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Columns::September 9, 2002
Digest
Radio station co-sponsors political forum
WUGA 91.7 and 97.9 FM and the Athens-Clarke County Federation of Neighborhoods are sponsoring a public forum for all local candidates in the primary runoff election.
Candidates have been invited from the Athens-Clarke County mayor’s race, the commission district 9 post and the superior court judge’s position. The forum will be held in Masters Hall of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education from 8 to 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 9, the day before the runoff. The forum was originally scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian Center. It was moved to Masters Hall to accommodate a larger audience.
The forum also will be broadcast live on WUGA-FM.
Admissions opens Tifton office
The university’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions will extend its reach in south Georgia with the hiring of a new assistant director who will work from an office in Tifton.
Pedro Arroyo assumed the new position Sept. 4. His duties include visiting high schools and two-year colleges in south Georgia, coordinating admissions functions involving alumni, representing UGA at college fairs and maintaining regular contacts with counselors and prospective students and their families. He also will assist with admissions application and scholarship processing.
Arroyo will have an office in the Center for Continuing Education at the Rural Development Center in Tifton. This is the second UGA off-campus recruiting office opened this year. The other is in DeKalb County and is staffed by James Watkins, also an assistant director for undergraduate admissions.
Arroyo joins UGA from the College Assistance Migrant Program at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. He has spent several years as the training and career development coordinator for the Head Start program in 10 south Georgia counties. His background also includes marketing, communications and administrative experience in the corporate world.
“We are very pleased to have Pedro Arroyo join our staff to further our recruiting efforts in the south Georgia region,” says Nancy McDuff, UGA’s undergraduate admissions director. “He brings a great deal of knowledge and experience to the office that will be valuable in our efforts to serve all of the state of Georgia.”
Poll: Elected officials rank low on ethics
A recent Peach State Poll finds that Georgians have little faith in the ethics of their elected officials. Only 30 percent of those interviewed rate the ethical standards of Georgia’s elected officials as either very high (7 percent) or high (23 percent).
As an occupation, Georgia’s elected officials rank higher only than lawyers, auto mechanics, business executives, Washington, D.C.-elected officials and journalists in terms of perceived ethical behavior. Firefighters and medical doctors rank at the top of that list.
The Peach State Poll is a quarterly survey of public opinion conducted by the university’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government.
While 69 percent of the public believes that ethics in government is a greater problem today than it was in the past, a majority who believe this (62 percent) also believe that it is seen as a greater problem today because the public is more aware of ethical violations, not because elected officials are less honest. Only 23 percent of those surveyed say that elected officials today are less honest than those of 25 years ago.
These data are taken from a Peach State Poll survey conducted between June 10 and June 17. The poll included 801 telephone interviews of randomly selected adults in Georgia. For a sample of this size, the margin of error at the 95 percent confidence level is +/- 3.5 percent. |
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