Columns::October 27, 2003

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Nuts for the environment
The Environmental Health Science Club is selling fresh Schermer pecans for baking, snacking or gifts. Cost is $6.25 for a one-pound bag of pecan halves or a 12-oz. bag of chocolate-covered pecan halves. Price is reduced to $6 per bag on orders of four or more bags.
To order, send check payable to Environmental Health Science Club with order details to 206 environmental health science building. Orders must be received by Nov. 5 and nuts must be picked up the week of Nov. 17-21, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., in the mail hall of the EHS building.
Further information is available from the club president, Julie Maimes, jmaimes@uga.edu.

Peanut sale
The UGA Agronomy Club is selling roasted Georgia peanuts in four-pound cans at a cost of $9 each. Salted redskins, skinless peanuts and honey-roasted peanuts are available.
Orders must be received by Oct. 31. Checks should be made payable to UGA Agronomy Club and mailed with order details to 3111 Miller Plant Sciences Building. An order form is available on the club Web site at www.cropsoil.uga.edu/AgrClub.html.
Orders can be picked up Nov. 20-21, 3-7 p.m., in parking lot E05 (outside the East Village parking deck near the Ramsey Student Center, where parking services is located).
Full cases (six cans, any combination) can be shipped for $10 to a Georgia address and $20 to any other U.S. address.

Service-learning
Faculty who have had experiences with service learning are encouraged to participate in a study about the status of service learning at UGA.
Typically, service-learning projects take students outside the classroom to work with real-life problems, people and organizations as a way to teach whatever content is under study.
The current study about service learning at UGA is in itself a service-learning project. The study is being conducted for the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach and the Office of the Vice President for Instruction by nine Grady College students enrolled in the public relations campaigns course this semester.
The goal of the project is to identify the scope and nature of service-learning opportunities at UGA. Faculty members who incorporate service learning in their instruction are encouraged to participate.
The students conducting the study want to know:
• kinds and frequency of recent service-learning projects;
• importance of service learning to participating faculty;
• faculty evaluation of service-learning opportunities at UGA (poor, excellent, etc.);
• difficulty of potential barriers to service learning--time, budget, student interest, support from department/school/college, professional recognition (e.g., tenure/promotion, pay raises), liability and other issues;
• helpfulness of a centralized office for student learning; and
• interest in a service-learning interest group at UGA.
To participate in the study, faculty can e-mail their responses to the above questions to servicelearningatuga@yahoo.com.
For additional information about the study, faculty may contact Lynne Sallot, associate professor of public relations in the Grady College, who is supervising the students conducting the study (sallot@uga.edu or 542-4999).

International cooks needed
UGA will celebrate International Education Week with an international feast on Nov. 17 from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Tate Student Center. Donations of international food items are sought. Tickets for the feast are $8 ($5 for students and $3 for children), and those donating international dishes will receive a $2 discount on the ticket price. Proceeds will go to study-abroad scholarships. For a donation form, contact Lindsay Parsons (542-7903; lparsons@uga.edu).
Donations are also needed for the international silent auction. International arts, crafts, clothes, jewelry, etc., can be sent to Deb Faucher in the Office of International Education, 209 Barrow Hall. Include the name of the country of origin.
More information is available at www.uga.edu/oie/iew/.

Breakfast reservations
Reservations are now being taken for the Freedom Breakfast that will mark the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday. The event--with Superior Court Judge Steve Jones as the keynote speaker--is scheduled for 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 16, at the Classic Center. Tickets are $26 and can be ordered through Nov. 28 from the Office of Institutional Diversity, 583-8195. Ticket order forms are also available on the institutional diversity Web site (www.uga.edu/diversity).
Nominations also are now being accepted for a new Fulfilling the Dream Award, to be presented at the Freedom Breakfast to two individuals from Athens-Clarke County and two from UGA. The award will recognize significant efforts to build bridges of unity and understanding among residents of Athens-Clarke County.
Nomination materials should include the name, address and phone number of the nominee, a description of the nominee’s contributions, and two letters of recommendation. Nominations are due no later than Nov. 28 to the Office of Institutional Diversity, 119 Holmes-Hunter Academic Building.

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