Brainstorming Ideas - Desegregation

My ideas:

1. Where are they now? A look at students who were at UGA 50 years ago and what they are up to now. Also, get their thoughts on how the desegregation of the school affected their experience and the rest of their lives.

2. The process of desegregation at UGA. Going back through the history and key players that made the major changes at UGA.

3. Admissions- looking into UGA and other Georgia and or Southern schools admissions and the racial ratios.

4. A time line of UGA since desegregation; how different is it 50 years later.

5. A day in the life of: going through the day of the average UGA student 50 years ago. Covering everything from textbook prices, class sizes, to fashion.

6. Asking students and teachers their opinions of race relations at UGA, are there still issues 50 years later?

7. Because of the snowpocalypse it would be nice to go over the events that already happened- a recap of the celebrations.

8. What are our goals for the next 50 years? Speak to not only students but department heads about what they feel UGA should strive towards over the next 50 years.

9. More in depth book reviews of the "books in print" section on the UGA desegregation website.

10. Highlighting clubs and organizations on UGA's campus that work to spread diversity and continue the positive changes post desegregation. Examples: NABJ, pamoja dance company....

11. It is not only the 50th anniversary of desegregation, but it is also UGA's 226th birthday. It would be interesting to go over what the school was like 226 years ago and compare it to 50 years ago and today.

12. What can you do to contribute to furthering UGA and your community's diversity?

Hi, I'm Sarah

Hi, I'm Sarah Wormser and I am a junior from Tampa, Fla. My birthday is next week (the 27th) and I will treat it like a national holiday (feel free to observe it as well).

I am a magazines major and love nothing more than getting a new magazine, whether I get it in the mail or buy it with my groceries. I read every magazine the same way: front to back, back to front, then back again. I don't even think about this process any more, it just happens.

Along with my magazine major I am an English and Chinese minor. I started taking Chinese junior year of high school when I reached my Spanish limit. I love learning new languages with creative and challenging alphabets. I have been interested since elementary school since I took Hebrew (yay small jewish day school that had less students in the entire pre-k through 8th grade school than my intro to bio class had).

Here at UGA I am a Grady Ambassador, a UGA Tap Dawg, and Managing Editor of Little Red Book. Little Red Book, a student run fashion magazine out of the family and consumer sciences school, takes up the majority of my time. I came across the magazine at my fall freshman year activities fair and they haven't been able to get rid of me since. Working on LRB has solidified the fact that I want to work in magazines for the rest of my life.

I love being in Georgia, where seasons happen unlike Florida where there is a great range of rain, humidity, and sunshine. I also love my dog, Rory. She is a spitz poodle and just the cutest. I prefer having a constant soundtrack to my life, music was a major part of my childhood and just makes everything better. This week is all about Wilco, can't get it out of my head.

Alright, that's all for now.