It began with the players, coaches, and alumni mounting an aggressive letter-writing campaign to convince athletics officials to keep the program a varsity sport. Then the team battled numerous injuries and illnesses throughout the season. And en route to capturing the ECAC title, the Huskies had to dispense of top-ranked and tournament favorite Brown University. And it was great to win it at home in front of a lot of people who were there for us when the program was in jeopardy. It returns twenty players from this year's championship team next winter, including freshman Hilary Witt, the ECAC Tournament Most Valuable Player.
Lights brighten empty rooms.
Recruiters earn the same salary whether they bring in 1,000 hot young prospects or 100. Right here on campus, business professor Harlan Platt recently told an audience of 100 during the thirty-third annual Robert D. Klein University Lecture. Platt, a professor of finance, has made a career out of devising paths for rejuvenating companies, a process known as corporate renewal. Like any good company that wants to be even better, Platt argued, the university can improve itself by trimming waste and offering incentives to employees. Platt challenged the university to let faculty members keep more of their grant money if they raise larger sums and to give undergraduate admissions staffers a bonus of twenty-five percent of their base salary if they can increase average SAT scores by five percent and enrollments by ten percent.