| ORU faculty vote 'no confidence' in president Richard Roberts
A quorum of tenured Oral Roberts University faculty voted “no confidence" in President Richard Roberts and voted in favor of “greater faculty governance and transparency of university finances" in a 3 1/2-hour meeting Monday night. Donald R. Vance, professor of biblical languages and literature and one of three authors of a summary of the meeting, said tenured professors want to help ORU's board of regents do what is right. The professorsµ motions let regents know the voice of the faculty, Vance said. The vote of no confidence in Roberts as president and CEO of the university was made “without regard to the outcome of the current lawsuit against the university" and “is not to be construed as a judgment of guilt or innocence with regard to the present lawsuit against the president and the university," according to the list of motions and summary of the meeting faxed to media by an attorney ' Gary Richardson ' for the three former professors who are suing ORU, Roberts and other ORU leadership.
The Gossip From Tinsle-Town
Mario Lopez works up a sweat. Josh Duhamel and Fergie get down and get wicked. And Ashley Olsen pulls a yucky. Read on to learn more. All eyes were on former Dancing with the Stars contestant Mario Lopez the other day when he hit Equinox Fitness in Miami's South Beach. The beautiful-bodied Lopez did some running on a treadmill and hit the free weights. .
Executive churn brings fresh perspectives
But 2007 was also notable for movements among the executive class. Between March and August, three of the big four mining houses listed in London introduced a new CEO to their ranks. As widely expected, the new appointments at Anglo American, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton in Cynthia Carroll, Tom Albanese and Marius Kloppers respectively, presaged new activity in the sector as each sought to impose his or her strategic will. At Anglo American, Carroll took no time in streamlining the groups unwieldly management structure while Simon Thompson, an Anglo executive thought to have been a rival to Carroll during the interview process, resigned from the group. Then, following 12 deaths in the first half of the year at the Rustenburg section of listed subsidiary, Anglo Platinum, Carroll effectively had Ralph Havenstein removed as the companys CEO.
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