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System upgrade
Four planned projects will improve campus safety, access, appearance
Head count
Replacement UGACards are now available
Law prof owes career choice to ‘life lesson’ learned from game
Administrative Changes
Alumni Club opens
Battle for the South
The South--once solidly Democratic, then a Republican stronghold of late--may not be so solid
any more, according to an Associated Press national wire story on the potentially crucial role the region could play in the November elections. The article quotes UGA political science professor Charles Bullock, who predicts the South will be the most Republican region in the country. “But that doesn’t mean the Democrats can’t pick off some states,” said Bullock. A sweep of the South would provide more than 140 electoral votes--more than half the number needed to win the presidency.
Saving coral reefs
In a Miami Herald article, UGA ecologist James Porter, who has done extensive research on coral reefs for the Environmental Protection Agency, says that a new government plan to rescue the reefs may not be enough. The proposed rescue plan calls for banning fishing in at least 20 percent of the country’s coral areas by the end of the decade and for increasing spending on reef conservation from $11 million to $25 million a year--with most of the money used for mapping and monitoring endangered reefs. “We need to watch, but we also need to do,” said Porter. “We need both research and implementation.”
Gene-altered foods
Fox News reports that the Food and Drug Administration may soon perform safety reviews on all genetically modified foods, if a pending House bill is passed. Bio-tech companies would pay a “user fee” to fund the tests, and foods likely to cause allergic reactions would be banned from sale. An online Fox story quotes Susan Wessler, a UGA expert in corn and rice genetics, on new technology being used by an Australian researcher to encourage plants to mutate and evolve--sidestepping critics who are wary of genes being transferred between different organisms. “There’s the idea that this is less objectionable because you’re not putting in foreign DNA, so maybe people will eat the stuff,” said Wessler.
M.B.A. recruiting
The New York Times notes that the Internet economy is changing the face of campus recruiting for M.B.A. students--sending big-name investment banks and consulting firms to business schools beyond the handful of elite schools traditionally visited. The University of Georgia is noted as an example of a school that has taken advantage of the new opportunities by becoming more aggressive about selling itself. The article quotes Kim Gattiker, assistant director of M.B.A. career services in the Terry College of Business, who tells of successfully pitching firms that had previously not looked at UGA students.
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