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Academic Catalog 2017-2018
This catalog was prepared by the Office of the dean of faculty on the basis of the best information available at the time of publication. All information, including statements of tuition and fees, course offerings, policies, and admission and graduation requirements, is subject to change without notice or obligation. Updates after publication can be found at www.aubg.edu/catalog ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2017–18 Fall 2017 Student Orientation Begins August 31 Unification Day Holiday September 6 Classes Begin September 7 Add/Drop Week Ends (5 pm) September 13 Bulgarian Independence Day (No Classes) September 22 Board Meeting October 20-22 Fall Break Begins October 30 National Revival Holiday November 1 Classes Resume November 6 Students' Holiday (No Classes) December 8 Classes End December 14 Final Exams Begin December 16 Final Exams End December 20 State Exams December 21 Spring 2018 Student Orientation Begins January 17 Classes Begin January 22 Add/Drop Week Ends (5 pm) January 26 Board Meeting January 27-29 Bulgarian Liberation Holiday (No Classes) March 3 Spring Break Begins March 12 Classes Resume March 19 Orthodox Good Friday (No Classes) April 6 Orthodox Easter Monday (No Classes) April 9 Honors Convocation April 11 Student-Faculty Research Conference April 28 Labor Day Holiday (Classes Held) May 1 Classes End May 4 St. George's Day Holiday May 6 Final Exams Begin May 7 Final Exams End May 11 State Exams Begin May 14 State Exams End May 16 Board Meeting May 17-19 Commencement May 20 ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2018–19 Contents Fall 2018 Academic Calendar 2017–18.................................................................................. iii Student Orientation Begins August 29 Academic Calendar 2018–19 ................................................................................. -
Wednesday Daily Bulletin
Chairman: George Vasilevsky Í Co-Chairman: Ed Matulis Wednesday, June 8 Tuesday-Wednesday Morning Compact Knockout Teams (3rd & final rounds) . 9:00 a.m. Wed-Thurs Stratified Morning Swiss Teams (1st of 2 sessions) 0/1500/3000 . 9:00 a.m. Wednesday-Thursday Morning Gold Rush Swiss Teams (1st of 2 sessions) . 9:00 a.m. Stratified Morning Side Game Series (single session or 2nd of 3). 9:00 a.m. 0-100 & 0-300 Stratified Pairs (single sessions). 10:00 a.m. & 3:00 p.m. Stratified Daylight Pairs (0-750/750-3000/3000+) (2 sessions). 10:00 a.m. & 3:00 p.m. Stratified Afternoon Side Game Series (single session or 3rd of 4). 1:15 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday Knockout Teams (3rd & final sessions). 1:15 & 7:00 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday Knockout Teams (1st and 2nd of 4 sessions) . 1:15 & 7:00 p.m. Stratified Gold Rush Pairs (0-100/100-300/300-750) (2 sessions) . 1:15 & 7:00 p.m. Stratified Pairs (0-1500/1500-3000/3000+) (2 sessions). 1:15 & 7:00 p.m. Stratified Evening Side Game Series (single session or 3rd of 4) . 7:00 p.m. Stratified Swiss Teams (single session) . 7:00 p.m. Today’s Star Speaker Intermediate/Newcomer Guest Lectures 12:30 Wednesday Gold & Silver Room 6:30 p.m. ! Wednesday 6:30 p.m. – Eric Bell Bobby Levin Opening Leads Tips for Forming a Great Partnership Events Center 6:30 p.m. ! Thursday 6:30 p.m. – Karen Kimes obby Levin has won The Precision of Notrump too many bridge Bevents to list. -
Bugler Gets the NABC Started Recalling a Terrifying Day in New
