A Taxing Labor of Love

Colgate University students are expected to return more than a million dollars to local taxpayers this year. Working through Colgate's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, 30 student volunteers will help about 500 local families file their taxes for free. The VITA program at Colgate, the first student-staffed initiative of its kind in New York, started in 2003.

Chinese-Style Capitalism Feeds Product Recalls

China's complex system of "guanxi," or relationships, involves using personal networks and granting and returning favors to do business. Colgate University sociologist Carolyn Hsu says guanxi has fueled China's extraordinary economic growth, but it has also taken the place of binding contracts and government quality controls and has led to a series of China-based product recalls that have rocked international markets in recent weeks.