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Columns::November 3, 2003

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Campus community invited to Myers Hall rededication

Myers Hall, which underwent renovation during the 2002–03 academic year, will be rededicated with a punch-and-cookies celebration at 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 4. President Michael F. Adams and student residents of the Myers Community will speak before a ribbon is cut. The campus community is invited.
Myers Hall is named for Jennie Belle Myers, a longtime house mother at UGA, and was opened in 1954. It is the residence hall where Charlayne Hunter-Gault lived after she and Hamilton Holmes desegregated UGA in 1961; a display of memorabilia related to that time in UGA’s history is planned for the lobby.
Myers houses 406 UGA students, with 220 slots reserved for freshman Honors students.

Survey says: Happy: Study finds UGA students happier with educational experience

A national survey shows that freshmen and seniors at UGA are generally more pleased with their educational experience than their counterparts at other major research institutions and would be much more likely than their peers to attend the same school if they started college over again.
Results of the National Survey of Student Engagement also show that UGA freshmen and seniors take more foreign language courses and participate in study-abroad programs more often than their counterparts, and that they get along better with their fellow students than freshmen and seniors at other schools.

Taking leave: Sociology professor examines college attrition rates

UGA assistant professor of sociology Joseph Hermanowicz has this year published College Attrition at American Research Universities: Comparative Case Studies. Tn this week Q&A, he discussed his findings with Columns.

Student stand against segregation is commemorated

Supreme Court outlawed “separate but equal” education systems based on race, four editors of the student newspaper at the University of Georgia ignited a firestorm of controversy when they championed the right of a young black man, Horace Ward, to be admitted to the university’s all-white school of law.
On Nov. 10, the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, in partnership with the Foot Soldier Project, will commemorate the stand these students took by hosting a critical oral history with those editors--Walter Lundy, Bill Shipp, Priscilla Arnold and Gene Britton--who resigned their coveted positions rather than submit to an editorial control board imposed on them by the University System Board of Regents.

$3 million gift will help construct new home for special collections

The UGA Libraries have received a $3 million check from the Richard B. Russell Foundation of Atlanta. The gift will help build a new building to house the university’s three special collections libraries--the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Study and the Walter J. Brown Media Archive and Peabody Award Collection.

Vocalist Banu Gibson and the New Orleans Hot Jazz perform here Nov. 8

The Performing Arts Center presents vocalist Banu Gibson

Banu Gibson

and the New Orleans Hot Jazz on Nov. 8 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Hall.
A renowned jazz singer, Gibson is one of the few vocalists of her generation to maintain exclusive loyalty to songs of the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s. Rather than mimic singers of the past, she offers fresh renditions of Tin Pan Alley standards and jazz classics by George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, Fats Waller, Cole Porter and other great jazz composers.

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