UD in the News, Feb. 27, 2004

Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, was widely quoted this week concerning discontent among large investors with Michael Eisner’s leadership of the Walt Disney Co. and concerning the Hollinger International case that was before the Delaware Court of Chancery. Some unhappy Disney shareholders are planning to withhold votes during next week’s annual board election, and Elson said in the Feb. 27 issue of The New York Times, "The greater the withholding of votes, the more the directors have to pay attention. Anything over 20 percent is significant. That's the key. The board will have to look at it. There's a real pro-shareholders slant that's taking place." Elson also is quoted on that topic in Feb. 27 issues of USA Today, Newsday, the Hartford Courant, the Los Angeles Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Elson is quoted in a Feb. 27 Financial Times story concerning the Hollinger International case and in a Feb. 27 Wall Street Journal story concerning the resignation of the chairman of Smith & Wesson after it was disclosed he had spent time in prison for armed robbery.

The University’s Lasher Laboratory is featured in an Associated Press story about work on the front line in the war against avian flu.

ALUMNI

Evelyn Edney, assistant principal at Howard High School of Technology who has a UD bachelor’s degree in English and master’s degree in education, is one of three administrators nationwide nominated as Assistant Principal of the Year, according to the Feb. 27 Wilmington News Journal.

Sanjay T. Tailor, who has a UD bachelor’s degree in biological sciences and is now an associate judge on the Cook County Circuit Court, is featured in the Feb. 25 Chicago Daily Law Bulletin.

Nicole Sherry, who has a UD bachelor’s degree in agriculture, has been named the head groundskeeper by the Trenton Thunder baseball team. She is the first female head groundskeeper in the Class AA Eastern League.

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