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POLITICAL MIGHT Stetson has eight alumni who currently are members of the Florida Legislature. (In addition, Pam Bondi ’90 J.D. is Florida attorney general.) Hatters in the Florida Legislature: • Senate President Joe Negron ’83 • Sen. Jack Latvala ’73 • Sen. Kathleen Passidomo ’78 J.D. • Rep. James Grant ’09 J.D. • Rep. Thomas J. Leek ’97 J.D. • Rep. Scott Plakon ’81 • Rep. Chris Sprowls ’09 J.D. • Rep. Cyndi Stevenson ’81 Editor’s note: While Senate President Joe Negron pledges to continue keeping a watchful eye on all of Florida’s universities, his most recent action exhibited environmental stewardship, Pam Bondi ’90 J.D. another issue important to Stetson. Negron saluted Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s signing in June of House Bill 7077, Gulf Coast Economic Corridor, which ensures funds received in the settlement of the state’s economic damage Joe Negron ’83 claims caused by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill remain in Northwest Florida’s “eight disproportionately affected communities.”
The Stetson Ethics Team included, from left: Alex Overdijking, Megan Christopher, Sarah Klass and Nate Smith. Team members assumed the identify of corporate consultants.
ALL ABOUT ETHICS Stetson students placed second in their division in the International Business Ethics Case Competition, held in April in Santa Monica, California. The undergraduate field across all divisions included 24 institutions from the United States, Spain and Australia. The University of Illinois won the competition. Stetson team members included Megan Christopher, Sarah Klass, Alex Overdijking and Nate Smith, who were coached by Areti Vogel, instructor of management at Stetson, and Jim Beasley, Ph.D., professor of management in Stetson’s School of Business Administration. Teams invited to the competition select their own case for presentation at the event; the Stetson team prepared a case titled “Johnson & Johnson: A Credible Credo?” Student teams were asked to assume the identity of consultants who are offering advice to a company considering how to deal with an ethical dilemma facing the firm. — Marie Dinklage
DID YOU KNOW? Stetson is surveying its buildings this summer as part of a campuswide effort to switch to LED lighting. Stetson’s Board of Trustees in May approved $1.5 million in the upcoming budget for energy-saving projects, including the retrofitting. The projects are part of the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment. The university is striving to become carbon-neutral by 2050.
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