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...indicates that faculty can influence the university president’s behavior, Krauss said. And his discontent is not unique on Case’s campus. “Everyone’s counting noses now,” said Case Associate Professor of History and Law Kenneth F. Ledford. “But there certainly is no reservoir of support for the president.” Ledford said that Hundert’s three years in office have been marked by “mal-administration” of major initiatives. Krauss’s decision, however, was motivated...
...Bill Ledford, editor of the weekly paper in Vidalia, Ga., popped into the Vidalia Chamber of Commerce the other day with an idea about a porcelain onion. He told Dick Walden, the executive vice president of the Chamber, that he had met an artist in Charleston, S.C., and that he harbored a notion to commission her to fire him up some onions. "She makes squash, beans, everything," said Ledford, a little excitement rising in his voice. "She even makes an onion," he continued, "but it doesn't look like our onion. It's not flat and squatty enough...
...Ledford, his eye on a buck, would like to market the artificial onion. The thing was, he explained, he wanted to put the registered trademark of the Vidalia sweet onion, a cartoonish character called the Yumion (sort of the Pillsbury Doughboy of the onion racket), on his product, and for that he needed permission from the Chamber. Walden said he would bring it up at the next board meeting, but he suspected Ledford "could bank on it." The editor bounded out, a happy...