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RAIN 6/18: Weekend Update



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Chattanooga Times Free Press 6/15/01
Fallout from the UT fiasco
http://www.timesfreepress.com/2001/jun/15jun01/timesedit1.html

Details emerging around the resignation from the University of Tennessee of
Pamela Reed, protégé of former UT President Dr. Wade Gilley, bring into
sharper focus why Dr. Gilley abruptly resigned his post two weeks ago after
declaring days earlier that he would not resign. E-mails, discovery of
falsified credentials and other documentation turned over from UT's
investigation into Mrs. Reed's background suggest that Mrs. Reed was
improperly elevated and developed a personal relationship with Dr. Gilley
that came to undermine the tenure of both officials. The situation is, as UT
Trustee Bill Sansom told this newspaper, "a sad thing for the university,
and we need to get it over with."


The Hamilton Spectator 6/15/01
Harris office searched
http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/news/427786.html

by Richard Brennan
Torstar News Service
Royal Canadian Mounted Police have searched Premier Mike Harris's offices
for confidential documents related to the Walkerton tainted-water tragedy.
The Toronto Star has learned that the search, which occurred late Wednesday,
was undertaken as part of the public inquiry into how the water tragedy
happened and into allegations the government ignored early warnings about
inadequate water quality inspections in the province. 


E&P Online 6/14/01
Earnhardt autopsy dispute not over
http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stories/061401n8.htm

by Mike Branom
AP
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- (AP) The dispute over Dale Earnhardt's autopsy images
is not over despite a judge's ruling that a college newspaper and a Web site
can't have access to the photos. 
"What were going to do next is look at a motion for a new trial on some
evidentiary issues," said Tom Julin, an attorney for the Independent Daily
Alligator, a student-run newspaper at the University of Florida. "Once
that's resolved -- and I'm sure the judge will deny that -- then we'll go to
the District Court of Appeals." 



News 24  6/13/01
Historians dismayed at PAC archive ban
http://news.24.com/News24/South_Africa/EasternCape/0,1113,2-7-836_1038863,00
.html

Grahamstown - Historians expressed dismay at the Pan African Congress (PAC)
clamping a 50-year ban on more than 60 confidential documents that were
handed over for storage at Fort Hare University on Tuesday. 
Professor Paul Maylam of the Rhodes University History Department said this
suggested the party had "something to hide". 
He said the ban, which prevents anyone - especially researchers - from
gaining access to the documents, was "rather disturbing". 


Houston Chronicle 6/17/01
All may not be lost on damaged computers
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/944529

by Tom Fowler
When Carol Blanchard moved into her new home office in northern Harris
County a few weeks ago, she thought nothing of placing her computer tower on
the floor next to her desk. 
"It's just like I'd done the last eight years," said the owner of a small
home-remodeling business and a real estate leasing company. 


The Times-Picayune 6/16/01
School system to redo shredded papers
Officials: no public record laws broken
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/neworleans/index.ssf?/newsstory/o_shred16.html

by Brian Thevenot
The New Orleans public school system plans to re-create the calculations it
used to figure school rankings for 47 of its low-performing schools after
shredding that documentation once the scores were initially figured. 
While maintaining that the district did not run afoul of public records laws
in shredding the original hand-written documentation, the school officials
said Friday they will re-create the data to show the public they're not
concealing anything. 


Atlanta Journal-Constitution 6/16/01
State's crash data a wreck
Poor records could threaten federal funding
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/saturday/local_new
s_b3a27f4721d611ea00a1.html

by Joey Ledford
Georgia's highway crash records system is so badly flawed that the latest
three years of data "cannot be salvaged through any correction process" and
will cost an estimated $4.5 million to restore, according to state documents
and key officials. 
Hanging in the balance is up to $1 billion in federal highway funds the
Federal Highway Administration is threatening to withhold if the state fails
by June 30 to produce a plan to salvage the data in a timely manner. 



Toronto Star 6/16/01
'Nothing to hide,' Harris says of search
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Artic
le_Type1&c=Article&cid=992658294204&call_page=TS_Ontario&call_pageid=9682562
89824&call_pagepath=News/Ontario&col=968342212737

by Richard Brennan
Premier Mike Harris denies he's hiding anything from the Walkerton
tainted-water inquiry, despite a search this week of his offices by RCMP
computer experts looking for documents and computer e-mails related to the
tragedy. 
``I'm always disappointed that people would think that we've got anything to
hide,'' Harris said yesterday in North Bay after The Star revealed RCMP
investigators searched his offices for confidential material. 


Toledo Blade 6/16/01
Opinion: Guarding the watchdogs
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=TO&Dato=20010616&Kate
gori=OPINION02&Lopenr=106160044&Ref=AR

If you can't trust the watchdog agency at the Pentagon to play by the rules,
who can you trust? The inspector general's office at the Defense Department
is supposed to expose fraud within the department, not perpetrate it, but
according to an internal investigation, that's exactly what it did.


Toledo Blade 6/16/01
Site filled with sights of vintage America
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=TO&Dato=20010616&Kate
gori=ART14&Lopenr=106160043&Ref=AR

by Tom Gearhart
Here's a twist: A Web site for an online magazine that no longer exists.
>From 1996 to 1999, Retro was an award-winning weekly magazine that dished up
articles on 20th-century public culture - notable personalities, fashion,
design, music, media, and all things that might be called vintage Americana.
Two years ago this month, the magazine folded its tent, but lucky for us,
Retro's founders left behind all of its back issues, searchable by edition
or category.


