Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Today’s Response
Middle Tennessee State University
Buy now or bye-bye.
The home buyers’ federal tax credit sent Tennesseans rushing to take advantage in the second quarter. Home sales rose in Nashville, Memphis and Knoxville, according to Tennessee Housing Market, a publication of MTSU’s Business and Economic Research Center. It states, “The pattern of sales during the past three quarters resembles a sawtooth as buyers react to the tax credit. On balance, second quarter sales in Memphis reverted to about the same level as in the fourth quarter of 2009. The second quarter bounce for Knoxville was somewhat lower. Inventories fell somewhat in Nashville and Memphis but rose in Knoxville.”
Contact the Business and Economic Research Center at 615-898-2610.
Getting back into the swing of things
Now that Tiger Woods’ divorce is final, and his ex-wife is telling her side of the story in People magazine, how should he move forward? His golf game clearly has suffered since last year’s Thanksgiving Day incident, and he needs a good performance to merit being chosen for this year’s USA Ryder Cup team. Realizing that hindsight is 20/20, Dr. Mark Anshel, health and human performances, says, “Instead of hiding out, I would have confessed very quickly to infidelity, received personal and family therapy and moved back to golf rather quickly.” That said, Anshel adds, “He may also want to find some spiritual way of coping with recent life events, as was the case with so many other well-known individuals whose integrity was publically compromised, and, finally, to surround himself with people he trusts and will not allow him to repeat mistakes.”
Contact Anshel at 615-898-2812.
manshel@mtsu.edu
Employees grouse about noncompete contracts, and they have varying lay opinions about the pacts’ enforceability. Drs. Patrick Geho and Stephen Lewis write in Proceedings of the Academy of Entrepreneurship, “With the lack of a uniform federal statute concerning noncompete agreements in general, states have crafted legislation of their own. Some states look at noncompete agreements as creating an undue restraint of trade and, therefore, against public policy. Other states consider noncompete agreements enforceable in relation to a condition of employment and where limited in scope, typically referring to time and geography language in the agreement.”
Contact Geho at 615-898-2745 or pgeho@mtsu.edu.
Contact Lewis at 615-898-2902 or slewis@mtsu.edu.
IF YOU YEARN TO LEARN—“Adventures in Learning,” the annual mini-school for adults age 50 and above, will take place from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 13, Sept. 20, Sept. 27 and Oct. 4 at First United Methodist Church, 265 W. Thompson Lane in Murfreesboro. The purpose of the event, which is planned by an interfaith coalition, is to provide a program by and for older adults in which they can shore knowledge, talents and skills for lifelong learning and personal growth. As usual, retired and active MTSU faculty will play prominent roles in the event. A highlight will be “Mount and Mountain,” a dialogue between Dr. Rami Shapiro, adjunct professor of religious studies and an ordained rabbi, and Dr. Michael A. Smith, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Murfreesboro. This class will be based on online conversations Shapiro and Smith conducted about the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. To register, or for more information, contact Mary Belle Ginanni at 615-895-6072.
“A HEALTHY STATE ENCOURAGES MANY VOICES—AND LOTS OF LISTENING.”—HHS SECRETARY KATHLEEN SEBELIUS--Expressions of confidence, faith, defiance, togetherness, satire and sobriety characterize the second edition of Voices We Haven’t Heard, a publication of MTSU’s June Anderson Center for Women and Nontraditional Students. The latest Voices is larger than last year’s edition, and it includes feminist poetry and prose nestled between glossy, colorful covers. Center Director Terri Johnson says the magazine empowers students by providing them with a creative outlet for their observations on racism, sexism, classism, homophobia and other forms of oppression. Voices We Haven’t Heard is free and available from the June Anderson Center in its new home, Room 320 of the Keathley University Center. For more information, call 615-898-5989 or go to www.mtsu.edu/jac.
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