Monday, October 25, 1999
Bumper battle
Education prof trains for marathon to help Arthritis Foundation
Internal responses to external conditions
Campus Closeup
‘Stop work’ order issued for renovation
Avner’s not so eccentric
Retirees
Newsmakers
Most influential Southerners
Ecologist Eugene Odum appeared on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s list of candidates for the 100 most influential Southerners of the 20th century. The newspaper provided a ballot with 200 names compiled by the staff and invited readers to cast votes. Other UGA-connected names included Lamar Dodd, longtime chair of UGA’s art department; Dean Rusk, former secretary of state who became a professor of international law; and numerous alumni--among them Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Lewis Grizzard, Billy Payne, Richard Russell, Eugene Talmadge and Carl Vinson.



Korean War massacre
U.S. forces may have massacred civilians in a hamlet called No Gun Ri during the early weeks of the Korean War. Details of the episode, which happened 49 years ago, emerged in an Associated Press investigative account, then in interviews with former soldiers.
UGA history professor William Stueck, author of The Korean War: An International History, told the New York Times that enemy troops posing as civilians had infiltrated U.S. lines, which could explain the reaction of the soldiers who are said to have fired on civilians.
Stueck also was quoted in the L.A. Times about the lack of training of U.S. troops. “There was a lot of bravado” about a quick victory, said Stueck. “And, of course, it didn’t happen that way.”



Georgia’s stress man
Southern Living profiled Robert Golembiewski, a research professor in public administration and management, in the September issue, dubbing him “Georgia’s stress man.”
Golembiewski has studied on-the-job stress for more than 10 years and with his research team has polled more than 40,000 people worldwide about the trials and tribulations of their nine-to-five routine.
“We’ve given the test in 20 different countries and are finding that people in similar jobs around the world have almost equal amounts of stress,” he says. “We’re finding that workers in some countries have more stress than others, but overall it seems to be a global problem.”
Golembiewski predicts a worldwide increase in corporate stress and burnout in the next 10 to 15 years.



Rising stars under 40
UGA Eminent Scholar Steven Stice is among “40 under 40” named by Georgia Trend magazine as rising stars in the state. Stice holds an endowed chair of animal bovine reproductive physiology and also serves as chief scientific officer of ProLinia Inc., a company set up to use cloning and genetic engineering to improve animal agricultural practices.
Several UGA alumni also made the list, including, among others, Duncan Moore of SunTrust Banks; Georgia minority whip Earl Ehrhart; former Georgia secretary of state Lewis Massey; health-care administrator Kimberly Glaze; and Kimberly Ballard-Washington, assistant to the president of Valdosta State.

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