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MAN ON THE STREET:
Facebook Royalty
Hear ye, hear ye Her Royal Highness
Queen Elisabeth 11, the Queen q f England,
is on Fhcebook.
Though she will not friend you or like
your posts, the 82-year-old monarch’s
move has already spawned multiple fan
pages —with names such as “The Queen
of England has a fb. LMAO That is so
Awesome XDD” —and her page updates
frequently with photos and the news of
the royal family.
Detractors claim the page will merely
invite rude comments and endless criti
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MEETING: No plan for degrees
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“A lot of the faculty that
are already involved employ
undergraduate research as
sistants,” Scott said. “So
it’s something that we cer
tainly believe in and will
push for.”
However, Scott also
emphasized there is no
proposed degree program
for the institute at this
point.
“It’s an institute, so
there is a possibility in the
future for a degree pro
gram, but it's not on the
books.” Scott said. “It’s not
in the plans right now.”
The committee also
approved an institute pro
posal from the College of
Education. The Institute
for Interdisciplinary
Research on Education
and Human Development
would encourage interdis
ciplinary research and
funding opportunities.
“The College of
Education felt that we
needed this institute to
provide outreach for our
faculty and other colleges,”
said Noel Gregg, associate
dean for research in the
College of Education.
The committee also
approved a proposal to
change the name of the
Department of Speech
Communication to the
Department of
Teachers recognized with thanks
By JESSICA WALKER
Fos The Red & Black
Sometimes a “thank you” is all it takes.
The University’s Thank A Teacher pro
gram strives to bridge the gap between
students and teachers by allowing stu
dents to personally thank their teachers.
The program was started by Nelson
Hilton, director of the Center for Teaching
and Learning at the University, after hear
ing about similar programs at other col
leges.
“It’s all part of addressing the culture,”
Hilton said. “We’re trying to get a little
more appreciation for teaching.”
Students who want to participate can
visit thankateacher.uga.edu, where they
can type a message to be sent to their
teacher. The student can chose to remain
anonymous, though about 75 percent of
students Identity themselves, according
to Hilton.
At the end of each semester, the com
ments are printed on a certificate and
mailed to the teachers along with a letter
congratulating them on their success.
CHRISTELUE
LORIN 1
sophomore International
affairs major from
Kennesaw
*l'm kind of indifferent
about it . A iot of public
figures have a Facebook
page. She can do what
she wants’
KATIE FRENCH
senior agribusiness
major from Grayson
*1 think everybody
essentially has a
Facebook now. It’s a
good way to keep updat
ed with her life. It’s a
good way for people to
stay connected with her
life so she’s not like this
untouchable public fig
ure.’
NADIA AIMED
sophomore romance
languages major from
Atlanta
‘I didn't know people
that old were on
Facebook.”
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▲ Jeff Dorfman is the chair of the Executive
Committee. On Thursday, members approved
two institutes and a department name change.
Communication Studies.
The approved action items
are pending approval from
the University Council.
The Executive
Committee of the
University Council will
meet again Feb. 3 at 3:30
p.m. in the Administration
Building.
The members will vote
cism, but a Buckingham Palace spokes
woman said the main goal of the page is
to help the Queen’s subjects connect with
their ruler.
More than 200,000 users have visited
the page since its launch.
The Red 6 Black asked University
students about their opinions on the
Queen’s new cyber presence how do
you feel about the Queen being on
Facebook?
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on a proposal brought forth
by the Student
Government Association.
The amended final exam
schedule policy would allow
students to reschedule an
exam if they have three
exams within a 24-hour
period not Just exams
that fall on the same calen
dar day.
The initiative started In 2008, but pro
fessors didn’t start receiving responses
until the spring of 2009. Since then, they
have received 415 responses, Hilton said.
Students are able to give comments to
their teachers through student evalua
tions, but this program Is more personal.
"It Is trying to address the culture and
convey to some people the idea that there
is some interest In caring and apprecia
tion," Hilton said.
R. Baxter Miller, an English professor,
has been teaching at the University for 18
years, and though he has not heard of the
program, he said he likes the idea.
“One kind of reward, If you’re my kind
of professor, is the reward for scholarly
production, but there is no greater reward
than knowing you have influenced and
impacted real lives,” Miller said.
The program hopes to gain more rec
ognition around campus and Incite more
students to participate
"I would say it’s perking along and
that’s what we’ve hoped for and what
we'll certainly try to continue," Hilton
said.
