Closer to home
New Alumni Club in Atlanta
officially opens Feb. 26
The new UGA Alumni Club, located in the Atlanta Financial Center in Buckhead, will officially open Feb. 26 with a gala black-tie event.
The 10,000-square-foot space is leased by UGA’s National Alumni Association, which in turn will offer the facilities to alumni and to UGA schools and colleges and other units for meetings and functions.
The club includes a variety of meeting rooms--ranging from an intimate conference room that seats eight people to a high-tech seminar room that can accommodate up to 75.
Committee proposes creating
College of the Environment
UGA should create an innovative College of the Environment that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries and draws together faculty and students to make UGA “the pre-eminent environmental university of the 21st century.”
That’s the recommendation of the Environmental Programs Enhancement Committee, formed this past spring by Karen Holbrook, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, in response to President Michael F. Adams’s request for consideration of a new environmental college.
‘PUMPING’ it up
Nobody knows how much water Georgia farmers pumped into their fields over the dry summer of ’99--or, for that matter, over any other summer.
With demands on water resources mounting, it’s a weakness the state can’t afford to carry into this millennium. So the DNR is funding a UGA project called Ag Water PUMPING (Potential Use and Management Program IN Georgia).
Sitting in judgment
 Proponents of tort reform cite an avalanche of tort filings and outrageous fortunes awarded by juries as prime reasons to overhaul the entire system. But an interdisciplinary study by law professor Tom Eaton and political science professor and criminal justice studies director Susette Talarico refutes those premises. Eaton and Talarico discussed their new study with Columns.
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Three finalists named
for service vice president
 Three finalists have been chosen for the position of vice president for public service and outreach at the university.
The finalists, chosen by a search committee from among about 50 candidates, are: Thomas F. Rodgers, Arthur N. Dunning and Janet K. Lewis.
Struggle for social justice
 A documentary chronicling the efforts of the first African American to sue for admission to the UGA School of Law will premiere Feb. 28 at 10:30 p.m. on Georgia Public Television. A screening is scheduled for 6:15 p.m. Feb. 22 in Masters Hall of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
University Council to consider commencement, child care, parking at next meeting
A proposed August commencement ceremony, a feasibility study for a campus child-care facility, and a procedure for faculty input on campus parking policies are among topics that will come before the University Council this month.
The council’s Executive Committee voted to place these and several other issues on the agenda for the council meeting Feb. 24 at 3:30 p.m. in the law school auditorium.
Chamber orchestra comes
to Performing Arts Center
The chamber orchestra known as the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields will appear in Hodgson Hall at 8 p.m. on Feb.26. Tickets ($35–$39) are sold out, but the box office in the Performing Arts Center (542-4400) is taking names for the waiting list.
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