Honor • Duty • Respect - The Citadel

Rick and Mary Lee Bastin Financial Leadership LaboratoryThe Citadel now offers an express train from Bond Hall to Wall Street, thanks to the vision and generosity of Mary Leeand Rick Bastin, ’65. The Bastin Financial Leadership Lab is designed to give business administration majors and MBAstudents the hands-on experience on the trading floor they will need to make a seamless transition into careers in thefinancial sector.The high-tech trading lab features an electronic ticker with New York Stock Exchange feeds on a 15-minute delay; 28dual-monitor work stations; a video wall with four monitors that can act as a single unit; front, rear and individualworkstation-mounted cameras for web conferencing; and trading and analytical software to offer students fullimmersion in the financial industry. Guided by the college’s emphasis on integrity and accountability, students will setup investment committees, develop specialties and learn to make ethical business decisions that will set the standard fortomorrow’s financial leaders.52 The Citadel 2011