TXCN 6/15/01
Porn found on computer of MHMR case worker
http://www.txcn.com/texasnews/394921_TXCN_ww_PornComputer.html

Associated Press
Fort Worth - Authorities say they found 97 images of child pornography on a
computer owned by a Tarrant County MHMR case worker who formerly worked for
Child Protective Services. 
Dewey Mark Logan Jr., 26, faces a possession of child pornography charge. He
posted a $25,000 bail bond Thursday, a day after being arrested, and was
released from Tarrant County jail. 


Washington Technology 6/16/01
Records Management still looking for respect
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/16_6/features/16691-1.html

by Heather Hayes
Records managers often see themselves as the Rodney Dangerfields of the
information technology world. Their projects are rarely given the same
standing as issues such as e-government, enterprise resource planning or the
year 2000 compliance problem. Agencies frequently overlook electronic
records management as a requirement in overall information management
strategy. And this trend, industry observers say, has continued even into
the Internet Age. 


Washington Technology 6/16/01
A new course
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/16_6/features/16691-2.html

by Heather Hayes
Keeping track of the personnel records of more than 2 million soldiers and
reservists is no easy task, but it's one the Army has long taken seriously.
The information contained in each record, after all, is critical to
everything from promotions and field commendations to health care and
post-Army employment. 


Chicago Tribune 6/17/01
Dealers gain collector's trust , score multimillion bonanza
http://www.chicagotribune.com/version1/article/0,1575,SAV-0106170293,00.html

by Howard Reich and William Gaines
On the last day of his life--his hearing nearly gone, his body bent with
arthritis, his frame reduced to skin and bones--Gerald Segelman found solace
close at hand. With no children to comfort him and no family to gather at
his bedside, Segelman turned to the objects he had spent a lifetime
pursuing: dozens of gleaming Stradivari, Guarneri and Amati violins making
up the world's most extensive private collection. 



Hoover Digest 2001 No. 1
Documenting Romania's long struggle 
http://www.hooverdigest.org/011/danielson.html

by Elena S. Danielson
When I first started working in the Hoover Archives in 1978, George Duca, a
European gentleman in his seventies, came to the reading room of the Hoover
archives every morning promptly at 7:45, impatient to get to work. He spoke
both English and French with a slight Eastern European accent. I discovered
that he had donated the memoirs of his father, Ion Duca, the prime minister
of Romania who had been assassinated by the fascist Iron Guard in 1933. In
the years between the two world wars, when a small educated elite was
struggling to establish stable nation-states in Eastern Europe, the loss of
a leader of Ion Duca's stature was devastating. His assassination was part
of a tragic chain of events that plunged Romania first into fascism and then
communism. His son was motivated by both personal and historical obligations
to keep the memory of prewar Romanian culture alive.


Houston Chronicle 6/17/01
Storm water debates resurfaces
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/topstory/944746

by Bill Dawson
Environment Writer
Before the water receded, last weekend's flooding had reignited a debate
over the best ways to coexist with Houston's chronic inundations. 
Once again, discussions about man's relationship with nature mingle with
political exchanges about this flood-prone city's historic reliance on
unplanned and largely unfettered development. 


San Francisco Chronicle 6/17/01
Embattled Napster CEO speaks to librarians about copyright issues
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2001/06/17/fina
ncial1132EDT0003.DTL&type=tech

by Ron Harris
Associated Press
Embattled Napster Inc. chief executive Hank Barry took the stage at a
conference of librarians Saturday to speak about the thorny issues
surrounding his troubled song-swap company -- issues that could soon vex
libraries as well. 
Sitting alongside privacy experts, Barry sought to dispel the notion that
copyright issues illuminated by Napster's legal woes would disappear once a
new, legal version of the song-sharing software debuts later this summer. 


New York Times 6/17/01
Court papers suggest Christie's hid knowledge of price fixing
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/17/nyregion/17SOTH.html

by Carol Vogel and Ralph Blumenthal
When charges of collusion between Sotheby's and its archrival Christie's
first surfaced in 1997, top officials at Christie's repeatedly denied to
lawyers that the company had hired to conduct an internal investigation that
any improper conduct had taken place, according to court papers quoting a
confidential report to the European Commission. 


The Flint Journal 6/17/01
Pact bans resale of copies
http://fl.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20010617f17a3eastpointlapee
r.frm

by James L.. Smith
A new contract between the Lapeer County register of deeds and title
insurance companies that purchase daily filings at the office will prohibit
resale of the documents. 


The Advocate 6/17/01
Researcher puts together story of submarine U-166
http://www.theadvocate.com/news/story.asp?StoryID=22416

by Bruce Schultz
Acadiana bureau
LAFAYETTE -- For 33 years, Charles "C.J." Christ of Houma has combed the
Gulf of Mexico searching for a German submarine, the U-166, sunk during
World War II.
Earlier this spring, he was in the Gulf near Dauphin Island, Ala., on a
hunch that the sub might be found east of Louisiana where it could have sunk
as it limped toward home after being hit by a depth charge.


Dallas Morning News 6/17/01
Houston flood wipes out years of medical research
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/396134_research_17tex.html

by Terri Langford and Bruce Nichols
HOUSTON - Try to put a value on the cure for a disease. 
In some cases, numbers - at least 22 people killed and $2 billion in
property damage - tell the story of heartache and loss because of Tropical
Storm Allison and the pain that will be felt in the Houston area for years
to come. 
But researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas
Health Science Center at Houston see an additional, devastating toll: the
loss of key weapons in the worldwide battle against misery and illness. 


Salt Lake Tribune 6/17/01
It's employer's duty to verify that employees are legal
http://www.sltrib.com/06172001/commenta/106230.htm

by Edward McDonough
Every employer in the United States is required by law to obtain, from every
person hired, proof of the employee's identity and proof that the employee
has the right to work in the United States. 




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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