For more information,
please contact:
Gwen Osborne,
director of public affairs, (312) 906-5251
ADVISORY TO PRODUCERS, COLUMNISTS AND ASSIGNMENT,
LEGAL, PLANNING, BUSINESS, AND DAYBOOK EDITORS
CHICAGO-- September 16, 2003--Chicago-Kent
College of Law, the Stuart Graduate School of Business
and the Center for Law and Financial Markets have
experts available to discuss current issues. To reach
any of our experts, call Gwen
Osborne, director of public affairs, at (312)
906-5251. Copies of press releases and earlier advisories
are available on our Web site: http://www.kentlaw.edu/news/
Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean has
raised more than $5 million through his Web site,
www.deanforamerica.com,
and mobilized supporters through another site, www.meetup.com.
President Bush's re-election campaign last month unveiled
its updated Web site, www.georgewbush.com,
in an effort to increase grass-root support. How can
potential voters and donors determine whether a Web
site is legitimate? How can candidates and their campaigns
ensure the integrity of their Web sites and promote
ethical campaign practices? Chicago-Kent professor
Richard Warner
is available to discuss the Standards Association
for Elections Online (SAFE), a nonprofit organization
that develops standards and practices for online campaign
activity and endorses third-party monitors who certify
campaign Web sites as abiding by SAFE standards.
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is bracing for
competition from Eurex, the world's largest derivatives
exchange. Eurex, which is jointly owned by Deutsche
Boerse and Swiss Stock Exchange, has filed for an
exchange license with the Commodities Futures Trading
Commission to offer futures and options on two-, five-
and ten-year U.S. Treasury notes and on 30-year Treasury
bonds. Eurex US, as the new Chicago-based fully electronic
exchange will be called, is expected to begin trading
February 1, 2004. Professor David Norman of IIT's Center for Law and Financial
Markets is available for interviews.
Interest rates remain at the lowest levels since
1959. The Federal Reserve Bank's Open Market Committee
said it "continues to believe that an accommodative
stance of monetary policy, coupled with robust underlying
growth in productivity, is providing important ongoing
support to economic activity." Professor Robert
D. Laurent of Stuart Graduate School of Business
is a former economist with the Federal Reserve Bank
of Chicago. He is available for interviews.
When the U.S. Supreme Court reconvenes in the fall,
it will hear oral arguments on whether the U.S. Postal
Service can be sued under antitrust laws. In 2000,
Flamingo Industries filed an antitrust suit against
the postal service, alleging that it had created an
emergency mail-sack shortage that allowed it to award
no-bid contracts to foreign manufacturers without
allowing American companies like Flamingo a chance
to compete. Chicago-Kent dean Harold
J. Krent, who represents Flamingo in this
case, is available for interviews. His number is (312)
906-5010.
Corporate executives are under increased pressure
to verify their companies' financial statements.
Under federal requirements, CEOs and CFOs face civil
and criminal penalties and fines for filing inaccurate
statements or failing to meet filing deadlines. How
can executives verify the integrity of information
they receive and disseminate? Stuart Graduate School
of Business professor Paul
R. Prabhaker, who is working with organizations
on information integrity issues, is available for
interviews.
September 20-27 is Banned Books Week. Books
by J. K. Rowling, Mark Twain, Maya Angelou, Phyllis
Reynolds Naylor, Robert Cormier, S.E. Hinton, Dav
Pilkey, Katherine Paterson, Mildred D. Taylor and
Jean Craighead George were the most "challenged"
books of 2002, according to the American Library Association
(ALA) Office of Intellectual Freedom. The ALA released
the list in conjunction with this year's observance
of Banned Books Week. A challenge is an attempt to
remove or restrict materials based upon the objections
of a person or group. A banning is the removal of
those materials. Experts from Chicago-Kent College
of Law are available to discuss censorship issues.
At the Downtown Campus:
September 18: "Homeland Security — A Peek
at the Future of Federal Labor Relations?"
is the theme of Chicago-Kent College of Law's 21st
annual Federal Sector Labor Relations and Labor Law
Program. The morning portion of the program features
a comprehensive plenary panel discussion by nationally
recognized leaders in the federal workplace. The plenary
session will be followed by concurrent workshops,
providing participants with the opportunity to discuss
specific issues with experts in the federal labor
relations field. Sponsored by Chicago-Kent's Institute
for Law and the Workplace, the program is the longest
running conference on federal sector and postal labor
relations and labor law held outside of Washington,
D.C. For more information, call (312) 906-5090.
September 25: 17th annual Friends of IIT Luncheon.
John Robertson, executive director of the City
of Chicago Department of Construction and Permits,
will deliver the luncheon address. Proceeds from the
event will benefit IIT's Stuart Graduate School of
Business. For more information, call Debbie DeMondo,
Power Contracting and Engineering Corp., (847) 214-6039.
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