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UD in the News, April 20, 2005 To view past UD in the News, click here. 9:11 a.m., April 20, 2005--A roundup of recent news items about UD, its faculty, staff and alumni. Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, was quoted in an April 18 Bloomberg News Service story about a Morgan Stanley bylaw that gives protection to the chairman and chief executive officer by requiring a three-fourths vote of the board of directors for his removal or modification of his duties. ``It removes accountability from the board, Elson said. Who is the CEO accountable to?'' Yancy Edwards, assistant professor of business administration, was quoted in an April 17 News Journal story about local advertising on the Internet. Neil Lanctot, a history faculty member and author of the book Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution, wrote in the April 15 Philadelphia Inquirer about the role of the city in the rise of the Negro Leagues. ALUMNI Michael Hultquist, a 2003 graduate of the Lerner College of Business and Economics and a U.S. Army helicopter pilot, was featured in an article published April 14 on the Fort Bragg, N.C., news web site concerning his recent involvement in a firefight to break up an insurgent contingent in Iraq. Hultquist is a first lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Divisions 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, and flies a Kiowa Warrior. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |