Speaking the language
It’s after 11 p.m. and Josh McElroy, a sophomore from Douglasville, and his friends are in their pajamas, playing a game of Scrabble in the lounge of their dorm. It seems like just another Tuesday night at any residence hall on campus as the students laugh and joke with one another, but there is something different about this game and these students. McElroy and his friends have been spelling out words on the board for over an hour--and all the words are in French. They’ve also been speaking in French the entire time, laughing at each other when they try to cheat by making up words.
University delegation returns
from historic trip to North Korea
 UGA agricultural scientists made history last month as the first academic delegation to visit North Korea since the country closed its doors during the Korean War.
A delegation from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences visited North Korea on a four-day trip that ended Oct. 30. The group included Gale Buchanan, dean and director of the college; Ed Kanemasu, coordinator of the college’s international programs; Han Park, director of UGA’s Center for the Study of Global Issues; poultry scientist Nick Dale; and horticulturists Stanley Kays and S.K. Hahn.
Population boom leads
to population explosion
The population of Latinos in Georgia more than doubled in the 1990s, as families and individuals came here, principally from Mexico, to share in the economic boom. But along with relative prosperity has come a raft of problems, the worst of which are overcrowded and often shockingly substandard housing, along with a serious lack of public transportation.
Those are just two findings of a study by two professors at UGA. It is the first-ever statewide study of the problems of Latinos in the state.
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Patricia Kalivoda is appointed assistant VP for special programs
Patricia L. Kalivoda, who currently oversees faculty development and teaching improvement programs at the university, has been named assistant vice president for special programs in the Division of Academic Affairs.
Kalivoda, who is coordinator of faculty development in the Office of Instructional Support and Development and an adjunct assistant professor in the Institute of Higher Education, will fill the position left vacant by Carol Winthrop’s retirement earlier this year.
‘Livetext’: Yamacraw prof throws away book to teach computer programming
 David Gries has seen the future of college textbooks, and it’s only a click away.
His new text, ProgramLive: A Multimedia Java Learning Resource, has just been published—on CD-ROM.
All-American exhibitions
The Georgia Museum of Art is currently offering a varied look at 20th-century American art in three complementary exhibitions.
From 1945 to 1965, cutting-edge American decorative arts gained unprecedented popularity with the general public; works that combined beauty, utility and simplicity flourished in middle-class homes and office environments. The American Environment: Decorative Arts of the Mid-20th Century, on display through Jan. 7, features some of the iconic pieces of the era by its most famous and masterly designers.
Beginning Nov. 9, the museum will also offer an exhibition called In the City: Urban Views 1900-1940, which was organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art to showcase America’s tumultuous and dynamic urban settings of the first 40 years of the century. Fifty works--by artists such as John Sloan, Edward Hopper and Reginald Marsh--illustrate all walks of life in an urban setting.
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