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Columns::September 29, 2003

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Priority seating: University sets spring 2004 policies for transfer admissions

The university announced earlier this month those policies that will govern admissions decisions on transfer applicants for spring 2004.
“Our goal for spring admissions is to try to accommodate those transfer students we could not admit in the fall because we had exceeded our enrollment limit with an unexpectedly high yield of incoming freshman students,” says Nancy McDuff, associate vice president for admissions and enrollment management.

UGA chapter recognizes contributions of four ‘distinguished’ citizens

The UGA chapter of Blue Key honor society will recognize the university’s most generous benefactors, a distinguished retired faculty member and the senior member of the University System of Georgia Board of Regents at the annual Blue Key Awards banquet Oct. 3.
The society will present Blue Key Awards to the late Bernard B. Ramsey and his widow Doris; J. Don Edwards, emeritus professor of accounting; and Elridge W. McMillan, a veteran education leader in Georgia and former chairman of the Board of Regents.
McMillan will be the featured speaker for the banquet, which will also include presentation of the Blue Key Young Alumnus Award to Robyn A. Painter, a law student at Georgetown University. Winners of the Tucker Dorsey Memorial Scholarship and BellSouth Leadership Scholarship will also be announced. The banquet will be at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.

Dean will step down at end of current academic year

Wyatt Anderson

Wyatt Anderson, who has been dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences since 1992, has announced that he will step down at the end of June 2004.
Anderson, an authority in genetics who is a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, will return to research and teaching in the college.
In announcing his decision, Anderson noted that he told former Provost Karen Holbrook more than a year ago that he wanted to step down. However, when Holbrook left the university this past October to become president of Ohio State University, UGA President Michael F. Adams asked Anderson to stay on until a permanent provost was appointed. Arnett Mace was appointed provost in March.

‘Freedom’ writers visit campus to discuss new UGA Press Book

“With God as my witness, I have been falsely accused of these crimes. I did not commit them. I’m an innocent man.” In 1983 Calvin C. Johnson Jr. spoke these words to a judge who later handed down a life sentence for rape and related crimes. Johnson spent 16 years behind bars before he was freed in 1999 after DNA testing conclusively ruled out the possibility of his guilt.
Exit to Freedom, written by Johnson and Greg Hampikian and just published by the University of Georgia Press, is the unforgettable story of Johnson’s unrelenting quest for justice against incredible odds and under circumstances that threatened to shred his dignity and hope.

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