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MAN ON THE STREET:
Will Obama be re-elected?
The list of presidents who have only
served one elected term is short.
And could our newest president to be
added to that exclusive club of losers?
This fall, a small Politico piece
sparked discussion of Barack Obama’s
possibly abbreviated presidency sim
ply because, as Politico’s chief political
columnist Roger Simon put it, "he just
doesn’t get it.”
Obama's ratings continue to slip
steadily as Tea Partiers and other politi
cians gearing up for elections criticize
his past year.
Simon had some advice for the 44th
president: “Realize that when it comes
to doing what is right versus doing what
is expedient, you do what is expedient
so that you can get reelected and do
BRYANT
HUGH-SAM
sophomore economics
major from Roswell
1 think at first it was just a
popular wave after his
election. He’ll probably just
be a one-term president.'
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College prioritizes international presence
By DALLAS DUNCAN
Thf Red & Black
Just because the
College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences
has lost more than 20 per
cent of its budget in the
past two years does not
mean its administration is
giving up on letting stu
dents experience college
to its fullest.
In documents from the
Senior Administrators
Retreat, CAES adminis
trators listed their goals
and priorities for the
upcoming year includ
ing increasing internation
al activity and recognition
and growing a program
called the Dean’s Promise.
CAES, which is ranked
third out of agriculture
colleges in the country, has
a “minimal international
program,” according to the
goals.
“There’s a lot of infor
mal relationships with
other countries,” Scott
Angle, CAES dean, said.
“We're pretty good in the
international area, but not
as good as we should be
for the No. 3 college of
agriculture.”
Angle said one of the
reasons CAES was not
well-known in the interna
tional sphere was because
of a lack of funding.
“We’re not really one of
the ones big companies
fund,” he said. “We have
not done a good job of get
ting our reputation around
the country.”
One potential way to
increase international visi
bility of the University and
CAES is through the
Dean’s Promise.
“It’s an initiative where
the dean and higher
administration want stu
dents to have a meaning
ful out of class experience,”
said Carolina Robinson,
study abroad program
coordinator for CAES.
Robinson said students
could take part in the
Dean's Promise through
study abroad, leadership,
service learning, research
and internships.
“The whole thing about
what this goal says actual
ly, I heard Dean Angle
speak at a College of Ag
alumni meeting not too
long ago, maybe two weeks
ago and that's what he did
mention he said he
wanted to increase our
presence internationally,”
she said.
Robinson said about 28
to 30 percent of the stu
dents who graduate study
abroad each year, which is
at the University’s level.
“A lot of our students
have never been abroad or
been on a plane or had
experience overseas,” she
said. "Recently, I had a
student who was very shy
before she left. She spent a
whole summer abroad and
when I first saw her in the
fall she was just chatting
MARGARET
SULLIVAN
senior consumer
journalism major from
Albany
‘I feel that when he ran
everyone was so ready for
a change But then there
was a negative connotation
with Republicans at the
time, and now I feel that
that’s sort of flip-flopped."
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Ag College Goal Documents
away and just talking and
you could really see she
had kind of grown into
herself.”
International students
are also coming from
abroad to study in the
United States.
“When we have
interns from our
partners in France
or in Europe, they’re
not used to a col
lege town. They go
to a university in a
very large city and
then when they
come to UGA
they’re so surprised
that people have
Georgia shirts on;
that people actually are
wearing stuff with their
school's name on it,”
Robinson said. “They
absolutely have the sweet
est words for their stay
here that they learned
the American life and they
learned how to be an
American student, and
they also learned a lot of
technical skills.”
Julien Massonnat, Boris
Borgotti and Charlene
Battisti came to CAES
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what is right in the second term."
As November election season creeps
closer and closer, many Americans are
beginning to ponder that same ques
tion: Might Obama be a one-term presi
dent?
He swept into office with a large
majority of the vote —but other historic
one-term presidents were booted
despite a similarly magical first election.
