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	SEPTEMBER 27, 2004
	In this issue
	News
	A work in progress: Ground to be broken for new visual arts building

	Rebecca White named permanent dean of law school

	Willie Cole, visiting professor and artist, will lecture about his work

	Impact: Studying a kaolin mine, UGA scientists identify layer of material ejected from Chesapeake Bay meteor strike

	The student outlook: SGA president welcomes new UGA students

	It’s all academic

	Presidential politics

	Getting into the action

	Around Academe
	Worth Repeating
	Go Figure
	Digest
	UGA Guide
	Kudos
	Newsmakers
	Campus Closeup
	Faculty Profile
	Administrative Changes
	Retirees
	Update: Private Giving
	Forum
	Questions&Answers
	Weekly Reader
	Cybersights
	Bulletin Board

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AROUND ACADEME

FBI can now track foreign students
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will allow the FBI full access to the databases the department uses to track foreign visitors. The databases have been operational for about a year and contain information such as fingerprints, photographs, courses of study and personal information about immigrants and visitors. The new policy will allow FBI agents to access the databases directly without having to ask DHS for the information, but there are safeguards to ensure the data is used only for law enforcement purposes.

Brown U. gets $100 million donation
Liquor importer Sidney E. Frank has donated $100 million to Brown University to create scholarships for needy students. Brown officials plan to use the scholarships to eliminate the loan debt that its most needy students accumulate while in school, and funds will be available for students entering in the fall of 2005. Frank attended Brown for only one year, as a member of the class of 1942, before being sent overseas on a business assignment during World War II. Earlier this year, Frank donated $20 million to Brown for a new academic building.

—Susan Myers

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