Q: With both the Braves and the Falcons getting new stadiums, I was wondering what major colleges or universities have the oldest and the newest football stadiums?
—Lance DeLoach, Thomaston
A: Georgia Tech's Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field is the oldest stadium of programs in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), opening in 1913. Students helped build the stadium, which was named Grant Field after Hugh Inman Grant, the son of prominent Atlantan John W. Grant. Mississippi State's Davis Wade Stadium was built in 1914 and Mississippi's Vaught-Hemingway Stadium opened in 1915. Among schools with smaller football programs, the University of Pennsylvania's Franklin Field opened in 1895 and Harvard Stadium was constructed in 1903. Florida Atlantic (2011), North Texas (2011), Minnesota (2009) and Akron (2009) have the newest stadiums among FBS programs.
Q: By whom and how often is the Georgia Lottery audited? Is the entity that conducts the audit an independent firm with the capability of that sort of audit? How long does the Georgia Lottery audit process take?
—Rose Trujillo, Atlanta
A: Independent accounting firm Mauldin & Jenkins conducts annual financial audits of the Georgia Lottery, in accordance with the Georgia Lottery for Education Act (Georgia Code 50-27-33). The auditing process takes about four months to complete and the auditing reports can be viewed at www.galottery.com, a Georgia Lottery spokeswoman told Q&A on the News in an email. Georgia Lottery also must submit quarterly and annual reports to various state officials, "disclosing the total lottery revenues, prize disbursements, operating expenses, and administrative expenses of the corporation during the reporting period."
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