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Columns::January 14, 2002

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Law school partners on new national center
The School of Law’s Dean Rusk Center will be a collaborating partner in the first National Sea Grant Law Center, which will be housed at the University of Mississippi School of Law.
The purpose of the new center is to integrate efforts of ocean and coastal law research centers nationwide and to provide outreach and advisory services to the National Sea Grant College Program and its constituents. As part of the team, the Rusk Center will contribute research on international law developments as they affect coastal and marine resource management.
“By its very nature, the ocean requires us to think more holistically about its management, from the coastal zone to the high seas,” says Dorinda Dallmeyer, associate director of the Rusk Center. “This is an exciting project that will permit us to play a major role in developing policy conferences and for our students and faculty to contribute analytical research on international issues important to Georgia and the nation. I am particularly pleased that financial support from the UGA
Sea Grant College Program will open new opportunities for our law students to focus on the other 70 percent of the planet.”
Other collaborating institutions include the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami, the Ocean and Coastal Law Library at the University of Oregon and the Nova Southeastern Law Center.
The National Sea Grant Law Center will officially begin offering its services on Feb. 1.

Literary magazine features previously unpublished work of Faulkner, Wright
On March 15, 1940, William Faulkner typed a six-page letter to Methodist bishop Robert E. Jones of Columbus, Ohio, responding in great detail to the bishop’s request for information about the Oxford, Miss., writer’s views on the role of African-American “mammies” in southern race relations. Never before published, this important document by the Nobel Prize-winning Faulkner is reproduced in manuscript facsimile in the fall 2001 issue of the Georgia Review, UGA’s internationally known journal of arts and letters.
Appearing in the same issue is James Wright’s unpublished “The True Shape of Poetry: A Reading and a Conversation,” transcribed from tape recordings made in 1969 at the University of Colorado. Wright became a major figure in 20th-century American poetry during his short life. His first collection, The Green Wall, was chosen by judge W.H. Auden to receive the Yale Younger Poets Prize; he published seven more volumes in the next 20 years, including The Branch Will Not Break, Collected Poems and To a Blossoming Pear Tree.

Grady students named Gannett Scholars
Three Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication students have been accepted into the Circulation Specialist Program of Gannett Newspapers. Roseanne Ackerman, Henry Dionne and Joe McLaughlin are three of only five to six individuals nationwide accepted into the program this year. Gannett’s community newspapers offer a “fast track” for college graduates. Upon completion of the programs, graduates are placed in entry-level management positions.
“This situation is unique in that the Grady College has never sent this many representatives at once to this reputable organization,” says Conrad Fink, professor of journalism.
During the three-year program, specialists see firsthand how circulation, news, marketing, advertising, production, finance and information systems have to inter-relate everyday to produce and distribute the newspaper. Specialists will also acquire management experience in the circulation sales and marketing department and will be involved with the implementation and management of special projects throughout the newspaper environment.

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