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| Columns::September 16, 2002 Parting thoughts: Provost reflects on successes, challenges of her tenure at UGA The forest and the trees Southern forest products industry loses $430 million Fiber artist’s exhibition challenges stereotypes about ‘women’s work’ Helping hands University Council will consider domestic partners policy at first meeting Sound science Campus Closeup Two curators, deputy director join Georgia Museum of Art Good vibrations Campus News Newsmakers El Niño’s beginnings Both msnbc.com and usatoday.com reported on the study of ancient Peruvian fish bones by Fred T. Andrus, a postdoctoral associate in UGA’s geology department. Andrus and his colleagues determined that El Niño started about 6,000 years ago. “Our data strengthen the argument that El Niño, as we know it, began relatively recently,” Andrus said.
Accounting for the effects Marc Lipson, associate professor of finance, suggested that ongoing uncertainty about the reliability of accounting procedures may have introduced volatility in a recovering economy. “In the absence of accounting information, investors use other information,” he told the Washington Post. Rejecting government intervention The Oregonian quoted William Lee of UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication in its report on the Federal Communications Commission decision that cable companies don’t have to share their networks with competing Internet service providers. “The FCC is saying, ‘Local governments should keep their hands off of it, but we should keep our hands off of it also,’ ” Lee said. “This will basically mean that the market for cable modem service will largely develop with little government intervention.” Islamic diversity on campus Newsweek reported on the potential clash between militant and moderate Muslims on campuses around the world, quoting UGA’s Alan Godlas, professor of Islamic studies. “Traditional Islamic education encompassed both what we would call religious education and the hard and soft sciences--logic, astronomy, mathematics,” he said. “The world was seen to be nothing but the signs of God. Muslims were supposed to study the world so they could study the signs of God.” Heart-warming story ABC News, and ABCNews.com, reported on the story of the recycled pacemaker. Before 80-year-old Dorothea Edwards died in February, she instructed her family to give her pacemaker to a needy patient--and the patient turned out to be Sunshine, a nine-year-old German shepherd with a weak heart. After Edwards’s death, her family learned that federal regulations prohibit person-to-person donations of pacemakers, so the family carried out her wishes by giving the pacemaker to UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Edwards was retired from the UGA faculty. Talmadge the populist In its coverage of the death of Herman Talmadge, Georgia senator and governor, the New York Times quoted Charles S. Bullock of UGA’s political science department. As chairman of the Agriculture Committee, then-Senator Talmadge pushed through the Rural Development Act of 1972 to promote jobs and infrastructure in rural areas and helped expand the food stamp and school lunch programs. That was consistent with his record as governor from 1948 to 1955, said Bullock. “There was a populist streak,” he said. “He built more schools and roads than most governors.” Kim Carlyle of the UGA News Service monitors coverage of UGA in local, state and national media. Contact her for information about these or other stories in the news. Newsmakers appears in every other issue of Columns. |
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