Information Technology Compact Planning. Sessions begin Sept. 22 with a general session for all students. What do you think about email, the future of OASIS, and WebCT? Let your technology administrators at EITS know. Tate Center Reception Hall, 8:30 a.m to noon. The complete schedule, with times and locations, is located on the IT Compact Planning Web site: http://eits.uga.edu/compact.

 The Big Read/Bulldog Book Club. Sponsored by the English Department, UGA Libraries, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens-Clarke Library and Lyndon House Arts Center. UGA librarian and English professor Fran Teague discusses themes and symbols in Bless Me, Ultima, the featured novel of The Big Read. 3:30 p.m. Jittery Joes in Miller Learning Center. Contact
fteague@uga.edu

 Lecture: Why Literary Journalism Rocks the Real World. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Wil Haygood, journalist at The Washington Post and the Conrad Fink Professional in Residence gives the talk. 4 p.m. 150 Miller Learning Center. Contact
706-542-3966, jdingus@uga.edu

 Lecture: The Music of Literary Journalism. Sponsored by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Wil Haygood of the Washington Post gives the talk. 4 p.m. 150 Miller Learning Center. Contact
jdingus@uga.edu

 Adult CPR with AED Recertification. A quick way to renew this certification. Participants should come prepared to demonstrate their practical skills. Some review is offered, but the course is not to teach or re-teach skills. Participants must pass both the skills check and written exam to obtain certification. Ramsey Center members only. 6 to 8 p.m. Ramsey Student Center for Physical Activities. Contact 706-542-5060,
www.recsports.uga.edu

 Information Technology Compact Planning. Sponsored by the Office of the CIO and Enterprise Information Technology Services. The year’s round of IT Compact Planning, introduced by CIO and Associate Provost Barbara A. White in 2005, is a planning process designed to engage the campus in the identification of high-priority information technology needs and requirements. A Sept. 22 general session is followed by a series of group sessions. For more information, includes links to the complete schedule and an introductory video, please see http://eits.uga.edu/pressreleases/
2008/cp09-1.html Through
Sept. 30. Tate Center Reception Hall. Contact 706-425-2920,
llatimer@uga.edu

TUESDAY

 Xeriscape Gardens Workshop. Sponsored by the State Botanical Garden. Have the heat and drought leached all the color from your garden? Color is not limited to flowers. Members $15, all others $17. 9:30 to 11 a.m. State Botanical Garden Visitor Center, classroom A. Contact 706-542-6156,
ckeber@uga.edu

 Bulldog Book Club. Sponsored by the UGA Libraries. Discuss Jack Kerouac, On the Road . 11 a.m. Miller Learning Center Jittery Joe’s. Contact
fteague@uga.edu

 Seminar: Mortgage Fraud- When a House is Not a Home. Sponsored by the Department of Housing & Consumer Economics. Brent Brewer, neighborhood activist in the West End neighborhood of Atlanta, and Dr. Andy Carswell, UGA assistant professor of housing, give the talk. 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
202 Dawson Hall. Contact ymimura@fcs.uga.edu

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