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Columns::September 4, 2001

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UGA cannot use race in making admissions decisions, court rules

The board of regents and University of Georgia have three weeks to decide whether to appeal an Aug. 27 federal court ruling striking down the university’s use of race as one of several factors in a small portion of its admissions considerations. Before a decision is announced, President Michael F. Adams plans in-depth consultation with legal counsel and with the chancellor, the governor and other state leaders who have strongly supported the university’s defense of its admissions policy.

Art Rosenbaum’s mural ‘The World at Large,’ celebrating the programs sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and Arts, is on display in the center offices in the psychology building.

New mural depicting humanities and the arts at UGA will be unveiled September 4

Art Rosenbaum, the first Wheatley Professor in the Fine Arts at UGA, will unveil his newest mural, The World at Large, on Sept. 4 in the Center for Humanities and Arts, located in room 164 of the psychology building. The center will celebrate the completion of the mural with a four-day, public open house, from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Sept. 4-7.
Rosenbaum will present a public lecture discussing the mural on Sept. 6 at 5:30 p.m. in room 117 of the visual arts building.

Curtain rises on University Theatre’s season

The drama department will begin the 2001-2002 season of University Theatre on Sept. 19 at 8 p.m. with Buried Child, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Sam Shepard. Performances will run through Sept. 26, at 8 o’clock each evening except Sept. 23, which will offer a 2:30 p.m. matinee. On Sept. 22 there will be both a matinee at 2:30 p.m. and an evening show. Tickets are $10 general admission, $8 for students, from the University Theatre box office (542-2838) in the lobby of the Fine Arts Building.

Athens lab among four U.S. sites approved by NIH for stem-cell research pool

Athens-based BresaGen, for which University of Georgia cloning expert Steven Stice is a key consultant, holds four of the 64 lines of embryonic stem cells announced last week by the National Institutes of Health as being eligible for federally financed research.

Work in progress

Duane Ritter

Last year, the university contracted for a study of UGA’s pay-and-classification system by the firm of Deloitte and Touche. Now that the study has been completed, the Division of Human Resources is preparing for the next steps. Columns discussed the plans and issues with Duane Ritter, director of the office of Organizational Design and Compensation Services.

Slice of (a writer’s) life

In April 1984, Peter Taylor came to Athens. The noted Southern writer had been invited to spend a week on the

Hubert McAlexander

University of Georgia campus, meeting with students and faculty members. His host was English professor Hubert McAlexander.
Driving Taylor to his house for dinner that first evening, McAlexander was stuck by Taylor’s famous charm, as Taylor directed the conversation toward McAlexander, who is from Holly Springs, Miss., near Taylor’s own beloved Memphis. The evening was a notable success.
“The next morning, I told him I wished to be his biographer,” McAlexander remembered some years later. “ ‘Oh no,’ he said, ‘I haven’t had a very interesting life’--and then he proceeded to start telling me stories.”
Those stories, and dozens of interviews with Taylor, his family and friends, led McAlexander to write Peter Taylor: A Writer’s Life, just published by Louisiana State University Press.

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