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Columns::September 23, 2002

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UGA again named one of America’s top public universities

The University of Georgia has again been named one of America’s top 20 public universities by U.S. News and World Report, which annually ranks colleges and universities. UGA is tied for 18th--the same position it held in the 2002 rankings--with the University of Maryland at College Park.
“The fact that U.S. News has again recognized the University of Georgia as one of the best public universities in America is very encouraging,” says President Michael F. Adams. “And it’s true--this is one of America’s best public universities. We are attracting and educating some of the best students in the country. We are creating new knowledge and addressing the problems of society through research. And we are serving the people of Georgia and this country in new and exciting ways.”

The atrium in the administration building

The atrium in the historic administration building will be named this month in honor of the late Gordon Jones of Atlanta, a UGA graduate and long-time business and civic leader in the state.

Administration building atrium named for business, civic leader

The atrium in the historic administration building will be named this month in honor of the late Gordon Jones of Atlanta, a UGA graduate and long-time business and civic leader in the state.
Portraits of several past UGA presidents hang in the atrium, which will be named the Gordon Jones Gallery.
The gallery will be a memorial to Jones by his family, which recently donated $500,000 to UGA. A private naming ceremony for the family will be held Sept. 27. The gift is unrestricted and will be placed in an account used to meet the university’s most pressing academic needs.

The $6.7 million student-athlete academic center will be dedicated Oct. 12 before the Tennessee game.

New athlete academic center named for Rankin Smith Sr.

The UGA Athletic Association has received a gift of $3.5 million from members of the Rankin M. Smith Sr. family to help fund the new student-athlete academic center.
The new $6.7 million facility is part of the “Investing in Champions” Athletic Association initiative and, in recognition of the gift, will be named the Rankin M. Smith Sr. Student-Athlete Academic Center in honor of the UGA alumnus and former owner of the Atlanta Falcons. Dedication of the new center is scheduled for Oct. 12 at 11 a.m., prior to the Georgia-Tennessee football game in Athens later that day.

Historian to present Charter Lecture about 1904 ‘childnapping’ incident

When New York nuns took 40 Irish orphan children to live with Mexican Catholic families in a remote Arizona mining camp in 1904, they thought they were performing a humane and charitable act. What they sparked, instead, was a dark moment in American history: a violent racial and religious flare-up in which the children were kidnapped by a vigilante squad, the nuns were almost lynched, and the Catholic Church lost a Supreme Court battle to retrieve the orphans.
Historian Linda Gordon’s 1999 book, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, about the largely forgotten incident was praised as an important contribution to understanding the clash of class, culture and race in America’s past.
Gordon presents the fall semester Charter Lecture in the Chapel on Sept. 25 at 4 p.m.
Her talk, titled “Vigilantism and Childnapping in the Arizona Territory: Race and Family Values,” is open free to the public.

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