UD in the News, Oct. 31, 2003

The University Gallery exhibit of Inuit art is featured in an Associated Press story in the Oct. 31 Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News. The story notes, “’Land of Ice, Hearts of Fire’ is not just a collection of works of art but a narrative of a centuries-old culture told through an artistic tradition barely 50 years old.”

Leland Ware, Louis L. Redding Chair for the Study of Law and Public Policy, is quoted in an Oct. 31 Wilmington News Journal story about the 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education. "There are still formidable barriers to equal educational opportunities," Ware said. "The educational opportunities for many African-American students are still largely separate and unequal, even when white and minority students attend the same school."

Fightin' Blue Hen football is featured in an Oct. 29 Providence (R.I.) Journal column by Mike Szostak, who writes, “Long after individual games become a blur and scores are forgotten, college athletes remember their experiences. Certain road trips. Bad-weather games. Big crowds. No crowds. Big plays. Blown plays. Camaraderie born only in a locker room and nurtured only on a playing field. Delaware's football team enjoyed such a memorable experience Saturday in Annapolis, Md.”

And, a former Blue Hen gets a mention in an Oct. 30 Philadelphia Inquirer story about U.S. Senate hearings into college football's Bowl Championship Series. The story notes, “Sen. Joe Biden, D-University of Delaware, a frustrated former football player for his alma mater, said no one ‘in the East’ really cared about the bowl games anyway. They want to see pro-style playoffs instead. The BCS, he said, is ‘un-American’ and looks ‘like a rigged deal.’”

Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, is quoted in a widely distributed Oct. 30 Associated Press story concerning planned corporate governance changes at the New York Stock Exchange, one of which would have the NYSE guided by two separate boards. "Anytime you divide authority like that, it makes accountability more difficult and coordination more difficult. I would prefer a full board that has a majority of investor representatives," Elson said.

ALUMNI

Robert Moran, who holds a bachelor of arts degree in communication from the University of Delaware, has been named manager of product public relations at the Mercedes Benz USA facility in Montvale, N.J.

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