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Columns::January 27, 2003

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Parking services makes temporary move
UGA Parking Services is moving to a temporary facility directly across River Road from the East Campus Parking Deck. The current office will remain open through Jan. 30, and the new office will be operational Feb. 4. Contact by phone with Parking Services staff may be intermittent during the move-in period, and walk-up service will be unavailable. The current Parking Services facility is being demolished to make way for the East Campus Village residence halls.
In case of emergency during the move-in period, contact Joyce Hardman, auxiliary services director, at 542-6997 or jhardman@uga.edu or alternatively contact 542-7275 or parking@uga.edu.

UGA Press book named NBCC finalist
Major Jackson’s Leaving Saturn, published January 2002 by the University of Georgia Press, is among the poetry finalists announced earlier this month for the National Book Critics Circle prize. The awards ceremony is Feb. 26 in New York.
Leaving Saturn, also this year’s winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, uses formal and free verse poems to render visible the spirit of resilience, courage and creativity Jackson witnessed among his family, neighbors and friends while growing up in Philadelphia.
Other nominees in the poetry category include Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest by B.H. Fairchild, Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen, The Unswept Room by Sharon Olds, and Without End: New and Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski.
This is the consecutive third year a UGA Press title has been an NBCC finalist. In 2002 As Eve Said to the Serpent by Rebecca Solnit was a criticism finalist, as was A Poetry of Two Minds by Sherod Santos in 2001. The press had a winner in the poetry category with Albert Goldbarth’s Heaven and Earth in 1991.

Grady students among most promising
Two students in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication are among the Top 25 Most Promising Minority Students in the United States, according to the American Advertising Federation.
Alexandria Weems, a senior from Riverdale, and Victoria Rovirosa, a senior from Miami, will be featured with the other 23 finalists in the Feb. 10 issue of Advertising Age.
“This is quite a tribute to the hard work and talent of these students, and it is a very nice career launcher for them as well,” says Karen King, department head of advertising and public relations. As part of their recognition, Weems and Rovirosa will fly, all expenses paid, to New York in February to network, interview with and be honored by some of the top advertising agencies and advertisers in the country.
“To effectively promote products and services in today’s diverse marketplace, the advertising industry needs to increase the number of minorities at all levels of decision making,” says King.

Poet/editor gives reading on Jan. 31
Allison Joseph, author of three poetry collections and an editor for Crab Orchard Review at Southern Illinois University, will read from her work at noon on Jan. 31 in 261 Park Hall (the English department library). Her reading, co-sponsored by the Georgia Poetry Circuit and The Georgia Review, is open free to the public.
Joseph’s first volume, What Keeps Us Here (1992), won Ampersand Press’s Women Poets Prize and the John C. Zacharis First Book Prize given by Ploughshares and Emerson College. The second and third books both came out in 1997--and each was in a prestigious poetry series: Soul Train from Carnegie Mellon University Press and In Every Seam from the University of Pittsburgh Press.

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