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Engineering majors could be approved next week
By DALLAS DUNCAN
The Red & Black
Next week will mark a crucial
step in the University’s path to
getting a school of engineering.
John Millsaps, spokesman for
the Board of Regents, said the
University submitted three dif
ferent proposals for new under
graduate majors civil engineer
ing, mechanical engineering and
electrical and electronics engi
neering.
“It’s on the agenda for the
meeting next week,” Millsaps
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Peabody awards accepting student judges
By ELAINE KELCH
The Red & Black
With the recent premiere of the fall
television season and red carpet cover
age just around the comer, University
students interested in sharing their
opinion of what's award-worthy
beyond a one-way dialogue with the TV
set are in luck.
Applications are now available for
students to be a judge of the oldest
award in electronic media The George
Poster Peabody Awards.
The Peabody Awards, administered
by the University’s Grady College of
Muslim speaker encourages interfaith relations
By PAIGE VARNER
The Red & Black
When Dr. Nidal Ahmad lived in Jordan,
his family served lunch in an American
guest’s honor.
Ahmad translated the English to
Arabic for his father while the American
ate serving after serving. The guest,
Ahmad exaggerated, gained about 40
pounds that day.
“The propaganda that we hear that
Muslims hate Americans is not true,”
Ahmad said at Wednesday’s Campus
Ministry Association meeting.
No Muslim ministry is represented in
the roughly 30-member association, and
Ahmad spoke about interfaith and
MusUm-American relations in his talk
titled “A Muslim Bulldog Perspective."
Ahmad is the secretary at Al-Huda
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said. He said he could not speak
as to the factors the Regents
would use to make their deci
sion. but said there was a formal
ized process of getting the pro
posal to them.
If the three new majors are
approved, Millsaps said the rest
is up to the University.
“The Regents approve the
overall degree program, but once
the Regents approve It, it is the
responsibility of the academic
institution to put it in place,” he
said.
University officials would not
Journalism and Mass Communication,
were established in 1940 with the first
awards presented the following year.
While first intended to recognize
radio programs, the Peabodys now
award excellence in electronic media,
including TV and radio stations, net
works. producing organizations, individ
uals and the World Wide Web, according
to the Peabody Awards' website.
“There’s one criteria: excellence, and
it can be defined many ways,” said Nate
Kohn, associate director of the Peabody
Awards and telecommunications profes
sor.
“It’s an amazing thing the most
Islamic Center on South Milledge, which
doesn’t have an imam, or mosque leader.
Joe May, the ministry association's
vice president, said Al-Huda has a large
University presence, so it could be a
member when it meets the requirements
of having a leader who holds a master’s
degree or has been In active ministry for
at least five years.
Ahmad, who graduated from the
University in 1993 and married his
American wife in the Tate Center, said
Athens is home.
Yet he senses discomfort with Islam in
America.
“If someone wants to get famous or if
someone wants to get in office, insult
Islam," he said.
Sept. 11 was a strange day for Ahmad,
his wife and his children, he said.
“My kids have struggled, really strug
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Proposal for three new
engineering majors
comment on the proposals, only
to clarify they were for engineer
ing majors, not for a school of
engineering.
“We’re reserving comments
beyond the materials we’ve
already submitted,” said Tom
Jackson, vice president for pub
lic affairs.
Scott Angle, dean of the
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College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences where
two of the University’s existing
engineering degrees, agricultural
and biological engineering, are
housed said in an interview
last week he could not comment
on the progress being made.
“We will still have a depart
ment of biological and agricul
tural engineering, but if those
[new majors] happen, those fac
ulty will have a joint appoint
ment,” Angle Bald.
He said CAES might lose some
students if the University gets
highly-respected award In television.” he
said. “No category is too small. A televi
sion station in Chattanooga can win as
much as HBO and the BBC.”
Student judges will be placed on one
of 30 screening committees composed of
two University staff or faculty members
and the student themselves.
Each committee win review between
30 and 40 programs beginning in late
January, with recommendations due to
the Peabody Board —a 16-member
panel of critics, academics, cultural
experts
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gled, and we struggled explaining it to
them,” he said.
That day, Ahmad said, was unimagi
nable.
“Islam was massacred again," he said.
“We’re being judged and sentenced for it,
at least in the public eye."
But Ahmad has also seen compassion.
Members of other faiths have come to
the mosque offering help.
Ahmad said he doesn’t expect others
to align their views with him on every
issue.
“However, we must have enough
respect for each other;” he said. “We are
all equal."
Among people with different beliefs,
there must be a give and take, he said.
“Before I demand from others,”
Ahmad asked, “what do I give them
from myself?
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these new majors, and especially
if it is later approved for a school
of engineering.
"The three proposed engineer
ing degree programs will address
significant needs in Georgia by
providing a greater number of
graduates to meet engineering
workforce demands and expand
ing access to engineering educa
tion opportunities for Georgia
residents,” the civil engineering
proposal from University
President Michael Adams states.
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Business,
education
keys for
candidate
By DREW HOOKS
The Red & Black
With the November elections
nearing, candidates are in the
home stretch in campaigning for
those final votes.
Athens-Clarke County mayoral
candidate Gwen O’Looney spoke
Wednesday night at the
University’s Young Democrats
chapter meeting. A University
alumna, she briefly spoke about
her history working for the Red
Cross In Vietnam, the Carter
administration, and the Boys and
Girls Club In New York before
finally settling down again in
Athens where she became involved
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quality of life in Athens, education
and small-business development.
“I want to brand Athens,”
O’Looney said. She said she wants
to do this by appealing to small
business owners and home office
people who are looking to “set
down roots.”
“They don’t want to have a
home office in Atlanta or Charlotte.
They want somewhere like
Athens,” she said. “Athens will
never get the big factories, but It
will have the industries of the
mind.”
And she hopes to expand the
potential for these industries.
Even though the Special
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