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DEL.ICIO.USZell Miller to become a fixture at UGA
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
On Friday, the name of former Georgia governor and U.S. senator Zell Miller will be placed on the 5-year-old Student Learning Center, the second-largest building on University of Georgia campus — not far from the entrance of Sanford Stadium.
The building’s new name will be the Zell B. Miller Learning Center. There is no truth to the rumor that, in return, Miller has agreed to cease work on what was to be his next best-seller, “A National Championship No More.”
The flacks at UGA have confirmed that a 2 p.m. Friday naming ceremony will follow a luncheon to which we’re not invited. Gov. Sonny Perdue is to be there, as will U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson.
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By Georgia Dawg
October 15, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this
Say it ain’t so! Can’t we wait until people have passed away before we name things after them? Especially the controversial ones like “spit-ball” Zell. Also, can we now change the name of the Cynthia McKinney Parkway?
By Blake
October 15, 2008 11:22 PM | Link to this
You should crash the party, Mr. Galloway. Wear a fake nose & mustache. ;-)
This is at least better than my fear that the headline meant that Zell was going to be teaching at UGA in his declining years.
By DAWGMAN
October 15, 2008 11:34 PM | Link to this
Blake is a liberal kiss arse. Zell Miller is a fine man. You libs used to love him before you all went completely nuts.
By Athens, GA
October 16, 2008 12:19 AM | Link to this
If only they’d name it the “Governor Zell Miller Learning Center”.
By RJ
October 16, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this
When the Democrats take back control they can un-name the building for primarily the same reason it has been so named…to rub the noses of the Republicans.
No other Governor, besides Sonny Perdue and Gene Talmadge, has done more to politicize the University System of Georgia than Zell “The Great Pretender” Miller.
Naming that building after Zell is this year’s most underserved honor.
By flip wilson
October 16, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this
In 50 years students will see the name on the building and say, “Oh yeah that’s the guy who Sold his Soul for George W. Bush.”