College eSports Scholarships Contimue At Columbia College

Last year, it was Robert Morris University in Chicago making headlines for launching a collegiate eSports program bolstered by scholarships. This year, a small school in mid-Missouri, Columbia College, is following suit with a scholarship eSports program of its own.

The program will launch in the fall of 2016 and will consist of twelve total players -- two teams of five with two alternates each, according to local news outlet KOMU, which broke the story over the weekend.

Most notably, the school's players will be offered scholarships.

Tom's Hardware spoke to Bryan Curtis, Intramural Coordinator and Facility Manager of Athletics at Columbia College and one of the individuals tasked with launching the school's program, to learn more.

Scholarships, And Building From Scratch

Curtis told us that one of the school's squads will be a sort of "varsity," and the other will be a sort of "JV," although they won't call them that. They will also make room for developing players that could eventually join the team.

Curtis would not specify how much the scholarships would be -- the school is still working on details -- but he did note that the amount of scholarship money per player will depend on their skill level, and he also indicated that these would not be full-ride scholarships. At best, they will likely start at 50 percent offers and dip lower from there. These budget-related decisions will likely be settled sometime in January of next year.

The Tale of Genji

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To Killa Mockingbird

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Bank Of America

A.P. Giannini 

Branch Banking

The son of immigrants loaned to immigrants when other bankers refused. He built a vast Western banking empire, fueling California's growth, and created a national system of branch banks to serve ordinary people.

 

Born to Take Risks

Amadeo Peter Giannini has been called "America's banker." His Italian father traveled home from the California gold fields, then brought a Genoese bride back to San Jose in mid-1869, via the brand-new transcontinental railroad. His mother was also an adventurous soul, leaving her family and homeland with a man she'd known for only six weeks. Their son Amadeo, born in San Jose in May, 1870, would take his own risks in the world of banking.

Bank of Italy

As a young man, Giannini succeeded in the wholesale produce business, but grew bored. Angered by the era's typical banking practices -- making loans to and servicing only wealthy clients -- he founded the Bank of Italy in San Francisco in October 1904 as an institution for the "little fellows" -- the hardworking immigrants other banks would not serve. He offered those ignored customers savings accounts and loans, judging them not by how much money they already had, but by their characters. Within a year, deposits were soaring above $700,000 ($13.5 million in 2002 dollars).

Confidence

After a disastrous earthquake and subsequent fires levelled much of the city in 1906, Giannini created new confidence. He set up a temporary bank immediately, collecting deposits, making loans, and proclaiming to all that San Francisco would rise from the ashes. He based his business on openness and trust, making his reputation by helping the city rebuild. Then he expanded the Bank of Italy across California, breaking with an American tradition of independent local banks by providing his egalitarian banking services to the "little fellows" in the Yugolsavian, Russian, Mexican, Portuguese, Chinese, Greek, and other immigrant communities. By the mid-1920s, he owned the third largest bank in the nation.

Big Banker

In 1928, Giannini put his banks into a giant holding company he called Transamerica Corporation, reflecting his new ambition. In 1930, he formed the Bank of America, which would eventually become the largest in the United States. As a measure of its success, it withstood the Great Depression, funding large industrial and agricultural interests as well as California's burgeoning movie industry and even the Golden Gate Bridge. When Giannini died on June 3, 1949, at age 79, hundreds of ordinary people showed up for his funeral.

THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE

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Heidi Klum shares her Halloween transformation into Jessica Rabbit

Heidi Klum shares her Halloween transformation into Jessica Rabbit, looking marvelous as ever. This years Halloween parties were excellent. Please feel free to send us your costume pictures. 

Book One of A Song of Ice and Fire By George R.R. Martin

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