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UGA Today
Grade inflation study
The committee selected to begin the study of possible
grade inflation has begun gathering information
concerning grade distribution and welcomes sugges
tions, questions, comments and opinions from faculty,
students and others who are interested The committee
members are John Molllngsworth. Department of
Mathmalics in Boyd Graduate Studies, and Jane
Appleby. Department of English in Park Hall
Graduate students
The Graduate Student Organization requests all
graduate students to have their petitions signed and
meet at 12:30 today at the north entrance to Boyd
Graduate Studies The petitions will be presented at
this time
Halloween program
The Athens Regional
Library will have a
special Haloween pro
gram for children on
Monday. Oct. 27 Begin
ning at 10:30 am. there
will be a puppet show
followed by a costume
contest for the children.
Admission is free.
Sorority tea
Zcta Phi Beta Sorority Inc will host its Pall Interest
Tea at 7 pm Sunday, Oct. 28, in the Baptist Center.
Toastmasters Club
The Toastmasters Club will meet at 4:30 pm Monday.
Oct. 27. in the Dean's Conference Room on the second
floor of Brooks Hall. Dr Herbert Miller, the head of the
Accounting Department, will speak Everyone is
welcome.
RICHMOND. Va fUPI)—
Statewide polls, finances
and domination of news
reports point to victory in
Virginia for Ronald Reagan
on Nov. 4 But no one is
writing off President Car
ter’s chances to win the
only Southern state he lost
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There are several key
reasons for this: Carter's,
and the Democrats’, slim
losses in other elections; an
unpredictable bloc of tickey-
splitters in a district crucial
to either Reagan or Carter;
and Carter’s showing in
Virginia polls behind Rea
gan. but stronger than most
experienced politicians ex
pected
Virginia Democrats have
not elected a single nominee
for president, governor or
[ S senator since 1966 But
many of those Democratic
losses were extremely
close, which makes Virginia
a possible for the president
next month Carter lost
Virginia in 1976 by about 13
percent, about 23,000 votes
“Virginia is a two-party
competitive state, leaning
Repqblican,” said Dr
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Georgia Review gaining in visibility
By BEVERLY BYRD
“The South today looms
as large in the world of
literary quarterlies as it
does in college football."
lOB GUMMING Jit
THE ATLANTA JOl R
NAL AND CONSTITU
TION
SUNDAY, OCT. 7. 1979
The literary ball carrier
for the Dogs is “The Geor
gia Review ’’ This quarterly
may be no Herschel Walker
but its “team” has been
rising steadily in the
"polls.”
Circulation of the “Re
view” has doubled during
the past three years, and
with national distribution to
bookstores, beginning with
this issue, it seems likely
the reading audience will
increase even further.
In a world where specific
interest magazines are be
coming more prevalent,
"The Georgia Review," a
general interest magazine,
is gaining in visibility. Crit
ical notice of “The Georgia
Review” includes a January
1980 editorial in "PMLA”
which called the “Review”
one of the three most fre
quently cited journals in
language and literature
The June 6. 1980, London
"Times Literary Supple
ment” called ‘The Georgia
Review" "on the whole, the
most impressive” along
Betty Sargent
Stanley Lindberg
with “The Yale Review”
and "The Partisan Re
view.” “The Atlanta Jour
nal and Constitution” on
Jan. 6 said, “If you don't
subscribe, you’re missing a
chance to read some of the
finest writing, not just in
the South, but across the
country.”
Georgians score
high on Latin test
Va. polls point to
Reagan victory
I^arry Sabato, a University
of Virgiania professor of
government and foreign
affairs and the state's
top-ranked political analyst.
"It’s not a Utah where
Carter's bringing home the
hostages would pull Reagan
down to 58 percent of the
vote It isn’t even as far out
of the Carter picture as a
Nebraska or a Kansas,”
Sabato said.
The major battlegrounds
for Virginia’s 12 electoral
votes will be in the state’s
northern, southeastern and
southwestern corners, as in
1976..
Northern Virginia, which
Carter lost in 1976, is the
home of many federal
employees Democrats
maintain Carter stands a
better chance there this
year The region four years
ago held many Nixon and
Ford administration em
ployees Now the reverse is
true.
Both camps are playing to
the federal employees' vote
"As I see it. a lot of
federal jobs would be lost
under Ronald Reagan,”
said Robert Watson, execu
tive director of Carter’s
re-election bid in Virginia.
Not so. said Robert
Hausenfluck. Watson's
counterpart for the Reagan
campaign "He’s not a
madman with an ax," he
said
By LEE UDELL
Georgia students taking
the Latin Achievement Test
in 1980 scored significantly
higher than the national
average on their verbal
SAT's, and the acting head
of the Department of Clas
sics at the University said
the main reason for this lies
in Latin’s high correlation
with the English vocabu
lary.
