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Columns::March 10, 2003

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Symposium organizers (clockwise from left) Meggan Ballowe, Desiree Seibt and Tracy Walker are veterinary medicine students in the class of 2004.

Vet med students host international meeting

About 2,000 veterinary students from all parts of the United States, Canada and the rest of the world will converge on Athens for the 2003 SAVMA Symposium, hosted this year by the students in UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine. The event is scheduled for March 20-22 at the Classic Center in downtown Athens.
SAVMA is the student chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association. The annual symposium offers lectures and demonstrations as well as social events.

Daughter of Brown decision plaintiff to deliver annual Tresp Lecture

When she was a child in Topeka, Kan., in the early 1950s, Cheryl Brown lived four blocks from a school. But the school was all-white, and Cheryl and her older sister, Linda, were African American. Cheryl was too young to be in school, but Linda had to walk a mile to catch a bus to ride another two miles to an all-black school.
The girls’ father, the Rev. Oliver Brown, challenged Topeka’s segregated school system in what became one of the most famous court cases in U.S. history. The Supreme Court ruling in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case--that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal”--put an end to school segregation in America and enabled Cheryl to go to school with white children.
Cheryl Brown, now Cheryl Brown Henderson, will recount the celebrated case when she comes to the university March 12 to present the annual Lothar Tresp Lecture.

Symposium looks at ways to dismantle ‘persistent poverty’

On March 11, the Office of the Vice President for Public

James Ledbetter

Service and Outreach and the Carl Vinson Institute of Government will co-host a symposium on “Dismantling Persistent Poverty in the Southeastern United States: The University Challenge.” The symposium will take place at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education’s Masters Hall from 8:15 until 11 a.m.
The symposium stems from a study released by the Vinson Institute in November 2002. The study identified a 242-county region in the Southeast that has labored under a cycle of poverty for so long that some have termed the area “America’s Third World.” Home to 7.5 million people across seven states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia), the region represents the nation’s highest concentration of persistently poor communities. The symposium program will include a presentation of the report by Jim Ledbetter, director of the Vinson Institute, followed by a panel discussion of the study’s implications.

Members of Epsilon Brass Ensemble toot their own horns on March 14

The next 2nd Thursday Concert will be presented by the Epsilon Brass Ensemble at 8 p.m. on March 14 in Hodgson Hall. Tickets are $12 ($7 for students) and are available from the box office in the Performing Arts Center (542-4400).
This quartet of French musicians are guests in the School of Music March 5-16 as visiting artists for the Center for Humanities and Arts.

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