Outlet: The Huffington Post
Title/Program: Jonathan Tasini: Wall Street Pay ‘Vaults to Record Altitude’
Publication Date: 02/02/2011
Media Type: News Web Sites
Extract: , according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal. The total is up 5.7% from $128 billion in combined compensation and benefits by the same companies in 2009. The increase was fueled by a revenue rebound as the financial crisis recedes in the rearview mirror… “Things are shifting back to where they were before,” said J. Robert Brown, a law professor at the University of Denver who studies compensation and corporate-governance issues.[emphasis added] In some respects, this is reaffirming news
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Outlet: International Business Times News
Title/Program: Colorado Secy. of State Gessler abandons plans of moonlighting for law firm to supplement income
Publication Date: 02/02/2011
Media Type: Daily Newspaper
Extract: …at all.Gessler, a graduate from University of Michigan School of Law, is now considering teaching at the University of Colorado and University of Denver law schools and hasn’t also completely ruled out the possibility of working for another law firm. Newstex ID: IBTX-…
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Outlet: Yahoo!
Title/Program: Health care may be Supreme Court nail-biter – Yahoo! News
Publication Date: 02/02/2011
Media Type: News Web Sites
Extract: predictable ideological lines. Conservative legal scholars say it’s not hard to imagine a scenario where the Roberts court declares that the Obama administration has taken the Commerce Clause too far. (see: Senate GOPers sign on to repeal) “They don’t have to make a stretch to do that. They can just say, `We’ve let the Commerce Clause stretch way beyond its text, and we’re not going to go any further,” said Dave Kopel, an adjunct professor of advanced constitutional law at the University of Denver
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Outlet: Science News
Title/Program: On the Scene: Sometimes, happiness is for bozos
Publication Date: 02/02/2011
Media Type: Online Print Version
Extract: -of-positive-thinking crowd does, Ng suggests. I’m not like that, doc. I need my happiness. It’s my gift to the world. I’ll go c-c-c-cuckoo if I don’t find it. [He blows a tiny bugle hanging off his baggy outfit.] Whew. Well, you and Thomas Jefferson may not like it, but the unrelenting pursuit of happiness can make people miserable. The happier you think you should be, the more likely you are to be disappointed, says Iris Mauss of the University of Denver. She finds that, when daily stresses are low, women who value
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Outlet: The Washington Post
Title/Program: Openly gay Republican crashes the party
Publication Date: 02/02/2011
Media Type: Online Print Version
Extract: would dress up, take the train into Chicago, waltz into formal banquets and enjoy a fancy meal as if he belonged. “He loved to be the center of attention, but also the engineer behind the scenes,” says his good friend Gary Wolfson, who attended high school and the University of Denver with Fred. “He always tells people he was a class clown. I think of him more as the class instigator.” He wasn’t a standout student or athlete, but his Eddie Haskell nature was a fit for politics. He phone
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Outlet: United Press International
Title/Program: Economic Outlook: Those gilded golf carts
Publication Date: 02/02/2011
Media Type: News Service/Syndicate
Extract: …year, taking all their additional compensation in restricted stocks. By and large, however, “Things are shifting back to where they were before,” said University of Denver Law professor J. Robert Brown, an expert in corporate compensation and governance issues. In fact, pay is up at financial firms as percentage of…
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Outlet: PBS/Public Broadcasting Service
Title/Program: Nova
Media Type: Television Network
Total TV Households: 2,389,710
Publication Date: 02/02/2011
Extract: Can innovations in materials science help clean up our world? In “Making Stuff: Cleaner,” David Pogue explores the rapidly developing science and business of clean energy and examines alternative ways to generate it, store it, and distribute it. Is hydrogen the way to go? What about lithium batteries? Does this solve an energy problem or create a new dependency? Pogue investigates the latest developments in bio-based fuels and in harnessing solar energy for our cars, homes, and industry in a program full of the stuff of a sustainable future.University of Denver graduate student Eva Hakansson was featured,touting the virtues of electric vehicles.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/making-stuff-cleaner.html
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Outlet: PBS/Public Broadcasting Service
Title/Program: PBS NewsHour
Media Type: Television Network
Total TV Households: 2,389,710
Publication Date: 02/02/2011
Extract: And we get more now on all of today’s developments from Nader Hashemi, an assistant professor of Middle East politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver; Leslie Campbell, regional director for the Middle East and North Africa at the National Democratic Institute; and Chantal Thomas, former head of the Law Department at the American University in Cairo. She’s a professor at Cornell Law School and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton.http://cisionpoint.com/MonitoringList.aspx?WorkspaceId=190263070
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Outlet: ACS Blog
Title/Program: Colorado Lawyer Chapter: TSA Airport Searches and Enhanced Pat-Downs: Security vs. Privacy | American Constitution Society
Publication Date: 02/03/2011
Media Type: Blogs
