Wall Street Club
Attention all students interested in business: the Wall Street Club is Cornell’s newest finance-related organization.
Recently founded, the Wall Street Club’s mission is to promote a better understanding of financial markets and macroeconomic events through an invigorating, open-discussion forum.
The Wall Street Club is open to all undergraduates, and is geared towards students with a strong interest in finance and related careers. All members are expected to be active participants and should be willing to take on leadership roles. Previous knowledge of finance/financial markets is not required.
If interested, applications are due Sept. 25. Please send a paragraph of interest to thewallstreetclub@gmail.com. Thank you.
Regards,
Stanton Lenahan ‘08
CVA Redesigns Homepage
The Cornell Vietnamese Association has created a new club website! It’s got a better looking Vietnam-themed design:
Unfortunately, it doesn’t do a whole lot yet, has some juvenile validation errors, doesn’t have an RSS feed, isn’t really dynamic or interactive, and doesn’t integrate with any popular social networking applications. I mean, do you even need a website anymore? Just make a twitter user you can use to get in touch with everyone, and maybe make a simple Facebook application to list upcoming events and cool news about Vietnam.
You could even use the fb-app for recruiting–automatically sending new Cornell freshmen invites, for example!
Was the Sun’s Student Trustee Poll Indicative?
Before the student trustee elections the CU Daily Sun did a poll Who are you voting for for student trustee? which received 1072 responses. As only 3911 students participated in the actual election, I thought it would be interesting to see how highly correlated the two sets of data is. I took my numbers from the stage 1 results:
The coefficient of correlation is 0.57, and the pattern is fairly obvious. Brian Wolfel ‘10, Julie Geng ‘08, and Peirce Stern ‘10 were the only candidates to display substantially more Cornell Sun votes than real votes. Chris Gunderson ‘09, Graham Rengert ‘09, Karthik Rammohan ‘09, Michael McDermott ‘09, and Julie Cantor ‘09 received significantly more real votes than Sun votes. But some of these numbers are low enough that we can ignore them. After removing all the minor players, we’re left with a coefficient of correlation of -0.39 and this graph:
Now there appears to be no pattern. The Sun results are just good padding egos and saying who definitely won’t win the elections.
