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Law School looking for new dean

The search is on for a new dean of the School of Law. William Prokasy, vice president for academic affairs, named an 11-member search committee last week to replace current dean Edward "Ned" Spurgeon, who will resign at the end of this academ- ic year. Prokasy said the committee has not yet had its first [...]

Students share safety worries

Pedestrian safety is the issue of the week for University public safety officials. Students voiced concerns about their safety on campus as they tread around during Pedestrian Safety Week. Here’s what some had to say: "(The campus) is pretty congest- ed, that’s for sure. They should close traffic on Baldwin." – Chase Anderson, a senior [...]

Doctoral candidate remembered

More than 100 people braved the pouring rain and huddled in the Institute of Ecology on Saturday in remembrance of Dean Allen Lindholm, a doctoral candidate who was killed in a July 9 car accident in South Carolina. Among poetry readings and music, friends and faculty of Lindholm praised him as "a tireless crusader" and [...]

New seminars allow freshmen more interaction with faculty

Freshmen can now be seen and heard rather than just drown in a sea of 300 or 500 classmates. This quarter, the University is offering a new freshman seminar program coordinated by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Honors Program. The small courses offer diverse topics ranging from extraterrestri- als to homicide. The [...]

Memorial set for ecology student killed in car accident

The Institute of Ecology will celebrate the life and mourn the loss of one of its graduate students in a memorial ser- vice in the Ecology Building Saturday.   Dean Allen Lindholm, a third-year Ph.D. candidate from Colorado, was killed in a July 9 auto accident in Aiken, S.C.   Lindholm graduated from the U.S. [...]

Evaluating civil rights, 40 years later

Nine teenage faces reflected off the sharpened bayonets of the Arkansas National Guard, as the first black students were denied their right to register at Little Rock Central High School. That event, a dramatic mile- stone in the civil rights movement, was 40 years ago this month, and a burning question of how much has [...]

Study focuses upon mediation as a form of conflict resolution

If you’ve been fighting with your room- mate, new research being conducted by the University just might help. Two University faculty members are breaking new ground in a little-researched and broadly based field. Margaret Herrman, a senior associate at the University’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government, and Jerry Gale, a professor in the College of [...]

Sanford bike dispute still unresolved

Cyclists will retain road freedom on Sanford Drive – for now at least. The heavily used section of Sanford between Hooper and Field streets was the source of a controversy last spring when University public safety officials proposed restricting access for bikers due to safety concerns. But that proposal hasn’t made it very far. Asa [...]

Board OKs repairs, 2 majors

The Board of Regents approved a 3.6 percent instructional budget increase for fiscal year 1999 and gave the green light for two addi- tional academic programs at the University. The budget was approved at the Board’s September meeting last week in Atlanta. The $1.24 billion proposal includes $8 million for major repair and renovation projects. [...]

Students share summer stories

By ELTON UEOKA and DEBBIE RHYNE Staff Writers While many students spent their summer taking classes or working, several used the break to take advan- tage of unique opportunities. Whether it was a trip abroad or an unusual job, here’s a look at how some stu- dents spent their summer: “It was a mixture of [...]

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