Blog Topic: On Campus
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Culture Briefs: Designer Natalie Chanin Speaks of Great Change with Simple Tools at UGA
The walk up the wide granite stairs between the elegant white columns of the UGA Chapel makes a visitor feel just as its architect no doubt originally intended: as if you have left the ordinary world and have arrived somewhere beyond. Approaching and entering it fills you with a sense of occasion. You are about to encounter something special.
On Friday, Jan. 30, the occasion was a visit to Athens by sustainable designer and fashion celebrity Natalie Chanin. The event was part of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts’ Global Georgia Initiative.
Chanin has built an international following with her skirts, dresses and blouses that while exhibiting a high level of design and craftsmanship, celebrate the handmade and the imperfect with simple appliqués and large, playful stitching.
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In the Loop: The 'Campus Carry' Bill Is Back
Two state representatives have re-introduced a bill to allow guns on college campuses, according to the AJC. (Click here for the free version or here for a longer story on their pay site.)
House Bill 859 would let gun owners who are 21 and up carry their weapons at public colleges and universities, except in dormitories and fraternity and sorority houses or at athletic events.
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In the Loop: Emergency Training Exercise Planned at Russell Hall Monday
Photo Credit: UGA Housing
If you see a whole bunch of cops, fire trucks and ambulances in front of Russell Hall on Monday, don’t panic! It’s just a training exercise.
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In the Loop: Remains Found at Baldwin Hall
Photo Credit: Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
The University of Georgia’s Baldwin Hall expansion project has a grave problem—literally.
Work at the construction site has been suspended after 27 grave sites were discovered. The graves are believed to be a part of Old Athens Cemetery, also known as Jackson Street Cemetery, which was the official city cemetery for most of the 1800s. It was originally a part of UGA’s land grant and was deeded back to the university in 2004.
University officials had thought that all graves were removed and remains transferred to Oconee Hill Cemetery when Baldwin Hall was built in 1938, but that turned out not to be the case.
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In the Loop: Attorney General, Ethics Watchdog Call for Investigation Into Former UGA Administrator
The Georgia Attorney General’s office is calling for an investigation into accusations that a former UGA administrator falsified travel reimbursement forms and used state money to take personal trips, according to WSB-TV.
Underlings reported that former Director of Alumni Relations Deborah Dietzler skipped work regularly and forced her staff to find alumni to meet with her when she wanted to run marathons out of town so she could charge it to UGA, among other financial misdeeds.
An internal investigation in 2013 recommended that her contract not be renewed, but instead she was given another job for six months, until the University of Louisville hired her as associate vice president for alumni relations at a higher salary. She is now on leave as UL investigates the charges.
Senior Assistant Attorney General David McLaughlin told WSB that “this matter warrants further inquiry,” and he is concerned that no one ever reported it to his office. He has asked the University System Board of Regents to investigate.
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In the Loop: Former UGA Administrator Accused of Fraud
A former University of Georgia fundraiser abused her position to skip work and run marathons at taxpayer expense, according to an investigation by WSB-TV and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Deborah Dietzler was the director of alumni relations for UGA, a job requiring her to travel for alumni events. She often would book flights to and hotels in cities where she wanted to run marathons, then tell assistants to find her people to meet with so she could charge the trips to UGA. She also booked expensive hotels in violation of travel policies so she could earn points.
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In the Loop: UGA Students Support Food Trucks Downtown
The University of Georgia Student Senate unanimously passed a resolution last week in favor of easing Athens-Clarke County regulations on food trucks, which is up for a vote tonight. Read it below the jump.
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In the Loop: UGA Officer Exonerated in Alcohol Amnesty Lawsuit
Jay Park.
A former UGA police officer who claimed he was fired for obeying an alcohol amnesty law hasreached a $325,000 settlement with the Board of Regents.
UGA Police Chief Jimmy Williamson fired Jay Park last September after Park refused to arrest underage drinkers because they sought medical treatment for alcohol poisoning. Williamson said that Park was fired for insubordination.
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Culture Briefs: New Theater Offerings Coming Up Fast
Photo Credit: Myles Haslam
Drew Mancini (above) and Jamie Ascher (below) portray two women bonding over an unwanted pregnancy in Dry Land.
Dry Land
Two teenage girls in a locker room grow close attempting to undo an unwanted pregnancy, trying to find a safe place in a world that seems small and dangerous to them at that moment in time. This play shows that bodies can be frightening, especially to young women lacking true ownership over their bodies and their sexuality. One of the girls says to the other about her sexual experience, “It was sexy, but also really ugly, because sex is ugly.”
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Culture Briefs: UGA Is Giving Ryan Seacrest a Doctorate
The doctor will see you now.
That’s Dr. Ryan Seacrest to you.
The “American Idol” host is the speaker at UGA’s spring commencement ceremony May 13. The university will also bestow upon him an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree, which “is given to recognize a person who has a sustained record of achievements of lasting significance.”
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