UD in the News, Jan. 20, 2005

Kimmie Meissner, a world-class competitor with the University of Delaware Figure Skating Club, was featured in the Jan. 24 issue of Sports Illustrated after the U.S. National Championships, in which she won the bronze medal in senior ladies singles. Under the headline “Flash of the future, ” the magazine wrote: “Michelle Kwan made history with her ninth win at the U.S. championships, but daring 15-year-old Kimmie Meissner almost stole the show.”

McKay Jenkins, Cornelius A. Tilghman Sr. Professor of English, was featured in the Jan. 20 USA Today, which reviewed his new book, Bloody Falls of the Coppermine: Madness, Murder, and the Collision of Cultures in the Arctic. The book concerns a 1913 trial after an incident in which Inuit hunters killed two Catholic priests, and the newspaper called it a “haunting and thoughtful account.”

Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, was quoted in a Jan. 20 Los Angeles Times story about the fallout from the Walt Disney Co. shareholder case and its impact on the two men at the center of the case, Michael Eisner and Michael Ovitz.

Louis Hirsh, UD director of admissions, was quoted in a Jan. 19 Bergen (N.J.) Record story on the gender gap in American universities. Nationally, women make up about 56 percent of the total enrollment. Hirsh said admissions officials tend to show some leniency toward those males who struggle early in their high school careers but added, "We're not at a stage where the gender gap is going to override a weak application, mediocre SAT scores, lukewarm grades or a poorly written essay."

Havidán Rodríguez, director of the UD Disaster Research Center, was quoted in a Jan. 16 Philadelphia Inquirer story about the possibility of a mega-disaster in the United States. "Governments and people tend to be reactive, rather than proactive,” he told the newspaper. “We need to think about what is the next disaster and try to better prepare the population for it."

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