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Womanist journal available
The latest issue of Womanist Theory and Research is now available. The journal features articles on the development of the black feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s and essays on African-American women’s literature.
It also includes artwork by Jerushia Graham, a UGA senior art major whose fabric designs and other artwork have been exhibited at the Georgia Museum of Art, the state Capitol of Georgia and the university’s Thomas Street Gallery.
Edited by UGA faculty members Barbara McCaskill and Layli Phillips since its inception in 1994, WTR is devoted to black feminist scholarship. A publication of UGA’s Institute of African-American Studies, WTR is supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships. The journal is now published twice a year to disseminate scholarship on women of color in the humanities and social sciences.
Annual subscriptions are $11/individual (United States), $22/individual (outside United States), $33/institutional (United States) and $44/institutional (outside United States). The newsstand rate is $5 per issue.
To order WTR, send either a check or money order, in U.S. currency, made payable to the University of Georgia. Subscription forms can be downloaded from the WTR Web site (www.uga.edu/~womanist). For more information, send an e-mail to womanist@arches.uga.edu or call (706) 542-5197.
G-Day game cancelled
Repairs to the Sanford Stadium playing surface due to contamination from an as-yet unknown source have forced the upcoming G-Day spring football game to be cancelled.
“In order for the field to be ready this fall, we have to start the reconstruction process now,” says Vince Dooley, athletics director. “Though we have had to cancel the game for this spring, G-Day is a tradition we intend to continue in the future. We are particularly disappointed since we have traditionally used the game as a charity event for different organizations throughout the community.”
This year’s G-Day game had been scheduled for Saturday, April 8. Habitat for Humanity, which was slated to receive proceeds from the event, will be the beneficiary for the 2001 G-Day game.
Student wins national post
UGA sophomore Carol Spruill has been elected national vice president of the Future Farmers of America Southern region. Her primary duties include serving members nationwide and speaking at conventions.
The 19-year-old Spruill is taking a year-long leave of absence from school, during which she will travel more than 100,000 miles around the country. She and the other five officers on her team will meet with government, education, business and agriculture leaders as well as with other FFA members across the United States to conduct workshops, talks and conferences.
Spruill plans to return to Athens in the spring of 2001 to continue her studies in agricultural sales and law.
Miller is SEC Player of Year
Southeastern Conference media named basketball player Kelly Miller the SEC Player of the Year March 6, giving the point guard a clean sweep of the league’s top honors this season. On March 1, Miller received the same honor in a vote of SEC coaches.
Earlier this season, Miller became the first women’s player in SEC history to compile 1,500 points, 400 assists and 200 steals as a junior.
Miller also was a unanimous choice to the five-player All-SEC first team, as voted by the media. She was joined by teammate Tawana McDonald. Junior Deana Nolan was a member of the seven-person second team.
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