Inspire, Winter 2005

Winter 2005 screen for classroom presentations, and a 37-inch monitor for live financial news feed. Dr. Bill Ragle, associate professor of finance, shared “[Students] can’t learn this kind of stuff from a book. It’s interesting to read about the markets and how they work, but to get into the Bloomberg databases and the other databases and see how they work is really exciting. They really begin to understand then.” Jim Reker, KeyBank Managing Director, Public Sector, was both pleased and amazed by how the center had materialized. He said, “I saw it under development stage and it was … just some two-by-fours and so forth sitting here. Now it looks like a trading floor and acts like a trading floor, and it’s a great opportunity for the students to be able to experience what a real trading floor — a real business environment — looks like.” The KeyBank Trading Center is just one facet of a growing relationship between KeyBank and Cedarville University. Over the next three years, KeyBank intends to 1) offer professional counsel to the Cedarville finance program, 2) host students for educational visits to its Cleveland headquarters, 3) offer a summer internship to a Cedarville finance major, and 4) engage the finance faculty in aspects of KeyBank’s business. Cleveland-based KeyCorp is one of the nation’s largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $92 billion. Key companies provide investment management, retail and commercial banking, consumer finance, and investment banking products and services to individuals and companies throughout the United States and, for certain businesses, internationally. From the flashy electronic data ticker to the live Bloomberg feed, students in Cedarville University’s Department of Business Administration have a market-savvy new environment in which to explore finance. The KeyBank Trading Center officially opened on November 4 in a ceremony packed with KeyBank representatives, University administrators, the Business Advisory Council, DBA students, and DBA faculty and staff. Thanks to the generous support of KeyBank and the Key Foundation, the KeyBank Trading Center will give Cedarville’s 80 finance students access to leading edge technologies and provide a more real-to-life learning experience. The center, located in the Milner Business Administration Building, boasts 20 double-monitor workstations, an electronic data ticker, a data wall of constantly changing financial info, a 63-inch plasma With a ring of the bell and a snip of the scissors, Cedarville University opened its KeyBank Trading Center on November 4. Opening Bell Rings at Cedarville’s New KeyBank Trading Center Courtney Edmonds ’09 and First place in novice debate Mark Miller ’09 Amelia Hoganson ’06 Third place speaker award Jenna Marcum ’08 Fourth place speaker award Andrew Vitaliti ’09 and Third place in novice debate Christen Price ’09 Jenna Marcum ’08 and Fifth place in novice debate Becky Smith ’08 Bent on Engineering On November 12, three seniors and seven juniors became the newest members of Cedarville’s Ohio Nu chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honor Society. Senior inductees are in the top fifth of their engineering class, while juniors are in the top eighth. Debate and Forensics Teams Top Strong Rivals In November, the Cedarville University Debate and Forensics teams joined forces to win the first place grand champion sweepstakes award at the Berea College (Kentucky) John G. Fee Invitational and Cumberland College Curtis Brown Invitational I.E. Swing. Cedarville topped 21 other schools, including nationally recognized Western Kentucky University, Carson- Newman College, and Belmont University. In the forensics portion of the competition, Megan Waters ’08 took second place in pentathlon, a category representing the best overall speaker in five events. The forensics team had finalists in many events, including extemporaneous, impromptu, persuasion, and rhetorical criticism. The debate team’s outstanding finishes included a tournament champion ranking for Emily VanVliet ’06 and Nathan Washatka ’08, first place in novice debate for Amelia Hoganson ’06 and Nila Privedenyuk ’08, and first place in novice debate speaking for Mark Miller ’09. The grand champion win came on the heels of a first place debate team victory at the Western Kentucky University Debate Fiesta. There the CU team beat out approximately 20 other schools (including nationally recognized Patrick Henry College, Missouri State University, Purdue University, and Wheaton College). CU’s top finishers were: Honor to Whom Honor is Due