Broadcasting Live: Cable pioneer, Turner, will address spring graduates
Graduating seniors will step into the future with advice from one the nation’s most famous entrepreneurs when Atlanta cable pioneer R.E. (Ted) Turner speaks at spring semester commencement May 8.
Turner--vice chairman of Time Warner Inc., and the genius behind CNN, TBS and other major cable television operations--will speak at the 197th ceremony for undergraduates at 9:30 a.m. in Sanford Stadium and will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree. In case of rain, the ceremony will be held in Stegeman Coliseum in two sessions, at 9:30 and 11:30 a.m.
Commencement for students receiving graduate degrees will be at 2:30 p.m. in Stegeman Coliseum. The speaker will be announced later.
Musical trio
Two ensembles from Russia will appear in the Performing Arts Center this week: the Trio Voronezh in Ramsey Hall on Feb. 26 and the Chorovaya Akademia in Hodgson Hall on Feb. 27. Both concerts begin at 8 p.m.
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Annual public service meeting focuses on ‘Global Millennium’
Challenges and opportunities
facing land-grant and sea-grant universities in the next century are the focus of the Public Service and Outreach Conference set for March 1.
Karen Holbrook, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, is the keynote speaker at the opening session at 8:45 a.m.
Raising the bar: University Council considers proposed academic honesty policy
The University Council this week will consider a proposed new policy that raises the bar on student academic honesty, calling on every student, faculty and staff member to promote, uphold and--if necessary--help enforce honest behavior in academic work.
The policy focuses on educating students about academic honesty and encouraging them not to cheat on academic work--and it imposes harsher penalties if they do.
Secret Yankees
 After 20 years of sporadic research interrupted by teaching and administrative duties, Tom Dyer has illuminated a portion of Atlanta’s history that had been “enshrouded in Lost Cause mythology.”
Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta had its start when Dyer, University Professor and interim associate vice president for academic affairs, set out to identify the author of a diary fragment purchased in 1976 by the University Libraries.
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