Saturay, March 12, 2011 Volume 54, Number 2 Daily Bulletin NABC National Tournament • Louisville • March 10-20, 2011 54th Spring North American Bridge Championships Editors: Brent Manley and Dave Smith Recalling a terrifying Zia, El-Ahmady lead Kay Platinum Pairs day in New Zealand Zia Mahmood and Walid El-Ahmady scored The way Gianarrigo nearly 69% in the first qualifying session of the Rona remembers it, being in Norman Kay Platinum Pairs, then followed with Christchurch, New Zealand, on a 59% game to take the lead heading into the Feb. 22 of this year was like semifinal sessions today. Two final sessions are being in a boat as it is tossed on scheduled for Sunday. the waves of an angry sea. Zia and El-Ahmady, an Egyptian star player, “That is a very bad will have a carryover of 62.5 matchpoints, 14 impression,” says the World ahead of Mike Kamil and R. Jay Becker, the pair in Bridge Federation president, who second place. Right behind them are Californians is visiting Louisville during the Alexander Kolesnik and Jim Munday. Spring NABC. The event, which debuted in Reno last year, is On Friday, Rona and John open to ACBL members who meet the following Wignall, first vice president criteria: have earned 50 platinum masterpoints over of the WBF, recounted their the three calendar years prior; earned at least 200 experience during the devastating platinum points lifetime or have attained Platinum earthquake that struck New Life Master or Grand Life Master rank. Zealand. Rona was visiting the Esberg, Budd lead country to check out the Gianarrigo Rona and John Wignall. -
Daily Bulletin
Daily Bulletin Editor: Mark Horton / Co-Ordinator : Jean-Paul Meyer / Journalists: David Bird, John Carruthers, Jos Jacob,b, Fernando Lema, Brent Manley, Micke Melander, Barry Rigal, Ram Soffer, Ron Tacchi / Lay-out Editor : Francescacesc Canali Photographer : Arianna Testa THURSDAY, JUNE 15 2017 THE FAR PAVILIONS ISSUESS No 6 CLICK TO NAVIGATE University Bridge p. 2 Roll of Honour p. 3 A view of the Bridge p. 3 Mixed Teams QF p. 4 Mixed Teams Final p. 8 The Story that Disappeared p. 12 An Unsuccessful Escape p. 14 Optimum Est - Fantasy Bridge p. 15 The magnificent pavilions that house the bookstall and the playing room. Pairs? What Pairs? p. 16 After two days of qualifying we know the identity of the 52 pairs that will contest the Mixed Pairs SF A p. 17 final of the European Mixed Pairs Championship. Russia's domination continued as Victoria Gromova & Andrei Gromov topped the semi final table. They were Combinations p. 20 followed by Véronique & Thomas Bessis and Sabine Auken & Roy Welland. If you want to know how tough this event is just ask the three world champions who La Pagina Italiana p. 21 had to fight their way into the final by finishing in the top six in semi final B. Masterpoints Race p. 22 Another event starts today, a two day pairs event for the EBL Cup. Results p. 23 Important Information for the Participants National Railway Strike 15th and 16th June 2017. From 21:00 on Thursday 15 June until 21:00 on Friday 16 June 2017, a national strike of the staff of the Italian Railway Group (Trenitalia) will take place. -
4 Daily Bulletin
Monday, July 21, 2008 Volume 80, Number 4 Daily Bulletin 80th Summer North American Bridge Championships Editors: Brent Manley and Dave Smith Districts 8, 9, 23 and 24 take GNT titles District 9 repeats in GNT Championship Flight The District 9 team captained by Mike Becker led from start to finish in scoring a second straight win in the Grand National Teams, Championship Flight, knocking off Jan Jansma and Ricco Van Preeijen. the District 25 squad led by Frank Merblum 125-74. Dutch duo take LM Pairs Continued on page 5 Two players from the Netherlands who agreed to play five minutes before game time saved their Grand National Teams, Championship Continued on page 21 Flight, winners: front, David Berkowitz, Eric Rodwell, Mike Becker; rear, Larry Cohen, Jeff Meckstroth, Warren Spector. District 24 wins GNT Flight A The District 24 team captained by James Scott surged ahead in the second quarter of their match with a team from Ohio and went on to a 125-74 victory in the Grand National Teams, Flight A. The winners are Scott, Wilton CT; Harry Apfel, John Ramos and Kelley Hwang, New York City; Valentin Carciu, Steve Johnson and Mark Teaford. Continued on page 5 Tops in the Grand National Teams, Southern California pair Flight A: front, Valentin Carciu, John Ramos, James Scott; rear, Sorin claim Bruce LM Pleacoff, Kelley Hwang, Harry Apfel. Steve Johnson and Mark Teaford nearly didn’t make it out of the first day’s qualifying sessions. District 23 wins GNT Continued on page 21 Flight B District 23 won a tight match in the Flight B Grand National Teams. -
