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...come with certain sets of knowledge,” Elkins said.She highlighted her who own qualifications, noting that since she does work on Africa, teaches history, and is a woman, she will bring a different perspective to the council. She joins fellow historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, who is vice-chair of the council.In addition to Schmid and Elkins, the new council will include English professor Louis Menand, art historian Irene J. Winter, chemist Eric N. Jacobsen, historian of science Sarah Jansen, and scientist Ann Pearson. Menand, the Bass Professor English and American Literature, joins the council after having served...
...initiative passed to cut the size of the UC to two reps per House and two committees. The boxes were originally slated to go on sale last Friday morning—a schedule that fell to the wayside when the first of the mishaps took place. CLC Services Vice-Chair Raul A. Campillo ’09, the orchestrator of the box sale, said the difficulties began with a miscommunication with UC box supplier VeriPack. According to Campillo, the VeriPack operator told him that the next-day order was “all set” at the conclusion...
...guilty verdicts may be in against former Enron CEO and chairman Ken Lay, but he is still doing battle with, of all things, his alma mater. Seven years after making a $1.1 million gift to endow a chair in economics at the University of Missouri, Lay is now trying to have the money returned. Last September, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he personally sought to have the money - as yet unused - transferred back to Houston to assist 14 charities in relief efforts, including preacher-author Joel Osteen's megachurch. Five months later in February this year, the trustee...
...This has all the smell of a Richard Scrushy effort," says Mizzou alum Thomas Battistoni, a New York litigator who until recently sat on an alumni board for the MU College of Arts and Science, overseers of the economics department - and hence the chair. Scrushy, the former head of HealthSouth Corp., poured over $700,000 into Birmingham, Ala., churches and ministries during his felony trial in 2004, a coincidence noted with more than a little skepticism by his prosecutors. (Scrushy was acquitted). Battistoni raises similar questions about Lay?s attempt to divert the money to charities in the fall before...
...Hovering over the entire saga is the question of whether it's such a good idea now to have an economic chair named after Ken Lay, given Enron?s spectacular collapse. Members of the alumni board have bandied about the question of retracting Lay's name. Although discussions with Lay are ongoing, the university is required by its agreement to honor the name. Lay's family has a longtime connnection with Missouri: his late mother worked at the university bookstore while his father, a Baptist preacher, had strong ties to the community in Columbia. "It's not the university...