Extract: on Twitter at , and keep up with blog posts, announcements, video uploads and more. Colorado Lawyer Chapter: TSA Airport Searches and Enhanced Pat-Downs: Security vs. Privacy Feb 10 2011 – 6:00pm Event Description: ACS and the Colorado Bar Association’s Civil Rights Committee along with the University of University of Denver Sturm College of Law‘s Federalist Society Chapter and American Civil Liberties Union Student Chapter present “TSA Airport Searches and Enhanced Pat-Downs: Security vs
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Outlet: Denver Post
Title/Program: Embrace Egypt’s “new beginning”
Publication Date: 02/02/2011
Media Type: Daily Newspaper
Extract: …beginning” that President Obama called for in Cairo in June 2009. Ved Nanda (vnanda@law. du.edu) is director of International Legal Studies at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law…
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Outlet: DenverPost.com
Title/Program: Sen. Mark Udall to push amendment to balance federal budget
Publication Date: 02/02/2011
Media Type: Online Print Version
Extract: , a spokesman for Bennet, said Bennet applauds Udall for his leadership. “Congress already has the constitutional authority to balance the budget and should exercise it. In the near term, we should use the momentum the deficit commission has given us. Sen. Bennet believes the Senate should have this debate now, proceed to legislation and take an up-or-down vote,” Bozzi said. University of Denver political scientist Peter Hanson said the moves by Democrats Udall and Bennet to strive to be thrifty
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Outlet: thedenverchannel.com
Title/Program: Embattled Pinnacol Assurance Board Member Off Board
Publication Date: 02/02/2011
Media Type: Online Broadcast Version
Extract: Carroll D-Aurora. “I think its a good start. I think there is more housecleaning that needs to be done.” “Board members taking this kind of travel and entertainment, ethical or not ethical?” Kovaleski asked University of Denver professor Jim O’Toole in January. “From the point of view of an ethicist, I would think what they did does not pass the test of reasonable behavior or reasonable expense, particularly given that this is a quasi-public organization,” said O’Toole. O’Toole has experience
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Outlet: Intermountain Catholic
Title/Program: Juan Diego will host the State Steel Drum Festival – Intermountain Catholic
Publication Date: 02/02/2011
Media Type: Online Print Version
Extract: . “Miller is a well-known steel-band composer and arranger and has toured all over the world,” Blodgett said. “He is the leader of a steel-drum group called Pan Ramajay. I have listened to them for years and purchased arrangements and compositions he has written. I called and asked him if he would like to come to our festival. He teaches at the University of Denver in Colorado, and was happy to come because we are so close.” This is the second year for the festival. Blodgett said a steel drum festival
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Outlet: globeandmail.com
Title/Program: Why the crisis in the euro zone aint over til its over
Publication Date: 02/02/2011
Media Type: Online Print Version
Extract: are shifting back to where they were before,” Professor J. Robert Brown of the University of Denver told the newspaper. Boyd Erman’s Morning Meeting The big profit numbers for hedge fund managers (like John Paulson’s $5-billion score) will goad regulators into more regulation of the industry, Streetwise columnis Boyd Erman writes today. In Personal Finance today When buy and hold turns into buy and forget, your portfolio becomes a muddle. In this week’s Cash Clash, a couple wants to hit $1
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Outlet: iHaveNet.com
Title/Program: Education: Colleges Go Green for Earth Day | Zach Miners
Publication Date: 02/02/2011
Media Type: News Web Sites
Extract: waste. Cash prizes of up to $250 are given to the most humorous and educational videos. The University of Denver is also going all out for its Earth Day-related programming in honor of the 40th anniversary. Thirty days of events have been planned throughout April, including a “Why Should I Bother” campaign, designed to highlight reasons why students should bother driving less, conserving water, conserving electricity, and recycling. Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vt., is taking
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Outlet: LA Biz Observed
Title/Program: Wednesday morning headlines
Publication Date: 02/02/2011
Media Type: Blogs
Extract: Stocks edge lower: Slight pullback after yesterday’s big day. Dow is down about 10 points. Private sector adds 187,000 jobs: January’s numbers are ahead of expectations but below the gains in December. Government’s employment report comes out Friday. ( Reuters ) Wall Street pays out big time: Total compensation and benefits hit a record $135 billion in 2010, according to a WSJ analysis, up 5.7 percent the year earlier. “Things are shifting back to where they were before,” said J. Robert Brown
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Outlet: Think Progress
Title/Program: ThinkProgress » ThinkFast: February 2, 2011
Publication Date: 02/02/2011
Media Type: Blogs
Extract: for their golden golf trips. Last year, “total compensation and benefits at publicly traded Wall Street banks and securities firms hit a record of $135 billion,” at a time when the nation continues to struggle through one of the worst economic periods in its history. “Things are shifting back to where they were before,” said Robert Brown, a University of Denver law professor, about Wall Street pay before and after the recession. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) believes the guns used to killed a border patrol
