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April 3,2002
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Volume XVIII, Issue 32^
Politics professor’s first book
to be published in April
□ Professor’s
book explores how
globalization affects
labor unions.
Tiffany Adams
staff Reporter
A Meredith professor’s
book on the global trends
among labor unions will stock
book shelves by the end of this
month-
The book. Going Global:
Unions and Globalization in
the United Slates. Sweden and
Germany, is Dr. James
The assistant politics
professor said Going Global
is based on his dissertation that
was written in 1999.
Piazza wanted to pursue
publication because he felt
that the book should have
more of an audience than
the dissertation committee.
However, the endeavor
was a combination of
personal curiosity and
professional reasons.
In Going Global, Piazza
explores how globalization--
the term used to describe the
expansion of industries
overseas in order to find
cheaper and more compliant
labor-affects labor unions in
three industrialized countries.
He compares metalwork-
many p>eople is that
globalization adversely affects
unions because companies can
move jobs overseas and avoid
dealing with resistance
from unions.
However, through his
comparative study, Piazza
found that while globalization
has hurt American unions, it
has not affected German
unions as much.
His book attempts to resolve
why this is true.
Piazza asserts that “this is
because of the unique system
of German industrial relations,
which allows unions to
Sweden are powerful because
of their close link with the
Social Democratic Workers
Party. German unions are
moderately sized, strong and
politically independent.
Piazza said he does not plan
to use this book in any of his
classes because it is far too
advanced for undergraduate
study.
He does feel, however, that
the book could be used in
graduate level study.
Going Global will be of
particular interest to political
scientists and those interested
in international business and
economics.
Piazza said that the
experience of writing a book
has been “a difficult but
rewarding process.”
“It is a daunting experience
because a book seems like
such a huge i^k, and it was
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ing and textiles unions in the
United States, Sweden and
Germany.
Piazza said that the
traditional expectation of
negotiate the changes
associated with globalization.”
Unions in the United States
are characteristically weak and
declining, while unions in
Mass comm students visit
Big Apple over break,
explore careers
Rcgiatim gets
new computer
program to make
registering easier
□ Students talk to
professionals in the
communications
field in NYC.
Kasey Overton
staff Writer
The hustle and bustle of
New York City posed no threat
for Mass Communication
majors.
Over Easter weekend,
Meredith students from
the Mass Communication
department to New York City
to talk to professionals in the
communications field.
The Meredith College
Video Club sponsored the trip.
When the 20 students
arrived in the “City That
Never Sleeps,” their first stop
was 1010 WINS, the top AM
radio station in New
York City.
They met the News
Director for the station, and he
gave them advice about the
broadcasting industry.
While taking a tour of the
radio station, the students had
the chance to talk to the
entertainment reporter who
had just gotten back
from the Oscars.
The group also attended a
theater class and particpated in
acting excericese. While in the
class, they met a dancer/singer
who was in the Broadway play,
Aida, written by Sir Elton John
and Tim Rice.
Since going to the play was
part of the itinerary, the actor,
Michael Serapiglin, told them
what it was like to be a
performer on Broadway.
“It felt like we had a friend
that was in the show,” said
sophomore Meredith Collier.
The students also toured the
Museum of Television and
Radio. The museum is set up in
many different screening
rooms, which play old
episodes of favorite TV shows.
There is also a library in the
museum holding old videos
and radio shows that visitors
can watch and listen to.
Sophomore Amanda Denny
said the trip was worthwhile
because “it helped us realize
where we want to go
in communications.”
“[We] went to a muse
um...AWa and a radio station,
so we got to see what goes on
behind the scenes.
□ Automated
waiting lists will be
available for
preregistration.
Christina Holder
Editor In Cfilef
It's registration season, and
for many students at
Meredith, that means camping
outside the Registrar’s Office
in a line that seems longer than
the one at the polls on
election day.
Imagine forgoing the line,
or better yet, imagine
registering for courses from a
faculty adviser’s computer.
That is the future of the
Registrar’s Office through a
computer program it will be
using for the first time during
preregistration this month.
The College has owned the
Windows-based program
called Datatel for several years
but has not implemented it in
the Registrar's Office until
now.
The first office to use the
Datatel system was the
Accounting office a few years
ago. Admissions went live
with the program just last year.
And now it’s the
Registrar’s turn.
The program boasts features
such as a computerized
wailing list for courses that are
closed, an automatic degree-
auditing function and an
instant messaging system that
lets the computer-user know if
a student has enough
prerequisite courses to enroll
in a certain course.
During preregistration this
month, however, the waiting
list is the only feature that will
be used in the Registrar's
Office.
According to Registrar Sue
Todd, the other features will
be implemented over the next
few years.
Todd said that implementing
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