Gateway to the West Regional Sunday
Sunday July 14-19 Hi 92°F Low 75°F Daily Bulletin Gateway to the West Regional All St. Louis Regional Results: for coming to St. Louis and we’d like www.acbl.org & www.unit143.org, to see you right back here again next Unit 143 includes links to the week’s Daily Bulletins. year. We appreciate that you chose to attend our Regional ’coz we do it all for you! to our Caddies, We appreciate your fine work this week! Jackson Florea Anna Garcia Jenna Percich Lauren Percich Clara Riggio Frank Riggio Katie Seibert Kate Vontz Our Date Back to August 15-21, 2016 Come back and join us next August. Please put us on your Regional tournament calendar today. Charity Pairs Series Raises $ BackStoppers will receive the $$$$ that you helped us raise in the Saturday morning Charity Open Pairs Game and will be added to what Last Chance for Registration Gift & was raised in the Wednesday evening Swiss event. We support this To Pick Up Your Section Top Awards organization to express our appreciation for lives given on behalf of Sunday, from 10:00 – 10:20 AM before the Swiss Team session others. Unit 143 will present the check at their October Sectional. begins, and 30 minutes after the sessions end, will be the last opportunity to pick up your convention card holder and section Thanks for playing in these events and showing your support! top awards. Daily Grin How can you tell if someone is a lousy bridge player? No Peeking, Lew! He has 5 smiling Kibitzers watching him play. -
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Entangled Histories of the Balkans Balkan Studies Library Editor-in-Chief Zoran Milutinović, University College London Editorial Board Gordon N. Bardos, Columbia University Alex Drace-Francis, University of Amsterdam Jasna Dragović-Soso, Goldsmiths, University of London Christian Voss, Humboldt University, Berlin Advisory Board Marie-Janine Calic, University of Munich Lenard J. Cohen, Simon Fraser University Radmila Gorup, Columbia University Robert M. Hayden, University of Pittsburgh Robert Hodel, Hamburg University Anna Krasteva, New Bulgarian University Galin Tihanov, Queen Mary, University of London Maria Todorova, University of Illinois Andrew Wachtel, Northwestern University VOLUME 9 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/bsl Entangled Histories of the Balkans Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies Edited by Roumen Daskalov and Tchavdar Marinov LEIDEN • BOSTON 2013 Cover Illustration: Top left: Krste Misirkov (1874–1926), philologist and publicist, founder of Macedo- nian national ideology and the Macedonian standard language. Photographer unknown. Top right: Rigas Feraios (1757–1798), Greek political thinker and revolutionary, ideologist of the Greek Enlightenment. Portrait by Andreas Kriezis (1816–1880), Benaki Museum, Athens. Bottom left: Vuk Karadžić (1787–1864), philologist, ethnographer and linguist, reformer of the Serbian language and founder of Serbo-Croatian. 1865, lithography by Josef Kriehuber. Bottom right: Şemseddin Sami Frashëri (1850–1904), Albanian writer and scholar, ideologist of Albanian and of modern Turkish nationalism, with his wife Emine. Photo around 1900, photo- grapher unknown. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Entangled histories of the Balkans / edited by Roumen Daskalov and Tchavdar Marinov. pages cm — (Balkan studies library ; Volume 9) Includes bibliographical references and index. -
The War on Cheating Y Now You Have Probably with It
