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UGA top institution for service to student veterans
February 24, 2021
UGA’s Barco named top advisor by national student veteran advocacy group
The University of Georgia has been named the top tier one research institution in the nation in Victory Media’s Military Friendly Schools 2021 rankings.
The designation recognizes the university for its outstanding commitment to and programs for student veterans and their families. UGA was last named the top institution in 2017 and has ranked in the top three each year since.
The Military Friendly Schools list is created each year based on extensive research using public data sources for more than 8,800 schools nationwide, input from student veterans, and responses to a proprietary survey completed by participating institutions.
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THE unthinkable seizure of the US Capitol building on Jan 6, 2021, has an analogy in Leonard Wibberley’s book The Mouse That Roared (1955). The Irish-American author Wibberley wrote a series of satires on US and Cold War politics, but none of them fits as neatly with the events of that day, the day that witnessed American democracy genuflect to home-grown anarchy.
Wibberley’s parody, like all literary deflations, is premised on an implausible possibility. A small band of invaders, dressed in chain-mail and armed with mediaeval weapons from the tiny Duchy of Grand Fenwick, crosses the Atlantic in a galleon. The invaders land in modern New York on the very day the city is undergoing a curfew drill. Wandering in an empty city, the soldiers chance upon a secret laboratory. There, they unwittingly capture the dreaded Quadium Bomb, a WMD more powerful than the combined nuclear strength of the United States and the then USSR. The United States surrenders immed