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	OCTOBER 11, 2004
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	Painting the town red and black: Students, alumni don school colors, fire up their Bulldog spirit for university’s annual slate of Homecoming events

	Committee will follow up on student survey

	NIH grant funds study of ways to promote cancer screening

	University receives $5.6 million NIH grant for vaccine research

	Enrollment period for health, dental insurance programs begins

	National Science Foundation funds ‘extreme science’ project

	Timber: The Master Timber Harvester education program supports loggers on the front line

	UGA welcomes new faculty

	It takes class: Employment director discusses revamping of classification system

	‘Blue’ humor hits Ramsey

	In touch with the past

	Around Academe
	Worth Repeating
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	Campus Closeup
	Faculty Profile
	Administrative Changes
	Retirees
	Update: Private Giving
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AROUND ACADEME

Wells College will admit men
In spite of protests from alumni and current students, the trustees of women-only Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., will begin admitting male students next year. About 100 of the 397 women enrolled at Wells walked out of a meeting at which the decision was announced, then staged a sit-in to try to get the trustees to change their minds. College officials said that their main concern is increasing enrollment and the admission of male students is part of a larger plan to expand both Wells’s academic programs and the college’s partnerships with Ithaca College and Cornell University.

Judge rules that Texas Tech’s free-speech zones are unconstitutional
A former law student won his case against Texas Tech University’s “free-speech zones” when a federal judge recently ruled them unconstitutional. Texas Tech had designated a gazebo with space for about 40 people as the chosen area for students to express opinions publicly. Student Jason Roberts had asked for the permission of administrators to speak outside of the gazebo, and decided to sue the university after it declined his request. After complaints from civil liberties groups, the university increased the number of zones from one to five, but the judge’s ruling will eliminate the zones outright.

—Susan Myers

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