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Wife of former administrator remembered

Bess P. Aderhold, one of the University’s most famous first ladies, died Friday in Athens. She was 95. Aderhold in 1931 was one of the first recipients of a University master’s degree in home economics. After finishing her graduate work in child nutrition and education, Aderhold worked in the nursery school now known as the [...]

Adams announces Peabody partnership

University President Michael Adams is in New York today to announce a partnership between the University’s prestigious Peabody broadcasting awards and a health-care foundation. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will announce a three-year, $481,000 grant that will help fund a Peabody award for health and medical programming. “We welcome this partnership,” Adams said, “and we [...]

Saturday exams proposed

A proposal that would allow final exams on a Saturday when the University converts to semesters this fall passed University Council’s executive committee Thursday. The exam schedule in place for the semester switch calls for three-hour exams over five days – Monday, Dec. 14, to Friday, Dec. 18. But the council’s Educational Affairs Committee said [...]

Adams to review legal affairs’ role

University President Michael Adams on Wednesday appointed a legal studies professor to head up the Office of Legal Affairs while Adams’ administration ponders its role in the future. Jere W. Morehead, an associate professor in the Terry College of Business, will serve as acting executive director of legal affairs until Jan. 1, 1999, Adams announced. [...]

Georgia to take part in nationwide forum

Taking a breather from the statewide debate on affirmative action, one program is offering the University a chance to become better educated on the hot-button issue. Tonight’s installment of the National Issue Forum, a series of public policy debates, will present three short videos portraying different paths for the future of affirmative action. “The point [...]

Learning center taking shape

The $42.8 million student learning center planned for mid-campus is beginning to take shape, under a proposal before University Council’s executive committee today. The proposal, from University President Michael Adams’ Faculty Advisory Committee, asks for a University-wide task force to help plan the center. “Faculty will need to keep developing means of offering effective, constructive [...]

Administration defends affirmative action policies

University President Michael Adams’ administration Monday denounced a newspaper article that portrayed fears the University “could backslide toward its days as an all-white institution.” A statement issued by University Communications and the president’s office said Adams had “deep concern” over the story, a lengthy piece on affirmative action that ran in Sunday’s Athens Daily News [...]

Renowned chemist links molecules and poetry

For Roald Hoffmann, there’s something poetic about tiny molecules and arcane chemical equations. That’s exactly what made Hoffmann, who has shared a Nobel Prize and published two volumes of poetry in his career, attractive to organizers of the University’s traditional quarterly Charter Lecture. Today at 4 p.m. in the Chapel, Hoffmann will deliver “Chemistry’s Essential [...]

Vice president in, out of position

Bryndis W. Roberts, who suddenly resigned as vice president for legal affairs earlier this month, said Friday she’ll stay on for a year as a part-time University legal consultant. Roberts, 40, will advise the University on a variety of legal matters, including pending admissions and environmental issues. In a statement Friday, Roberts said she’ll also [...]

Demosthenian Hall to be rededicated

If you build it, they will come. If you rededicate it, they’ll come all the way from Washington. U.S. Rep. John Linder, who represents Athens, and Rep. Jack Kingston, who grew up in Athens, will be in town Saturday to help rededicate Demosthenian Hall and celebrate the literary society’s 195th birthday. Members of the debate [...]

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