News coverage validates the meaningful work being done here. It brings the perspectives of Georgia State people onto the public agenda, and it helps to build recognition of our university regionally, nationally and internationally. This compilation of news clips from the Office of Public Relations and Marketing Communications highlights some of the most prominent recent stories that focus on or include Georgia State. Some of the story links below are only accessible with a subscription. To request an electronic copy of an article, email gsudigest@gsu.edu.
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
Biotechnology To The Rescue
Dr. Richard Plemper, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, was quoted in an article about the life sciences industry being in the middle of a historic boom, churning out new medical weapons at an unprecedented pace. The article highlighted scientists at Georgia State, Emory University and the Paul-Ehrlich Institute in Germany who found a way to control measles outbreaks by disrupting the protein that replicates the viral genome. This approach could cure the disease and prevent it from spreading to other people. “We’re starting to understand, on a fundamental level, how viruses enter cells, how they start the infectious cycle and how they produce the genetic material to create progeny viruses,” Plemper said.
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USA TODAY
College Basketball Countdown: No. 50 Georgia State
Ron Hunter, coach of the men’s basketball team, was interviewed for a story about Georgia State’s team having the potential to be one of the best mid-major teams in the country. “Not only do we have great guards, but we play two fifth-year seniors and one fourth-year senior,” Hunter said. “The experience of this team is amazing. We’ve been through a lot. We don’t expect to sneak up on anyone. We have a bulls eye on our back and we’ll be ready.”
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SALON.COM
The Last Honest Conservative: Meet The Brilliant Ronald Reagan Appointee Making Antonin Scalia’s Life Very Difficult
Eric Segall, the Kathy and Lawrence Ashe Professor of Law, wrote an opinion piece about Judge Richard Posner, who sits on the United States Court of Appeals. Segall says Posner is, by far, the most cited legal scholar alive today. He has written nearly 40 books, hundreds of articles and thousands of judicial opinions. “Posner thought it was ‘obvious’ that filling out a form cannot possibly be a substantial burden on religion, that the state of Wisconsin and Indiana didn’t care one bit about women’s health when it decided to require doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at hospitals, and that bans on same-sex marriage have little to do with permissible concerns Wisconsin may have about marriage and children and everything to do with unlawful and arbitrary discrimination,” Segall said. “As a matter of law he is right about all three cases. As a matter of politics, we will have to wait until the Supreme Court decides to have our final answers.”
HUFFINGTON POST
Curbing Corporate Inversions Through
Public Pressure For Economic Patriotism
Anne Tucker, associate professor of law, wrote an opinion piece about corporate inversions. Two structural features of the U.S. tax code encourage corporations to discard their U.S. “citizenship” and become foreign corporations, she said. “The U.S. corporate tax rate, at 35 percent, is high compared to the average Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development rate of 25 percent, the average European Union rate of 21 percent and the zero tax rate available in select locations like the Cayman Islands and Bermuda,” Tucker said. Other countries like the United Kingdom become attractive foreign tax locations, she said, because they operate under a territorial system that does not tax profits earned outside of the home country. “Tax policy alone isn’t the solution, or only factor to consider,” Tucker said. “Two other important pieces of the puzzle are public reaction and market pressure.”
ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
State Economy To Pick Up, Forecaster Says
Rajeev Dhawan, director of the Economic Forecasting Center, was quoted in an article about the center’s quarterly forecasting conference on Aug. 27. The center released a report at the conference that predicted growth to be solid for Atlanta and Georgia in the coming year, although expansion will be dampened if the central bank lifts interest rates. The state will add 74,100 jobs this calendar year, about one-fifth of them well paying, “premium” jobs. “The Peach State job engine is indeed humming,” Dhawan said. In 2015, the state economy will add 83,600 jobs, with about the same proportion of them categorized as “premium,” according to Dhawan’s report. Dhawan was also quoted in the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the Augusta Chronicle and on WABE, among others.
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ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Ferguson: Could It Happen Here
Maurice J. Hobson, an African-American Studies professor, was interviewed for an article about whether the recent fatal shooting of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., by a white police officer could happen in Atlanta. Hobson said the question is when it will happen again in Atlanta. He pointed to the Atlanta race riot of 1906, in which dozens died, the Summerhill uprising of 1966 when thousands rioted after the police shooting of a black man and the disturbances in 1992 after four white L.A. police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. “Society is always a hair away from absolute turmoil,” Hobson said.
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ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Once More Unto The Breach
Randy Malamud, a Regents’ Professor of English, wrote an opinion piece about how exciting and rewarding it is to be an English major and a professor teaching English majors at Georgia State. The braver students may try to posit what the novels “mean,” which will certainly (if experience holds true) provoke others to try to take them down and offer up their own competing interpretations, Malamud said. “A good class is a contentious class: Our arguments brim over with the rampantly unfettered exercise of critical inquiry and intellectual analysis that prepares our students for any one of a thousand possible productive pathways once we’re done with them,” Malamud said.
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DAILY REPORT
Defending A Law: Is There A Choice?
Tanya Washington, associate professor of law, was quoted in an article about voters having a clear choice on the issue of same-sex marriage in the race for Georgia’s attorney general. Republican Sam Olens, the incumbent, is leading the state’s defense of its constitutional definition of marriage as only between a man and a woman. Democrat Greg Hecht, the challenger, has vowed to withdraw the state’s position if he wins. The successful challenges of gay marriage bans in other states, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court’s takedown of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), indicate that attorneys general have some discretion in deciding whether to defend same-sex marriage bans, Washington said. “The obligation to enforce a law doesn’t have anything to do with the obligation to defend a law,” she said. “Something I thought of when I read the Windsor case, the U.S. high court ruling striking down DOMA, is whether voters now are going to start asking candidates on the stump, ‘Will you defend these laws? When we pass a law are you going to defend it? How will you decide?’”
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KSFR (Santa Fe, N.M.)
Associate Professor Of Law Tim Kuhner
Interviewed On Craig Barnes’ “Our Times”
Tim Kuhner, associate professor of law, was interviewed about corruption and how the U.S. Supreme Court’s many attacks on campaign finance reform has turned democracy into a system that favors the wealthy and marginalizes ordinary citizens. Kuhner addresses this issue in his new book, “Capitalism v. Democracy.” “What I think all of this points to is that we need to understand campaign finance reform and the need for a constitutional amendment to undo what the Robert’s Court has been up do,” Kuhner said. “We need to understand this as the need to rescue capitalism and democracy, not just democracy. This is not a populist thing. This is an effort to protect the systems that our country depends on.”
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