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Manoj Bhargava, the founder of 5-hour ENERGY and a University dropout, was named to Forbes Magazine’s list of the world’s wealthiest people for the first time on Wednesday.

Bhargava’s wealth is valued at about $1.3 billion, placing him at 960th on Forbes’s list of the 1,226 wealthiest people on the planet. According to a profile written on him that appeared in Forbes in February, Bhargava speculates that he is probably the wealthiest Indian living in the United States.

Though University administrators have stated their dismay at the recent cancellation of the planned Arts and Transit Neighborhood, the news is receiving mixed reactions from residents of Forbes College.

The University has reinstated Saturday meals at both Forbes and Whitman colleges, a year after it implemented a cost-saving initiative that left only one of the two dining halls open on Saturdays.

“A number of the cost-reduction initiatives exceeded our projections,” Director of Dining Services Stu Orefice said in an e-mail, citing “the tray-free dining program and modifications to our purchasing program.”

Keep taxes simple and let people control their own financial resources, Steve Forbes ’70, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, said to a large audience last night in Dodds Auditorium.Forbes, who founded the magazine Business Today while a student at the University, discussed his opinions on the current economic crisis in the ...

Whether hiking to Frist Campus Center or the E-Quad, Forbesians face a longer journey than most. The time-consuming walk, which can be especially difficult in freezing temperatures, prompted Waqas Jawaid ’10 to create saveforbes.com, an online petition asking for a shuttle stop at Forbes.The petition is addressed to University Services ...