Students, with film
The annual Student Photography Show is now open at the Tate Student Center Gallery and will run through March 25. This is the 13th year the Tate Center has displayed students’ photographic works.
60 prospective freshmen
interview for Foundation Fellowships
 Sixty prospective freshmen competing for UGA’s most prestigious scholarship award for undergraduates came to campus for the last leg of the selection process Feb. 25 and 26.
The students—from Georgia and nine other states—are finalists for the Foundation Fellows Program, which not only covers the full cost of attendance at the university, but provides travel-study and professional-- development grants and a variety of academic enrichment opportunities.
Strength and Inspiration
Chana Kai Lee was only a child that day in April 1968, but she knew from her mother’s voice that something irrevocable had happened.
“A friend of hers had called on the phone, and I could hear my mother say, ‘They killed [Martin Luther King Jr.]! I knew they would! I knew they would!’ ” says Lee, an associate professor of history and Women’s Studies at UGA. “Until then, I’d never seen my mother cry.” Lee’s interest in the civil rights movement grew through her years in high school, as an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley and then as a graduate student at UCLA. One result, published last year, is For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a biography of one of the “mothers” of the civil rights movement.
A new kind of college
Ron Pulliam, Regents Professor of Ecology, chaired the Environmental Programs Enhancement Committee which this month proposed that UGA create a College of the Environment. He spoke with Columns about the committee’s proposal.
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State announces preliminary choice for PPO health care
 Although the state has made a preliminary choice of an organization to provide health-care services to state employees, including University System of Georgia personnel, detailed information about specifics of the plan probably won’t be available for a while, says Loretta Harper, UGA’s associate vice president for human resources.
Louis Sohn remembered
as dedicated university
alumni leader, supporter
 Louis S. Sohn Jr., an ardent UGA supporter and alumni leader, died Feb. 23 at his home in Marietta following a lengthy illness.
A retired Marietta businessman, Sohn was a 1940 UGA graduate and was president of the University’s Alumni Society in 1989–91. He had also served as a trustee and treasurer of the UGA Foundation and had been a trustee of the Georgia Student Educational Fund.
Women's History Month
During the month of March, the university will sponsor daily events as part of Women’s History Month, a national celebration that honors the history of women’s past and present achievements. The activities planned for the celebration cover a wide variety of topics and formats, from musical performances to lectures by renowned women scholars. The 2000 Women’s History Month theme is “Woman-kin/Womankind/Women Can!”
Art faculty hang it up
The Lyndon House Arts Center in downtown Athens is currently showing works by faculty members in UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. The exhibition, part of the “Celebrate 2000” campaign, will be up through March 25.
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