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Univ. lawsuit remains unclear
By KRISTEN COULTER
The Red & Black
A federal lawsuit involving the
University’s College of Pharmacy
that began in August may not be
resolved until well into 2008.
In a case where a University phar
macy professor is accused of collect
ing and disseminating national
pharmacy exam questions, the
defendants, Flynn Warren, Jr. and
the Board of Regents, and the plain
tiff, The National Association of
Boards of Pharmacy, argued over
pretrial motions for months.
A motion was filed Nov. 16 by
Warren. His motion argued the case ,
should be dismissed because of a
lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
Before the Nov. 16 motion, the
two sides debated how defendants
should challenge the court’s subject
matter jurisdiction. U.S. District
Judge Clay Land wrote Nov. 6 the
argument was an “unnecessary dis
covery dispute.”
Land wrote this argument
Campus projects
making progress
By BRIAN MINK
The Red & Black
Construction on several
major projects is ahead of
schedule as fall semester
ends, said Danny Sniff,
associate vice president
for facilities planning.
In addition to construc
tion of new buildings, Sniff
said the University will be
renovating older dormito
ries soon.
Increasing green space
on campus and decreasing
the environmental impact
of buildings on the envi
ronment are also a top goal
for the coming semesters.
“One of the biggest
challenges we've faced
over the last couple of
years is just the cost of
construction continuously
goes up,” Sniff said.
Here’s a look back at
what happened this semes
ter and what’s expected to
come in the following
semesters:
* * *
Construction on the
Tate Center expansion and
parking deck is far ahead
of the University’s most
recent timetable, Sniff said.
Workers are beginning
to pour the first floor of the
building and parking deck,
and there will be visible
progress when students
return for spring semester,
he said. Sniff said the
expansion is set for com
pletion by early 2009.
* * *
Sniff said the new
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delayed the court from deciding on
the issue of subject matter jurisdic
tion.
“Regrettably, the
parties have wasted
substantial time and
resources fighting
over an issue that
their briefs reveal
they agree upon,”
Land wrote.
The case against
Warren and the
Board of Regents
was filed Aug. 3.
According to court
documents, Warren is accused of
copyright infringement, misappro
priation of trade secrets and breach
of contract.
NABP owns the copyrights on the
North American Pharmacist Licen
sure Examination and Georgia Mult
istate Pharmacy Jurisprudence Exa
mination, the tests required to obt
ain a license to practice pharmacy.
On Oct. 25 five additional
University pharmacy faculty were
at East Campus is slated
to open next fall.
As work on the building
comes to a close, Sniff said
University architects are
working on several envi
ronmental initiatives
around the building. These
initiatives include adding
green space and a rain gar
den, a specialized garden
which uses drainage tech
niques and selected plants
to slowly filter storm water
to avoid polluting runoff to
nearby bodies of water.
* * *
The University was
given the go-ahead on an
athletics master plan, and
will be pursuing research
further in the following
months, Sniff said.
“The next couple of
years we'll be investigating
all the Athletic Association
sports and venues” to find
areas of possible improve
ment, he said.
Earlier this semester,
officials dedicated the
Stegeman Coliseum
Training Facility. The facil
ity centralizes lounges,
offices and practice facili
ties formerly in separate
buildings, University archi
tect Gwynne Darden said
in an August interview.
“Each of those pro
grams ... will be a stronger
program because all of
those entities are now tog
ether. It’s definitely a top
tier facility,” Darden said.
★ * *
Sniff said University
architects are working to
develop a plan for the for-
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A Tate II parking deck construction continues and is
not scheduled to finish until summer 2008.
mer Navy Supply Corps
School campus, where the
University hopes to hold
medical school classes.
“Primarily we’ve been
working with what kinds
of things we’re going to do
with the buildings,” Sniff
said.
Architects are working
with officials from other
departments, he said, to
develop a proposal to send
to the U.S. Department of
Education so the
University can obtain the
property from the federal
government.
Sniff said architects are
working on designs for new
intramural fields, a band
practice facility to be
located near the intramu
rals and anew parking
deck near the new art
school.
* * *
University architects
made strides this semes
ter in increasing green
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added to the lawsuit.
