Wisdom of youth
As part of the strategic-planning process, students offer ideas for building a better UGA
What are the odds of gathering a group of students--voluntarily--to discuss the future of the University of Georgia for four straight hours?
Surprisingly good.
In response to an invitation from Student Government Association president Tricia Page, a senior public relations major from Roswell, some 75 students--SGA members and representatives of several other campus organizations--showed up in the reception room on the top floor of Rusk Hall on a Tuesday night to register opinions on how to build a better UGA.
Internal responses to external conditions
Strategic Planning Advisory Group reviews draft plans from campus units
 Don Eastman, vice president for strategic planning, chairs the institutional Strategic Planning Advisory Group that has gathered for Thursday morning meetings on an almost weekly basis since
February.
The group has heard presentations on topics important to UGA’s future and, over the past several weeks, has been reviewing draft strategic plans submitted by more than 20 units across campus--from schools and colleges to the Georgia Museum of Art to the UGA Athletics Association. Eastman provided the following update on these efforts.
Bumper battle
Speech communication professor: Darwin fish symbols on cars are an act of ‘ritual aggression’
The Scopes trial on evolution never ended--it just moved to the bumpers of cars.
Symbols can unite towns, armies, even nations. A new battle of symbols is being fought across America these days—a stylized version of “capture the flag.” One of the symbols is a fish; the other is a fish with small walking feet. Inside the symbols are a variety of words, the most common being “Jesus” in the legless fish and “Darwin” in the other.
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Telling It Like It Is: HBO,
Grady College host premiere
of Howard Cosell documentary
 Home Box Office and the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication will co-host the premiere of the HBO Sports documentary Howard Cosell: Telling It Like It Is at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Classic Center in Athens.
Following the one-hour screening, Barry L. Sherman, director of the Peabody Awards, will lead a discussion entitled “Speaking of Sports: Howard Cosell and Modern Sports Journalism.”
Sanford Bishop, Kathryn Costello will speak at fall Commencement ceremonies
The University of Georgia will hold fall  semester Commencement Dec. 18 with Georgia Congressman Sanford Bishop Jr. speaking at the undergraduate ceremony and Kathryn Costello, senior vice president for external affairs at UGA, addressing graduate students.
 The ceremonies in Stegeman Coliseum will be for students who completed requirements for degrees at the end of summer or fall semesters. The ceremony for students receiving bachelor’s degrees will be at 9:30 a.m.; exercises for students receiving master’s, doctoral and specialist degrees will be at 2:30 p.m.
A 325-year-old farce
University Theatre continues its successful millennium season with its third offering of the year, a production of Bill Irwin and Mark O’Donnell’s Scapin, to open at the Cellar Theatre on Oct. 27.
The long run: Education prof trains for marathon to help Arthritis Foundation
It’s 6 a.m. Monday morning. While most of us hit the snooze button for the third time and cozy back up under the covers, Janette Hill laces up her off-white Brooks shoes with purple trim and is out the door running--literally.
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