Summer Classes at UGA
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Full calendar here.
It's a perennial issue on college campuses nationwide, one with heavy effects on the health and saefty of students: Binge drinking.
A doctoral candidate from psychology has published findings that suggest patterns of binge drinking establish the environment for dangerous situations.
The study, recently published in the journal Violence and Victims, found that first-year female college students who drank four or more alcoholic drinks in one day at the start of the study were 33 percent more likely to be victims of a sexual assault in the following months. Women who drank four alcoholic beverages during two days or more were 17 percent more likely to be sexually assaulted later. In contrast, 6 percent of the non-drinkers experienced a sexual assault during the course of the study.
"It's not just the amount you're drinking—it's the pattern," said lead author Emily Mouilso, a doctoral candidate in the psychology department in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. "Even if the volume of alcohol is the same, when you drink it all at once, you are putting yourself at the highest risk."
New jewelry/metals studios
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The jewelry and metals area within the Lamar Dodd School of Art moved into newly renovated studio spaces earlier this year in the Thomas Street complex adjacent to North campus. A dynamic area of the art school with many hardworking (and some celebrated) students, J/M has long been a cornerstone of the art program. It's great that students and faculty can now work in these specifically tailored spaces, which you can get a feel for in the video tour below.
Amazing student(s)
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Spring 2012 graduates, their friends and familes have all been blessed with beautiful weather the past few days as anticipation grows for tonight's graduation ceremony at the stadium. The campus is teeming with visitors being given imprompu tours of favored haunts by excited grads-to-be - the orderly line at the arch for photos is a testament to patience and a gentle nature that many will hopefully be able to remember in later, more, trying times.
The Value of a College Education
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Maybe this is too easy. For NPR. But another week and more reportage on National Public Radio about the value of a college education and whether it's worth it. Maybe it's just that I drive once a week and only catch these then; maybe they run similar pieces like this morning's interview everyday. But this is a very important to topic to everyone, and one that is on everyone's mind especially at this time of year. I attended a wonderful commencement ceremony for Lamar Dodd School of Art graduates and their families last night, and the keynote speaker did a great job not mincing words about the job market for new graduates but also explaining his experience making up a career for himself, a job that did not previously exist, and what the new graduates should do to conjure similar routes to happiness and fulfillment for themselves. But before I get to that, this:
This chart, and there are many others like it, must be the context to any conversation on whether college is right for you. It is. And this is only in terms of employment and earnings, versus not going. But the above segment was filled with elliptical phrases like, "... or whether you should try something else." Well just what might some of those things be, Jennifer Ludden?
UGA alumnus Judson C. Mitcham (AB '69, MS '71) was named by Governor Nathan Deal as the new poet laureate of Georgia. Mitcham succeeds David Bottoms in the post.
A former adjunct professor of creative writing at UGA, Mitcham was very active on campus as a Man of Letters during his time in Athens and has many connections to Franklin College. A recipient of numerous awards and honors, Mitcham currently teaches creative writing at Mercer University and in the MFA program at Georgia College and State University. Poets laureate compose poems for state occasions and other government events, but the extent of their duties can vary widely. They are generally understand to be advocates and ambassadors for poetry to the state and its citizens, a role that has perhaps never been as important as it is today. So, congratulations to Mitcham on this important honor that is a bit more than that. Plus this advice, to all of us, from the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (d.1926):
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the Creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.