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| Columns::August 27, 2001 Minority enrollment Gordhan Patel, grad school dean, named VP for research Dyer to step down as vice president for instruction Casting your vote Office manager in special education department receives college staff award Forest resources professor’s career branches off in different directions Watkins named School of Leadership director A new class of leaders New Media Institutute rocks Symposium focuses on vet research Campus News Newsmakers Extraordinary case The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the execution of Timothy McVeigh, convicted of bombing the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and killing 168 people, did not change the way most people feel about the death penalty, nor did it incite discussion about capital punishment. The Inquirer gathered opinions from several experts on the subject, including UGA law professor Donald E. Wilkes Jr., who said, “Judging the McVeigh case from the point of view of the death penalty is like treating the O.J. Simpson case as a typical criminal case. Both of them were quite extraordinary cases.” UGA calf cloning When UGA scientist and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Steven Stice announced a new cloning technique that significantly improves the chances of producing normal, healthy, cloned calves, the story was carried by the Associated Press and Reuters. At a press conference, Stice introduced eight calves that had been cloned from a single genetically superior cow using the new technique. The story also appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Austin American-Statesman, the Baltimore Sun, the Boston Globe, CNN, USA Today and elsewhere. Trying to catch the wind? UGA history professor James C. Cobb reviewed The Wind Done Gone, Alice Randall’s parody of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, for the Wall Street Journal last month. Cobb said Randall might have achieved her goal of writing a parody—and better served her social objectives—by telling her story more simply or even by writing a truly original novel uncluttered with distractions and references to Mitchell’s original work. “For all her talent, the first response to Ms. Randall’s name may well be a reference not to her book, but to the one she tried just a little too hard to discredit,” he concluded. Learning about E. Coli The Los Angeles Times chronicled the history of sickness and death caused by the bacterium E. Coli 0157:H7 and concluded that consumers are now more aware of the causes of E. Coli poisoning and less tolerant of poorly cooked and processed meat. Staying in two worlds The English department’s Judith Ortiz Cofer was featured in the Washington Post’s “Poet’s Choice” column last month. The column, written by poet Rita Dove, investigated Cofer’s refusal to limit herself to one cultural identity or one genre in her writing. Cofer was born in Puerto Rico, but grew up in the tough, urban climate of New Jersey. Her stories, essays and poetry form a rich commentary on the various ironies and frictions of two worlds rubbing together. Her poem “To Understand El Azul,” composed for UGA’s first Opening Convocation in 1999, was printed in the Post in its entirety. |
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