Beyond the lemonade stand: SC Economics taps student entrepreneurs. PAGE 13
SPARTANBURGJOURNAL
Spartanburg, S.C. • Friday, August 17, 2012 • Vol.8, No.33
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The patent wars: Who owns your ideas? PAGE 11
Dr. Stephen Jones, president of Bob Jones University. PAUL MEHAFFEY / TOWN MAGAZINE
BACK TO SCHOOL
Bob Jones University president Stephen Jones returns to start a new year. By APRIL A. MORRIS | staff
Seven years after taking a job he didn’t always want, Bob Jones University President Dr. Stephen Jones is enthusiastic about the coming semester and returning to the post after a yearlong absence. “I’m getting my thoughts ready on how to challenge, inspire and encourage the faculty and the staff,” he says. Jones, 42, sat down in his spacious, antique-filled office last week to talk with the Journal just four weeks after returning from a 12-month leave to recuperate from persistent health issues. Jones says it wasn’t until he was in college that he thought seriously about becoming the university’s fourth-generation president. However, he laughed when he added, “People who taught me in nursery school, they always told me that I said I was going to be president.” JONES continued on PAGE 8
Hitting the trail with blueberry fanatics. PAGE 4
WILLIAM FOSTER. PHOTO COURTESY OF ARCADIA PUBLISHING
AUTHORS CELEBRATE LEGENDS OF GREER’S PAST.