And when forced to make unpopular
decisions that don’t sit well with voters
a president’s hopes for re-election can
worsen.
The Red & Black asked University
students to weigh in on the debate
Will Obama last another presidential
election?
Julia Carpenter
ADAM GREENE
senior advertising major
from London, England
1 think he’s going to get
re-elected. Because Bush had
a really low rating and still got
re-elected, right? I may be
wrong about that, but I’d vote
for him again.”
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PROSPER HEDGES
sophomore English and
comparative literature major
from Snellville
“I’d believe he would be
re-elected. The incumbent is
usually re-elected, and he
still has a lot of staunch
supporters."
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to study and research on
the Athens and Tifton
campuses.
“We’ve spent two month
and a half in Georgia,”
Borgotti wrote in an
e-mail. “I worked on a
banana project on Tifton
campus and Charlene
worked on blueberries in
Athens.”
Borgotti wrote he and
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courses are mainly in
French, but we think that
they would have a great
time in Toulouse and stu
dents from ENSAT —and
other French engineering
school— would be more
aware of what CAES is."
Massonnat said in an
e-mail the reason they
came to the United States
was because ENSAT
allowed students to do an
internship in a foreign
country during their sec
ond year.
“1 lived in Tifton during
almost three month," he
NEWS
Battisti traveled to
Savannah, Atlanta,
New York and
Canada during their
time studying at
CAES
" “We think that it
would be a great
thing if students
from CAES come at
ENSAT,” Borgotti
wrote. “The main
difficulty is that
New library project on track
By UMARAH ALI
The Red & Black
By spring the mounds
of dirt students see from
Baxter Street will be con
verted into a home for
some of the University’s
most interesting trea
sures.
Construction on the
Richard B. Russell Building
began last January and is
ahead of schedule. This
$46 million project was
first envisioned almost 20
years ago to give special
documents and artifacts a
proper place of their own,
separate from the
University’s Main Library.
“The Main Library can
only accommodate a stu
dent population from
1971,” said University Chief
Architect Danny Sniff.
Because of the size of
the 2010 student popula
tion, as well%s the increas
ing size of the library’s
special collections, creat
ing another building was
necessary.
"The library’s special
collections have grown sig
nificantly over the last 10
to 20 years,” Sniff said.
“The need to house them
in a climate-controlled
room has become crucial.”
Various documents,
maps, political writings,
fabrics and several other
items are among the
library’s special collections
that will be protected in a
climate-controlled vault in
the new facility. Though
many of the documents
can now be found online,
Sniff said that true histori
ans and scholars go to the
original source to properly
wrote. “The life in Tifton is
very different than the life
in France; the temperature
is very hot, the campus
Tifton and Athens are
very impressive compare
to the campus of my school
and if you do not have a
car it is very difficult to do
something.”
Robinson said at times,
CAES students are invited
to go on ambassador pro
grams abroad for short
periods, most recently in
Taiwan and Thailand.
“The fact that our part
ners in Thailand said, ‘We
want Georgia students, we
know that you guys are a
strong university and you
guys are a great partner
and we’re offering this
opportunity to you’ ... It
kind of speaks to our part
nerships that we have
overseas," she said.
Massonnat said CAES
should strive to continue
working to develop its
partnerships with foreign
universities.
“The best way to show
the abilities of a university
or a department is to show
what the students are real
ly capable of,” he wrote. “I
hope that a lot of other
students from Toulouse
will go in Tifton or Athens
to study or to make
researches it is really a
great opportunity.”
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“People will come from
all over the world to study
these documents,” Sniff
said. “There are only 10 or
12 special collections
libraries in the United
States.”
Along with being a
resource on a global scale,
the Richard B. Russell
Building will also provide
resources to students on
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Along with the special col
lections library, the facility
will have lecture halls,
study rooms, archives and
a general library and study
area.
“A library is often
referred to as the heart
and brain of a college,”
Sniff said. “To have a mod
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and as progressive as it
can be is essential to the
reputation of a university.”
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