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The Red * Black | Thursday, September 24,1998 I 3
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‘Strongest ever:’ Adams i Georgia Research Alliance’s $1.5 endowed
praises freshman class | chair will bring cloning experts to campus
Isolating best genes could create the healthiest animals
By FRANCIA McCORMACK
The Red a Black
By ANDREW DeMILLO
The Red a Black
An enrollment Increase. University
police and Greek housing lire safety
were Just some of “the good, the bad and
the ugly" discussed by University
President Michael Adams at a press
conference Wednesday
Despite the semester conversion, the
University may be bucking a statewide
trend with a 1 percent increase in enroll
ment lor the fall semester. Adams said
Officials now estimate the
University's enrollment will be approxi
mately 29,900, including a record num
ber of freshman.
"We have the strongest freshman
class ever," Adams said "We re right on
target with our goals there."
The new estimate is less than the
University's previous estimate of 30,330
University officials attributed the
change to an "active summer session."
"During the summer, more than half
of our undergraduate enrollment was
seniors," said Dwight Douglas, vice
president for student affairs "Clearly, a
large number of students pushed to
graduate before the semester switch
this fall ”
Even though the Board of Regents
doesn't have final enrollment figures,
Adams says he expects the increase to
be "the only one of
real significance in
the system."
In the wake of the
Pi Beta Phi sorority
house fire in August,
Adams said he is dis
cussing the
University's authority
in Greek housing
with the Office of
Legal Affairs.
A panel has -been
formed by Adams to
address fire safety
and other concerns about Greek life.
The Greek Administrative Steering
Committee will answer questions from
students, staff and alumni, he said
"If I discover that we have the author
ity to intervene, we may have to,” he
said.
Jere Morehead. executive director of
legal affairs and a member of the com
mittee, said panel members hope to find
a common ground on Greek issues.
Adams also apologized to students
inconvenienced by the Reed Hall con
struction delays.
“Neither we nor our construction
managers were as prepared as we should
have been,' he said. “I hope we can do a
better job in the future construction
projects.”
First there was Dolly the sheep.
Now, coming to the University is the
creator of George and Charlie — the
first cloned transgenic calves.
The unique calves were a creation of
Steven Stice, co-director of the project,
and other scientists at the University of
Massachusetts.
A $1.5 million endowed chair has
been developed and sponsored by the
Georgia Research Alliance to bring ani
mal cloning to the University.
By isolating the most beneficial
genes found in livestock, researchers
could clone the strongest and healthi
est animals.
"Using the cloning technology, we
could be making genetic modifications
that would increase muscles, therefore
increase the productivity of pigs," Stice
said to the Associated Press.
Since the late "80s, Stice has con
ducted experiments of embryo cloning
and DNA analysis
The first critter under his belt was a
rabbit.
“The thought is to further the
cloning research in the areas of pigs
and cattle and expand genetically the
number of pigs and cows," Stice said.
Stice was recruited by the University
and the Georgia Research Alliance, a
non-profit organization of 10 major
businesses and six university presi
dents that heavily supports research
universities in the state
When Stice arrives Oct. 16, he will be
an Eminent Scholar at the University.
Stice's job will only focus on research,
rather than classroom instruction.
An endowed chair, of which the
University has more than 100, is paid
for by private money and can be estab
lished for any length of time, said
University spokesman Tom Jackson.
Bringing Stice and other leading
scholars of biotechnology to the
University is a statewide attempt to
facilitate new revenue into Georgia
“This will generate a leading tech
nology in the state," said Clifton Bade,
also an Eminent Scholar at the
University, who wdl work with Stice
“No one in this state is doing this
type of cloning of mammals It will cre
ate new jobs and major contracts. I
anticipate, in time, revenue wdl stream
in that the University wdl benefit from,"
Bade said. "It allows graduate students
and others to work on a cutting edge of
technology"
Ad discoveries made by the cloning
team would be licensed by a start-up
company named OptiGen
OptiGen wdl be a research company
owned by Stice, Bade and George
Murphy, who coordinates poultry
biotechnology
A new $22 million facility caded the
AGTEC (Applied Genetic Technology)
budding is being created to house the
research in both animal and plant
biotechnology.
—Contributing:
The Associated Press
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