UGA will recognize student employees
The Career Center will honor more than 100 student workers and their departmental nominators during a luncheon on April 10 as a part of UGA’s observance of National Student Employment Week, April 8-15. During the luncheon, the Career Center will recognize UGA’s Student Employee of the Year, as well as first and second runners-up. The winner of this honor will represent UGA in the Southern Association of Student Employment Administrators regional competition. The regional winner will be awarded cash prizes and be given the chance to compete for the title of National Student Employee of the Year.

“Let’s show all of our student workers at UGA that their work is valued and their many contributions are appreciated,” said Scott Williams, executive director of the UGA Career Center. “Join us as we celebrate National Student Employment Week.”

Artist to lecture for Lanier Speaker Series
Jondi Keane, artist and researcher, will present two talks on April 10 and 11. Keane’s presentations, part of the Lanier Speakers Series sponsored by the department of English, are open to the public.

Keane’s first talk, entitled “From Text to Context through the Organism-Person Surround: Edgar Allan Poe, Arakawa, Madeline Gins and Helen Keller,” will be held April 10 at 4 p.m. in room 265 of Park Hall. The second talk, “The First-Person Science of Practice as Research,” will be held April 11 at 3 p.m. in the Tanner Building.

Keane is senior lecturer in Cross-Arts Practice at Griffith University in Australia. Since 1981 he has taught and exhibited in the northeastern U.S., Europe and Australia. In 1992 he was a founding member of the collaborative interdisciplinary performance group, Co. M-S-K in Geneva, Switzerland.

Ga. Writers Hall of Fame to induct five
The first Georgian to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, a physician and best-selling novelist, a newspaper columnist, a novelist whose works focus on the Atlanta of her youth, and a cardiologistturned-poet and essayist will be inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame on April 12.

The ceremony will be held in the fourth floor rotunda of the Student Learning Center at
10:30 a.m.

Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Miller, author of Lamb in His Bosom, and Celestine Sibley, a former columnist for the Atlanta Constitution, are being honored posthumously. Physician and novelist Ferrol Sams, a native of Fayette County, also will be honored.

John Henry Stone, former director of admissions at Emory University School of Medicine and frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine, and Anne Rivers Siddons, author of Homeplace and Nora, Nora, also will be inducted at the ceremony.

Take Back the Night’ set for April 12
As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, campus and community organizations will hold a “Take Back the Night” rally and march on April 12.

The purpose of the annual event is to raise awareness about sexual violence and empower individuals and institutions to engage in action against violence. Activities begin at 10 a.m. in the Tate Student Center Plaza and include speakers, music and discussion on this year’s theme, “Bearing Witness to Violence.”

The march through downtown Athens will begin at 7 p.m., followed by a speak-out and an 8 p.m. candlelight vigil at Athens-Clarke County City Hall.

“Take Back the Night” is sponsored by UGA’s Office for Violence Prevention, Women’s Studies Student Organization, Lambda Alliance, the Sexual Assault Center of Northeast Georgia, Project Safe and DoveTail Companies.