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'The Daily Tar Heel/Monday, Janaury 11, 1993
UNCW move means business as usual for couple
By Anna Griffin
University Editor
Howard and Joanne Rockness don’t
have to worry about a long-distance
relationship.
The Rocknesses—Howard, an asso
ciate dean in the Kenan-Flagler School
of Business, and Joanne, a professor of
accounting at N.C. State University
both applied for jobs in the UNC-
Wilmington’s Cameron School of Busi
ness. Thanks to what the UNCW chan
cellor called "a happy coincidence,”
both got the jobs they applied for
Howard as dean of the school and Joanne
as the Cameron professor of account
ing.
“The application process for the pro
fessorship and the dean’s position were
handled entirely separately,” said
UNCW Chancellor James Leutze. ‘This
was just a happy coincidence.”
The two appointments were approved
Friday by the Board of Governors.
The search for a UNCW business
school dean attracted 60 applicants.
Rockness was chosen because of his
national reputation and his wide range
of experience, Leutze said.
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Howard Rockness
“We were looking for someone who
would enhance the reputation of the
school and who cared about public ser
vice,” Leutze said. “We want to en
hance the school, to make it as student
oriented as possible.”
Howard Rockness, who has led a
major overhaul of the Kenan-Flagler
masters-of-business-administration pro
gram, echoed Leutze’s sentiments and
said his first objective at UNCW was to
make the business school a part of the
community.
“My first goal is to make this a busi
ness school that is customer-oriented,”
he said. “Our business school needs to
be very aware of who it serves, includ
ing the local business community, North
Carolina, and certainly including stu
dents and the parents of students.”
Howard Rockness will oversee a
school that employs about 50 faculty
members and serves 1,600 students,
including freshmen and sophomores
who have not declared majors. UNCW
has almost 8,000 students overall.
The new UNCW dean has served as
associate dean for the Kenan-Flagler
MBA program since 1988. In 1984 he
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“(The canceled stamp) might be
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Before coming to UNC-CH,
Rockness taught at Dartmouth College
and Duke University and worked for
the U.S. General Accounting Office.
He is a graduate of the University of
Washington.
Joanne Rockness has taught at N.C.
State since 1983 and has won several
teaching awards during her tenure.
Rockness is a graduate of Western
Michigan University and taught at UNC
CH from 1982 to 1983.
At UNCW, Joanne Rockness will
assume the Cameron professorship,
UNCW’s first joint state and privately
funded chaired professorship. “We
wanted someone for this chair who
would bring it the prestige it deserved,”
Leutze said. “Because of Dr. Rockness’
background and national reputation, we
knew she was that person.”
Parker, a UNC graduate student. The
stamps are one way she can share with
her 8-year-old son the kind of music
that she likes, she said.
Elvis fan Kristin Hicks of Chapel
Hill said she probably would use the
120 stamps she purchased.
“It’sjust fun,’’she said. “I think people
will love to get an Elvis stamp on their
letters.”
UNC gets ringing
inaugural role
Staff Report
While students and faculty mem
bers are busy ringing in the new se
mester, UNC administrators are pre
paring to help ring in the new adminis
tration of President-elect Bill Clinton
literally.
The historic bell in South Building
will ring for the first time in more than
a year later this month as part of Bells
for Hope, a nationwide event sched
uled for Sunday.
The South Building bell will sound
just before 6 p.m. Jan. 20. At the same
time, Clinton will ring a replica of the
Liberty Bell at Arlington National
Cemetery.
The University was one of2oo sites
chosen for the event.
The South Building bell once was
used to mark the time and to celebrate
major sports victories.
In recent decades, its primary use
has been to mark events important
around the world and in the University
community, including the death of
President John Kennedy in 1963 and
Chancellor Paul Hardin’s inaugura
tion in 1988.
The bell was last used in October
1991 to kick off the Bicentennial Cam-
1993
for Clinton, Washburn said. The presi
dent-elect might face health challenges,
assassination attempts and many inter
national crises. But whatever Clinton
achieves in office during his first term
will occur this year, Washburn said.
Hardman predicts Clinton will not
win a second term in the 1996 presiden
tial race due to tremendous money prob
lems and his inability to live up to his
promises of change. The Leo president
will be succeeded by a Taurus —a
Republican in his 40s, she said.
Washburn, who predicted Clinton
would win the presidential race, said it
was too early to say whether Clinton
would win a second term. The astrolo
ger sees Jack Kemp as the Republican
front-runner in ’96 and an “important
transfer of power” in the year 2000.
Hardman has good news for N.C.
liberals: U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, a
Libra, will retire by September due to
health problems, and the person who
replaces him will be someone he will
not have hand-picked.
As for third-term Gov. Jim Hunt, a
Taurus, who lost an ugly race to Helms
for the Senate seat in 'B4, Hardman said
the Wilson native was at a career peak.
But don’t expect the governor to an
nounce any big plans until August,
Hardman said. “He will go in there
carefully.” And he’s likely to have yet
another term in office, she said.
Washburn, who predicted to the
month the start of the Persian Gulf War
eight months in advance, sees Iraqi Presi
dent Saddam Hussein making many
headlines this year, especially from April
19 to April 22. “He’s going to be very
bad, very aggressive,” Washburn said.
“He will be creating trouble through the
mid-’9os.”
The astrologer said that further war
fare would occur between Iraq and Iran
and that Hussein could resort to using
biological and nuclear weapons. “There
will be non-stop trouble (in the Muslim
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paign, the $320 million fund-raising
campaign scheduled to coincide with
the University’s 200th birthday cel
ebration.
Tyron Palace in New Bern is the
only other N.C. site taking part in the
Bells for Hope ceremony.
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world) for the remainder of the de
cade.”
Cuban President Fidel Castro will be
ousted by the end of this year or by the
end of ’94 at the latest, and Cuba will
make the swiftest conversion to capital
ism of any former socialist state,
Washburn said.
The future doesn’t look bright for
Russian President Boris Yeltsin either.
The leader, who has pushed for rapid
democratic change in the wake of com
munism, will be out by the end of this
year or next, Washburn said.
Washburn, who has predicted Duke
University basketball team’s NCAA
championship wins the past two years,
said Duke and Carolina would do well
this year. A Duke fan for most of his
life, Washburn said Duke coach Mike
Krzyzewski was at a 21/2 century peak
and would be difficult to beat. “(But)
the more successful Coach Krzyzewski
is, the more it will light a fire under
Dean Smith.”
Although Washburn said he would
not make his predictions for this year’s
Final Four until March, he is certain that
an N.C. team, either UNC or Duke, will
win the NCAA championship in 1994,
when the Final Four is played in Char
lotte.
Charlotte, also ’at a 2 1/2 century
peak, will be awarded an NFL franchise
team in the next two years, and the
Charlotte Hornets will reach the NBA
playoffs, Washburn said.
Snow might be in the air. The Tri
angle will experience moderate-to-se
vere cold temperatures in 1993 with the
possibility of some snow, he said. There
will be snow and lots of it in ’94. “1994
will be very cold, very wet,” he said.
The astrologer said he made his pre
dictions after much research and after
he was fairly certain of them. “I love my
work,” he said. “Astrology is a valuable
science, and the proof is in the pud
ding.”