NEWS
CAROLINE
DANIEL
senior broadcast news
major from Eibsrton
*1 feel like with the way
technology is growing,
you're going to expect
some change. The
Queen of England is a
public figure. It’s a pretty
smart move probably. Itll
help her reach out. The
public wit! feel more
included in her life. If she
set up a Twitter I don't
know if people will follow
her, but most people like
following celebrities and
politicians.’
FRANCIS
LAREYA
sophomore
management major
from Ghana
*1 don't think shell be the
one updating her status.
It’s definitely a PR
move.’
LACY GAINEY
junior math education
major from CartorsvMe
"She's just a regular per
son. If anything, I think it
would be a good way to
connect with the youth.’
High ranking grants entry
By JULIA CARPENTER
The Red & Black
Rumors circulate cam
pus all the time.
You score free tuition if
a campus bus slams into
you on the comer of
Baldwin Street and
Sanford Drive. If your
roommate dies, you ace all
your final exams. Which
are true and which are
false?
One rumor that vale
dictorians and salutatori
ans from Georgia high
schools are guaranteed
acceptance to the
University is actually
true, according to Patrick
Winter, senior associate
director of University
Admissions.
Most students simply
don’t know their class rank
could put that acceptance
letter in the mail.
“This is on our website,
so it’s not like it’s secret,”
Winter said. “It’s not a
rumor—it’s actually some
thing we’ve implemented.
Now, there’s some caveats
with this, and this would
be the thing that I would
actually want to validate.”
Winter said that the
“guaranteed acceptance”
policy only applies to high
school students who meet
all the Board of Regents
core competency require
ments, apply to the
University by the admis
sions deadline and gradu
ate from a SACS accred
ited high school.
The policy was put into
place as a safeguard to
ensure that high school
valedictorians and saluta
torians are admitted to
the University in case they
somehow slip through the
cracks during the admis
sions process.
“Very rarely would it be
we get to the very end and
there would be a student
we had denied because of
perceived deficiencies,
and then we have to say,
‘Oh, wow, this student is
valedictorian, we have to
admit them,’” Winter said.
“That almost never hap
pens. So the student’s No.
1 in their class and they
apply early action, for
example. They could be
certainly strong enough at
that point that they get
admitted solely on the
strength of their academ
ics.” Thomas Bailey, a
junior linguistics and
Japanese major from
Woodstock, graduated at
the top of his class at
Sequoyah High School,
but he doesn’t remember
any automatic admission
to the University.
“I remember hearing
that rumor, but I don’t
remember,” he said. “They
may have sent something.
I don’t remember any
materials specifically tell
ing me I was automatical
ly accepted to UGA, but
my credentials were
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strong enough that I could
have gotten in without it,
so I don’t really know if
that happened or not."
Bailey said he remem
bers one letter from Berry
College in Rome alerting
him to his automatic
acceptance if he applied to
the college Immediately.
“Berry sent me some
thing like free acceptance,
but I don’t know if that
had anything to do with
me being valedictorian,”
he said. “You know, colleg
es sent me information
packets and stuff that were
like, ’Come here!”’
Mir Inaamullah, a senior
math and economics mqjor
from Powder Springs,
graduated from McEachem
High School as valedicto
rian of his class of 770 stu
dents. He said several
Institutions offered him
free acceptance, but he
received no such offer from
the University.
“I can’t remember
exactly which schools, but
I definitely did," Inaamullah
said. “I think Southern
Polytechnic State did. It
was usually a letter; and
yeah, in most cases I had
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not applied.”
Winter said the
University does not send
out free acceptance letters
to high school valedictori
ans and salutatorlans in
fact, most beneficiaries of
the policy would probably
never know that their class
rank guaranteed them
their University accep
tance letter.
Winter also said that
most high school valedic
torians and salutatorlans
are already great candi
dates for admission to the
University. They typically
don’t need the guaranteed
acceptance.
Inaamullah seconded
that valedictorians and
salutatorlans usually are
accepted because of strong
academics and extracur
ricular involvement regard
less of their high school
class ranking.
“You do this a lot in
econ when you talk about
markets and such,” he
said. “It’s a pre-selected
market. It’s a high level of
correlation, but it’s really
you're looking at two of
the same thing, not two
different things.”
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