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Columns::November 12, 2001

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Stadium, Brooks Drive projects begin
Two construction projects that were slated to begin after the final home football game will get under way as scheduled this week, even though the rescheduled home football season will not be completed until Dec. 1.
Renovation of the east end zone of Sanford Stadium to improve pedestrian access and concessions areas and the transition of D.W. Brooks Drive to a pedestrian mall both were slated to begin after the football game with Auburn on
Nov. 10.
Even though the football game with Houston originally scheduled for Sept. 15 was moved to Dec. 1 following the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York, the decision has been made to proceed with both construction projects as scheduled so as to avoid delay in contract completion.
The conversion of D.W. Brooks Drive to a pedestrian mall will be accomplished over several years. Work beginning next week will result in the permanent closing to vehicular traffic of the block of D.W. Brooks Drive between Carlton Street and East Green Street, effective Nov. 12. Subsequent sections will close as the work proceeds from south to north, ending at Cedar Street.
The work at Sanford Stadium beginning next week will result in two changes in traffic patterns and will continue until the project is complete in August 2002:
• The three-lane portion of East Campus Road directly behind Sanford Stadium will be reduced to two lanes, with one lane maintained in each direction; and
• Approximately 15 parallel parking spaces on Field Street adjacent to the east end zone of the stadium will be eliminated. One lane of traffic traveling one-way to the east will be maintained during construction.

Senator secures funds for Black Belt Study
U.S. Senator Zell Miller announced Nov. 5 that Congress has allocated $250,000 to examine the feasibility of creating a federal commission to address the persistent poverty and ills within the “Southern Black Belt.”
“This area is more impoverished than any other region of our country. That must change,” Miller says. “I am very pleased Congress has allocated money to look at how we might help this area prosper as other areas of the Southeast have.”
The funds will be used by UGA--working with other institutions in the region--to study whether there is a need for a federal commission to serve parts of the Black Belt and whether the model of the Appalachian Regional Commission would work there. The Appalachian Regional Commission has had a dramatic effect in improving the lives of Appalachia’s citizens--including those in Miller’s home region of north Georgia--since 1965.

Population Institute president lectures
Werner Fornos, president of the Population Institute, an organization that works to establish population stabilization as a priority in U.S. foreign and domestic policy, will speak on campus in November.
Fornos’s speech, entitled “Gaining People, Losing Ground: Population Growth and Socio-Economic Underdevelopment,” will be presented Nov. 16, at 3:30 p.m. in room 200C of the geology-geography building. The speech is open free to the public.
Fornos has been president of the Population Institute since 1982. He has spoken on issues of population growth around the world for more than 25 years and has also made extensive presentations in China, where he is an honorary professor of international relations at Sichuan University.
The “Educate America” campaign is a cornerstone project of the Population Institute and is directed toward raising public awareness about the impact of rapid population growth on the global environment, health and social well-being.

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