second-place team were Joe Stein, Adam Weisel and Jason Tauber. All are portfolio managers of the Cayuga Fund, a student-managed long/short hedge fund at the Johnson School, and were picked by their peers for their savvy analysis skills and track records.

Slope Day volunteers:Friday, May 7, on campus this year is also known as Slope Day. The Slope Day committee, SOS, soon will be seeking 1,000 staff, faculty and students to assist at Slope Day 2004. Shifts of two to four hours, and up, are available, and there are a variety of areas that need coverage. For more details and to sign up, visit the Slope Day Web site at http://www.rso.cornell.edu/slopeday beginning Monday, April 12. You also can send e-mail queries to slope_day@cornell.edu.