| Prize-winning
author gives book reading
Prize-winning author Peter Ho Davies will read from his work April
7 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel. The event, sponsored by the department
of English and the Creative Writing Program, is free and open to
the public.
Born in Britain to Welsh and Chinese parents, Peter Ho Davies is
the author of the story collections The
Ugliest House in the World (1997) and Equal
Love (2000). His work has appeared in
Harpers, the Atlantic Monthly,
the Paris Review, the Washington
Post and the Chicago Tribune.
His short fiction is included in several anthologies and was selected
for the O. Henry Awards in 1998 and Best American Short Stories
in 1995, 1996 and 2001. Granta
magazine recently named him among its 20 best young British novelists.
Davies’s short story collection, The
Ugliest House in the World, received the John Llewelyn Rhys
and PEN/Macmillan prizes in the United Kingdom as well as the H.L.
Davis Oregon Book Award in the U.S. Equal
Love, a New York Times
Notable Book of the Year, was a finalist for the 2000 Los
Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2001 Asian American Literary
Award.
Davies is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation,
the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center
in Provincetown, Mass. He has taught at the University of Oregon
and Emory University and currently directs the M.F.A. program in
creative writing at the University of Michigan.
Alumnus gets Supreme Court clerkship
Alumnus John H. Longwell has been chosen from a pool of hundreds
of top-notch law school graduates to clerk for a U.S. Supreme Court
justice. His clerkship will begin in October 2005 with Associate
Justice Stephen G. Breyer. Only five UGA alumni have been selected
for a U.S. Supreme Court clerkship.
“It [the clerkship] is a great opportunity, and I am very
fortunate to have it,” says Longwell,
a 1999 School of Law graduate. “With all the excellent candidates,
one can’t help but recognize that a lot of luck comes into
play.”
Longwell currently specializes in telecommunications and appellate
litigation at the Washington, D.C., office of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton and Garrison LLP. He credits former UGA professor Richard
Nagareda and current professors Perry Sentell Jr., C. Ronald Ellington
and Michael Wells with “vastly enriching” his law school
experience.
Poll: Georgians focused on same-sex marriage
debate in legislature
In addition to budget issues and the HOPE scholarship funding, three
concerns have loomed large in the current legislative session: (1)
redistricting, (2) same-sex marriage and (3) the child endangerment
act. According to UGA’s Peach State Poll, of these three issues,
the public is most engaged in the debate over same-sex marriage.
When asked to name the most important issue for the legislature
to address this session,
9 percent cited same-sex marriage; this is more than the percent
citing state budget issues
(7 percent). Only 2 percent of respondents cited child endangerment,
and less than 1 percent cited redistricting. In comparison, education
was cited by 24 percent of respondents, jobs and the economy by
21 percent, and the HOPE scholarship by only 3 percent.
While 49 percent of Georgians say they are following news about
same-sex marriage very closely, only 11 percent say they are following
news about redistricting very closely. When asked which party the
current districting maps favor, 31 percent cited the Democratic
party; 20 percent believe current maps favor the Republicans, 19
percent believe current maps favor neither party, and 30 percent
say that they don’t know. |
