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Thursday, January 20, 2005 •Page 5
Red Hat CEO strives for values in corrupt business
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Rachel Abbott
Business Manager
In a world of corruption, some men
and women strive to maintain values
-with courage and conviction.
Matthew Szulik, CEO, chairman, and
president of Red Hat, aims to do just
that.
Szuliic, the keynote speaker for the
Jan. 12 Leadership Lecture Series,
said he is searching for people with
the capacity to lead.
“My responsibility,” Szulik said,
“is to recruit.”
Szulik spends 40 percent of his
time recruiting future leaders for his
computer software technology com
pany. His leadership values revolve
around those that guided his World
War II generation, he said. As a
leader, Szulik tumed the vision of giv
ing away free software into a reality,
despite criticism and rough patches
along the way. Today, Red Hat is sold
in 51 countries, by investors like Dell, and ranks among giants
on the Fortune 500 list.
Although Red Hat is a rising corporation, Szulik comes from
Though he was greatly missed at home while traveling around the world and work
ing late hours at the office, I couldn’t be more proud of his determination and
vision to change the technology industry and use his gifts to improve educational
opportunities for students of all backgrounds worldwide.
- Kaitlin Szulik, daughter of Matthew Szulik
Laura Hals I photographer
Matthew Szulik, CEO of Red Hat, spoke as
part of the Leadership Lecture Series in
Whitley Auditorium.
humbler beginnings. His daughter
Kaitlin, an Elon freshman, introduced
him to the audience with stories about
his first paper route at age seven with his
dog Tippy and paying his way through a
Catholic high school. His goal was in
life was to become the
leader of a 50million
dollar corporation.
Teary eyed, she strug
gled to finish the intro
duction about her dad.
“His leadership in our
rapidly growing world
has instilled values in me
so that I hope someday I
can make as big of an
impact in anything that I choose to do. I also
could never thank him enough for sacrificing so
much in his life just so that 1 could grow up without the pain he
went through aschild and be able to reach whatever star I had
my heart set on,” she said.
Contact Rachel Abbott at peiidulum@elon.edu or 278-7247.
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Business center construction
will affect McMichael parking
Sarah Mospr
Copy Editor
As work on the new Koury Business Center
begins two months early, students and faculty
can already see the changes around campus.
One change is the closing of the lower
McMichael parking lot due to construction.
Taking its place will be a new fountain outside
of the Koury Business Center.
So far the closing of the parking lot has not
brought up many complaints said Smith
Jackson, vice president and dean of student
life. “We knew that the lower lot would be
closing, so we moved the physical therapy stu
dents over to the East Gym lot which was dou
bled in size over the summer,” Jackson said.
“This parking lot has plenty of room for any
overflow.”
However, there is a university committee
looking ahead at future parking problems and
accommodations, Jackson said. The
McMichael parking lot has always had open
spots, but in the spring, during peak class
times, spots may be hard to find and students
will have to use the East Gym parking lot,” he
said. However, after 3 or 4 p.m. there should
be no problems, he added.
At the moment, the committee is looking at
possibly restricting students who live on the
west side of campus, near the West End
Apartments, from driving to class during busy
hours. However, this would not take affect
until next fall at the earliest, Jackson said. He
went on to say that the restrictions would not
be because of the new business facility or the
loss of the lower McMichael parking lot.
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or 278-7247.
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