VOL. 56 No. 4 DECEMBER 2015 The War on Cheating y now you have probably with it. B heard all about the cheat- Not only is there no discus- ing scandal that has rocked sion at all of criminal charges, top-level bridge. Three of the but the handful of wealthy cli- most successful international ents who have been paying pairs, all frequent competitors for the “services” of the cheat- in North American champion- ers have shown no interest in ships, have been unofficially suing to at least try to get their “outed” for allegedly using money back. prearranged signals. Although For example, there is this there have been no hearings comment by Pierre Zimmer- on any of the charges, they mann, patron of the Monaco were supported by some very squad, which included the ac- persuasive video compilations cused Italian pair Fantoni and and analyses. You can read Nunes. and view all the gory details “I am now in my sixties. I am on bridgewinners.com quiet and Zen. Some friends The very top players in the may have problems or may world reportedly are com- have done wrong things. It manding annual salaries of up can be a fault but they remain to $600,000 from a few very friends. I forget the past. In wealthy patrons. By tapping 2015 I paid to ALL my team- into this source of big reve- mates the bonus for results nues, the cheaters have com- mentioned in the contract I mitted a massive fraud on the signed. Whatever happens I bridge community and on their will sue nobody.” clients. -
CHINA TAKES Mcconnell
World Bridge Series Championship Philadelphia Pennsylvania, USA 1st to 16th October D B 2010 aily ulletin O FFICIAL S PONSOR Co-ordinator: Jean-Paul Meyer • Chief Editor: Brent Manley • Editors: Mark Horton, Brian Senior, Phillip Alder, Barry Rigal, Jan Van Cleef • Lay Out Editor: Akis Kanaris • Photographer: Ron Tacchi IssueCHINA No. 12 TAKES McCONNELLWednesday, CUP 13 October 2010 The China Ladies Team celebrate their victory in the McConnell Cup, an impressive win over the veteran Netherlands squad The China Ladies Team, behind by 8 IMPs at the halfway point in In the Generali Open Pairs, the leaders after three semifinal ses- the McConnell final, outscored their Dutch opponents 90-41 in sions are Ricco van Prooijen and Louk Verhees. Sylvia Moss and the second half to win the championship 134-93. The winning Judi Radin maintained their lead in the Women’s Pairs. team is Ling Gu, Yan Lu, Ming Sun, Hongli Wang, Xuefeng Feng and After two qualifying sessions of the IMP Pairs, Joao-Paulo Cam- Yanhui Sun, with Chuancheng Ju as npc. pos and Miguel Villas-Boas were in the lead, and in the Hiron Tro- phy Senior Pairs, Dan Morse and John Sutherlin were out front. The Phyllis Fireman team won the playoff for the bronze medal, defeating Joyce Hampton 86-51. There was excitement in one of the Rosenblum semifinal match- Contents es as the Nick Nickell team had to fight off a late charge by the World Bridge Series Results . .4-7 Jeff Wolfson squad to survive with a 107-103 win. Wolfson, trailing 2010 IBPA Awards . -
New ACBL President Whipple Looks Ahead “What’S Next?” Reads Jay Whipple’S Email Whipple’S Agenda for the Year Centers Around a Single Signature Line
Monday, November 27, 2017 Volume 90, Number 4 Daily Bulletin 90th Fall North American Bridge Championships [email protected] | Editors: Sue Munday and Brent Manley New ACBL President Whipple Looks Ahead “What’s next?” reads Jay Whipple’s email Whipple’s agenda for the year centers around a single signature line. Now the new ACBL president is the theme: the smooth functioning of the ACBL chief one answering the question. executive and the Board. “That involves greater Elected to spearhead the organization in 2018, communication and close work together,” Whipple explains. “We have a great CEO,” Whipple says of Bahar Gidwani, who was hired in the middle of last year. “By the end of our Board meeting here, we had a clearer understanding of whose role is what.” Winners of the 0-10,000 Swiss Teams: Phil Altus, Whipple has sincere