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Rise
reaps reward
Merle
Black, Emory’s Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Political
Science, and his twin brother, Earl Black, Herbert S. Autrey
Professor of Political Science at Rice University (below, l-r),
have won the prestigious V.O. Keyes Award for their most recent
book, The Rise of Southern Republicans (Harvard University
Press, 2002). The award is given each year by the Southern Political
Science Association to the most outstanding book on Southern
politics.
 The
Blacks’ third book documents how the political tide has
shifted dramatically in the South, with the Republicans making
great gains in the last half-century. Since the civil rights
movement began in the 1950s, an increasing number of white conservatives
and moderates have identified with the Republican party.
The
brothers contend this gives the U.S. its first real two-party
system in more than a century, with the South, once a solidly
Democratic region, up for grabs. And with the presidential election
fast approaching, his expertise has made Merle Black one of
the most widely quoted faculty members on campus as the media
try to channel fickle political trends.
Black
is no fortune-teller, though, as he recently told the Seattle
Times: “Anybody could win.”–P.P.P
Emory
celebrates eighty-ninth Charter Day
Each
year, Emory observes the day its Atlanta campus was established–January
25, 1915, when DeKalb County granted its charter–with a
dinner. But this year, for the first time, the celebration was
expanded into the Mid-Winter Academic Festival of the Arts and
Sciences.
The
week of events, January 26-February 1, included the traditional
Charter Celebration dinner; a new debate series; a poetry reading
by Scholar-Teacher of the Year Lucas Carpenter, professor of
English at Oxford College; the reading of a new play by Jim
Grimsley, director of the creative writing program; dance presentations;
and a planetarium open house to view the rings of Saturn.
Walter
Beckham ’70C-’77L, a lawyer with the Atlanta firm
of Parks, Chesin, Walbert, and Miller who spoke at the annual
Charter Day banquet in Cox Hall, emphasized the importance of
alumni support.
“The
charter established a family,” Beckham said,“whose
task is bringing the past and present together for the future.”
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