College of Pham,, / Associate
Dean George Francisco, Assistant
Dean for Student Affairs Alan
Wolfgang, Dean of Academics Svein
oie, Associate Professor Henry Cobb
and Paul Brooks were listed in the
complaint.
This is the second time NABP
has investigated Warren for similar
allegations.
Court documents say Warren
asked students to memorize
NAPLEX test questions and share
them with him. He used these ques
tions to create a packet and teach a
review course for the exam.
NABP suspended administra
tions of the NAPLEX and the MPJE
exams from Aug. 25 to Oct. 5.
While the tests have been rein
stated, it does not look like the case
will be resolved until next year. Land
gave Warren and the Board of
Regents a Jan. 18 deadline to
file a response to the NABP’s
response to Warren’s motion to dis
miss the case.
Brooks Drive into D.W.
Brooks Mall, a green
space, and building rain
gardens on Lumpkin
Street are a great start, he
said, but there’s more
work to be done.
Work on the next phase
of D.W. Brooks Drive will
begin in the spring.
* * *
The Physical Plant
undertook an $850,000
project to correct water
damage at Dean Rusk Hall
at North Campus. Rusk
Hall, which cost $6 million
in 1996, suffered from
shoddy construction and a
poor design, said Don
Tadlock, construction
director, in an October
interview.
Repairs included
replacing all 60 windows
and fixing the building’s
mortar work. Workers are
repairing the building dur
ing the day and night, and
repairs are expected to be
complete when students
return from winter break,
Tadlock said.
Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007
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A Faculty, staff and students rally to show support
for on-campus child care at the Tate Plaza. The rally
was sponsored by the Campus Coalition for
Childcare at UGA and the Women’s Studies Student
Organization.
University examines
childcare on campus
By CLAIRE MILLER
The Red & Black
Amid cries from stu
dents and faculty mem
bers for change, this fall
the administration
addressed child care
offered on campus.
The McPhaul Child
and Family Development
Center, the sole child care
facility on campus, cares
for 115 children, accord
ing to the center’s Web
site. But this isn’t enough,
speakers at the Child
Care Rally on Sept. 27
argued.
The Women’s Studies
Student Organization
and the Campus Coalition
for Expanding Childcare
at the University orga
nized the rally in the Tate
Center Plaza.
The rally was held to
garner interest and sup
port for increasing child
care at the University.
This event and other
efforts were not to ask
the administration for
free child care services,
Janet Frick, an associate
professor of psychology,
wrote in an e-mail.
“It’s about getting suf
ficient quality child care
available on or near cam
pus for productivity and
to keep UGA competi
tive,” Frick wrote.
The administration
started looking into child
care before the rally, said
Arnett Mace, senior vice
president of academic
affairs.
“Did (the rally) change
our plans? No, because
we had already planned
to hire a consultant,”
Mace said in a phone
interview.
In addition to hiring
consultants from WFD
Consulting, Mace formed
a child care committee in
October to assess the sit
uation. The committee
will assist consultants in
determining the type of
child care needed.
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the child and family
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development department
and a member of the
committee, said commit
tee members represent a
broad range of view
points.
“In that first meeting,
I was sitting next to
Mattie Green, who has
primary custody of her
grandchild," he said. “She
brought a perspective to
the table that Mace rec
ognized.”
Kelly Simmons, editor
of Georgia magazine and
another member of the
committee, said Mace
contacted her and others
to review a survey creat
ed by the consultants,
which will be released to
the University in January.
“The survey is really
specific - it asks who has
children or who is think
ing about children, travel
time to campus, who
would use child care,
things like that,”
Simmons said. “When it’s
done, it will give a really
good cross-campus view
of who would use (child
care) and what type we
need.”
“Anybody on campus
is a stakeholder in this
issue,” Simmons said.
Bower agreed, saying
his college has a vested
interest in the child care
issue.
“We’ve got a lot of fac
ulty and graduate stu
dents (in the College of
Family and Consumer
Sciences) interested in
the outcome,” he said.
Until the survey’s
release in January, the
consulting firm will meet
with the committee to tie
up loose ends.
The University com
munity will have time
from Jan. 7 until Jan. 22
to complete the survey.
After that, the commit
tee will have two meet
ings before the consult
ing firm issues its final
report in February, Bower
said.
“I’m really glad to be
involved,” he said.
