As I was scribbling away on another piece that would amuse my friends and confound my detractors, I learned of a family that had just lost a daughter in an automobile accident. I don’t know the family, but a friend does. The young woman was an honors graduate of the University of Georgia’s music department and was on her way to perform in a Christmas program of some sort when … [Read more...] about Dec. 10, 2001: This is not the column I intended to write.
Dec. 3, 2001: In the short time I have been in the column-writing business, I have learned that strong opinions evoke strong reactions.
When you agree, you let me know quickly and when you don’t, I find that out in a hurry, too. For example, one reader reacted to my comments last week by suggesting I give up this space permanently and “go fishing.” A great idea – the fishing part, I mean. My sources tell me the journalism professors at the University of Georgia are still harrumphing after I suggested they … [Read more...] about Dec. 3, 2001: In the short time I have been in the column-writing business, I have learned that strong opinions evoke strong reactions.
Nov. 26, 2001: While the world was busy marveling at how the Georgia Bulldogs kicked Georgia Tech’s backsides, 31-17.
and won undisputed bragging rights for a whole year (you knew I was going to sneak that in, didn’t you?), scientists at Advance Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts, announced that they have cloned a human embryo. As near as I can figure, they don’t plan to make a bunch of new humans to tend all the sheep they have already cloned. I think they just want to turn out a … [Read more...] about Nov. 26, 2001: While the world was busy marveling at how the Georgia Bulldogs kicked Georgia Tech’s backsides, 31-17.
Nov. 19, 2001: Bingo! Dr. Michael Adams, president of the University of Georgia, has put the responsibility of increasing student body diversity at UGA right where it belongs —
on the rest of us. This is not the university’s problem; it’s ours. For several years now, Dr. Adams and others have wrestled with the issue of whether UGA should take only the brightest and best from our state, which tends to make the university mostly white and predominately female, or should it more closely represent the demographics of the state, which is almost one-third … [Read more...] about Nov. 19, 2001: Bingo! Dr. Michael Adams, president of the University of Georgia, has put the responsibility of increasing student body diversity at UGA right where it belongs —
Nov. 12, 2001: My daddy used to say, “You don’t have to be smart; you just have to recognize who is smarter than you.”
My friends at Georgia Tech – and believe it or not, I do have a few – will be pleased to learn that I now publicly bow in deference to one of their own. (My Tech friends will no doubt hasten to add that all their graduates and 99 percent of the flora and fauna on the planet are smarter than me, but that story is for another day.) Everybody has been trying to cope with what … [Read more...] about Nov. 12, 2001: My daddy used to say, “You don’t have to be smart; you just have to recognize who is smarter than you.”