praise for predecessor Muriel Altus, Martha Woodworth and Greg President Bob Heller. Michaels. “Bob did an amazing job of restructuring Board committees to align with function rather than Altus team wins politics,” Whipple says. The new president has asked 0-10K Swiss Board members to serve where they can contribute The team captained by Phil Altus, in a virtual tie the most, with flexibility in assignments that will with another squad with a match to go, had to wait enable them to move between committees as their for the other team’s result on the final board of the experience and the need dictate. 0-10,000 Swiss Teams to learn their fate. When the He uses the Harkness table as a model for bringing people together. -
15World Bridge Series
TH WORLD BRIDGE ST S ERTH IES ORLANDO, FLORIDA | 21 SEPTEMBER - 6 OCTOBER 2018 Editor: Brent Manley • Co-Editors: Barry Rigal, Brian Senior Journalists: David Bird, Jos Jacobs, Ron Tacchi • Lay-out Editor: Monica Kümmel IssuDe Noa. 11 ily Bu1lle5tin Monday, 1st October 2018 NOLAND AHEAD IN MIXED SWISS QUALIFYING Contents BBO Schedule . .2 Mixed Infos . .2 Women’s pairs final A - Stanza 5 .5 LAVAZZA v ZIMMERMANN . .8 Multiple Medalists . .14 ZIMMERMANN v CHINA XHJT1 .15 FERM v GOWER . .18 PSZCZOLA v VALIO . .21 Ranking . .24 Mixed Teams Seeding . .25 Rosters . .26 Schedule for Tuesday 2nd The members of the hard-working duplication team Pawel Szczygiel, Carlo Vecchio, Alessandra October: Sarritzu, Franco Crosta, Hélène Vivier, Simona Maini, Paolo Vecchio and head Monica Gorreri Mixed Teams (in Cypress 2 and 3) The team led by Nanette Noland raced out to the lead in the first day of qualifying in the Mixed Swiss Teams. The squad capped a successful day with a 40-1 pasting of 10.00 - 11.30 one of the other contenders, MNEPO. Through 50 boards on Monday, Noland’s 11.50 - 13.20 average margin of victory was 27.8 IMPs. They finished the day with 87.7 victory 14.20 - 15.50 points to 74.17 for Indonesia, the second-place squad. Noland’s teammates are Mike 16.10 - 17.40 Passell, Sabine Auken, Roy Welland, Zia Mahmood and Marion Michielsen. 18.00 - 19.30 The Indonesian team is Taufik Gautama Asbi, captain, Lusje Olha Bojoh, Robert Parasian and Julita Grace Tueje. 20.00: Captains' meeting in In third with 72.33 victory points is the multinational Barbara Ferm team. -
Bridge World Mourns Three Earned a Silver Medal at Match the Amount
Saturday, March 30, 2019 Volume 61, Number 9 Daily Bulletin 61st Spring North American Bridge Championships [email protected] Editors: Paul Linxwiler, Sue Munday and Chip Dombrowski Vandy semis: Dahl, Oshlag grab Silodor win Mark Dahl of Richmond VA and Richard Wolfson vs. Lavazza, Oshlag of Memphis TN topped the field in final of the Silodor Open Pairs, winning the four-session Nickell vs. Levine contest by a third of a board. In second was the In the semifinal round of the Vanderbilt KO first-time partnership of Michael Rosenberg of Teams, Jeff Wolfson’s squad will face Team Sunnyvale CA and Adam Grossack of Newton Lavazza (Dennis Bilde captain), while Nick MA. Nickell and company will battle Mike Levine’s Dahl and Oshlag, who qualified second after team in the other bracket. Thursday’s opening round, scored 56.84% in the In the quarterfinal round, Wolfson narrowly first final session and 63.88% in the second. This defeated Jacek “Pepsi” Pszczola’s team, 150-143, after Pszczola mounted a furious fourth-quarter continued on page 5 rally that fell just short. Lavazza handled George Winners of the Silodor Open Pairs: Richard Mittelman’s squad, 170-148. Levine had a close Oshlag and Mark Dahl. match against Andrew Rosenthal’s team – the lead margin rarely exceeded single digits – but Pollack, Bjerkan win Women’s Pairs prevailed 96-90. Nickell, however, clobbered Rozanne Pollack of New York and Cheri Warren Spector’s team in their quarterfinal match, Bjerkan of Elmhurst IL won the Smith Life winning 134-42 in three quarters of play.