I try to make it a habit to hang around with smart people. Given that my IQ is not much larger than my waist line, this isn’t difficult to do. One person who fits that bill – and is a nice guy to boot – is the dean of my beloved Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Georgia, Dr. C. Culpepper Clark. It is no small coincidence that the dean … [Read more...] about July 1, 2013: A Salute To A Smart Man Who Walked A Fine Line
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December 10, 2012: Vince Dooley Talks About Football, Family And UGA History
I called Hall of Fame football coach Vince Dooley this week to get his perspective on UGA’s heart-breaking loss to Alabama in the SEC Championship game. There are few people more qualified to comment than Vince Dooley. Let’s start with the fact that he won 201 football games, six SEC championships and a national title during an illustrious career that stretched from 1964 to … [Read more...] about December 10, 2012: Vince Dooley Talks About Football, Family And UGA History
Nov. 19, 2001: Bingo! Dr. Michael Adams, president of the University of Georgia, has put the responsibility of increasing student body diversity at UGA right where it belongs —
on the rest of us. This is not the university’s problem; it’s ours. For several years now, Dr. Adams and others have wrestled with the issue of whether UGA should take only the brightest and best from our state, which tends to make the university mostly white and predominately female, or should it more closely represent the demographics of the state, which is almost one-third … [Read more...] about Nov. 19, 2001: Bingo! Dr. Michael Adams, president of the University of Georgia, has put the responsibility of increasing student body diversity at UGA right where it belongs —
Jan. 8, 2001: It was not my alma mater’s finest hour.
Forty years ago this month, two young people who wanted to attend the University of Georgia along with other high school seniors in the state, were forced to go to federal court to gain admission. The two students were eminently qualified except for one extenuating circumstance. Both were black. As federal judge William A. Bootle so aptly stated in ordering their admission, … [Read more...] about Jan. 8, 2001: It was not my alma mater’s finest hour.
November 30, 2000: Color My Red and Black Blue
Memo to the World: Color My Red and Black Blue I am in a big time crabby mood today. Losing to Georgia Tech does that to me. Let me say at the outset that when it comes to my alma mater, the University of Georgia, I am an academic hawk. I strongly support the tremendous progress UGA has made in becoming one of the nation’s outstanding public universities. And I put my … [Read more...] about November 30, 2000: Color My Red and Black Blue