UD in the News, June 13, 2005

Julio Carrion, assistant professor of political science and international relations, was quoted in a June 13 Wall Street Journal story on the political situation in Bolivia.

Gary May, professor of history and author of the new book The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo, wrote an op ed piece in the June 13 Baltimore Sun on the dangers inherent in the use of informants, both during the civil rights era of the 1960s and today in the struggle to combat terrorists. “As the United States seeks better ‘human intelligence’ in the war on terrorism, we should recall George Santayana's warning that those who do not understand the past are condemned to repeat it,” May wrote.

Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, was quoted in a June 13 Business Week story on the use of corporate governance grades by investors. "It's simply another relevant information point in evaluating a stock," Elson said.

Ben Yagoda, professor of English, was quoted in a June 12 News Journal story on slang. "I think slang is a source of vigor, for imagination and creativity in which the language regenerates itself. Slang is an important way that it evolves, like a tributary with fresh water coming in,” Yagoda said.

A new show featuring the works of Amalia Amaki, UD assistant professor of Black American Studies and curator of the Paul R. Jones Collection, was featured in the June 11 Washington Post. The show, Boxes, Buttons and the Blues, is on view through Sept. 25 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. “The exhibition blends photography, found objects and the images of great female jazz vocalists into a statement on race, conformity and the transcendence of both,” the article said. The exhibit also was featured in the Datebook section of the June 10 New York Times.

Bill Hall, education specialist with the UD Sea Grant Marine Advisory Service, was quoted in a June 10 Cape Gazette story about the annual census of spawning horseshoe crabs along the Delaware Bay, which he coordinates. “The crab population, according to our annual sampling, has been in a slight decline during the past five years. But, that decline is nothing compared to the downward spiral the population took because of over-fishing during the 1990s,” Hall said.

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