The 32 Georgians taking
the Latin Achievements
averaged 570 for the verbal
portion of the SAT test,
while the national average
was 424.
Dr Richard A. LaFleur
said between 60 and 70
percent of the English lan
guage is derived from La
tin, and this is the major
factor behind the high
scores for Latin students
"The most important
things to be gained from the
study of Latin are an in
creased analytical ability,
increased sensitivity to de
tails. and, most important
ly, increased linguistic so
phistication,” said LaFleur
The Georgia students also
scored higher than their
counterparts in other South
ern states, whose scores
averaged 565. The national
average for Latin students
taking the verbal SAT was
568
The comparison also
showed significantly higher
scores by the Latin students
on their SAT math tests.
Georgia Latin students av
eraged 580 on their math
SAT. as opposed to the
national average of 466
“Latin is so precise and
regular that it is almost
mathematical.” said La
Fleur
Latin also helps develop a
more logical mind, said
LaFleur Latin students
learn to be more sensitive
to small points.
LaFleur also said Latin
students tend to score high
er on such test as the GRE,
LSAT, and MCAT. LaFleur
said this is due in part to
the idea that Latin helps
increase linguistic ability
and reading comprehension.
“I try to convince my
students that Latin is easier
than the modern lan
guages,” said LaFleur.
“College students need La
tin more today than every,
because they are less pre
pared than ever.”
Also, a total of 23 poems,
stories and essays have
been selected from the
“Review’”s pages for inclu
sion in national prize antho
logies ("The 1981 O. Henry
Awards.” “The Pushcart
Prize V,” and the 1981 An
thology of Magazine Verse
and Yearbook of American
Poetry").
“Review" editor Stanley
Lindberg said word-of-
mouth advertising, more
than any other factor, has
contributed to the maga
zine’s latest success
“We have no money for
direct mail solicitation and
heavy promotion, but our
subscribers have been pas
sing the word and the "Re
view” has been receiving
much more critical notice in
newspapers and journals
Lind-
across the country,
berg said
Before coming to Georgia
in 1977, Lindberg was co-
founder and co-editor of
"Ohio Review.” He earned
his Ph D. at the University
of Pennsy vania.
Assistant Editor Betty
Sargent said the largest
part of the “Review’"s
funding comes from the
University. The rest of their
income comes from sub
scriptions and a few adver
tisements, which are taken
only from book publishing
firms and literary agencies
and authors.
The publication's circula
tion is 4.200
"The main purpose of
"The Georgia Review” is to
publish the finest thought in
writing of our time." Lind
berg said
In addition to publishing
the writings of renowned
authors such as Robert
Penn Warren. Anne Sexton,
Harriette Simpson Arnow
and William Faulkner. "The
Georgia Review" publishes
works of writers just begin
ning to establish a reputa
lion For example, in the
latest issue, three young
writers are being published
for the first time
"We’re probably more
excited about finding some
one who hasn't published
yet than we are about pub
lishing the well known au
thors.’ Lindberg said It is
difficult to achieve such a
balance between the works
of established writers and
novice writers, but accord
ing to the editors it’s well
worth the effort
"The Georgia Review”
was founded in 1947. by
John Donald Wade, a latter
day member of the Fugitive
movement, the Southern lit
erary renaissance centered
in Nashville "The ‘Review’
was at first intended as a
journal of Southern con
cerns, particularly Geor
gian concerns.’’ explained
Lindberg
Even then, it included
work by such nationally
known figures as Robert
Frost. Conrad Aiken and
John F. Kennedy "In the
last 10 years or so the
‘Review' has evolved into a
journal that is much more
national and international in
scope." Sargent said "In
many respects the ‘Review’
is a tangible outreach of the
University to the state, the
country and the world a
symbol of intellectual life at
the University.”
"The Georgia Review"
contains a blend of inter
disciplinary essays, poems,
short stories, book reviews
and graptnes-“a quantity of
quaity," according to novel
ist Joyce Carol Oates (in a
letter written to Lindberg)
The fall 1980 issue of "The
Georgia Review" features a
large selection of Lewis
Hinc's 1909 vintage photo
graphs of child labor in
Georgia The lead essay is
on humanity's “Limits,
Myths, and Morals” by
philosopher Frederich
Ferre, newly appointed
head of the University Dep
artment of Philosophy and
Religion
This is the first issue in
which Eudora Welty and
Walker Percy, both pre
vious contributors, are serv
ing as advisory editors
Welty is the first woman to
serve in this capacity for
"The Georgia Review "
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