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Outlet: Waldo’s Virginia Political Blogroll
Title/Program: Two Years Later and Nothing Has Really Changed
Publication Date: 02/02/2011
Media Type: Blogs
Extract: ‘s 1% increase was just a fraction of the industry’s revenue jolt from 2008 to 2009 as trading and investment banking sprang back to life. ” ‘Things are shifting back to where they were before,’ ” said J. Robert Brown, a law professor at the University of Denver who studies compensation and corporate-governance issues. “In some respects, this is reaffirming news–reaffirming in that, for those of us who have argued that nothing much has changed, this is concrete evidence. “Let me make three
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Outlet: Daily Bruin
Title/Program: Smoking ban for college compuses less productive than intended
Publication Date: 02/03/2011
Media Type: News Web Sites
Extract: , Davis School of Medicine University of Kentucky University of Florida University of Denver University of Maine University of Montana University of New Mexico Washington University SOURCE: American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation, American Lung Association Compiled by Andra Lim, Bruin senior staff. Possibly Related 11:34 PM FEB 1 JAN 31 JAN 28 JAN 27 Smoking is almost synonymous with the perception of New York City culture. Yet the City University of New York recently
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Outlet: International Business Times Australia
Title/Program: Colorado Secy. of State Gessler abandons plans of moonlighting for law firm to supplement income – International Business Times
Publication Date: 02/03/2011
Media Type: News Web Sites
Extract: work on this issue,” he added, as “I have decided that I will not go forward with my initial plans.” Gessler, however, did not say whether his recent decision was influenced by any advise Suthers might have made. Nonetheless, he did say that his announcement doesn’t mean he won’t do any part-time work at all. Gessler, a graduate from University of School of Law, is now considering teaching at the University of Colorado and University of Denver law schools and hasn’t also completely ruled
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Outlet: Naked Capitalism
Title/Program: Yves Smith « naked capitalism
Publication Date: 02/03/2011
Media Type: Blogs
Extract: Portfolio strategist, hedge fund manager, and sometime Naked Capitalism guest blogger Marshall Auerback spoke on BNN about the implications of unrest in the Middle East for the economy and investors. Enjoy! Check in here at 8 PM to watch the Dylan Ratigan “Innovation in America” panel discussion as part of its Steel On Wheels Tour tonight at 8pm EST at the University of Denver. The panel will include Andrew Jenks, from MTV’s World of Jenks, Nicole Glaros, Managing Director of Tech
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Outlet: NOVAKEO.COM – Independent Journalism for the Independent Mind
Title/Program: Occult Pagan Revival Signals Death of America and the West
Publication Date: 02/03/2011
Media Type: Blogs
Extract: any other.” (The New Age Movement and the Biblical Worldview: Conflict and Dialogue, John P. Newport, Eerdmans,1998) Dr. Carl Raschke also notes with alarm America’s downward spiral into the madness of occult spirituality. He points out that the decadence, pornography, mass murders, criminality, the ’new religions,’ and Satanism in American culture have certain social and spiritual ties that bind them together, revealing that they are part of a similar spiritual genus. In “Satanism
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Outlet: POKERNEWSDAILY.COM
Title/Program: Legality of Poker to be put to the Test in South Carolina
Publication Date: 02/03/2011
Media Type: News Web Sites
Extract: world for the South Carolina case as well as the (PPA), who allegedly helped fund a recent court victory in Colorado. There, Kevin Raley was on trial, as operating a poker league could have been considered illegal gambling. As part of the case, the PPA invited Robert Hannum, Professor of Statistics at the University of Denver, to testify that poker is a game of skill and therefore not illegal under state law. The PPA operates a Litigation Network that is open to its paid membership. The Network
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Outlet: Principled Progressive
Title/Program: Wall Street Pay Record: “Things Are Shifting Back to Where They Were Before”
Publication Date: 02/03/2011
Media Type: Blogs
Extract: in 2009. The increase was fueled by a revenue rebound as the financial crisis recedes in the rearview mirror. At 25 large financial firms that have reported full-year results, revenue rose to $417 billion, another all-time high, even though last year’s 1% increase was just a fraction of the industry’s revenue jolt from 2008 to 2009 as trading and investment banking sprang back to life. “Things are shifting back to where they were before,” said J. Robert Brown, a law professor at the University
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Outlet: The Spectator, Seattle University
Title/Program: The Spectator – Seattle University & Capitol Hill student newspaper
Publication Date: 02/03/2011
Media Type: News Web Sites
Extract: classes or elective classes, and I’d like to see us do something like that,” Niles said. Another facet of the law school curriculum Niles would like to improve would be the number of international programs and study abroad options the students have at this point in time. “We just approved a summer program in Guatemala that’s going to allow students to study in Guatemala in both English and Spanish,” Niles said. “It’s a wonderful program that we are doing in partnership with the University
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