Having a Field Day
The re-greening of Herty Field symbolizes to many the university’s commitment to the principles of the physical master plan adopted last fall.
The plan envisions a green and inviting campus, pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly, with automobiles relegated to the perimeter. Herty Field served the university as an athletic field earlier this century--football and baseball games were played here before the nickname Bulldogs had been adopted.
Strengthening academic ties
 Franklin College of Arts and Sciences places advisers in Brumby Hall this fall, in Creswell Hall by spring semester
In Plato’s Academy, students may have sometimes slept where they studied. In late 20th-century America, higher education is not that simple. But this year, in a new effort to tie the residence halls to academic life, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences is providing advisers for students in Brumby Hall, the venerable 1,000 student residence hall for women on Baxter Street.
Although the program is just beginning, the results so far have been very encouraging.
Blazing trails, slowly
New education dean sorts through challenges, issues, opportunities facing the college
 Louis Castenell arrived on campus this past month to become the 13th dean to lead UGA’s College of Education. His first few weeks here have consisted of non-stop meetings with administrators, faculty and staff to learn all about the college, one of the nation’s largest education schools.
Castenell sorted through some of the challenges, issues and opportunities facing the college, as well as the field of education in general, in this interview in his first week on the job.
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Four profs named to law chairs
 Four faculty members at the School of Law have been appointed to chaired professorships.
They are C. Ronald Ellington, named as the first recipient of the new A. Gus Cleveland Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism; Paul J. Heald, named to the Allen Post Professorship; Walter Hellerstein, named Francis Shackelford Professor of Taxation; and Rebecca Hanner White, named to the J. Alton Hosch Professorship.
Pennebaker, Kunstler
visit campus this week
Two major speakers bring their thought-provoking ideas to campus in the coming week.
On Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel, James Howard Kunstler, a visiting scholar in the School of Environmental Design, will discuss “Can America Survive Subur-bia?
James Pennebaker, professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, will deliver the 11th annual William A. Owens Jr. Lecture for the Institute for Behavioral Research at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 17 in room 137 of the Tate Student Center.
Enjoy some great performances
Under the direction of conductor Mark Cedel, the UGA Symphony Orchestra will perform an all-Tchaikovsky program--Symphony No. 4 and Piano Concerto No. 1, with soloist Evgeny Rivkin--Sept. 16.
University Theatre’s 1999-2000 season gets under way this week with Orson Welles’s adaptation of Melville’s novel. Moby Dick--Rehearsed will be the first presentation in University Theatre’s expanded season.
 The Atlanta Symphony will perform in Hodgson Hall Sept. 19 at 2 p.m. This concert will be the final performance of the ASO in Athens under the direction of Yoel Levi, who leaves his position as music director after this season. He will conduct Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 and Mozart’s Symphony No. 29.
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