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WEDNESDAY
September 21, 2005
Vol. 113, No. 24 | Athens, Georgia
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HOP A RIDE
>- Why do some
football players ride
scooters? PAGE 6
Sharon
Nickols
will resign
after
almost 15
years as
dean.
Dean
to step
down
in July
By DANEE ATTEBURY
dattebury@randb.com
Sharon Nickols, dean of
the College of Family and
Consumer Sciences,
announced Tuesday that
she will step down on July 1,
2006, after almost 15 years
in the position.
“The timing is good. The
college is in very good
standing,” Nickols said. “It’s
time for the college to have
new ideas and new leader
ship.”
She said she wants to
spend the remainder of her
career as a professor in the
college researching the ori
gins of the consumer sci
ences field.
“Not all of that history
has been well documented,”
she said.
In addition to leaving the
dean position, Nickols will
resign as an associate direc
tor of the Agriculture
Experiment Station and
associate director of the
Cooperative Extension
Service.
Nickols said she is proud
that the college doubled
undergraduate enrollment,
added international pro
grams and increased the
number of faculty members
while she has been dean.
She also said she took pride
in strong alumni relations
and increased grants to the
school.
However, she said she
regrets the college has not
been able to get a new
building.
“We are desperate for
additional space,” she said.
Nickols also said she
wished staff salaries could
be raised.
To find a replacement for
Nickols, University Provost
Arnett Mace said faculty
will nominate people to be
members of a search and
screening committee. Mace
said the screening commit
tee would be diverse in gen
der, ethnicity and rank at
the University.
The committee will rec
ommend three to five candi
dates for on-campus
interviews, and he and
University President
Michael Adams will make
the final selection, Mace
said.
GAS PIPE BREAKS ON CAMPUS
KATIE FOLEY | The Red & Black
A Atlanta Gas Light Company employee Tommie
Edwards works on the broken gas pipe adjacent
to the main power sub-station that provides elec
tricity to the University, but no service was known
to be out, according to Athens-Clarke County Fire
Department Battalion Chief Andy Dawson.
KATIE FOLEY | The Red & Black
A Police direct traffic at the corner of East Campus Road and Carlton Street as Atlanta
Gas Light Company contractors work on a piece of four-inch pipe that broke when it
was struck with a backhoe Tuesday evening.
>• Will the broken gas pipe
affect campus?
PAGE 3
Browning finds his way into the end zone
KATIE FOLEY | The Red & Black
▲ Senior tailback Tyson Browning slides into the end zone after a 16-yard run in the
fourth quarter of Saturday’s game against Louisiana Monroe.
By RYAN CRAWFORD
rcrawford@randb.com
For a brief moment on
Saturday, Tyson Browning
reminded coaches, team
mates and fans — at
least those who stayed
through the fourth quarter
— of the unique talent he
possesses.
The senior running back’s
ability to change direction
stopped several Louisiana
Monroe players in their
tracks as he rushed for 36
yards on three carries and a
touchdown.
But as elusive as
Browning is to defenders,
playing time has been just
as elusive for the Athens
native.
“I’ve got three sopho
mores in front of me who are
three talented backs,”
Browning said, “but adjust
ing to not being on the field,
it hurts.”
The three running backs
Browning speaks of -
Thomas Brown, Danny Ware
and Kregg Lumpkin - have
received all the hype and the
majority of the carries for the
Bulldogs this season.
Browning, who classifies
all of those players as “power
backs,” said his style
can contribute to the team
as well.
“As far as speed and agili
ty, I think I’m one of the best
guys out here at making
guys miss,” Browning said.
But with playing time lim
ited at the running back
position, coaches have tried
to find other ways to utilize
Browning’s skills.
Last year, Browning start
ed the season returning
punts and was seen by many
as the second coming of
return-star Damien Gary
when he returned a punt for
a touchdown in the first
game against Georgia
Southern.
Browning said most peo
ple didn’t realize that last
>- See BROWNING. Page 6
Group to fund
scholarships,
professorship
UGA Foundation makes first
contribution since split in July
By JOHN CALDWELL
jcaldwell@randb.com
With a half-million dollar
endowment contributed to
the University from its for
mer foundation, officials said
turmoil between the two has
subsided.
“Everybody is just looking
forward. You can’t change
the past,” said UGA
Foundation chairman Read
Morton. “The mission of the
Foundation is to support the
academics of the University.”
The UGA Foundation
announced Tuesday a
$500,000 endowment to
establish a professorship in
the College of Public Health
and 70 new four-year scholar
ships.
Funding for the endow
ment came from money pre
viously provided by the foun
dation for non-academic sup
port activities. Responsibility
for funding such events was
transferred to the Arch
Foundation, the University’s
new fundraising arm.
The public health school,
founded this year, had yet to
establish an endowed profes
sorship.
The foundation’s contri
bution may be used to sup
plement a base salary to
attract a more eminent pro
fessor, Morton said.
“This will help jump-start
the college, there’s no
doubt,” said University
Provost Arnett Mace, who
conferred with Morton on the
allotment of the funds.
The UGA Foundation set
WHAT IT MEANS
> $500,000 endowment to
establish a new professorship in
the College of Public Health
>■ 70 new four-year
scholarships “to attract students
of diversity and those from various
socio-economic backgrounds”
>■ Priority: need based, incentive,
and charter
> Who gave endowment: UGA
foundation
>■ Looking Ahead: The
foundation may have opportunity
to provide additional funding
aside the other $250,000 of
the total donation to create
the 70 scholarships,
“designed to attract students
of diversity and those from
various socio-economic
backgrounds,” according to
the foundation.
Mace said those scholar
ships would take three forms:
need-based, incentive and
charter. Once in place, they
should help increase ethnic,
geographical and special-tal
ent diversity.
“We have made some sig
nificant progress,” he said. “I
would like for it to be more
diverse in the next year.”
Tuesday’s contribution
was the first newly-instituted
expenditure by the UGA
Foundation since its formal
ties to the University dis
solved in mid-July.
That separation was
ordered in April by the Board
of Regents, which governs
>- See FOUNDATION, Page 3
Food Services
plans to improve,
extend hours
By JESSICA JORDAN
jjordan@randb.com
Although the University’s
dining halls are ranked
among the best in the coun
try, several improvements are
planned within the next year.
Director of University
Food Services Michael Floyd
said Oglethorpe Dining
Commons will be renovated
next summer.
New features will include a
Mongolian grill and a coffee
shop, where students will
gain access to a “coffee shop
menu with a meal plan price.”
Later hours will also be
implemented at the newly-
renovated Oglethorpe dining
hall next fall, said Floyd, who
said he hopes eventually to
have a 24-hour dining facility
at the University.
A study released last
week by Educational
Benchmarking Incorporated
found that University stu
dents have expressed
increasing satisfaction with
Food Services over the past
seven years.
Of the 245 participating
schools, the University
ranked in the top 1 percent of
college food services based
on student surveys regarding
food quality, variety, cleanli
ness and value.
“We have won 59 national
awards; most of those nation
al awards have come from
outside groups,” said Floyd,
LAUREN CARROLL | The Red & Black
A Emily Keszler, a junior
from Duluth, said she stays
on the meal plan “so I
could keep eating lunch and
dinner with these guys.”
who has directed Food
Services for 19 years.
“This survey is based on
our customers’ comments
who see our employees and
use our facilities every day, so
it’s nice to have our own UGA
family brag on us,” he said.
More than 7,500 students
purchased the University
meal plan this year, allowing
> See FOOD, Page 3
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