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HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL
MEET JOE
If you're like me, the State School Superintendent ranks up there
with the Bureau of Mines Director on the interest scale. Atlanta
school bureaucracy politics. Ecch! Of course we know our public
schools need help, and we know that a large part of our population
has bailed into private and religious schools, leaving a deteriorating
base to worry about the public schools. And every time we elect a
caring, dedicated public servant who wants to help our children by
saving our schools, she turns into a politician bent on preserving
her power base and using it as a stepping stone.
But hope springs eternal, and Joe Martin, who was the
Democratic nominee for State School Superintendent in 1998 is
back in the fray.
I have not met Joe, though I have talked to him on the tele
phone, and some people I do know and respect are working hard for
him. He grew up in Decatur and Atlanta, graduated from Vanderbilt
and got an M.B.A. at Harvard after serving as an Army officer in the
Dominican Republic and Vietnam. He served on the Atlanta Board of
Education for 20 years, was one of the founders of the Council of
Intown Neighborhoods and Schools, served on the Governor's
Education Review Commission which recommended the Quality
Based Education Act in 1985 and chaired the Funding Committee of
the Governor's Education Reform Study Commission in 1999-2000.
He also has a solid record as a businessman.
Don't take my second-hand word on Joe Martin. He will be here
in Athens Tuesday, June 18, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Hill Chapel
Baptist Church, 1692 W. Hancock, just off Broad below the Auto
Zone store.
Check him out at joemartin.org, and then come meet somebody
who just might make Georgia public schools more interesting than
the Bureau of Mines.
GOOD NEWS
Athens Regional Medical Center has decided not to tear down a
two-story house the hospital owns at 335 King Ave., adjacent to th*
hospital's Trusso property. The neighborhood strongly urged the hos
pital not to tear down the house but to return it to the stock of liv
able homes along the street.
Now, the hospital has decided to do just that. Although it's not
selling the house, according to a CHN email, the hospital will reha
bilitate it and put it on the rental market.
The neighbors are singing the praises of hospital officials, most
notably ARMC CEO John Drew. Program and Facilities Chair Carl
Nichols and Corporate Communications Director Elaine Cook.
GOOD WORDS
Now comes word from the University of Georgia that wishing will
help to make it so. You may recall that UGA. like many universities
on the semester system, has run up
against the fact that students don't under
take a full load of courses but instead take
fewer courses and stretch out their atten
dance over more than four years. This
makes the class load easier to handle,
helping to maintain the B average neces
sary for the Hope Scholarship, and cuts
down on the per-semester cost. That tactic
also, of course, lessens the University's per-semester income and
plays havoc with the 32.500 cap on enrollment.
Provost Karen Holbrook has figured out a solution and has
instructed everybody over there to cease referring to students as
freshmen, sophomores, juniors or seniors. Instead, those procrasti
nators should now be called first-year, second-year, third-year and
fourth-year students.
“This terminology has been recommended by the Deans, Vice
Presidents and the ad hoc Committee on Undergraduate Student
Credit Hours. These groups feel it is important for the University to
stress the value of a four-year academic experience for undergradu
ates, insure efficient credit hour production, strengthen the acad
emic environment, and raise the expectations we have for current
and future students And cover our collective ass on this financial
shortfall, she might have added
MEET JIM
Well congratulations to Jim Ponsoldt, who has announced that
he's running for the District 9 ACC Commission seat now occupied by
Tom Chasteen Running for public office and serving is difficult and
time-consuming, but Ponsoldt has shown on the school board that
he knows how to run and how to serve.
Pete McCommons (pub(5>flagpole com)
And cover our
collective ass
on this financial
shortfall...
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