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Endowment Surpasses $700 million Universities across the nation see an increase in their endowment rates Mary Chamaki
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dent Technical Services manager. Some schools have a fining system in place to deal with the costs of the DMCA. Stanford University charges a $500 reconnection fee for every DMCA complaint after the first one. As of now, Santa Clara has no such system. The Office of Student Life sees a similar misdirection of resources since time is spent holding conferences with students who received violation notices. “Our office tries to be a resource to students in other ways, it’d be great if we could spend our time addressing other issues outside of DMCA violations,” said Lester Deanes, assistant dean at the Office of Stu-
University donations increased this year for the first time since the 2008 fiscal crises. “Over the past two years we’ve seen a recovery from the dip that happened in our endowment,” said Mike Wallace, assistant vice president for Development University Relations. The total endowment peaked at $700 million in 2007 before the endowment rates went down to $529 million during the recession. However, the endowment once again surpassed $700 million this year, reaching $716.8 million as of June 30, 2011. The Santa Clara Fund is the most popular fund on campus. According to Wallace, the money in this fund is divided up and given to various sectors at the university, including student scholarships, academic programs such as the Solar Decathlon, study abroad and immersion programs, and student initiatives. Most colleges depend largely on tuition revenue and government support, but at some universities, endowment spending accounts for a substantial part of the budget. “At Santa Clara about 75 percent of the university budget comes from tuition,” said Wallace. “Interest from the endowment and gifts from alumni, families and friends of the university are critical to help cover this gap.” While Santa Clara managed to steer clear of a fiscal crises by reducing spending costs during the last couple of years, there has still been an overall downward trend for gifts made to the school each year. “Giving of gifts has gone down over the past two years, since the downturn in the economy, the overall amount of money that we have been able to raise has decreased,” said Wallace. “That is less money we have to allocate for student scholarships and other great programs and projects across campus,” said Wallace. Although gifts have certainly decreased in recent years, “the endowment has rebounded, and we have seen a promising start to the first half of this fiscal year in terms of overall donations,” said Wallace. At a national level, college and university endowments made gains in the fiscal year that ended in June, but many are still struggling to make up the ground they lost in 2008 and 2009, according to a report released by National Association of College and University Business Officers on Tuesday. “You hear a lot about endowments when you hear about the top schools, like Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, and Yale that have typically seen
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SAMANTHA JUDA — THE SANTA CLARA
eryl Davis and Charlie White, Ice Dancing gold-medalists, performed during the free dance competition at the HP Pavilion last Saturday. David and White won their section of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships for the fourth year in a row, continuing their winning streak since their second place finish to Canada at the 2010 World Championships. Their total number of wins put them
only one away from matching the five other teams who hold the U.S. record for total Ice Dance crowns. “I really wish I could have gone to the competition, because a lot of my friends were competing… but I watched online as much as I could,” said Natalie Ganem, a Santa Clara senior, who grew up figure skating, won a Hungarian National Title, and competed with her past partner Kristof Trefil, of Hungary, in the World
Junior Championships in 2008. Ganem now practices locally at the practice arena where the skaters in the competition this past weekend trained between shows. “It was just fun to have a lot of really competitive skaters there training, and it was just a really good atmosphere,” said Ganem. Contact Samantha Juda at sjuda@scu. edu or call (408) 554-4849.
Copyright Infringement on the Rise
University continues to receive complaints on DMCA violations Danae Stahlnecker
Contributring Writer The yearly rate of Digital Millennium Copyright Act Violations is steadily increasing. “It’s a significant problem,” said Ron Danielson, vice provost for Information Services. During the 2009-10 school year, there
were 190 violations, 277 for the 2010-11 year, and as of last week, so far 172 during the 2011-12 year. An additional factor is the impact on the university’s resources. “Every one of these take-down notices requires… two hours of staff time,” said Danielson. Employees are paid $75 per hour, meaning each take down notice is at least a $150 expense per IT for inspecting the computers and dealing with infringing materials. While the expense of these violations is part of the operating budget for IT, it is a misdirection of funds as the time spent addressing this issue could be spent attending to other problems. “This expense has got to come from someplace,” said Michael Miller, the Stu-
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