UD in the News, June 7, 2005

The new book by Gary May, professor of history, titled The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo, received a favorable review in the June 5 issue of the Baltimore Sun. The book centers on Gary Thomas Rowe Jr., an FBI informant who was involved in some of the very acts of violence he was charged with reporting to his government handlers. “With a prosecutorial zeal and palpable outrage, May delves through FBI files, trial transcripts and interviews to unravel an essentially co-dependent relationship between Rowe and his FBI enablers,” Sun Book Editor Michael Ollove wrote.

Dan Grim, executive director of UD’s Information Technologies-Network and Systems Services, was quoted in a June 6 Computerworld story about the Sun Microsystems deal to buy Storage Technology Corp.

Jonathan Justice, assistant professor of urban affairs and public policy, was quoted in a June 4 Newsday story about financial problems plaguing New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Justice has studied the agency’s borrowing, which was brought on by declining subsidies and an unwillingness to raise fares because that is politically unpopular. "How do you avoid embarrassing the governor?" Justice asked. "How do you avoid embarrassing the mayor? How do you avoid raising fares? What we really do is pretend that there is a free lunch and put it on the managers to figure out a way to deliver us that free lunch. I'd say they've done a pretty darn good job of doing that, but, eventually, you run out of time because, well, there is no free lunch."

Joan L. Brown, Elias Ahuja Chair of Spanish, was quoted in the May 30 issue of the Spanish newspaper El Pais as part of a panel at the 64th annual Madrid Book Fair concerning the Spanish author Carmen Martin Gaite and her vision of the United States. Brown said that like Alexis de Tocqueville in the 19th Century, Martín Gaite´s observations shed new light not only on U.S. geography--"Manhattan is shaped like a ham," she famously noted--but also on the social characteristics, such as frenetic activity and loneliness, that she observed with a novelist's eye.

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Kevin Mench, former baseball standout for the Fightin’ Blue Hens, is featured in stories in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Dallas Morning News and the News Journal concerning his homecoming as the Texas Rangers visit the Philadelphia Phillies this week. Mench, an outfielder who is currently hitting .300 for the Rangers, is a big fan of Philadelphia sports teams. The Philadelphia appearance by Mench follows that of another former Hen, Mike Koplove, who is now a relief pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

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