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Columns::February 18, 2002

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Senior VP Costello will step down March 1

Senior Vice President for External Affairs Kathryn R. Costello

informed the board of trustees of the UGA Foundation at their winter meeting in Atlanta Feb. 8 that she will step down March 1 from her position with the university and as president of the foundation.
She told the trustees she wants to pursue a long-held goal of becoming a full-time consultant in the area of higher education external affairs before the end of the five-year period necessary for a planned capital campaign. Therefore, the timing was right to take this action before the campaign begins. She said she had discussed her decision with President Michael F. Adams in December and made her plans final in January.

International symposium examines change in Europe

UGA’s Center for Humanities and Arts will sponsor an

Kai Eide

international symposium on Feb. 20-22 on “Globalization and Change in Europe.” It is the eighth in the CHA Program for Global Understanding. Approximately 20 distinguished artists, scholars and diplomats will come to Masters Hall in the Georgia Center for Continuing Education to join in unrehearsed discussions about the effect of globalization on the economies of Europe, on cultural identities, and on the arts.
Ambassador Kai Eide, ambassador and permanent representative of Norway to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, will give the keynote address at 8 p.m. on Feb. 20. Eide was special representative of the secretary-general of the United Nations and head of the U.N. mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997 and 1998. He chaired the OSCE Permanent Council in 1999.

State legislator will give Black History Month lecture

Charles Walker

Georgia Sen. Charles Walker will deliver a lecture Feb. 19 at 4 p.m. in the Chapel. The lecture, sponsored by UGA in recognition of Black History Month, is free and open to the public.
First elected to the state Senate in 1990, Walker is now serving his fifth term as representative of the 22nd District, which includes portions of Richmond County. In 1996, he became the first African American to be elected majority leader.

Journalist Bernard Shaw to speak Feb. 19

Bernard Shaw, broadcast journalist and former CNN anchor, will speak at 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 19 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Shaw, who recently retired from the Atlanta-based cable network, will receive the Distinguished Achievement Award in Broadcasting from UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and its student broadcasting society, Di Gamma Kappa.

The British are coming: Oxford Union to debate team of UGA students

On Feb. 21 at 8 p.m. in the Chapel, a debate team from the Oxford Student Union at Oxford University in England will match wits with a team of debaters from UGA. The debate, “Genetic Research and Manipulation Has Gone Too Far,” will be judged by a distinguished panel, including UGA President Michael F. Adams, law professor Peter Appel, the Hon. Norman S. Fletcher (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia), Sen. Douglas P. Haines, political science professor Thomas P. Lauth, the Hon. Lawton Stephens and Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial page editor Cynthia Tucker.

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