Record-setting year for student Fulbrights: Five UGA students received Fulbright-Hays grants for study abroad this year, a record number for a single year, according to Peter Jorgensen of Germanic and Slavic languages, the chair of the campus Fulbright committee. Amber Blazer, an art history graduate student, is studying in Italy; Joel Coleman, a graduate student in comparative literature, is in Romania; Jennifer Maggart, a senior, has a teaching assistantship in France; Juan Gomez-Rivas, a senior majoring in Arabic language and literature, is studying in Syria; and Gregory Reish, a musicology graduate student, is studying in Italy. The Fulbright-Hays program celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

Edith House Lecture takes provocative look at affirmative action: Martha S. West, professor of law at the University of California­Davis, will examine affirmative action during the 15th annual Edith House Lecture Oct. 24 at 3:30 p.m. in the law school auditorium. The lecture is titled "What's in it for Me? Why Don't White Women Support Affirmative Action?" West, a noted feminist law scholar, has just finished the fourth edition of a textbook on sex-based discrimination, and has written and delivered numerous articles and papers on affirmative action, gender bias and labor law.

"The provocative title of Professor West's lecture is already getting students to think about and discuss the topic," says Melisa Anderson, vice president of the Women Law Students Association, which sponsors the lecture series. "We're fortunate to have a lecturer whose specialty area--affirmative action--is so timely with the upcoming election and political climate in the country. I feel she'll provide insight into this topic that most of us have never considered."

The Edith House Lecture Series is named for one of the first female graduates of UGA's law school. This year's lecture is dedicated to the memory of Ellen Rausen Jordan, an early WLSA advisor who died in August after a lengthy battle with cancer. Jordan taught at the law school from 1976 to 1992, serving as associate dean for three years and as UGA's acting associate vice president for academic affairs for two years. In 1992, Jordan was selected as the first woman dean of the UC­Davis School of Law. She returned to Athens last fall to teach a course in interviewing, counseling and negotiation.

Contract awarded to move red barn: The contractor responsible for moving UGA's red barn to its new site off South Milledge Avenue expects to complete the job by mid-November. Sooner Builders Inc. of Doraville was awarded the contract to relocate the 34-foot tall, 18,000-square-foot structure. The contract does not specify how the barn is to be moved, only that it is to be put into its new location in the same or better condition than it is at present.

Russell Ivie, owner of Ivie Structural Moving of Madison, the subcontractor who will do the actual disassembly and moving, plans to remove the interior stalls and side shed, and then dissect the main structure into four sections, which will be stabilized for the move by structural steel beams and cables. To avoid conflicts with traffic, the move is planned for the middle of the night. Oct. 21 is the target date, but weather and other unforeseen complications could cause that to change, Ivie says.

Ground broken for addition to vet medicine college: In a ceremony Oct. 1, the College of Veterinary Medicine broke ground for two additions to the Poultry Diagnostic Research Center on College Station Road. When the original building opened in 1958, the center was part of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences experiment station and the staff numbered 15. There are now more than 75 faculty and staff at the facility, which houses the veterinary college's department of avian medicine. Administration of the center was transferred to the veterinary college in 1968. The two building projects include a two-story addition to the original building, to house offices and laboratories, and a necropsy laboratory to replace temporary facilities built in the early 1970s. Both projects are scheduled for completion in fall of 1997.