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| Columns::January 20, 2004 2004 State of the University address: A community of learners Fulfilling the dream: Four receive new award for building ‘bridges’ in ACC Search committee formed to identify deanship candidates Legal scholar will deliver winter Charter Lecture UGA alumnus appointed director of state’s natural history museum Longtime alumni director announces his retirement New Teaching Fellows One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish: Antidepressants delay growth of some fish, frogs Prof’s interest in ecology disease research becomes infectious Retirees Native tongue: English professors survey speech of long-time Atlantans Graduating into history Campus News Newsmakers Beauty: skin-deep and costly The San Francisco Chronicle reported that growing prosperity in China has begotten a boom in cosmetic surgery, and quoted UGA women’s studies professor Allaine Cerwonka about the complex causes. “This is related to the influx of corporations like Avon in Asia and other makeup companies, the same kind of corporations that make a lot of money off women in the United States,” she said. “We have a culture that makes women feel bad about themselves in order to make money. That’s been going on for a long time in a lot of places. Now they have a global market for it.” Genetic variability Carolyn Berdanier, a nutritionist is UGA’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences, was interviewed for a Los Angeles Times story about the relationship between carbohydrate intake and LDL cholesterol. She pointed out that reducing carbohydrates would not have the same effect on everyone, since genetic differences would come into play. Preparing to protect water supplies South Carolina’s lack of water withdrawal regulations will have a negative impact on its ability to forge water agreements with Georgia and North Carolina, Jim Kundell of UGA’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government told The State newspaper, which is published in Columbia. He recommended South Carolina tighten regulations to develop regulatory control. Keeping track Political science professor Loch Johnson, an expert on CIA matters, was quoted widely in an Associated Press story on the use of “hired guns” by the CIA. “It’s important for the oversight committees [in the House and Senate] to keep track of what the paramilitary people are doing,” he said. The story appeared in the Boston Globe, Newsday, the Houston Chronicle and elsewhere. The progressive sitcom Bonnie Dow, associate professor of speech communication, appeared in a New York Times discussion of gender on television. Dow said sitcoms had historically used the forgiving boundaries of comedy to explore incendiary social topics like racism, sexism and class schisms. Latin in the cafeteria The Detroit News quoted Richard LaFleur of the classics department in a story dealing with the decline of the teaching of Latin in the 1960s and 1970s and its current revitalization in secondary schools. “Everything had to be relevant [in the ’60s], and there was a cafeteria approach to curriculum: Take what you want to take,” LaFleur explained. Chicken welfare The Los Angeles Times reported on the controversy swirling about the Weblog of a former Arkansas poultry worker, who alleges terrified birds and horrible mistakes on the slaughter line. UGA poultry scientist Bruce Webster was quoted about the charges. Such mistakes are “not common in terms of the number of birds per thousand affected,” he said, “but if you stand there long enough, you will probably see it happen.” |
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