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After selling a soccer Web site to ESPN for $40 million eight years ago, former Undergraduate Council presidential candidate Tom D. Hadfield ’08 has now set his sights on fighting malaria in Africa...
That's where Rob Barnett discovered them. A show-biz guy who had worked at MTV and VH1 before spending two years at the helm of CBS Radio, Barnett had decided to become a Web-video impresario. He found Big Fat Institute while looking for someone to design his website. You Suck at Photoshop "was hysterical," Barnett recalled recently. "I was instantly engaged and e-mailed them: 'WHO are you?' In 38 seconds, I get a response: 'Who are YOU?' We started flirting." The e-mail led to phone calls and an invitation to visit Barnett in New Jersey...
...goof became a phenomenon is a Web-age love story almost as sweet as Donnie is bitter. Many fans believed the video series had to have been made by a professional comedian; Dane Cook was a favorite suspect. But it turns out to be the work of Troy Hitch, 37, and Matt Bledsoe, 39, both of Covington, Ky.--two former ad-agency guys who met while recording a radio commercial in nearby Cincinnati, Ohio. They buddied up, started writing funny bits and launched a new-media-centric creative agency called Big Fat Institute...
...said she hopes the survey would identify key issues for UHS and improve individual health care experiences by fostering more communication between health services and students. Currently, UHS gets student feedback from a patient advocate and paper surveys in their offices. There is also a function on the UHS Web site that allows students to enter comments for the patient advocate electronically. Barreira said that the preexisting feedback mechanisms would remain in place along with the survey. “This doesn’t preclude students calling at any time for any reason,” Barreira said...
...Board (CEB) is sponsoring round two of a campus-wide Risk tournament. The game, called CEB Turf, is managed by Michael F. Ayoub ’10 and Kevin M. Mee ’10. Despite little publicity, there are already about 1,000 students signed up on the Web site, ready to engage in cyberspace combat. CEB Turf administrator Andrew C. Fong ’07 said that close to 1,500 students have signed up but 500 of them haven’t yet activated their accounts. This Friday, each House’s elected war minister will...