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	OCTOBER 18, 2004
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	Regents OK budget-cut plan minus mid-year tuition increase

	Steven Knapp joins UGA as new GRA Eminent Scholar

	‘Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians’ launches new environmental lecture series

	Education college structure to be considered by University Council

	UGA helps Iraq, Afghanistan prepare to rebuild their veterinary services

	Atomic power at your fingertips: Quantum computers envisioned in new research

	Embedded in the desert

	UGA Press, radio station join forces to raise funds during ‘Book, CD Supersale’

	‘Leave your mark on UGA’

	Warm welcome

	Around Academe
	Worth Repeating
	Go Figure
	Digest
	UGA Guide
	Kudos
	Newsmakers
	Campus Closeup
	Faculty Profile
	Administrative Changes
	Retirees
	Update: Private Giving
	Forum
	Questions&Answers
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AROUND ACADEME

Defense-related funds restricted
Colleges that prevent military recruiters from operating on their campuses now stand to lose funding provided by various defense-related agencies because of a provision in a bill recently passed by Congress. Some colleges that view as discriminatory the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for gay and lesbian members of the armed forces have banned recruiters from their campuses because they may violate the colleges’ anti-discrimination policies. Currently a law called the Solomon Amendment allows the Department of Defense to withhold funds; the new bill expands the agencies that can withhold funds.

Bill cuts ‘intellectual’ deductions
The U.S. House recently passed a bill that may reduce the number of intellectual property donations non-profit organizations receive. Currently a donor may deduct the fair-market value of a donated item or idea. The bill would change the deduction amount to the lesser of either the fair-market value or the amount it cost to produce the item. The bill is intended to prevent donors from artificially inflating deductions by overstating the value of their donations.

—Susan Myers

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